Education & Professional History
Brown University, BA; Ohio State University, MA; Brown University, MA, PhD
At Carleton since 2023.
Current Courses
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Fall 2023
AMST 115:
Introduction to American Studies
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AMST 398:
Advanced Research in American Studies
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AMST 260:
Sexuality in American Film since 1945
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Spring 2024
AMST 115:
Introduction to American Studies
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AMST 291:
Independent Study
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AMST 396:
AIDS in America
Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
“Gossip fosters intimacy and even saves lives, but keep it offline.” Psyche (September 23, 2021)
“The Art of Subtlety.” Air Mail (September 2, 2021).
“Joe McCarthy Comes Alive.” The Los Angeles Review of Books (August 2, 2020).
“Sons of God: Postwar Gender and Spirituality in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.” Film Criticism 44.1 (Jan. 2020).
“‘An American Hero’: The Right-Wing Reconstruction of Joseph McCarthy.” Contested Commemoration in U.S. History: Diverging Public Interpretations (Routledge Global Public History). Ed. Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák. London: Routledge, 2020: 94-111.
“Black Crosses: La Cambe German War Cemetery, Collective Trauma, and the Remaking of National Identity.” War and Memorials: The Second World War and Beyond. Ed. Frank Jacob and Kenneth Pearl. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöeningh, 2019: 39-54.
“Muscular Christianity.” Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era. Edited by Jeffrey A. Johnson. ABC-Clio, 2017: 442-444.
“Sexuality and the Modern American Gossip Magazine.” OutHistory.org (Mar. 2017).
“War Photography.” The Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. Edited by Paul I. Joseph. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2017: 1834-1836.
“What Makes them Dubliners?: James Joyce’s ‘An Encounter’ and the Foundations of Masculinist Nationalism in Ireland.” The Journal of Men’s Studies 24.3 (Oct. 2016): 228-240.
“A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover.” Slate.com (Sept. 2015).
