M.A. in
English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1994
B.A. in
English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1992
Academic Interests
Shakespeare
and other English Renaissance literature
The
effect of literature in print, film, and games
Science
fiction and other fantastic literature
Scholarly Activity
Selected publications
An Anthology of Commendatory
Verse From the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2005
Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. (Mellen Studies in Literature: Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, Volume 129)
"Living with Reptiles: Welcome to the Jungle." Reptiles (August 2000): 100.
"A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and
Critical Reception." Renaissance Papers 1998: 137-149.
"The Magic(s) of Steven Brust." Journal
for the Fantastic in the Arts 9.2 (1998):
71-79.
"Frankenstein's Many
Readers." Extrapolation 37.1 (Spring 1996):
37-45.
"An Epiphany at Owl Creek Bridge: Intimations of Immortalities in Ambrose
Bierce's Fiction." (Co-author Carrol Fry.) Studies
in Weird Fiction 24 (1999): 8-14.
"The Servant." Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
33 (Fall 1996): 21-23.
Selected Presentations
"‘Cool! I mean-nerds!': Courting Geeks for Fun and
Profit in the Buffyverse." Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. Barnesville, GA, May 27, 2006.
"The Shoulders
of Giants: Premodern Tools Remade for the Posthuman Age." Computers & Writing.
Palo Alto, CA, June 17, 2005.
"Jonson and
Company: Reputation and Reciprocity in
English Renaissance Commendatory Verse." Central Renaissance Conference. Lawrence, KS, September 20, 2003.
"J.R.R. Tolkien
and The Call of Immortality." Mythcon
XXXIV: The Thirty-Fourth Conference of the Mythopoeic Society, Nashville,
TN. July 27, 2003.
"‘We are
compounded of free parts': John
Fletcher, Shakespeare, and the Creation of Female Audience."
26th Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus, OH. April 27-29,
2002.
"The Book is the
Thing: Strategies of Advertisement in Renaissance Commendatory Verse." Southeastern
Renaissance Conference. Raleigh, NC,
April 5, 2002.
"The Tale of The Winter's Tale: Shakespeare's Romances." Invited speaker at the Scholar's Forum,
Missouri Repertory Theater's production of The
Winter's Tale. University of Missouri at Kansas City. February 10, 2002.
"‘How True That Sexe Can
Write': Convention and Construction
Among Renaissance Women Writers." 2001
Convention of the Missouri Philological Association. Westminster College, Fulton,
MO. March 2, 2001.
"‘Loue this Booke': Commendatory Verse and Jonson's Praise of
Shakespeare." Southeastern Renaissance
Conference. Columbia, SC, April 15,
2000.
"A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John
Fletcher, and Critical Reception."
Southeastern Renaissance Conference.
Chapel Hill, NC, April 17, 1998.
Student Group Advisement
Science
Fiction Society of Northwest (2011- )
Fellowship
of the Tower Gaming Society (2005-present)
