I teach literature at UM and while I specialize in literary modernism (roughly between the 1890s and 1930s) and sub-specialize in "Modernist Poetry" (and sub-sub-specialize in the poet H.D.), I teach mostly introductory courses in poetry and the British lit survey courses.
I am fanatically committed to literary advocacy, for everyone everywhere. My latest endeavor to this cause is "Reflections West," a little radio show about the culture, history and literature of the American West. Our main goal of the show is to get more poems, more great lines of literature, circulating in the airwaves. It couldn't hurt; it might help.
I was recently awarded the Yale Beinecke Research Fellowship, which allowed me further research on a book that stems from my dissertation project to be titled, ahem: "H.D.'s Anthropoetics: the poet, the archaeologists, and The British Museum." (Okay, I'm still working on the title...but those are the key terms).
I am part of the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, with two talks on poetry (see fliers) and a facilitator for the new "Civic Reflection" program.
In 2008, I coordinated the multi-media Favorite Poem Project at the Festival of the Book and in 2009 & 2010 I coordinated the MT Poetry salon.
I also dabble in a host of digital humanities projects, integrating the substance of a humanities education with innovative and accessible technologies.
