Contact Information
608 S. Wright
608 S Wright
M/C 718
Urbana, IL 61801
Awards and Honors
2018 English Department Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for Instructional Staff
Courses Taught
- BTW 250: Principles of Business Communication
- BTW 261: Principles of Technical Communication
- ENGL 104: Introduction to Film
- ENGL 259: Early African American Literature and Culture
- RHET 101: Principles of Writing
- RHET 102: Principles of Research
- RHET 105: Writing and Research
- RHET 233: Advanced Rhetoric & Composition
selected publications
BOOKS
Civil Rights and the Environment in African American Literature, 1895-1941. Environmental Culture Series. Ed. Greg Garrard & Richard Kerridge. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS & JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Thylias Moss and the African-Americanization of Holocaust Memory." SAJL: Studies in American Jewish Literature (forthcoming 2020).
"W. E. B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: Double Consciousness and National Parks in Darkwater." The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Ed. Greg Garrard. Oxford UP, 2014.
"Toward an Eco-ontology: A Response to Greg Garrard’s ‘Heidegger Nazism Ecocriticism'." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 19.2 (Spring 2012): 375-379.
"Who Set You Feelin'? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the Great Migration Narrative in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'." English Language Notes 48.1 (2010): 89-100.
"From Black Marxism to Industrial Ecosystem: Racial and Ecological Crisis in William Attaway's Blood on the Forge." Modern Fiction Studies 55.3 (2009): 566-595.
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Recent Publications
"Postmemory and Race: Thylias Moss and the African-Americanization of the Holocaust." Studies in American Jewish Literature 40.1 (2021): 1-17