Ph.D., M.A. English, University of California, Berkeley
B.A. English and Mathematics, Amherst College
Courses Regularly Taught
Creative Writing
Representative US Writers 20th Century
US Postwar Literature
US War & Mobilization Literature 20th Century (graduate)
Research Interests
American Modernism and War Mobilization, Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Literature and Poverty, and Novel Writing
Publications The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization. New York: Oxford University Press
Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum. New York: Oxford University Press
Cleveland Anonymous, a novel. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books and Frog Ltd.