Special Interests: Rhetoric and Composition, Fiction Writing, Film Studies
Courses:
- ENG 304: Critical Theory of Cinema
- ENG 305: Topics in Film
- ENG 331: Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition Studies
- ENG 413: Teaching & Tutoring Writing
- WR 420: Writing: Process and Response
Books:
- Disorder, stories (Propeller Books, 2012)
- You Don't Love This Man, a novel (Harper Perennial, 2011)
Anthology Appearances:
- “You Are Writing What You Are, All the Time: A Conversation With James Salter,” Conversations With James Salter, eds. Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais, University Press of Mississippi (forthcoming 2015).
- “Prospero’s Pharmacy: Peter Greenaway and the Critics Play Shakespeare’s Mimetic Game.” Almost Shakespeare, eds. James Keller and Leslie Stratyner, McFarland Publishing (2004).
Selected Recent Articles:
- "Speculative Cinema: A History," Propeller, January 2014.
- “Imaginary Metropolis,” Oregon Humanities, fall/winter 2013.
- "Auteur of the Book: Wes Anderson's Cinema of Readers," Propeller, December 2013.
- "You Are Writing What You Are, All the Time: A Conversation with James Salter," Propeller, October 2013.
- “Burning Bushes,” Oregon Humanities, spring 2013.
Short Fiction:
- “Ghost Bikes,” The Normal School (October 2014).
- “Leviathan,” Tin House (September 2010).
- “The Sleeper,” Portland Noir, ed. Kevin Sampsell, Akashic Publishing (2009).
- “Acacia Avenue,” Tin House (December 2007).
- “Continuity,” Washington Square (winter 2006).
- “Peterson Wins Pritzker,” Contrary (winter 2006).
- “The Amber Room,” Salt Hill (fall 2005).
- “Graphology,” Tin House (summer 2004).
- “They Have Something to Tell Us,” Pindeldyboz (summer 2004).
- “General Definers,” Ascent (spring 2004).
- “The Problem of the House,” New England Review (summer 2002).
- “Here is Your Ghost Story,” Northwest Review (fall 2002).
- “Bullies,” New England Review (summer 2002).
- “Most Likely to Succeed,” Missouri Review (fall 2001).
On the PSU faculty since 2003.