1993-1996 Graduate Editorial Assistant, James Joyce Quarterly, University of Tulsa
Book
Bloom’s How to Write about Langston Hughes. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publications. Forthcoming in 2009.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“„Shoot all the bluejays you want‟: An Ecocritical Reevaluation of Harper Lee‟s To Kill a Mockingbird.” In preparation.
“Old Bedfellows: The Literary Love Affair of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.” Under review at LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
“When the Instructor Writes alongside the Student.” Under revision for Currents in Teaching and Learning.
“Song, Story, or History: Resisting Claims of a Coded Message in the African American Spiritual „Follow the Drinking Gourd.‟” The Journal of Popular Culture 41.2 (2008): 262-80.
“Libraries without Books, Sources without Substance.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 11.4 (Winter 2007): 109-13.
“Teaching Multiple Approaches to a Single Novel.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9.1 (Spring 2005): 41-45. Kelley Application for Reviewer/Referee 3
“Mirrored Selves and Princely Failings: A Lacanian Approach to James Joyce‟s „The Dead.‟” In-between: Studies & Essays in Literary Criticism 12.1/2 (2003): 201-09.
“Blossoming in Strange New Forms: Male Homosexuality in the Harlem Renaissance.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 80.4 (Winter 1997): 499-517.
Essays in Book-Length Collections
“What Teachers (Don‟t) Say: A Grounded Theory Approach to Online Discussions of To Kill a Mockingbird.” Forthcoming in a book-length collection in Fall 2010.
“Maternal Records and Male Modernist Identities: The Family Albums of Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood.” The Scrapbook in American Life. Ed. Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott and Patricia P. Buckler. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. 235-50.
“Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and Anti-Ancestral Impulses in The Memorial.” The Isherwood Century. Ed. James Berg and Chris Freeman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 141-49.
Book Reviews and Other Short Publications
“Jubilee Study Guide.” In preparation for enotes.com.
“Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman.” “Leaves of Grass – Work.” “Leaves of Grass – Death.” “Leaves of Grass – Science & Technology.” Forthcoming in General Themes in Literature in Fall 2010.
“Ceremony – Leslie Marmon Silko.” “Ceremony – Abandonment.” “Ceremony – Illness.” “Ceremony – Science & Technology.” Forthcoming in General Themes in Literature in Fall 2010.
Review of Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout (eds), Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita. Journal of Mississippi History 68.1 (Spring 2007): 113-14.
“Dialect Poetry.” “Formal Poetry.” “Free Verse.” “Haiku.” “Narrative Poetry.” “Sonnet.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Ed. Hans A. Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr. Vol. 2. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2005. 424-28. 568-72. 589-91. 687-88.1166-69. 1513-15.
“The Crisis – The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed – A Symposium.” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Eds. Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. New York: Routledge, 2004. 2 vols. 267-68.
“Europe and the Harlem Renaissance: 1 – Overview.” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Eds. Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. New York: Routledge, 2004. 2 vols. 342-44.
“German Americans and World War I.” Conspiracy Theories in American History. Ed. Peter Knight. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2003. 281-82.
“United States–Gay Male Fiction.” The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Ed. Timothy F. Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 614-16.
“United Kingdom–Gay Male Fiction.” The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Ed. Timothy F. Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. 603-05.
“Mystery and Detective Fiction.” Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. 2nd Edition. Volume 2: Gay Histories and Gay Cultures. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. 624-25.
Conference Papers and Presentations
“Re-Assessing the Place of American Gay Novels of the 1920s and 1930s.” To be presented at the 2010 convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Kelley Application for Reviewer/Referee 4
“Song, Story, or History: Resisting Claims of a Coded Message in the African American Spiritual „Follow the Drinking Gourd.‟” Southern American Studies Association Conference: Blues Tunes/Blues Texts: Music, Literature and Culture in the Global South. Oxford, MS. February 16, 2007. Presentation repeated at the College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Showcase. Starkville. October 17, 2008.
“Reconsidering the Place of Victor Séjour‟s „The Mulatto.‟” South Central Modern Language Association. Houston. October 29, 2005.
“East German Views of the „Other America‟: The American Literary Canon and the Socialist Critic.” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans. October 29, 2004.
“Teaching Hypertexts in the Introduction to Literature Classroom.” South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs. October 31, 2003.
“Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas: The American Library in Cold War Germany.” 24th Annual Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Albuquerque. February 14, 2003.
“International Aspects of the Harlem Renaissance: African American Writers in Moscow and Paris in the 1920s.” Delivered in German. Otto-von-Guericke Universitat Magdeburg Lecture Series. June 19, 2001.
“Du Bois, Morrison, and American Identities.” International Symposium. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität. Erlangen-Nürnberg. May 26, 2000.
“Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance.” German-American Institute. Stuttgart. March 15, 2000.
“Zora Neale Hurston‟s „Gilded Six-Bits.‟” Ethnic Identity and Migration in the United States. Teacher In-Service Training Conference (American Consulate General, Leipzig). Weimar. March 9, 2000. Presentation repeated in Meissen. April 19, 2000.
“Names, Naming, and Anonymity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. December 29, 1999.
“Queering the Constellations: Gay Genealogies in Early Twentieth-Century American Culture and Literature.” American Cultural Studies Conference. University of Tulsa. February 26, 1999.
“„Into this Vortex Named Kansas‟: Reflections on the American Landscape and the Vietnam War in Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America.” Fifth Annual SAGES Conference. University of Oklahoma. February 19, 1999.
“The Literary Love Affair of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.” Hemingway Society's Eighth International Conference. Stes.-Marie-de-la-Mer, France. May 27, 1998.
“Indecent Exposures: The Cruising Sonnets in Richard Murphy's The Price of Stone.” Southern Regional Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. University of South Carolina. Columbia. February 20, 1998.
“Blossoming in Strange New Forms: Hybridization and Male Homosexuality in the Harlem Renaissance.” “The Future of the Harlem Renaissance” conference. University of Tennessee. Knoxville. March 8, 1997.
“Contradictions of Desire: Ginsberg, the Critics, and the Whitman „Problem‟ in the 1950s.” National Poetry Foundation annual conference. University of Maine. Orono. June 22, 1996.
“Taking the Roof off the „Fairy Cottage‟: Male Madness and Masquerade in Lady Audley's Secret.” Fifth Annual Conference on Language and Literature. Baylor University. April 12, 1996. Kelley Application for Reviewer/Referee 5
Awards and Grants
2009 Russel B. Nye Award for the Outstanding Article in 2008, Journal of Popular Culture
1999-2000 Fulbright Junior Lecturer Award, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
1998 John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Research Grant, Boston
1998 Hemingway Society Travel Grant, Stes.-Marie-de-la-Mer, France
1990 Funded Participant in the German Academic Exchange Service's (DAAD‟s) Deutschlandkundlicher Sommerkurs, University of Regensburg
1990 Participant in the University of Oklahoma's Reciprocal Exchange Program with the Université de Blaise Pascal II, Clermont-Ferrand, France
