Professional Bio
1990: Ph.D. English, University of Kansas
1985-86: Graduate Reading, Exeter University
1984: M.A., English, University of Kansas
1982: B.A., English, Washburn University
Research & Scholarship
Books
Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.
Hospitable Performances: Dramatic Genre and Cultural Practices in Early Modern England. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1992.
Articles
“Quivira, Coronado, and Kansas,” Kansas History, forthcoming.
“War Memories, Archives, and Friendship: Wayne A. Palmer, G. P. Cather, and Willa Cather’s One of Ours.” WLA 23 (2011): 59-65.
“’The Bohemian Girl,’ ‘Old Mrs. Harris,’ and the Hospitalities of Red Cloud.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review 54.2 (2010): 48-51.
“Kansas-Nebraska Acts: Territorial Imagination in ‘El Dorado,’ Song of the Lark, and The Professor’s House.” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review 53.2 (2009): 31-35.
“Coronado and Aesop: Fable and Violence on the Sixteenth-Century Plains.” Great Plains Quarterly 29.2 (2009): 129-40.
“Ripening Claude: Willa Cather’s One of Ours and the Philosophy of Henri Bergson.” American Literary Realism 41.2 (2009): 112-32.
"The Spokesman: Dorothy M. Johnson's ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ and Infinite Reference." Theory & Event 12.4 (2009) Project MUSE. 29 Dec. 2009 http://muse.jhu.edu/.
Awards & Recognition
Faculty Advisor of the Year, Regis College, 2011
Alumni Fellow, Washburn University, 2011