Associate Professor of English
Assistant to the English Department Chair B.A., Princeton University
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching and Research Interests
African American literature; American literature; literature and culture of the Civil Rights era; prison literature; African Americans and the Left; film and popular culture; and representations of race, masculinity, and the American criminal justice system in twentieth-century African American literature and film
Courses Taught
LIT 202: African American Literature I
LIT 203: African American Literature II
LIT 205: Harlem Renaissance
LIT 206: African American Literary Theory
LIT 309: Martin Luther King
ENG 400: Native Sons / Invisible Men
ENG 400/547: Literature of the Civil Rights Era
LIT 200: American Literature to 1860
LIT 165: Topics in Literature
WRT 120: Effective Writing I
Recent Publications "Police in Television."The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia. Los Angeles: Sage Reference, 2012: 1767-1774.
Essays on Sidney Poitier, Eldridge Cleaver, Chester Himes, and James Weldon Johnson for Great Lives from History: African Americans (Salem Press, 2011).