UPIKE

WR 118
Appreciation of Literature
Introduction to Literature
African American Literature

Ph.D. in English, The University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Irish Writing and Film, University College Cork, Ireland
B.A. in English, The University of Tennessee at Martin
B.F.A in Theatre, The University of Tennessee at Martin

Article: “‘No Theme, No Message, No Thought’: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Gendered Rhetoric of Black Intellectual Leadership in the Harlem Renaissance.” FORTHCOMING, MELUS.

Presentation: “‘That Wild Dark Man’: The Sexual Dynamics of White Supremacy in Lady Gregory’s Grania.” MLA Annual Convention. Marriott Marquis Washington, DC (2022).

Article: “Famine Roads and Big House Ghosts: History and Form in John Banville’s The Infinities.” The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 22.1 (2020): 85-95. DOI: 10.37389/abei.v22i1.3850.

Presentation: “‘I Did All a White Man Could:’ Joyce, Race, and Empire.” The Critical Ground: the Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Ireland (2019).

Article: “‘A Juggler’s Trick:’” The Pastoralism of Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice.” New Hibernia Review 22.3 (2018): 65-80. DOI:10.1353/nhr.2018.0031.

African American Literature, Irish Literature, Global Modernism, Southern Literature, and Film

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society