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Department
English and Languages
College
Arts & Sciences
Start Year at LSUS
2026
Terminal Degree/Yr
PhD/2009
Office Location
BH 258
318-797-5368

Degrees

Research Interests

Romanticism; contemporary novels; reading and ethics; portrayals of violence, class, wilderness; literary theory, especially phenomenology

Selected Publications

The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology (ed.), Routledge, 2026

"Globalizing the Novel of Human Rights," Journal of World Literature (forthcoming 2026)

"Responsibility at Sea in Refugee Literature," Form in Law and Literature. Ed. Peter Schneck and Laura Zander. DeGruyter (forthcoming 2026)

"Hermeneutics in the Wilderness" in Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene: Nature and the Conflict of Interpretations. Ed. David Ulster, Brian Treanor, and Forrest Clingerman. Routledge, 2026. 46-64

"On Clare's Translation of Perception to Poetry" in The Cambridge Companion to John Clare, ed Sarah Houghton-Walker. Cambridge UP, 2024.