Courses
ENGLISH 300: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
TOPIC: HEROISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
ENGLISH 110: INTRO LIT STUDY FOR NON-MAJORS
ENGLISH 110: INTRO LIT STUDY FOR NON-MAJORS
ENGLISH 201: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
ENGLISH 563: SEMINAR IN THEMES AND MOVEMENTS
TOPIC: Terror and the State of Modernity
Previous Courses
British Literature Since 1930
Major Authors: James Joyce
The British Novel
Paranoia and the Narrative Crisis in the 20th Century
Frankfurt School Aesthetics (Grad Course)
Critical Approaches to Literature
Major Authors: Oscar Wilde and James Joyce
Research Interests
British/Irish Modernism; The History of the Novel; The Gothic; Western Marxism; The Frankfurt School; Postcolonial Theory; The History of Criticism.
Recent Publications
"The Uncreating Conscience: Memory and Apparitions in Joyce and Benjamin." in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.
"Formalism and Its Malcontents: Benjamin and de Man on the Function of Allegory." in New Literary History.
Work in Progress
Books
The Unholy Marriage: Modernism and the Irish Gothic Tradition.
Editing with Joseph Valente a Collection entitled: James Joyce and Visual Culture.
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