Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, American Studies
M.A. University of Texas at Austin, Advertising
B.A. Macalester College, History & Communication Studies
Courses Taught at UW-Whitewater
Freshman English 101: Literatures, Spaces, and Identities of the American Midwest
Freshman English 102: Conformity, Consumerism, & Cold War Anxieties: America in the 1950s
Freshman Honors English 105: Animals and American Culture
Advanced Composition 370: Writing the American Dream
Past Courses
Walt Disney and the Disneyfication of America
The Country and City in Art, Literature, and Film
Research Interests: Intersections between Agriculture and Culture, Popular Representations of the American Midwest, Animals and Technology, Gender, Animals, and Race, Regional Identity and Film, the 1950s