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Biography

My teaching and research focus on US literature and culture of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Combining the study of literature with interests in modern critical theory, American intellectual history, and aesthetic and political philosophy, my teaching and writing typically manifest as 鈥渋nterpretive cultural history.鈥� At Towson, I teach the ENGL 238 American Literature Survey (1620-present) and the ENGL 300 鈥淢ethods and Research鈥� course (usually focused on the American Novel) almost every semester. I also teach 鈥淒evelopment of the American Novel: 19^th Century,鈥� 鈥淒evelopment of the American Novel: 20^th Century,鈥� 鈥淢ulti-Ethnic US Literature,鈥� 鈥淎merican Literature of the Realistic Period,鈥� 鈥淎merican Literary Modernism,鈥� and 鈥淟iterature of the Atomic Age.鈥�

My research is preoccupied with the relationship of US literary culture to various dilemmas of American political organization鈥攃onflicts between democratic rights and civic obligations, between competing conceptions of 鈥渟overeignty,鈥� between an evolving and dynamic 鈥渓iberal tradition鈥� and the changing organizations of state power. My book, The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890-1964 (2017), examines the relationship of writing about military conflict in particular to these developments in US political discourse: the militarization of progressivism at the turn of the century, the internationalization of liberalism during World War I, and the pluralization of identity politics from the New Deal through World War II and the Cold War. In more recent years, these interests have fleshed out further in numerous related articles and book chapters for Cambridge literary histories.

Scholarship

Selected Publications

叠辞辞办:鈥�

The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890-1964 (Oxford 2017)

Book Chapters鈥�:

鈥淲补谤.鈥� The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Ed. Mark Whalen. (Cambridge 2023): 6,000 words.

鈥淧atriotism, Nationalism, Globalism.鈥� War and American Literature. Ed. Jennifer Haytock (Cambridge 2021): 6,000 words.

鈥淭he Nation: Forging One, Finding Many.鈥� A History of American Literature and Culture of World War One. Eds. Tim Dayton and Mark Van Wienen (Cambridge 2021): 5,000 words.

鈥淢补蝉肠耻濒颈苍颈迟测.鈥� American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920. Ed. Mark Van Wienen (Cambridge, forthcoming). 7,000 words.

鈥淲omen Writers and War.鈥� The Cambridge History of American Women鈥檚 Writing. Ed. Dale Bauer (Cambridge 2012): 80-125.

Articles and Essay-Reviews:

American Literary History, Essay-Review, 鈥淔ighting for Real: Truth and American War Memory.鈥� (Fall 2023): 3,955 words.

鈥淭he Theme of War in American Literary Studies: A Testimony for Our Time鈥� (solicited for themed symposium). Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. 47 (2022): 4,283 words.

American Literary History, Essay-Review, 鈥淭he Culture of the (Permanent, Global) Cold War (on Terror)鈥� (Summer 2020): 4,723 words.

鈥淎 Peculiar Sovereignty: Antifascist US Literature and the Liberal Warfare State, 1936-1951.鈥� American Quarterly 66.2 (June 2014): 361-83.

鈥�America e Italia鈥�: US World War II Novels and the Occupation of Italy鈥� (solicited). Fictions XIII (Summer 2014): 17-30.

鈥溾�橳endrils of Association鈥�: World War I Narrative and the U.S. Political Imaginary.鈥� American Literature 82.3 (September 2010): 553-81.

Reviews:

Modernism/Modernity, Book Review, 鈥淢ark Whalan鈥檚 World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State鈥� (Fall 2020).

 ALH Online Review, 鈥淛oseph North鈥檚 Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History鈥� (Fall 2018).

 ALH Online Review, 鈥淢ark Greif鈥檚 The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973鈥� (Fall 2016, 1524 words).