Degrees:

• Ph. D., English, University of California at Irvine, 2005
• Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California at Irvine, School of Hamanities,2005
• M.A., English, University of California at Irvine, M.A., 1999
• B.A., English, University of California at Berkeley,1994

Areas of Specialization:

• American Literature, especially the 19th Century
  
• African American Literature
  
• Legal and Cultural Studies
  
• Rhetoric
  
• Critical Theory

Selected Articles:

• "William Gilmore Simms and the Cultural Aesthetics of Capital Punishment" (forthcoming in Law and Literature 29, U of California Press)
• "Reading Detectives: Teaching Analysis and Argument in First-Year English." (with Douglas Higbee and Andre Hulet).  Integrating Literature and Writing in First-Year English.  New York: Modern Language Association (2007): 174-192.
• "The Anti-Gallows Movement in Antebellum America."  REAL (Research in English and American Literature), vol. 23. Civil Liberties, Ltd, ed. Brook Thomas. Verlag: Tuebingen (2006): 145-178.
  
• "Iterability and the Order-Word Plateau: 'A Politics of the Performative' in Derrida and Deleuze/Guattari." Critical Horizons 4:2 (2003): 227-264.
• "An American Travesty: Capital Punishment & the Criminal Justice System in Dreiser's An American Tragedy." Research in English and American Literature v. 18, (2002): 357-384
• "Howell's Rhetoric of Realism: The Economy of Pain(t) in The Rise of Silas Lapham and Social Complicity in The Minister's Charge." Studies in American Fiction 29:2 (2001): 159-187