• Contact

• Personal Website
• Email Dr. Richardson

• Office

• Carlisle Hall, 424

Education

• PhD, Loyola University - Chicago, 2004
• MFA, Old Dominion University, 1997
• BA, Univeristy of Noth Texas, 1994

Current Research

Rhetoric of the late antique, Rabbinic rhetoric and exegesis, psychoanalytic theory, religion.

Recent Publications

• “The Demand of God: The Relation of Narrative to Fantasy in The Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson. ”  Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference.  Ed. David Metzger and Peter Schulman. Santa Monica and Haifa: Kol Katan Press, 2005.  136-154.   Hebrew trans. under consideration by U of Haifa P.
• “Writing (and Doing) Trauma Study.”  JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 24.2 (2004): 491-507.
• “Brian Eno and the Music of the Spheres: The Possibility of a Postmodern Church.” Studies in Medievalism X: Medievalism and the Academy II.  London: Boydell and Brewer, 1999. 216-231.
• “Reading, the Masculine: An Orientation of the Community of Readers.”  Literature and Psychology 44.1-2 (1998): 96-112.

Department/University Committees

• Composition Studies Search Committee (Chair)
• Graduate Studies Committee
• Member, First-Year English Committee
• Member, GTA Committee