Honors/Publications/Conferences

• Summer Development Professional Grant from Shepherd University: $560 for travel expenses related to presenting at an international conference (2010)
• Summer Development Professional Grant from Shepherd University: $3,500 for travel and archival research (2008)
• Dean’s Fellowship from the Columbian College of the Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University (2004 – 05)
• The George Washington University’s Philip Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Outstanding Teaching (2004)
• Graduate Teaching Award from the Department of English at The George Washington University (2004)
• Nominee:  The George Washington University’s Trachtenberg Teaching Prize/Bender Teaching Award (2003)
• Fellowship and Graduate Teaching Assistantship from George Washington University (2001 – 04)
• Research Assistantship from The College of William and Mary (1989 – 90)
• Fulbright Scholarship to Hamburg, Germany (1988 – 89)
• Honors graduate (cum laude) from Belmont University (1987)
• Jerry E. Lambdin Award for Belmont University’s Outstanding Graduating Senior (1987)
• Belmont University’s Dean’s List for six semesters (1983 – 87)
• Student representative on Belmont University's Catalog and Curriculum Committee (1986 – 87)

• “Klaus Mann: The Teufelskind Doubly Exiled.” Literature in Exile: East and Central Europe. Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. New York: Lang, 2009. 177 – 91.
• “Quantum Leap? Queering Melville’s Mardi.” Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly 8.4 (2006): 109 – 30.
• “Same Path, Different Purpose: Chopin's La Folle and Welty's Phoenix Jackson.” Women's Studies 32 (2003): 937-56.
• “The Exclusionary Nature of The Moviegoer.”  Walker Percy’s Feminine Characters.  Ed. Lewis A. Lawson and Elzbieta H. Oleksy.  Troy: Whitston, 1995. 50 – 61.

Other Publications

• Rev. of Alexander: A Novel of Utopia, by Klaus Mann. Trans. David Carter. The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide Nov. – Dec. 2008: 39.
• “House of the Spirits, The: Isabel Allende (1982).” Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 160 – 61.
• “Islas, Arturo (Arturo Islas La Farga) (1938 – 1991).” Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 178 – 79.
• “Migrant Souls: Arturo Islas (1990).” Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 231 – 32.
• “Rain God, The: Arturo Islas (1984).” Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 280 – 81.
• “‘Everybody’s Protest Novel’: James Baldwin (1949).” Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African-American Writers. Ed. Wilfred D. Samuels, Loretta Woodard, and Tracie Guzzio. New York: Facts on File, 2007: 175 – 76.
• “Hedonism Bound: Isherwood in Berlin.” The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide Nov. – Dec. 2007: 13 – 14.
• "Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore (1875 – 1935)."  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature.  Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr.  Vol. 2.  Westport: Greenwood, 2005.  5 vols.  463 – 65.
• "Kenan, Randall Garrett (born 1963)."  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature.  Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr.  Vol. 3.  Westport: Greenwood, 2005.  5 vols.  921 – 23.

• “Conceptual Patriot: American Affiliation in the Mind and on the Page in Gertrude Stein’s Early Writings.” International Colloquium—American Identities: Relations and Interactions. Toulouse, France (June 2010).
• “Is It Even the Same America? Klaus Mann and Christopher Isherwood: Disparate Experiences in the US.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Long Beach, CA (November 2007).
• "English as a Counter-Offensive in Arturo Islas's Fiction."  Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference.  Baltimore, MD (October 2006).
• "Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race in Alice Dunbar-Nelson's 'Tony's Wife.'"  Southern Women Writers Conference.  Rome, GA (September 2005).
• "The Poet Laureate Laughs No More:  The Exhausted Optimism of Langston Hughes."  South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.  Roanoke, VA (November 2004).
• "Was ist denn 'deutsch'?: Germanness as a Quandary for Thomas Mann." Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference.  Austin, TX (September 2003).
• "Seeing through Serpent and Eagle Eyes:  Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Native Intellectual and Mestiza."  Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference.  Pittsburgh, PA (November 2002). 
• "Grabbing the Past, Gripping the Present, Grasping the Future:  Toni Morrison’s Reclamation of a Problematic Past."  Central New York Conference on Language and Literature.  Cortland, NY (October 2002).
• "Unheeded Rumblings:  Manifestations of Impending Violence in Antebellum African-American Literature."  Georgia State University’s New Voices Conference.  Atlanta, GA (September 2002).
• "Beautiful, Beautiful:  Cinematic Interplay of Gay Male Couples and Surrounding Subcultures."  Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference. Toronto, Canada (March 2002).
• "The Necessity—and Impossibility—of Empathy:  A Reading of Baldwin's Another Country."  Howard University's Role Call Conference.  Washington, DC (January 2002).