Ph.D., Tufts University

Scholarly interests:
Modern British and Irish literature; James Joyce; Graham Greene; Edwin O’Connor; Leo Tolstoy

Recent courses: 
English 360: Modern Irish Literature
English 363: Twentieth Century British Novel
Development of Western Civilization 201-202
Honors Colloquium on Tolstoy

Selected publications:

"Family, Ireland, and Politics in Edwin O'Connor's All in the Family." New Hibernian Review (Autumn 2004)

A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor (Catholic University of America Press, 2003)

“Ireland and Greeneland: Ireland in the Writings of Graham Greene” Eire/Ireland (Fall, 1995)

“Heaney’s ‘Digging’” Explicator (Summer, 1988)

“Air Show 1952” The Newport Review (Winter, 1987)

“From Espionage to Eschatology: Anthony Burgess’s Tremor of Intent” Renascence (Winter 1980)