Academic Appointments

Professor of English, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, 2025-
Associate Professor of English, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, 2018–2025
Assistant Professor of English, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, 2013-2018
Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012

Publications

Books

Foul-Mouthed Modernism: The First World War and the Future of Swearing. Under contract for the Hopkins Studies in Modernism series, Johns Hopkins University Press.

(Ed.) Virginia Woolf and the Elements, co-edited with Marlene Dirschauer. Under contract for the Virginia Woolf – Variations series, Edinburgh University Press.

Character and Mourning: Woolf, Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the First World War. University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Articles

“Swearing Like a Soldier in the Domestic Battles of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.” The Faulkner Journal. Forthcoming.

“Faulknerian Evolution: Unsettled Maps and Genealogies in As I Lay Dying.” In Anniversaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2024. Ed. Jay Watson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming.

“Reading the Portable Faulkner through Digital Yoknapatawpha: Recovering the ‘Problems’ and ‘Difficulties’ of ‘Compson Appendix 1699-1945.’” In Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Theresa Towner. University of Virginia Press, 2022.

“More than Running: Redefining Movement in Go Down, Moses.” In Faulkner and Slavery: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2018. Ed. Jay Watson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 91-104.

“Modernist Moonlight: Illuminating the Post-War Dread of Flags in the Dust.” Mississippi Quarterly 72.4 (2020): 503-520.

“Grounding ‘Pantaloon in Black’ in Faulkner Country.” Teaching Faulkner 38 (Fall 2020).

“‘Curse This War’: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Profanity.” Modernism/modernity 26.4 (2019): 849-868.

“A Response to Addie Bundren: Restoring Generosity to the Language of Civil Discourse in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila.” Studies in the Novel 50.2 (Summer 2018): 277-298.

“For Those ‘Who Could Not Bear to Look Directly at the Slaughter’: Morrison’s Home and the Novels of Faulkner and Woolf.” African-American Review 49.4 (Winter 2016): 343-359.

“Fighting for Black Grief: Exchanging the Civil War for Civil Rights in Go Down, Moses.” Mississippi Quarterly 67.3 (Summer 2014): 403-427.

“The Order of a Smashed Window-Pane: Novel Elegy in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.” Twentieth-Century Literature 61.1 (2015): 63-91.

“Speaking of the Dead and the Speaking Dead.” Journal of American Studies 49.1 (2015): E2.

“Making No Apologies for Difficulty: Putting Modernist Form at the Center of Classroom Discussions.” Journal of Modern Literature 37.2 (Winter 2014): 1-19.

“Mapping the Search for Consolation in Mrs. Dalloway.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 83 (2013): 23-25.

“Crowding Clarissa’s Garden.” Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011.

Digital Humanities Projects

Senior collaborating editor, Digital Yoknapatawpha. Directed by Stephen Railton. University of Virginia. (2012-)

Recent Presentations

“Burying Mother Earth: Woolf’s Liberation from Domesticated Metaphor” Woolf and Dissidence: International Virginia Woolf Society Conference (July 2025)

“Faulknerian Evolution: Unsettled Maps and Genealogies in As I Lay Dying” Faulknerian Anniversaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (July 2024)

“Sylvia Pankhurst to Sylvia Tietjens: Reinventing the Language You Live In” Innovation and Re-invention in the Space Between (June 2024)

“The Not So Quiet Future of Women” Modernist Studies Association (October 2022)

“DH: Reshaping the Pedagogy of Modernist Difficulty” Modernist Studies Association (October 2022)

“The Digital Topography of Post-War Dread in Flags in the Dust.” Faulkner’s Modernisms: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (July 2022)

“Meaning that Does Not Travel: Profanity as a Litmus Test for Global Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association (April 2022)

“Watch Your Language: Black Writers and the Power of a Curse.” Asbury University (September 2021)

“DY When You Only Know One Faulkner Story.” Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence (July 2021)

“The Sharp Edge of a Jest: Blackness and the Language of the Trenches.” Race in the Space Between, 1914-1945 (June 2021)

“Abandoning the Desire for ‘Wholeness’: Digital Yoknapatawpha and the ‘Compson Appendix.’” Faulkner’s Families: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (July 2019)

“Reading the War: Haldane’s Narrative Persona and Theories of Time.” Modernist Studies Association (November 2018)

“The Rhetoric of Redeeming Technology: the To-day and To-morrow Series.” Modernist Studies Association (November 2018)

“Turning Back to Predict the Future: Scientific Projections from a Century Ago.” Asbury University (October 2018)

“More than Running: Redefining Movement in Go Down, Moses.” Faulkner and Slavery: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (July 2018)

“Not Sticks, Stones, or Deeds: the Words of Women’s Suffrage.” Intersections of Resistance in the Space Between, 1914-1945 (June 2018)

“Building a Future on Profanity: Robert Graves’s Lars Porsena: Or the Future of Swearing.” Memory and Prophecy in the Space Between, 1914-1945 (May 2017)

“The Impious and Impolite: The Real Poetry of Profanity.” David Jones: Dialogues with the Past (July 2016)

“The Curse of the War.” Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and Heritage (June 2016)