British Romanticism
18th & 19th Century English, Irish, & Mexican Literature
20th Century Latin American Literature
Theology & Literature
Formal Aesthetics
Film
Architectural Poetics
“Why English Romanticism? An Ambivalent Report.” Keat-Shelley Journal (2022)
“Mexico in the Revolutionary Atlantic: Catholicism and the Arts of Resistance in Fray Servando Teresa de Mier’s Carta de un Americano al Español and Memorias.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations (2019)
“Wrath, or How I learned to Read.” College Arguments: Understanding the Genres. Ed. Irene L. Clark. Kendall Hunt Publishing: 2015.
“The Three Appeals.” College Argument: Understanding the Genre. Ed. Irene L. Clark. Kendall Hunt Publishing: 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 2019, Full Fellowship, University of Iowa
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2016-2017
Fulbright Research Grant to Ireland, Alternate, January 2016
Joseph L. Gaia Distinguished Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2012-2018
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2012—2015
California Pre-doctoral Internship Award, UCSB, Summer 2011
Sally Casanova California Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2010-2011
Steering Committee Member – Christian Poetics Initiative, Yale’s Rivendell Institute
Religion & Literature Journal
Ford Fellow
I want students to engage literature, film, essay writing, and theological reflection with enthusiasm. For that reason, my teaching emphasizes creative collaborative activities and lively class discussion rather than lecture. I would much rather hear students develop and exchange their ideas about a given topic than do most of the talking myself.
Definitely the students—their Midwestern friendliness, their genuine interest in learning (sometimes aided by a little prodding), and their ability to make me laugh.
Playing Chess
Watching Foreign Films
Walking at the YMCA
Pushups
Reading Fantasy and Sci Fi
