Associate professor of English at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, USA, where he teaches a variety of composition and literature courses. His research interests include Charles Dickens and George Gissing, as well as African American and Southern literature. His publications include: ”A Mean and Ungentlemanly Act”: Casaubon’s Passive Aggressive Maneuvering in George Eliot’s Middlemarch («The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters» 7, 2010) and “I’d Like to See Any Man Put Me Outer Dis House”: Space and Place in Richard Wright’s Early Work («Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association», 2004). He is also the co–editor of Liberty’s Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic, published by the University of Georgia Press.