If you're terribly interested in the details of my academic credentials, then the best place to look is my curriculum vitae. If, on the other hand, you'd like to obtain a slightly less tabulated idea of my interests, then read on.

After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1994, I received my Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown in May 2000 where I also served a one-year appointment as an Assistant Professor (Research) of Modern Culture and Media. Currently, I am a tenured Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, and co-director (with Robert Scholes) of the Modernist Journals Project which in 2007 received its second two-year grant from the NEH. From 2000-2004, I was the founding web editor for the Modernist Studies Association and was elected Second Vice President in 2007 (rising to President in 2009). I am also a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and a member of the MLA Task Force on the Evaluation of Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion which delivered its report in 2007. At the University of Tulsa I serve as Director of Graduate Studies in English and have been Vice-President of the Faculty Senate and President of the campus Phi Beta Kappa chapter. In 2005, I won the University Outstanding Teacher Award.

My reserach interests include modernism, periodical studies, media studies, and the digital humanities. In 2003 my first book, "Am I a Snob?": Modernism and the Novel was published by Cornell University Press. A table of contents is available. This was followed by a short monograph for a general audience, Joyce's Modernism, published by the National Library of Ireland. Recently, I completed an edited collection for the Irish Academic Press entited James Joyce: Visions and Revisions and am completing work on Dubliners: A Cultural Edition, for Longman. Essays and other critical pieces have appeared in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, New Literary History, the Mississippi Quarterly, the PMLA, and a number of collections. Currently, I am finishing a new book entitled The Art of Scandal: The Open Secrets and Hidden Pleasures of the Modern Novel which studies the legal, cultural, and narrative transformation of the boundary between fact and fiction in the twentieth century. This research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, the Mellon Foundation, and the University of Tulsa Office of Research.

I live in Oklahoma with my wife Jen, a yoga teacher and writer, and our two daughters. And sure enough, the wind does come blowin' cross the plains.

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