Associate Professor of English

B.B.A. Belmont College

M.L.S. Vanderbilt University

M.A. Northwestern State University

A.B.D. University of Louisiana Lafayette

Studies and interests include Early American Literature and British Literature 1600-1900.  Focused interest is nineteenth century American novelists such as Hawthorne, Twain, Howells and James as well as women writers of the time Chopin and Gilman.  

2007 Presented paper on Fanny Trollope and Travel Writing at British Women Writers Conference Lexington, Kentucky

Faculty sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta and Alpha Lambda Delta

Courses Taught:

Developmental English, Composition I, Composition II, American Writers, American Realists and Naturalists, Early American Literature