76 University Drive
Hazleton, PA 18202-8025
Research Interests
20th- and 21st-century American literature, gender studies, cultural studies
Publications
Chapter 6, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review - December, 2023
"A Crowded Summer of Magic and Money," Review of The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
Fitzgerald Panels at ALA Conference, San Francisco, May 2018
Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, M/M [Modernism/Modernity] Print Plus - April 11, 2019
Jordan Baker, Gender Dissent, and Homosexual Passing in The Great Gatsby - April, 2017
Fitzgerald Panels at ALA Conference, San Francisco, May 2016, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter - January, 2017
Fitzgerald Panels at ALA Conference, Boston, May 2015, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter - January, 2016
"The Jesuits taught me how to think": Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street, Christianity and Detective Fiction - 2013
Implementing the NCTE's 21st-century literacies in first-year writing, Teaching English in the Two-Year College - March, 2013
Collaborator: Peter Froehlich, Author
Passionate Discretion: Fitzgerald in the Unpublished Correspondence of Sigourney Fay, Shane Leslie, and William Hemmick, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review - 2012
Jordan Baker, Gender Dissent, and Homosexual Passing in The Great Gatsby - September 11, 2012
Fitzgerald Panels at ALA Conference, Boston, May 2011, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter - December, 2011
Gatsby’s Mentors: Queer Relations Between Love and Money in The Great Gatsby, Journal of Men's Studies - October, 2011
Fitzgerald Panels at ALA Conference, San Francisco, May 2010, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter - December, 2010
Jordan Baker, Gender Dissent, and Homosexual Passing in The Great Gatsby, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 - October, 2010
Muriel Rukeyser, Companion to 20th Century American Poetry - 2005
Tess Gallagher, Companion to 20th Century American Poetry - 2005
Jay Gatsby/James Gatz, Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia - 2003
A Woman Writing About Nature: Louise Gluck and the 'absence of intention', Ecological Poetry - 2002
Diane di Prima, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century - 2001
Louise Gluck, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century - 2001
(Dis)Locating Evil in the Detective Novel and Film Noir: Faulkner's Sanctuary and Lynch's Blue Velvet, Clues: A Journal of Detection - April, 2001
Appropriation of Generic Conventions and New Journalism, Literature/Film Quarterly - January, 2000
Education
Ph D, Post-1945 American literature, The University of Mississippi
MA, English, The University of Mississippi
BA, English, Rhode Island College
Papers and Presentations
June 28, 2023
Papers and Oral Presentations
Zelda Fitzgerald as Modernist Writer
The 16th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference: In Our Time: F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 21st Century
Vaxjo, Sweden
May 26, 2023
Papers and Oral Presentations
Zelda Fitzgerald as Southern Writer
American Literature Association 34th Annual Conference
Boston, MA
May 26, 2022 - May 29, 2022
Roundtable
Rewriting Gatsby, post-copyright: Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful and Jillian Cantor's Beautiful Little Fools
American Literature Association 33rd Annual Conference
American Literature Association, Chicago, IL
September 10, 2021
Papers and Oral Presentations
Evelyn Scott, Estelle Faulkner, and Zelda Fitzgerald: Recovering Women Writers of the Southern Renaissance
American Literature Association Symposium: Rebirth, Renewal, Renaissance
New Orleans, Louisiana
July 8, 2021 - July 10, 2021
Panels
The Influence of the Influenza Epidemic on F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Roundtable
American Literature Association 32nd Annual Conference
Boston, MA
July, 2017
Papers
“[P]rominent well-to-do people in this Middle Western town”: Lucius Pond Ordway, Jr., and Fitzgerald in St. Paul
The 14th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
St. Paul, Minnesota
May, 2017
Papers
From Southern Belle to Modernist Woman Writer: Evelyn Scott, Estelle Faulkner, and Zelda Fitzgerald
28th Annual American Literature Association
Boston, Massachusetts
July 06, 2015
Papers
Fitzgerald, Shane Leslie, Ireland, and the Easter Rising
The 13th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Waterford, Ireland
May 10, 2013
Oral Presentations
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald as Literary Wife
25th Annual American Literature Association Conference
Boston, Massachusetts
October 6, 2011
Seminars
Marriage as form of patronage: the Fitzgeralds and the Faulkners
Modernist Studies Association
Buffalo, New York
The literary ambitions and artistic careers of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Estelle Oldham Franklin Faulkner were simultaneously fostered and frustrated by their similarly complex marriages.
July 08, 2011
Papers
New Insight Into Fitzgerald's Early Life from the Archives of Shane Leslie and Alice Pike Barney
The 12th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Lyon, France
This paper explores unpublished correspondence to illuminate Fitzgerald’s relationship with early mentors, and heretofore unknown relationships between Fitzgerald, the Hemmick and Barney families, and Natalie Barney, as well as the Washington, DC social and artistic circle with which he was acquainted in his early life.
April 14, 2011
Oral Presentations
Using a Grading Contract in Basic and First-Year Writing Courses
University College English Faculty Symposium on Pedagogy
University Park, PA
November 12, 2010
Roundtable
Faculty Case Study
Media Commons Tailgate
University Park, Pennsylvania
September, 2010
Papers
Implementing the NCTE's 21st-Century Literacies in First-Year Writing
Fall English Department Conference
State College, PA
Implementing the National Council of Teachers of English's goals for 21st Century Literacies into the framework of a traditional composition class is exciting for students and teachers, but also fraught with dangers.
September, 2010
Papers
Traditional Rhetoric, Emerging Technology: Digital Media in First-Year Writing
Fall English Department Conference
State College, PA
A description of the goals, objectives, assignments, and classroom activities in an experimental section of English 15 highlighting writing in and for digital media.
April, 2010
Oral Presentations
“’[M]y splendid mirage’: New York City in the Imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald”
24th Annual MELUS Conference
Scranton, Pennsylvania
March 6, 2010
Oral Presentations
"The Jesuits taught me how to think: Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street
Christianity and Literature: Christianity and the Detective
New York, NY
Examination of the influence of Catholicism and Jesuit education on the character of Detective Frank Pembleton in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999).
February, 2010
Workshops
Introducing the Professional Writing Minor to Faculty Across the Curriculum
Faculty Brown Bag
January 26, 2010
Seminars
Podcasting as alternative to the traditional essay assignment
Faculty Brown Bag
October 3, 2009
Oral Presentations
"The Correspondence of Shane Leslie, Sigourney Fay, and William Hemmick: The Legacy of Fitzgerald's Mentors"
Tenth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
Examines correspondence between important early mentors of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Sir Shane Leslie Papers at Georgetown University.
April 18, 2009
Oral Presentations
English 15 in a Digital Age
Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference
University Park, PA
Discussed our adaptation of English 15 to address 21st-century literacies and make use of Penn State's Digital Commons.
March 24, 2009
Oral Presentations
“Is Gatsby Gay? Queering the Great American Novel – and its author"
Faculty Talk
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
February 26, 2009
Workshops
Facu-WIP
Hazleton, PA
November 19, 2008
"Teaching and Learning with Assertion-Evidence PowerPoint Slides"Schreyer Institute for Excellence in Teaching Luncheon Series
Penn State Hazleton (via PicTel)
October 21, 2008
"They built it; now what? Using the Digital Commons in our Classes"Colleague Cluster Teaching Discussion
Penn State Hazleton
September 30, 2008
"Standard Usage – aka 'Proper Grammar'"Brown Bag Teaching Discussion, Penn State Hazleton
Penn State Hazleton
September 17, 2008
"What Can I Do? Addressing Classroom Management Issues"Schreyer Institute for Excellence in Teaching Luncheon Series
Penn State Hazleton (via PicTel)
September 16, 2008
Learning and the BrainBrown Bag Teaching Discussion
Penn State Hazleton
May 15, 2008
VariousThe Teaching Professor Conference
Kississimmee, Florida
March 19, 2008
Feminist, Interrupted: Adapting Susannah Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" to Film2008 National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
San Francisco, California
March 19, 2008
Various2008 National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
San Francisco, California
November 05, 2007
The Penn State LeaderPenn State Shenango
September 21, 2007
Fall English ConferenceSeptember 20, 2007
Ecological Subjectivity and Ecofeminist Spirituality in the Poetry of Louise GluckPenn State University Fall English Conference
University Park
September 20, 2007
Fall English ConferenceFall English Conference
University Park
September 20, 2007
Fall English ConferenceFall English Conference
University Park
August 08, 2007
Faculty and Staff: Partnering for ExcellencePenn State Shenango
April 25, 2007
University College Promotion & Tenure WorkshopPenn State, New Kensington
April 25, 2007
University College Promotion & Tenure WorkshopApril 04, 2007
"There was a book?": Reinscribing Myths of American Masculinity and Violence in Adapting Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club to FilmPopular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2007 National Conference
Boston, Massachusetts
March 01, 2007
Queering the American Dream: Jay Gatsby and the American AdamNortheast Modern Lanaguage Association 2007 Convention (Panel: What can you do with a "handsome sailor"?: (Re)reading Beautiful Young Men in American Literature
Baltimore, Maryland
September 22, 2006
Fall English ConferenceSeptember 21, 2006
Fall English ConferenceFall English Conference
Altoona, PA
August 29, 2006
Penn State University New Faculty OrientationPenn State University New Faculty Orientation
State College, PA