Welcome Statement: I began as a student of Romanticism and the lyric, but a number of factors, including acute hay-fever, pushed me quickly into modernism. The focus of my doctoral work was early twentieth-century British and American literature and time philosophy.  I am also interested in race and atavism, models of history and identity in cultural and ethnic studies, and time-travel narratives. I have a real weakness for popular culture, especially bad Hollywood films, love songs, and reality television.

Current and Recent Courses: Time Travels; Situating the Modern: The Subject in History; Modernism in Art and Literature: From the Primitive to the Abstract to the Political; Asian American Literature; What Is “Ethnic” American Literature?; Literary Theory: Thinking Through Cultural Theory and Literary Studies

Recent Publications:  "Disquieting Time." Common Knowledge 17.2 (2011): 394-410.
"The Future of Literary Criticism: Assessment, the Curricularized Classroom, and Thick Reading." Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime:  Disciplinary Assessment. Eds. Donna Heiland and Laura J. Rosenthal. New York: Teagle, 2011. 199-216.
"Modernism’s News." Symploke: A Journal for Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship 16.1/2 (2008): 153-69.
"Modernist Contemporaneity: Rethinking Time in Eliot Studies and The Waste Land." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 89.3-4 (2007): 379-403.