Master Lecturer in Humanities at Boston University. Author of several scholarly works, including Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature (Lehigh University Press, 2019) and dozens of articles, book chapters, reviews, and other pieces. Editor of two scholarly collections, After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction (Routledge, 2021, with Theophilus Savvas) and William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion (University of Delaware Press, 2015, with Daniel Lukes), as well as the textbook Framing Films: Critical Perspectives on Film History (Kendall / Hunt, 2009, with Natalie McKnight, Cheryl Boots, and Christopher Fahy). Member of the editorial board for Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, the Grateful Dead Studies journal, and the Grateful Dead Studies Working Papers Series.