English Department Faculty and Staff

• Creative Writing/Innovative Writing
• Hybrid Writing           
• Genre Studies
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Creative Nonfiction
• Contemporary Experimental Literature
• Contemporary American Literature
• Gender in Literature
• Composition

• Contemporary innovative American literature
• Multi-genre and blurred-genre texts
• The future of literature
• Creative writing/innovative writing pedagogy
• Classroom community, collaborative learning, motivation, and student success
• Publishers’ influences on reading, writing, and creativity
• Gender in literature and publishing
• Class/status and creativity
• Intersections between the pedagogies of composition/rhetoric and creative writing
• Culture and the production of literature
• Writing groups/community writing service

PhD, English Studies, Illinois State University

MS, English Studies, Creative Writing, Illinois State University

BA, English/Creative Writing, Western Illinois University

“CC Shaboom.” Dirty, Dirty. Jaded Ibis Press, forthcoming.

“Dog Stories.” 580 Split, forthcoming, Issue 14.

“Sex Stories.” Mixed Fruit, October 2011.

“Bertoli Roosterus Butterfly,” Cormac McCarthy’s Dead Typewriter. September 2011.

“Baby Stories.” Fiction Weekly, March 11, 2011.

“Becoming With, Becoming Wordly: A Review of Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet” JAC 30: 3&4, 2010.

“Baby Stories.” Devil’s Lake. Winter 2010.

“Crow.” elimae, 2008.

“Place.” Santa Clara Review: Fall/Winter 2008.

“Lore” and “L.Ode.” Euphemism, Spring 2011 (6:2). April 2011.

“Re:” Carl Sandburg Days, Award Winning Poems 2011. April 2011.

“What is It Good For?” Carl Sandburg Days, Award Winning Poems 2010. April 2010.

“Predator.” Carl Sandburg Days, Award Winning Poems 2009. April 2009.

“The Fan.” Poetry Motel. September, 2007.