Current Courses
	Courses that I teach regularly include WBIS (188), Honors Composition (110), Literature and Film (231), Introduction to English Studies (281), and Foundations of Literary Criticism (381). In WBIS and Honors Comp, we focus on Genocide in the 20th Century, as we develop the reading, writing, and research skills essential to university-level academic work. In English 281, we read a variety of literary texts and genres and engage the different interpretive strategies that can be used to analyze those texts accurately and productively. English 381 provides an in-depth encounter with the critical theories that underpin those strategies, asking some of the major questions that relate to our discipline: What is literature? What is a text? What is an author? What is history? How are issues of race, gender, and class interwoven with those questions? In addition, both 281 and 381 engage scholarly work in English studies and related fields, and we work on developing effective research methods. See the links below for syllabi:
	110 Honors Composition (Fall 2009) 175 Honors Seminar (Fall 2009) 188 Writing-Based Inquiry Seminar: Genocide (Fall 2009) 231 Literature and Film (January interim 2009) 281 Introduction to English Studies (Fall 2008) 381 Foundations of Literary Criticism (Spring 2009) CNL, 202 The Humanities Confront Violence and Aggression (Spring 2006)
Research
	My general area of scholarly, and personal, interest is 20th and 21st century world literature and history. In recent years, much of my research has focused on genocide studies, especially the ideologies that contributed to the genocidal conflict and the ways in which literary texts and films have attempted to represent genocide. Other ongoing emphases in my research include the narratological enigma of first-person, present-tense fiction, the representation of traumatic events and experiences in fictional and non-fictional texts, and the fiction of the South African / Australian novelist J. M. Coetzee.
Professional Activities
	On-Campus Activities
	Co-Director, WBIS Program, 2009-2010 Chair, English Department Technology Committee, 2008-2010 Director of the Radford Teaching Lab, 1999-2008 English Department Composition Committee, 1997-2008; 2009-2010 Shakespeare on the Fox Project, 2006-2008
	Other Activities
	Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars Member, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Member, International Comparative Literature Association Member, Amnesty International
Awards & Honors
	UW Oshkosh Residence Life Recognition Award Academic Staff Professional Development Grant, UW Oshkosh National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award Global Studies Institute Scholar Access Grant Distinguished Teaching Award, UW Oshkosh Academic Staff Professional Development Grant, UW Oshkosh Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University
Personal
	Please consider listening to the Voices on Genocide podcast series available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience website: http://blogs.ushmm.org/index.php/COC2/