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Assistant Professor
English
Education:
Ph.D. in English, University of South Carolina, August 1999.
Dissertation: "To Loot My Life Clean': The Editorial Relationship and Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins."
Director: Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli
M.A. in English, University of South Carolina, 1997.
Thesis: "'My Beautiful Protagonists': The Dust Jacket and Magazine Illustration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction."
Advisor: Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli
B.A. in English and Theatre, Oklahoma State University, 1985.
Publications
Books
Co-Author with Matthew J. Bruccoli. Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press/Oak Knoll, 2002.
Co-Editor with Matthew J. Bruccoli, "To Loot My Life Clean": The Thomas Wolfe/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence. Introduction by Park Bucker. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.
Editor, Catalogue of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Thomas Cooper Library. Columbia, SC: MJB, 1997.
Articles and Book Sections
"James Gould Cozzens Exhibition and Symposium," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2000 Yearbook. Detroit: Gale Research, 2001.
"'I Stay at Home with a Book': A Collection of Dorothy Parker Printed Material." Pamphlet. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999.
"Coda: Some F. Scott Fitzgerald Biographies" in "The Biographical Part of Literature": An Exhibition in Celebration of Literary Biography from the Collections of Thomas Cooper Society by Patrick Scott. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1998.
Contributor to F. Scott Fitzgerald: A to Z by Mary Jo Tate. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
"The 'Hope' Hamlet: Kenneth Branagh's Comic Use of Shakespeare's Tragedy in A Midwinter's Tale," Hamlet on Screen: Shakespeare Yearbook Volume 8, , edited by Holger Klein and Dimiter Daphinoff. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press, 1997.
"'Each Time in a New Disguise': The Author as a Commercial Magazinist" Chapter IV in F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Exhibition Catalogue. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
"Princess Daisy: A Description of Sylvia Plath's Copy of The Great Gatsby," Yemassee (Fall/Winter 1995).
"'Next Generation' Didn't Fly So Boldly," guest column for the Los Angeles Times (4 July 1994) Calendar Section.
Presentations
"'A Nigger Woman in a White Man's Will': Hollywood's Subversion of African-Americans in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes," Northeastern Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada, 12 April 2002.
"'Buy Bonds for Bombs and For Whom the Bell Tolls': Hemingway's Novel as Hollywood Wartime Propaganda," as part of Hemingway and the Thirties Exhibition and Symposium, University of South Carolina, 16 September 2001.
"'That Kitchen with the Shining Windows': Willa Cather's 'Neighbour Rosicky' and the Woman's Home Companion,"American Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA, 28 May 2001.
"'To Weave the Whole Thing Together': The Process of Editing Letters," as part of A Celebration of Research and Scholarship at USC Sumter, Schwartz Building, 20 April 2001.
"'To Create the Figure of a Father': Thomas Wolfe's Personal Relationship with the House of Scribner" as part of the Thomas Wolfe Centenary Celebration, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, N.C., 2 October, 2000.
"'Not Acting the Way a Winner Should': The Film Version of James Gould Cozzens's By Love Possessed" for the James Gould Cozzens Exhibition and Symposium, University of South Carolina, 17 September 2000.
"'Contributing Freely': Charles W. Chesnutt's Relationship with Puck Magazine," American Literature Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA, 27 May 2000.
"'Eternal Care': Edward's Shenton's Contribution to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night" for Graduate Student Day, University of South Carolina, 7 April 1999.
"Teenagers in Outer Space: Baby Boomer Participation in 1960s Super-Hero Comic Books" at the Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, CA, 3 April 1999.
"AIDS, Short Stories, and The New Yorker," Guest Lecturer in AIDS and Literature (ENGL 403), University of South Carolina, February 1999.
"'Selling Short': F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Babylon Revisited' in The Saturday Evening Post" for Graduate Student Day, University of South Carolina, 1 April 1998.
"F. Scott Fitzgerald as Short Story Writer" for the Richland County Public Library Read-All-About-It Program, 17 and 24 September 1996.
Dramatic Experience
Duncan/Old Man/Siward in Macbeth (Director: Jerry Winters), Theatre South Carolina, University of South Carolina, 21-23 November 2002.
Oswald in King Lear (Director : Jim O'Connor), Theatre South Carolina, University of South Carolina, 4-12 October 2002.
Director and Dr. Lyman for Bus Stop by William Inge, USC Sumter, 4-6 April 2002.
Reader for selection from John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer as part of Colors that Will Not Fade: The Art of John Dos Passos exhibit, McKissick Library, University of South Carolina, 14 March, 1999.
Director and Presenter of "Readings from the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald," Richland County Public Library, 26 September 1996.
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