Areas of Research/Interest: the essay; writing pedagogy; Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, and Conrad

Select Publications:
Mosaics of Southern Masculinity. In Perspectives: Readings for Writers, ed. Robert DiYanni. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1996.
Essaying Against the Grain. In What Do I Know?: Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Essay, ed. Janis Forman. Portsmouth: Boynton. 1996.
The Scribner Handbook for Writers, with Robert DiYanni. New York: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.
Reading and Writing Essays: The Imaginative Tasks. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1992.

Affiliations: National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Fellowships/Honors: Notable Essays, The Best American Essays, 1996, 1993, 1992, and 1990; Teaching Award, Harvard; Phi Kappa Phi.