Education: Ph.D. English, Washington State University, 1995 M.A. English, San Diego State University, 1988 B.A. English, San Diego State University, 1985

Specialties:
African American Literature, Civil Rights Movement Literature, Minority Literature, American Literature

Courses Regularly Taught:
African American Literature
Civil Rights Movement Film and Literature
Minority Literature
American Literature
Regional American Literature
Introduction to Literature
Composition


Research: (Representative Publications)
“ Passage to Slavery, Passage to Freedom: Olaudah Equiano and the Sea.” The Midwest Quarterly 47.3 (2006): 209-223.

“ Civil Rights Movement.” Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Ed. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Greenwood Press, 2006.

“‘ It Was a Form of Creativity, Our Going to Central’: An Interview with Minnijean Brown Trickey.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 36.2 (2005) 90-98.

“ Louise Meriwether.” Black Women in America, second edition. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford University Press, 2005.

“ Intimate History”: Storyteller and Audience in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” College Language Association Journal 47.1 (2003): 1-31.

“‘ Poor and Black and Apt to Stay That Way’: Gambling on a Sure Thing in Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner.” The Midwest Quarterly 45.1 (2003): 49-58.


Current Project:
Civil rights movement literature and film with a particular focus on the 1957 desegregation efforts at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas