RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
- Short Texts, Big Ideas: From the Puritans to Twitter
- Call Me Ishmael: Narrative Beginnings and Opening Scenes in American Literature and Cinema
- Love, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Great American Love Stories
- How to Read Short Stories Like a Professor
- American Literature and the World: Short & Long Fiction, Poetry, Letters, and Songs
- Homo Legens: Modes and Moods of Reading
- Nature | Art | Philosophy: Emerson and Thoreau
- Explorations in Literature, Media, and Art: Emerson, Pound, McLuhan
- Love and Death in the American Short Story
- Bomb-Makers & Sentence-Makers: Terrorists and Writers in American Literature
- In Search of the Great American Novel
- Less Is More: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the American Short Story
- An American Hauntology: Ghosts in American Literature and Culture
- Towards a Posthuman(ist) American Studies: Theory, Literature, Film