Education

• Ph.D. Emory University, 2003.

Recent Publications

• Roth and Celebrity. Landham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012

• Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010). New York: Continuum, 2011.

• "'[A]nything but fragile and yielding': Women in Roth's Recent Tetralogy." With Miriam Jaffe-Foger. Philip Roth Studies. 8(1): Spring 2012. 81-94.

• “The Influence of T.S. Eliot on James Baldwin's Poetry.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. 24(4): Fall 2011. 227-34.

• "Traumatic Realism and the Ethical Witness: Abu Ghraib Torture Photos, 2004-2008.” Augenblick. 48/49: Spring 2011. 133-140.

• “Traumatic Survival and the Loss of a Child: Reznikoff's Holocaust Revisited.” Paideuma. 36: 2007-2009. 75-104.

• “American Pastoral and the Traumatic Ideals of Democracy.” Philip Roth Studies. 5(1): Spring 2009. 75-92.

Selected Academic Service

• President, The Philip Roth Society
  
• Book Review Editor, Philip Roth Studies
  
• Advisor of CCSU Chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society

Spring 2013 Courses

• English 250 01 and 02:  Contemporary Literature
• English 474 01:  Trauma and Contemporary American Novel

  
Courses Taught

• English 474: Contemporary American Novel
• English 448: The Contemporary American Short Story
• English 344: Contemporary American Literature
• English 343: Modern American Literature
• English 250: Contemporary Literature
• English 211: Survey in American Literature, 1865-Present
• English 110: Freshman Composition