Department of English

Professor

Altmayer Chair of Literature

Director of Core Curriculum 

BS Auburn University Montgomery
MS Auburn University Montgomery
MA University of Montevallo
Ph.D. University of Alabama

Specialties and Teaching Interests: early American literature, folk and fairy tales, Latino/a American literature, Southern literature, composition.

Courses: Freshman Composition, Introduction to Fiction, Latino/a American Literature, American Survey, American Novel, Advanced Writing, and specialty course: Madness in American Literature.

Interests and Activities:

Involved with service learning and community-based learning.
Member editorial board of national Jesuit magazine Conversations.
Member of board of local public school foundation.

Selected Publications:

“The Narrative Struggle to Accept the Other.” Themes of Conflict in the Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century South. Ed. Ben Robertson. Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. 11-25.

“What Then Is the American, This New Man?” The CEA Forum. Winter 2006. Online journal of the College English Association.

“Teaching Short Fiction: A Fairy Tale Beginning.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9:1 (Spring 2005): 58-61.

“Mary White Rowlandson’s Self-fashioning as Puritan Goodwife.” Early American Literature 27:1 (1992): 49-60.

Selected Presentations:

“Assessing the Core Curriculum.” 4th Jesuit Core Curriculum Conference, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2007.

“Transforming Grace Through the Lenses of Will Campbell and Sena Jeter Naslund.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference on Grace, Race, and Place. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, March 2004.

“Learning About Service Learning.” Faculty Friday. Spring Hill College. 2003.

“From Reproduction to Virgin Birth: Anne Bradstreet’s Quest for Voice.” Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State U, January 1993.