About
I am currently a Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Concord University in Athens, WV.
My main focus of study is William Blake; however, I have recently been focusing more on pop culture, particularly Hannibal Lecter.
I have taught a wide variety of classes, including world literature in translation, British Literature (anything from the 17th C on), literary theory, medicine and literature, the anti-hero, and H.P. Lovecraft. Education
PhD The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2001
MA The University of Rochester, 1993
BA Hollins College, 1992 Publications
Hannibal’s Fairy Tale: Cultural Lessons of the Television Series McFarland, 2024 ISBN: 9781476676111
“The Disturbing Appeal of Pennywise” Book chapter in The Many Lives of It: Essays on the Stephen King Horror Franchise. Ed. Ron Riekki. McFarland, 2020. ISBN: 9781476680187
Thomas Harris and William Blake: Allusions in the Hannibal Lecter Novels McFarland, 2013 ISBN: 9780786471010
“Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake”; chapter in Sexy Blake Eds. Helen Bruder and Tristanne Connelly; Palgrave, 2013 ISBN: 9781137332837
“The Silence of the Lamb and the Tyger: Harris using Blake to Discuss Good and Evil”; chapter in Blake, Modernity, and Popular Culture Eds. Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker; Palgrave, 2007 ISBN: 978-1349284078 Memberships
Blake Society
MLA
