BA (U Pennsylvania), MA (U Nevada, Reno)
Continuing Lecturer IV
Specialization:
Teaching in the Core Humanities Program and undergraduate advisement in English. Research, writing and teaching interests include
nineteeth-century California history; twentieth-century western fiction, film, and drama; folk music, blues lyrics, balladry and storytelling; international police procedurals.
Select Publications:
“Woody Guthrie: worker’s rights and left-wing lyrics.” 2009. In: Rights and reformers. Maryland Humanities Council.
"It just doesn't pay to eat anything but government-inspected beef": The saga of Alferd [sick] E. Packer. 2008. Western Literature Association.
“ 'A bad boy grown up': The wild life behind Zane Grey’s westerns.” 2006. In: Exploring the American literary west: International perspectives. University of the Basque Country Press.
“Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.” 2004. In: Literature and the environment: Exploring social issues through literature. New York: Greenwood Press.
"Singing cowboys on the moon: The exogeographic west." 1998. In: Western technological landscapes. Nevada Humanities Committee.
"California dreaming: The imaginary empire of John A. Sutter." 1998. In: History alive! California Council for the Humanities.
"Three challenges to democracy." In: Democracy challenged: A Chautauqua reader. 1997. New Hampshire Humanities Council.
A bad boy grown up: The life and times of Zane Grey. 1993. Truckee Actors Guild.
Bicycling across America: A journal on the open road. 1989. Crystal Bay, NV: Pinedrop Press.
Other research activities:
Nationally active in the Chautauqua movement, with current scholarly first-person portrayals of Zane Grey, John A. Sutter, Horace Greeley, Woody Guthrie, and Donner party survivor Lewis Keseberg.