Textbook

Co-editor, with Caitlin Newcomer. Perspectives on the Short Story. Pearson. August 2012.

---. Revised and Expanded Edition. August 2014.

This textbook envisions the genre of the short story as a multiplicity of forms, places, and ideas that influence, overlap, and oftentimes contradict one another. To this end, the collection gathers established works while also presenting underrepresented authors and stories alongside experiments in graphic fiction and postmodernist metafiction. The revised edition added a range of expanded pedagogical content, including a glossary, essay response questions, a sample student essay, an MLA overview and exercises, and discussion questions. 

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This book was used to improve the academic rigor of the major lower-level literature survey course at Florida State University. It also regulated and substantially reduced material costs for students and provided a much needed revenue stream that funded graduate student research. 

Review

"Perspectives on the Short Story is a richly stimulating anthology, embodying an eclectic and brilliantly synthesizing sensibility.  This should become a standard in the 21st century classroom."
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Laureate in Fiction

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Edited Journal

Sustaining English Programs in the Twenty-First Century. Guest Editor with Maria J. Cahill, special issue of South Atlantic Review, vol. 78, no. 1-2, 2015.

This special journal issue focused on the future of English as a discipline across a range of institutions, regions, and subfields. It  included a lead contribution from Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey and Dr. Kristie S. Fleckenstein of Florida State University, Dr. Matthew Davis of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Dr. Katherine T. Bridgman of Texas A&M, San Antonio. They are innovators in their field and wrote about their experiences developing an undergraduate program at FSU aimed at meeting the professional and intellectual needs of students in the digital age. The rest of our contributors were also engaged in finding unique solutions for their respective programs, students, and institutions--including state and regional colleges' attempts to reconcile English with the workforce needs of their communities, the struggle for colleges with strong institutional missions to walk the tightrope of updating their curriculum without compromising their ideals, and attempts to institute programmatic formulations at the graduate and undergraduate level. This edition also featured an article discussing the revitalization efforts of an English department in the United Kingdom to provide a global perspective on the crisis in the field. Through this institutional diversity, we hope to have created a starting point for further discussion as well as a repository of practical solutions that will benefit the field of English and, most importantly, our students.

Short Entry Publications

• “Surrealism-Literature.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, edited by Stephen Ross. London: Routledge, 2016.

• With Maria J. Cahill. "Introduction: Sustaining English Programs in the Twenty-First Century," Sustaining English Programs in the Twenty-First Century, special issue of South Atlantic Review, vol. 78, no. 1-2, 2015, pp. 4-9

• “Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine.” 1914-1918-Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson. Freie Universität Berlin. Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Center for Digital Systems in Cooperation with the Bavarian State Library and the German Research Foundation, 2015, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10648.

• “Bergson on Organization and Manufacture.” Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism, edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison, Continuum, 2013, pp. 332-3.

• With Caitlin Newcomer. "Moving Fields and Shifting Focus: Perspectives on the Short Story." Perspectives on the Short Story, Pearson, 2012, pp. xxxv-xxxix.