Administrative

2004-Present    Executive Editor and Founder, Philip Roth Studies
2006-2008:        Director of Liberal Studies Program, Texas A&M University-Commerce
2002-2009:        President and Founder, International Philip Roth Society

Faculty/Research

2007-2010:       Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce
2003-2007:       Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce
2001-2003:       Assistant Professor of English, Prairie View A&M University
1998-2001:       Assistant Professor of English, North Georgia College and State University
1992-1998:       Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue University

Under Submission
	“Comedy beyond the Pale: Working the Jewish in Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.”  Preparing for publication in Journal of Popular Film and Television.
In Print or Forthcoming
	“The Dream of Cultural Documentation:  Rereading the Aesthetic in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland.”  The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought.  Forthcoming.  (15 page manuscript)
	“Cyrillic Cycles: Uses of Composite Narrative in the Russian Émigré Fiction of Ellen Litman and David Bezmozgis.”  Preparing for submission to Studies in American Jewish Literature.
	“Reading between the (Panty) Lines: The Body as Ethnographic Text in Jaime Hernandez’s Recent Narratives.”  ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.  Forthcoming 2012.  (17 page manuscript)
	"Falsifying the Fragments: Narratological Uses of the Mockumentary in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and Sweet and Lowdown."  Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. 31.2 (2012): 53-65.
	“Sequential Sketches of Ethnic Identity: Will Eisner’s A Contract with God as Graphic Cycle.” College Literature 38.3 (2011): 150-67.
	"Jewish Comics; Or, Visualizing Current Jewish Narrative."  Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29.2 (2011): 1-12.
	“There Goes the Neighborhood: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue.”  Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29.2 (2011): 120-45.
	“Native Noir: Genre and the Politics of Indigenous Representation in Recent American Comics.”  ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 5.3 (2010).
	“Meddling with ‘hifalut’n foolishness’: Capturing Mark Twain in Recent Comics.” The Mark Twain Annual  7  (2009): 22-51.
	“What to Make of Roth’s Indignation; Or, Serious in the Fifties.” Philip Roth Studies 5.1 (2009): 125-33.
	“To Be Continued...: Serialization and Its Discontent in the Recent Comics of Gilbert Hernandez.”  International Journal of Comic Art. 11.1 (2009): 262-80.
	“Sequential Poe-try: Recent Graphic Narrative Adaptations of Poe.”  Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 39-40 (2007-2008): 55-67.
	“Coloring America: Multi-Ethnic Engagements with Graphic Narrative.”  MELUS  32.3 (2007): 7-22.
	“Fragmenting the Post-Holocaust Subject: The Uses of the Short-Story Cycle in Thane Rosenbaum’s Elijah Visible.”  Modern Jewish Studies/Yiddish 14.4 (2006).  72-89.
	“Plotting the Frames of Subjectivity: Identity, Death, and Narrative in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.  Contemporary Literature  47  (2006): 114-40.
	“Philip Roth’s America”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  23  (2004): ix-xii.
	“Literary Genre as Ethnic Resistance in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey.”  MELUS  29.2  (2004):  141-56.
	“Unfinalized Moments in Contemporary Jewish American Narrative.”   Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies  22  (2004):  1-11.
	“Eruptions of Performance: Hank Morgan and the Business of Politics.”  The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought   45   ( 2003 ): 11-33.
	“An Absent Presence: The Rewriting of Hawthorne’s Narratology in John Updike’s S.”   Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction  44 (2002):  73-85.
	“The Clinician As Enslaver: Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Rationalization of Identity.”  Texas Studies in Literature and Language  44  (2002):  414-31.
	“Postmodern Jewish Identity in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.”  Modern Fiction Studies 48.2 (2002):  422-43.
	“Fictional Realms of Possibility: Reimagining the Ethnic Subject in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.”  Studies in American Jewish Literature  20  (2001): 1-16.
	“Camusian Existentialism in Arthur Miller’s After the Fall.”  Modern Drama  43  (2000):  192-203.
	“Texts, Lives, and Bellybuttons: Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock and the Renegotiation of Subjectivity.”  Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies  19  (2000):  48-65.
	“Terrible Dreams of Creative Power: The Question of No. 44.”  Studies in the Novel  31 (1999):  44-59.
	“Shakespeare's Kingly Mirror: Figuring the Chorus in Olivier's and Branagh's Henry V.”  Literature/Film Quarterly  25  (1997):  104-110.
	“Forgetting of Pictures Over a Long Retention Interval in Young and Older Adults.” (with Denise C. Park, William Dudley, and Roger Morrell) Psychology and Aging  3.1  (1988):  94-95.

Essays in Edited Book Collections

Invited Contributions in Progress
	“People of the Word Image: Exploring Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels.”  The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Anglophone Jewish Fiction.  Ed. David Brauner.  Edinburgh University Press.
	“Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Philip Roth and the Dynamics of Written and Unwritten Celebrity.”  Roth and Celebrity: An Edited Collection.  Ed. Aimee Pozorski.  Lexington Books.
	“Narrating the Stuff of Dreams: Autobiography and Narrative Authority in Kim Deitch’s Recent Comics.”  Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art.  Ed. Jane Tolmie.  University Press of Mississippi.
In Print or Forthcoming
	“Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Spider-Man: Blue.” Spider-Man, Spider-Women, and Webspinners: Critical Perspectives.Ed. Robert G. Weiner and Robert Moses Peaslee.  McFarland Publishing. (18 page manuscript)
	“Drawing Attention: Comics as a Means of Approaching U.S. Cultural Diversity.” Teaching Graphic Narratives: Critical Approaches.  Ed. Lan Dong. McFarland Publishing. (19 page manuscript)
	Essays on the Hernandez Brothers’ Love and Rockets and Will Eisner’s Dropsie Avenue in Graphic Novels.  Ed. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner.  Salem Press.  (12 and 6 page manuscripts)
	“Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel.”  A Companion to the American Novel.  Ed. Alfred Bendixen. Blackwel P., 2012.  241-58.
	“Gentile on My Mind: Updike, Bech, and the Limits of Ethnic Representation.”  Critical Insights: John Updike. Ed. Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.  Salem Press, 2011. 33-48.
	"Fictional Realms of Possibility: Reimagining the Ethnic Subject in Philip Roth's American Pastoral." Reading Philip Roth's American Pastoral. Ed. Velichka D. Ivanova. Toulouse: Presses Universitires du Mirail, 2011. 47-59.
	“Plots against America: Language and the Comedy of Conspiracy in Philip Roth’s Early Fiction.” Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as Comic Writer.  Ed. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel. University of Delaware Press.  117-32.
	“Contesting the Historical Pastoral in Philip Roth’s American Trilogy.” American Fiction of the 1990s.  Ed. Jay Prosser.  London: Routledge, 2008.  121-34.
	“Portnoy’s Neglected Siblings: A Case for Postmodern Jewish American Literary Studies.”  Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts.  Ed. David S. Goldstein and Audrey Thacker.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.  250-69.
	“Roth, Literary Influence, and Postmodernism.”  The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth.  Ed. Timothy Parrish. Cambridge University Press,  2007.  22-34.
	“Pastoral Dreams and National Identity in American Pastoral and I Married a Communist.” Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author. Ed. Derek Parker Royal. Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood, 2005. 185-207.
	“Texts, Lives, and Bellybuttons: Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock and the Renegotiation of Subjectivity.”  Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth’s Later Novels.  Ed. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel.  University of Delaware Press, 2005.  68-91.  (Reprint from Shofar  19.1  [2000]:  48-65)
	“Fouling Out the American Pastoral: Rereading Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel.”  Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature.  Eds. Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Emmert.  Westport, CT: Praeger-Greenwood,  2004.  157-68.
	“Rebel with a Cause: Albert Camus and the Politics of Celebrity.”  Car Crash Culture.  Ed. Mikita Brottman.  New York: Palgrave, 2001.  285-303.
Published Panel Discussions
	“Contemporary American Fiction and the Confluence of Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and John Updike: A Roundtable Discussion.”  Ed. Derek Parker Royal.  Philip Roth Studies 7.2 (2011): 145-69.  (With Yvonne Atkinson, Marshall Boswell, David Brauner, Steven Frye, Marni Gauthier).
	“Zuckerman Unsound?: A Roundtable Discussion on Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost.” Ed. Derek Parker Royal. Philip Roth Studies 5.1 (2009): 3-30.  (With Alan Cooper; Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.; Michael Rothberg; Ruth Knafo Setton; and Debra Shostak)
	“Grave Commentary: A Roundtable Discussion on Everyman.”  Ed. Derek Parker Royal and Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.  Philip Roth Studies  3.1 (2007): 3-24.  (With David Brauner; Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr.; Mark Shechner; and Debra Shostak)
Forewords
	"Foreword; Or, A Fine Romance."  Foreword for Philip Roth’s Postmodern American Romance: Critical Essays on Selected Works.  Jane Statlander.  Peter Lang, 2010.  ix-xi.
	"Of Panels and Patrons.”  Foreword for Graphic Novels in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History, and Cataloging.  Ed. Robert G. Weiner. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 3-4.
	“Foreword; Or, Reading within the Gutter.”  Foreword for Multicultural Comics: From Zap! to Blue Beetle.  Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.  ix-xi.

Bibliographic Scholarship

Interviews

	Interview with Kim Deitch. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Forthcoming 2011.  (35 page manuscript)
	"Nine Questions for Woody Allen: An Interview." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. 31.2 (2012): 9-11.
	“Margins within Margins: An Interview with Ruth Knafo Setton and Farideh Dayanim Goldin.” Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative. Purdue University Press, 2012. 203-22.
	“Picturing American Stories: An Interview with Ben Katchor.” Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative. Purdue University Press, 2012. 223-43.
	“Palomar and Beyond: An Interview with Gilbert Hernandez.”  MELUS  32.3 (2007): 221-46.
	“Tugging at Jewish Weeds: An Interview with Steve Stern.”   MELUS  32.1  (2007): 139-61.
	“An Interview with Thane Rosenbaum.”  Contemporary Literature 48 (2007): 1-28.
	“The Blood before the Stain: An Interview with Joel Rapp.”  Philip Roth Studies  2.1  (2006): 3-11.

Book Reviews

	Review of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels, edited by Michael A. Chaney.   ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.  Forthcoming.
	Review of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics, by Hillary L. Chute.  Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.  Forthcoming.
	Review of Will Eisner: A Dreamer’s Life in Comics, by Michael Schumacher.  ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.  Forthcoming.
	Review of Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels, edited by M. Keith Booker.   International Journal of Comic Art.  Forthcoming.
	Review of Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman, by Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.  Forthcoming.
	Review essay on The Jewish Graphic Novel, edited by Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman; Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, edited by Paul Buhle; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero I, by Danny Fingeroth; From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan; and Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero, by Simcha Weinstein.  MELUS.  Forthcoming.
	Review of A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture, by Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith, and The Rise of the American Comic Artist: Creators and Contexts, edited by Paul Williams and James Lyons. Studies in American Humor.  Forthcoming.
	Review of Reading Comics and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk, and This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature, by Rocco Versaci.  ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies.  Forthcoming.
	Review essay on 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Gide, by Gene Kannenberg;  and The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, by Danny Fingeroth; The 101 Best Graphic Novels, by Stephen Weiner; and Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know, by Paul Gravett. International Journal of Comic Art 12.1 (2010): 483-492.
	Review of Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness by Eliza R. L. McGraw.  The Journal of Southern History  72 (2007): 727-28.
	Review of Philip Roth — Countertexts, Counterlives by Debra Shostak.  Studies in American Jewish Literature 24 (2005): 222-24.
	Review of Up Society’s Ass, Copper!: Rereading Philip Roth by Mark Shechner.  Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.1 (2005): 152-55.
	Review of The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique by Paul Maltby.  Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship 10.1-2  (2002):  208-10.
	Review of Woody Allen: A Casebook by Kimball King, ed. Film Criticism 26.3  (2002):  77-80.
	Review of Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative by Patrick O’Donnell.  Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship 9.1-2  (2002):  195-97.
	Review of The Soup Has Many Eyes: From Shtetl to Chicago – A Memoir of One Family’s Journey through History by Joann Rose Leonard.  Studies in American Jewish Literature, 19  (2000): 82-83.

Encyclopedic Entries

	Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction.  Ed. Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland , and David Madden.  Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.  2011.  Entry on Philip Roth.
	Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Literary Characters.  Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, and Charles Brower.  New York: Facts on File, 2008.  Entries on “Wittman Ah Sing (Tripmaster Monkey),” “David Shearl (Call It Sleep),” and “Henry Bech (Bech: A Book).”
	Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature.  Ed. Gloria Cronin and Alan Berger.  New York: Facts on File, 2009.  Entries on Philip Roth, Steve Stern, American Pastoral, and Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven.
	Companion to the American Novel.  Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock.  New York: Facts on File, 2006.  Entries on Philip Roth’s American Trilogy, The Plot Against America, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Sabbath’s Theater.
	The Literary Encyclopedia.  Ed. Robert Clark.  Literary Dictionary Co. (2005).  Entry on Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.
	Encyclopedia of American Literature.  Ed. Steven R. Serafin.  New York: Continuum, 1999. “Sholem Asch” (49-50), “E. M. Broner”(126-27), “Daniel Fuchs” (410-11), “Herbert Gold” (452-53), “John Hawkes” (494-95), “Mark Helprin” (509), “Cynthia Ozick” (861-62), “Chaim Potok” (910), “Isaac Bashevis Singer” (1047-48), “John Updike” (1166-67).

Journals and Other Publications Edited

2009-2010.  Member of Board of Directors, the John Updike Society.  Elected position