Development Chair, Universal Access Employee Resource Group
Writer and researcher in American and media studies. Copy and Line editor of writing from engineering to finance, medicine, and psychology. Collaborator, Consultant, Mentor.
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Professional Preparation
Doctor of Philosophy - English (American Studies) The Graduate Center, The City University of New York - 2005
Master of Arts - Cinema Studies New York University - 1993
Bachelor of Arts - English and Film University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1988
Research Areas
African American Studies -
19th Century American Literature -
Cinema and Media Studies -
Documentary Film -
Life Writing (Biography and Memoir) -
Narrative Theory -
Postmodernism
Publications
The Art of Reviewing 2013 - Book
From Chicago to Watts by Way of Paris and Hollywood: Art-Film Influence on Melvin Van Peebles's Early Features 2010 - Book
The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe 2008 - Book
'Neither in nor out of Blackwood's': The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe's Prose Address 2005 - Journal Article
The trope of Blaxploitation in critical Responses to Sweetback 1994 - Journal Issue
The Trope of Blaxploitation in Critical Responses to "Sweetback" 1994 - Journal Article
Awards
Writing Fellowship - The Graduate Center, The City University of New York [2003]
Tuition Scholarship - Professional Staff Congress, The City University of New York (CUNY) [2002]
Graduate Teaching Fellowship - The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY [2000]
Graduate Teaching Fellowship - The Graduate Center and John Jay College, CUNY [1997]
University Fellowship - The Graduate Center, CUNY [1995]
Appointments
Copy Editor Athenaeum Review [2020–Present]
Copyedit and proofread twice-yearly publication of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Presentations
A Long View of Mat Johnson's "Pym"
2012/03–2012/03Northeast Modern Language Association conference, St. John Fisher College, Rochester NY
Political Motivation for Poe's "How to Write a Blackwood Article"
2009/10–2009/10Third Annual Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial.
"Ball of Wax": Baseball, Blood Sport, and the American Dream
2008/10–2008/10Film & History Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Reading Poe in an Age of Media Expansion
2007/05–2007/05American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA
Masculine Identity in Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn" and Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated"
2004/02–2004/02Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY
Additional Information
Reviews
Affiliations
Member
2019/06 National Alliance of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE)
Member
2020/02 North Texas Chapter, Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)