Director of the Digital Humanities Research Center, Associate Professor

EDUCATION

Ph.D. English - Penn State University, 2003

M.A. English - The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, 1998

B.A. English - The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, 1996

AREAS OF SPECIALTY

18th Century Literature
African-American Literature
Ethnic and Multicultural Studies
History of the Book
Digital Humanities / New Media Studies
Religion and Literature
Transatlantic Studies

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. The
University of Georgia Press, June 2008

"‘Till Christ shall make us free’: Writing and Religion in African-
American Literary Research,” in American Literary History, (forthcoming
in Spring 2013)

"An Essay on Slavery': An Unpublished Poem by Jupiter Hammon." Early American Literature Volume 38, Issue 2 (Winter 2012).

"Metaphysics of Presence in Olaudah Equiano's Narrative." Teaching Olaudah Equiano's Narrative. Ed. Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. (October 2012)

"April C.E. Langley, The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature." Review of book by April C.E. Langley. Early American Literature 2010.