• Ph.D. University of Kansas (2009)
• M.A. University of Virginia (2002)
• B. of Integrated Human Studies Kyoto University, Japan (1999)

American Literature

• American Literature and Culture
• Modernism
• Literary Theory
• Critical Race Studies
• Literature of Racial Passing
• Creative Writing

• AML 6930: Special Topics in U.S. Literature & Culture – Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald: Their 1920s
• AML 6305: Major U.S. Authors – Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald: Their 1930s
• AML 6268: Regional U.S. Literature – Literature of the American South
• AML 6027: Literature of the U.S. after 1900 – Mobility and Movement in Modern American Literature
• LIT 6930: Special Topics – Modernism(s)
• LIT 6930: Special Topics – Modern Literature and the City
• LIT 6806: Literature as Cultural Study – New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, & Literary Studies
• ENC 6745: Seminar in Composition Pedagogy
• AML 4121: U.S. Novels of the 20th Century – Modernity and Modernism: 1900-1939
• AML 4121: U.S. Novels of the 20th Century – Modern American Fiction
• AML 3242: 20th Century U.S. Literature and Culture
• AML 3220: 19th Century U.S. Literature and Culture
• AML 3213: Early American Literature and Culture
• ENG 4930: Senior Seminar
• ENG 3014: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
• LIT 3400: Interdisciplinary Topics – Race and Identity in British and American Literature and Culture: 1830-1945
• CRW 2001: Introduction to Creative Writing
• IDH 2931: Honors Humanities Seminar – Race and Identity in Literature, Art and Culture
• LIT 2120: Introduction to World Literature and Culture II
• LIT 2000: Introduction to Literature
• ENC 1102: Composition II
• ENC 1101: Composition I

Scholarly Articles

• "Teaching the 'Passing Fiction' of the Harlem Renaissance." (Forthcoming in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Venetria K. Patton, Modern Language Association of America)
• "Black Subjects' 'Literal' Resistance in Jessie Redmon Fauset's 'Emmy' and 'There Was One Time!'" MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 124-47.
• "Resisting the Suicidal Blue(s): Text, Voice, and Music in Langston Hughes, Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus's Weary Blues." Re-Markings, vol. 13, no.1, Jan. 2014, pp. 78-85. (Coauthored with Kevin Rabas)
• "Narrative Order, Racial Hierarchy, and 'White' Discourse in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Along This Way." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 37-62.
• "Racial Mixture, Racial Passing, and White Subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom!" Faulkner Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring 2008, pp. 3-21.
• "Signifying, Ordering, and Containing the Chaos: Whiteness, Ideology and Language in Intruder in the Dust." Faulkner Journal, vol. 22, no. 1-2, Fall 2006-Spring 2007, pp. 54-73.

Scholarly Articles (Written in Japanese)

• "The English Major and the Teaching of Close Reading: Higher Education in America." (Forthcoming in Lost in Text: Metareadings of American Literature, edited by Kyoko Yoshida, Shoraisha)
• "A Black Subject's 'Literal' Resistance: Jessie Redmon Fauset's 'Emmy.'" (Forthcoming in Lost in Text: Metareadings of American Literature, edited by Kyoko Yoshida, Shoraisha)
• "The 'New Negro' and Passing Fiction: The Ideals and Paradox of the Harlem Renaissance." Novelists' America: How Dreams Turned into Nightmare, edited by Kazuko Fukuoka and Yasushi Takano. Shoraisha, Feb. 2010. pp. 121-47.

Book Reviews

• Review of New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, edited by Noelle Morrissette. African American Review, vol. 51, no. 4, Winter 2018, pp. 344-46.
• Review of Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America, by Werner Sollors. Studies in American Culture, vol. 41, no. 1, Oct. 2018, pp. 178-79.
• Review of A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 42, no. 2, Summer 2017, pp. 212-14.
• Review of The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States, by Sofya Aptekar. Studies in American Culture, vol. 39, no. 1, Oct. 2016, pp. 132-33.

Short Stories

• "Gomi-Yashiki—The House of Trash." (Forthcoming in Cottonwood)
• "Hawaii." Cottonwood, vol. 71, Fall 2014, pp. 64-75. (Coauthored with Kevin Rabas)
• "Hinanjo—Evacuation Shelter." Imagination & Place: Weather, edited by Kelly Barth, Imagination & Place Press, Mar. 2012. pp. 30-33.
• "Three A.M." Hawai'i Pacific Review, vol. 24, Fall 2010, pp. 55-56. (Coauthored with Kevin Rabas)