UMass Boston

PhD, English Literature, Tufts University
MA, English Literature, Tufts University
BA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Sierra Crane Murdoch, "Yellow Bird" (Random House 2020), The Threepenny Review (164), Summer 2021
• Johannes Lichtman, "Such Good Work" (Simon and Schuster 2018), The Threepenny Review (159), Fall 2019
• “Here’s What I Don’t Say,” The Threepenny Review (158), Summer 2019.
• “I Can’t Tell You More Than That,” The Southeast Review (37:2), September, 2019. (Selected as notable literary nonfiction by Best American Essays 2020)
• “John Trudell and the Spirit of Life,” Works & Days (Vol 33 & 34), January 2017. (Republished, Cultural Logic, Fall 2017.)
• “The Invisible Frontier: Ruling Class Ideology and Class Struggle in the Stories of Raymond Carver,” Pacific Northwest Literature, April 2013.
• “‘Nobody’s a Bum all Their Life’: Teaching Class through William Kennedy’s Ironweed,” Radical Teacher (86), March 2009.
• Iian Topliss, "Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg" (Johns Hopkins 2005). American Studies Journal (49:1) Spring, 2009
• “The New Yorker’s ‘Hiroshima’: Caribbean Cruises, Tiffany Diamonds, and the Atomic Bomb,” Reconstruction (8:1), January 2008.

Early American Literature; American Cold War Literature; Multicultural Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Modern American Literature; The American Short Story; 19th Century American Literature; American Working-class Literature; Literature and Film; Literary Theory; Introduction to Literary Studies; Rhetoric and Composition

• Mellon Grant, January 2020
• Jasper and Marion Whiting Foundation Grant, February, 2010