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I am currently an assistant professor of English at Prince George's Community College. There I specialize in teaching contemporary American literature. I also attmept to offer my students an understanding of how literary and artistic movements often move in conjunction with one another. To this end, I often provide students with a glimpse of the work some painters have done that correlates with what they are reading. Here is a website that provides such art.
I am currently interested in the way representations of masculinity and disability intersect and may be able to teach us new ways of understanding social justice projects. I have recently developed a desire to study sports as providing a space through which participants may be able to resist oppressive structures, especially in educational institutions. To that end, I am interested in examining how public facilities such as basketball courts are maintained by city governments in particular ways.

I continue my work in poetry and fiction, having recently published work in many academic journals. I am currently at work revising a manuscript Clean that works to understand how the landscape of America's heartland affects those who live in both its rural and urban areas. Many of the poems in the manuscript have been published in literary journals, including an on-line magazine, Liberty Hill Poetry Review. The impetus for this manuscript comes from my experiences, as a child, growing up in Chicago, and traveling to Dana, Indiana, where my grandmother lived and where Ernie Pyle was born. Below is a picture of the mural that stands in memory of Mr. Pyle on Dana's Main Street.