Originally from Windsor, Ontario, I have taught in the Department of English at Texas Tech University since 2004. I am the author of the book Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2006), which won the TTU President’s Book Award for Outstanding Faculty Publication. In addition to publishing a range of academic articles and book chapters on African American literature, American modernism, and music, I also wrote on jazz regularly for Coda magazine for ten years, f
Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2006)
Editor, Jazz and American Culture . Forthcoming, Cambridge UP. 477pp.