
I am the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Lewis Honors College and an Associate Professor in the UK English department. My work focuses on representations of war in literature, popular writing, cinema, visual art, and propaganda. I am the Book Reviews Editor for an interdisciplinary journal, Home Front Studies.
I teach courses in film and literature at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I received the Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching (2014), the Alumni Association's Great Teacher Award (2015) and, when I was the Faculty Sponsor for Sigma Tau Delta (Honors Society in English), the Student Organization Advisor of the Year Award (2016).
I co-teach a summer course on Sustainability and Biodiversity, and in 2026 will take students to mainland Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. For more info, search the Education Abroad Programs for "Ecuador."
B.A., University of California Berkeley, 1994
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture
- Film
- War & Propaganda
- English
- International Film Studies
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Peace Studies
- Lewis Honors College
- Education Abroad & Exchanges
- Phi Beta Kappa Philosophical Society