Born in Boston, a child of the plains. Currently residing in Baltimore, the Greatest City in America.
30 years of reading, writing, and editing
I am an award-winning editor and academic author with experience writing and editing for a variety of audiences.
Experience
Developmental editor, Ideas on Fire
(2020 – present)
Edit article- and book-length manuscripts for clarity and focus of argument, organization, audience, and voice. Evaluate manuscripts and book proposals for academic market.
Professor of English, Loyola University Maryland
(2001 – present)
Teach courses in American literature, literary analysis, and writing-intensive general education courses for undergraduates. Winner of the university Nachbahr Award for Scholarship in the Humanities, 2017.
Faculty Director of Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship, Loyola University Maryland
(2015-2018)
Worked with faculty, administrators, and Baltimore organizations and residents to implement community-engaged learning activities and curricula, develop research partnerships to advance community goals, and train faculty in inclusive, community-driven pedagogy.
Editor, American Periodicals
(2016 – 2020)
Acquired manuscripts for semiannual academic journal, worked directly with authors on developmental and line edits; managed copyediting and production. Revised editorial policies and peer review to promote more inclusive scholarship. Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Co-founder and Editor, Proto: An Undergraduate Journal
(2010 – 2015)
Established journal of undergraduate humanities scholarship, published annually. Worked with student authors to transform class-based papers into essays written for a cross-disciplinary, general audience, refine argument, and clarify prose.
Selected books and editions
How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Literature (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). Honorable mention, Charles Hatfield Prize, Comics Studies Society, 2021; Honorable Mention, Research Society of American Periodicals Book Prize, 2021
Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner (West Virginia University Press, 2013)
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Co-edited with Charles Mitchell
The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (Rutgers University Press, 2002)
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