Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
- M.A., University of Oregon
- B.A., University of South Carolina at Columbia
Areas of Interest
- Literary theory
- Film Studies
- Narrative theory
- History of the novel
- Cognitive literary/film studies
- British literature
- Book-length project: What Neuroscience Can Tell us about the Art of Imitation
Books
The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce. University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Selected Articles in Refereed Journals
“Oceania’s Totalitarian Technology: Writing in Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Criticism 59:3 (Summer 2017): 375-393. http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=16585&context=criticism
“Imitative Identity, Imitative Art, and AI:Artificial Intelligence.” Mosaic 50.2 (June 2017): 47-63. Imitative Identity, Imitative Art
“New Stories, New Explanations: Cognitive Literary Studies at Work.” Poetics Today 37:4 (December 2016): 697-703. New Stories, New Explanations
“Prime Time: Visual Cognition in the Prelude to Citizen Kane.” Style 49:4 (Winter 2015): 494-511. PDF: Prime Time Visual Cognition in the Prelude to Citizen Kane
“Why the Novel Happened: A Cognitive Explanation.” Philosophy and Literature 38: 1A (2014): A75-A93. PDF: “Why the Novel Happened–A Cognitive Explanation”
“Social Neuroscience, the Imitative Animal, and Aronofsky’s Black Swan.” Style 47.4 (2014): 445-465. PDF: “Social Neuroscience, the Imitative Animal, and Aronofsky’s Black Swan.”
“Televisual Realism: The Truman Show“. Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 43.3 (2010):135-150. PDF: “Televisual Realism: The Truman Show”
“Writing, Orality, Cinema: The ‘Story’of Citizen Kane.” Narrative 16:1 (2008): 29-45. PDF: “Writing, Orality, Cinema: the ‘Story’ of Citizen Kane”
—“‘Graphism’ and Storytime in Memento.“ Mosaic 40:3 (2007): 51-66. PDF: “Graphism and Storytime”
—“The De-Composition of Writing in A Passage to India.” Journal of Modern Literature. 29:3 (2006): 1-18. PDF: “The De-composition of Writing in A Passage to India”
“Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading: the Progress of Cognitive Poetics.” Forthcoming at Poetics Today 26:3 (Fall 2005): 171-185. PDF: “Explanation, Interpretation, and Close Reading”
—. “Writing and the Disembodiment of Language.” Philosophy and Literature 27:1 (2003): 115-132. PDF: “Writing and the Disembodiment of Language”
—. “‘Literary Interpretation’ and Cognitive Literary Studies.” Invited Response for Special Issue The Cognitive Turn?: A Debate on Interdisciplinarity. Poetics Today 24:2 (Summer 2003): 191-205. PDF: “Literary Interpretation and Cognitive Literary Studies”
–. “Issues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study.” Invited Response Essay for Special Issue Literature, Culture, and the Cognitive Revolution. Poetics Today 23:1 (Spring 2002): 161-179. PDF: “Issues and Problems”
—. Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending.” Narrative 8:3 (October 2000): 324-338. PDF: “Postmodernism, Narrative, and the Cold War Sense of an Ending”
—. “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism.” Poetics Today 21:2 (Summer 2000): 319-347. PDF: “Questioning Interdisciplinarity”
—. “The Manchurian Candidate and the Gender of the Cold War.” Literature/Film Quarterly 28.1 (January 2000): 34-40. PDF: “Manchurian Candidate”
“Nihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory.” SubStance 24.3 (1995): 29-48. PDF: “Nihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory”
“The Desires of History, Old and New.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 28.2 (1999): 169-187. PDF: “The Desires of History”
“Charles and the Hopeful Monster: Postmodern Evolutionary Theory in The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” Twentieth Century Literature 43.2 (1997): 221-242. PDF: “Charles and the Hopeful Monster”
“Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge: The Novels of John Banville.” Contemporary Literature 38.3 (1997): 510-533. PDF: “Science, Art, and the Shipwreck of Knowledge”
“The Consequences of Chaos: Cleopatra’s Sister and Postmodern Historiography.” Modern Fiction Studies 42.2 (1996): 397-417. PDF: “The Consequences of Chaos”
In Progress:
Book-length project: What Social Neuroscience Can Tell Us about the Art of Imitation.
Courses Taught
Graduate
- English 5123: Modern British Novel
- English 6880: Narrative/Theory
- English 6101: Introduction to English Studies
- English 6070: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing
Undergraduate
- English 4124: Modern Irish Literature
- English 4123: Modern British Novel
- English 4050: The Art/Work of Film/Viewing
- English 3128: British Literature Since WWI
- English 3050H: Narratives of the Cold War
- English 3050: Contemporary British Fiction
- English 2128: Introduction to Fiction Writing
- English 2105: Introduction to Poetry
- English 2100: Writing about Literature
- English 3100: Approaches to Literature
- English 2090: Books into Film
- English 2070: Tuesday Night at the Movies
- English 2106: Film Criticism
- Liberal Studies 1102: Film and Culture
Professional Appointments
- Idaho State University: 1993-1994
- UNC Charlotte: 1994-present
Awards
- English Graduate Association Graduate Professor of the year: 2004, 2015
- First Harshini Dasilva Award for Graduate Mentoring, April 18, 2001.