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I teach American Literature and focus on Appalachian Literature and Modernism. My work at King has been a long apprenticeship: learning how to teach from my students and from colleagues; how to read from Virgil, Hawthorne, and Eliot; and how to be a member of a community of faith and learning.鈥�
- PhD, University of Tennessee
- MA, English, East Tennessee State University
- BA, English, King College
鈥淕raphing the Appalachian Novel,鈥� presented at the 2013 Appalachian Studies Association Conference at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina (March 2013).
鈥淏ill Withers,鈥� Encyclopedia of Appalachia Online, University of Tennessee (2010).
鈥淎 Case for the Song,鈥� Faculty Lecture delivered at King College (October 2009).
鈥淔rank Lloyd Wright鈥檚 Appalachian Modernism,鈥� presented at the 2009 Appalachian Studies Association Conference at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio (March 2009).
鈥淎lbert French,鈥� Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee (Spring 2006).
鈥�Out of this Furnace,鈥� Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee (Spring 2006).
鈥淩obert Mitchum,鈥� Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee (Spring 2006).
鈥�Thunder Road,鈥� Encyclopedia of Appalachia, University of Tennessee (Spring 2006).
鈥淕ospel According to Bristol: The Life, Music, and Ministry of Ernest Phipps,鈥� The Bristol Sessions: Writings 羞羞视频 the Big Bang of Country Music, McFarland Press (April 2005).