Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1988. “Faulkner and Ulysses: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry.”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, 1989-90.

My main research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, with a special interest in the fiction of William Faulkner, the history of aviation, modernism, psychoanalysis, and war.

Other work in progress includes essays on Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy.

Selected Publications:

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War (New York: Bloomsbury, 2022)

“Bodies, Injury, Medicine.”  War and American Literature.  Ed. Jennifer Haytock.  Cambridge UP, 2021.  57-70.

“‘An Entirely New Way of Conducting War at a Distance’: The First World War and the Air War of the Future.”  Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence.  Ed. Rebecca Adelman and David Kiernan. UP of Minnesota, 2020. 31-52.

“War, Labor, and Gasoline in ‘Carcassonne.” Faulkner and Money: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2017. Ed. Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2019. 15-30.

“Faulkner and the Royal Air Force Canada, 1918.” The Faulkner Journal XXX (Spring 2016) [March 2018]: 15-38. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the North.” Ed. Robert Jackson.

“Faulkner, Adorno, and ‘The Radio Phenomenon,’ 1935.” William Faulkner in the Media Ecology. Ed. Julian Murphet and Stefan Solomon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2015. 115-130.

“The Ultimate War Story: Losing it in Going After Cacciato.” Critical Insights: Tim O’Brien. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2015. 154-168.

“The American Wars: History and Prophecy in Vietnam, the Gulf, and Iraq.” I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. 82-11

“Pylon and the Rise of European Fascism.” The Faulkner Journal 27 (Spring 2012): 97-114. Special Issue, “Faulkner and the Metropolis.” Ed. Peter Lurie.

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative. Edited by Paul Budra and Michael Zeitlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Méconnaissance, Race, and the Real in Faulkner’s Fiction. Etudes Faulknériennes IV. Ed. Michael Zeitlin. Series Editors: André Bleikasten and Nicole Moulinoux. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

“The Ego Psychologists in Lacan’s Theory.” American Imago: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Culture 54.2 (Summer 1997): 209-232. Special issue, “Lacan’s Christian Science.” Ed. Daniel Boyarin.

Killam Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Arts, 2008-2009.

I have served three tours in Arts One (2010-12, 2014-16, 2018-20).

In the Department of English, I teach courses in American modernism, literature post-World War II, and contemporary literature.