I am an Assistant Professor of English at Siena Heights University (Michigan). In years past I have taught courses in composition and American and African-American cultural and ethnic studies at Defiance College (Ohio), Bowling Green State Univerisity (Ohio), Marymount University (Virginia), and Washington State University.
I am an alumnus of Bowling Green State Univerisity (Ph.D., American Culture Studies), Washington State University (M.A., English) and the College of Wooster (B.A., English).
My research focuses on the interesections of race, memory and communal belonging in the contemporary U.S. South. I study a range of forms of cultural production, especially fiction, memoir, music, visual culture and public discourse and look to elucidate the complexities of community and identity in the U.S. South since 1968. In the past year I published an essay on Arthur Ashe in the volume Southern Mascunility: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction.
I am husband to Karin and father to Pearl and Frank
