Department of Political Science and International Relations
Department of Psychology
Department of Religious Studies
Department of Social Work
Department of Sociology
WVCR
Franciscan Center for Catholic Study
Center for the Study of Government and Politics
Hayyim & Esther Kieval Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies
McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution
Degree
Program
University
Ph.D.
University at Albany
M.A.
The College of St. Rose
B.A.
Siena College
My Professional Experience
Year
Title
Organization
2007 - Now
Associate Professor
Siena College
2001 - 2006
Assistant Professor
Siena College
2000 - 2001
Visiting Professor
Siena College
1996 - 1997
Adjunct Instructor
College of St. Rose
1996 - 2000
Adjunct Instructor
Siena College
Articles & Book Reviews
The Searchers Fugue 2001
The Alamo Fugue 1997
Awards & Distinctions
Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee Category: Teaching Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee, 2005
Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee Category: Teaching Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee, 2004
English Department Graduate Award, The College of Saint Rose Category: Other English Department Graduate Award, The College of Saint Rose, 1995
Books & Book Chapters
College Literature
2010
Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin
2007
Presentations
Anger and Silence: Harriet Beecher Stowe 2014 American Literature Association, Washington, District of Columbia
Angles and Edges in Augusta Jane Evans 2009 College English Association, N/A, Unknown
Stages, Steamships, and Ox-Carts: Ellen Montgomery's Forced Passage in The Wide, Wide World 2008 College English Association Conference, N/A, Unknown
The I-Want-Polly Syndrome in The Five Little Peppers Series 2008 Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, New York
'From Oldtown to Ghostown': Horace Holyoke's Denial of Empathy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks 2007 College English Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Regions of Pain and Pleasure: Masochism in St. Elmo 2006 College English Association, St. Louis, Missouri
Narrative Direction in Augusta Jane Evan's Beulah 2005 College English Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas
The 'Mother' God in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island 2002 Central Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
Transcendentalism in The Matrix 2002 Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Silver Springs, Maryland
'The Least Bit of Oil': Smoothing the Way in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing 2001 Central Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
Return to a Tale: Narrative Structure in Chaucer's The Tale of Melibee 2001 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Wayward Epigraphs of Dune: Narrative Resistance in Frank Herbert 2001 Mid-Atlantic American Culture/Popular Cultre Association, Albany, New York
'Furious Dido' No More: Negative Transformation in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women 2000 Convivium Interdisciplinary Conference, Albany, New York
Gendered Narrative in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks 2000 Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
Home as Home Front: Social Disruption in Augusta Jane Evans's Civil War Novel Macaria or Altars of Sacrifice 1997 Methodist College Southern Writers Symposium, Fayettesville, North Carolina
A Study of Multiple Narrative in Louise Erdrich's Tracks: Psychology, Mythology, Community, and Society 1994 Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
