Education

1998 – 2003: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University. Major Fields: American, Italian, and Greek literature.

Dissertation: Politics in the Lyric-Epic of the Americas: Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Neruda's Canto General.

1996 – 1997: M.A., English, Louisiana State University. Thesis: Agnosticism in the Early Poetry of Denise Levertov.

1992 – 1996: B.A., cum laude, English with a Foreign Languages Concentration, University of Dallas. Thesis: “Visions of Flight in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.”

Teaching

2000 – 2002 Indiana University Northwest, Adjunct Instructor; 2003 – 2009 Lecturer; 2009 – 2010 Senior Lecturer; 2011 – present Assistant Professor.

2003 – 2003: Morton College, Assistant Professor.  

2002 – 2002: Roosevelt University, Adjunct Instructor.

2000 – 2002: Columbia College Chicago, Adjunct Instructor.  

1998 – 2000: Louisiana State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant. 

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