Education:

• Ph.D., English, Miami University, 2005
• M.A., English, University of Kentucky, 1999
• B.A., English & German Education, summa cum laude, University of Kentucky, 1997

Teaching Experience/Academic Appointments:

• Full-time Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies/Humanities, Union Institute & University, since 2007
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Miami University, 2004-2007
• Teaching Associate, Miami University, 1999-2003
• Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, 1997-1999

Selected Publications:

Monograph
Embattled Homefronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi: forthcoming (2008)

Articles

• "The Green Corn Rebellion and 1930s Literary Radicalism: An Introduction." The Green Corn Rebellion by William Cunningham. Ed. Wayne Wolf. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007: forthcoming.
• "'A Tiger's Leap Into the Past': On the 'Historical,' 'Unhistorical,' and 'Suprahistorical' in Walter Benjamin's 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'," New German Review 20 (2005): 41-59.
• "War as Feminist Utopia in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's "Home Fires in France" and Gertrude Atherton's The White Morning, Women's Studies 34.2 (2005):159 89.

Recent Professional Activities

Presentations

• "Business as Usual: Redomesticating the New Woman in Henry Sydnor Harrison's Saint Teresa(1922)." National PCA/ACA Conference. Panel: "Business/Corporate Culture." New Orleans, LA. April 2009.
• "'You Come from the Future': Postmodern Counternarratives in Don DeLillo's Mao II." Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 21. February 2009.
• "'A Life Like a Movie-Film': Romantic Longings for War in Willa Cather's One of Ours." ACLA National Conference. Panel: "Home Fronts, 1850-1950." Long Beach, CA. 27. April 2008.
• "'The War to End all Wars': Hopes of Racial Concilation in Victor Daly's Not Only War." CEA National Conference. Panel: "PAX Perfect: Passages." St. Louis, MO. 28. March 2008.

Committees

• Chair, Humanities and Society Subcommittee, Interdisciplinary Studies, UI&U, 2009-2010.
• Co-Chair, Assessment Committee, Interdisciplinary Studies, UI&U, 2007-present.
• Member, Assessment Coordination Team, Union Institute & University, 2007-present.

Honors, Awards, and Grants

• Honorary Mention, James R. Bennett Award for Literature and Peace, College English Association, 2008.
• Spiro Peterson Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Teaching, Miami University, 2004.
• Academic Challenge Dissertation Fellowship, Miami University, 2003-2004.