Education
- Ph.D. in English from University of Notre Dame (1996)
Selected Publications
Books
- Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten, Not Made. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Articles/Essays
- “Fear of a Stupid Planet: Sexuality, SF, and Kornbluth’s ‘The Marching Morons.’” Extrapolation 55 (2014): 51-74.
- “See-Thru Desire and the Dream of Gay Marriage: Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane on Stage and Screen.” Modern British Drama on Screen. Ed. R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 145-68.
- “Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H.’” Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives. Ed. Joseph Bristow. University of Toronto Press, 2013. 169-89.
- “Kill the Bugger: Ender’s Game and the Question of Heteronormativity.” Science Fiction Studies 36.3 (2009): 490-507.
- "Just Less than Total War: Simulating World War II as Ludic Nostalgia." Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Ed. Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. 183-200.
- “Interpreting the War.” The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War. Ed. Vincent Sherry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261-79.
- “Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism.” NLH: New Literary History 30.1 (1999): 203-16.
- “‘For You May Touch Them Not’: Misogyny, Homosexuality, and the Ethics of Passivity in First World War Poetry.” ELH: English Literary History 64.3 (1997): 823-42.
- “Enforced Aphasia: Language, Violence and Silence in Christopher Logue’s Homeric Poetry.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 7.4 (1997): 283-300.
- “Coming Home: Difference and Reconciliation in Narratives of Return to ‘the World.’” The United States and Viet Nam from War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. McFarland and Company, 1996: 198-207.
Courses
No courses found for Fall 2024.
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| Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10828 | CRW3053 | Thry & Practice Creative Wrtng | Web-Based (W) | Unavailable | |
In this entry-level course, students will read literary texts to feed their understanding of authorial decisions in contemporary writing in fiction, literary nonfiction, scriptwriting, and poetry. Students will become fluent in relevant writing terminology and concepts, gain insight into the emphases and specialties of the UCF creative writing program, identify possible career paths and “uses” of a degree in English with a specialization in creative writing; and familiarize themselves with the publishing process. |
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| 11381 | LIT3313H | Honors Science Fiction Lit | Face to Face (P) | Tu,Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Unavailable |
| This class offers a historical overview of the genre of SF from the end of the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. We will cover the birth of the genre in the 1890s, the pulp magazine era, the Golden Age of the 40s-50s, the New Wave revolution of the 60-70s, the Cyberpunk movement of the 80s, and end with a smattering of some of the various styles that characterize SF in the past few decades including Afrofuturism, New British Space Opera, and literary sf. Our overall concern throughout the class will be twofold: first, to stress that SF is a genre with a history and that most individual works of SF can only be adequately interpreted in response to that history, and second, to work against the tendency to see science fiction as an essentially escapist genre by striving to connect our novels and stories to their historical, cultural, and political contexts. | |||||