⚫ 소개:

I am originally from South Carolina in the United States. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of South Carolina, and my Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from Louisiana State University. I have taught English at universities in Korea, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.

⚫ 최종 학력: Ph.D. in English, Louisiana State University

⚫ 주요 연구 분야:

My areas of specialization include the literature and culture of the American South, and African American literature and culture. My research focuses on the ways in which the life and philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr. have shaped American fiction since the 1960s.

⚫ 주요 강의:

Culture and Text, Special Lecture on British and American Literature, Intensive Study on British and American Novels

⚫주요 논문 및 저서: 

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1. “Marita Golden’s And Do Remember Me as Womanist Homage to Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement.” Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2175679

2. “Rereading Cain, Abel, and Martin Luther King Jr in Charles Johnson’s Dreamer.” Literature and Theology, vol. 34, no. 3, 2020, pp. 263–280.

3. “A Time to Break Literary Silence: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam in Anthony Grooms’s Bombingham.” African American Review, vol. 52, no. 2, 2019, pp. 165-78.

4. “Empathic Representations of White Racists in Two Contemporary African American Novels.” Promises, Pedagogy and Pitfalls: Empathy’s Potential for Healing and Harm, edited by Pam Morrison et. al. Brill, 2019, pp. 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848884281.

5. “Sex, Violence, and Suffering: Rethinking Martin Luther King Jr. in Julius Lester’s And All Our Wounds Forgiven.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 40, no. 4, 2015, pp. 129-49.

6. “Thematizing the Beloved Community: Echoes of Martin Luther King Jr. in Bebe Moore Campbell’s Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine.” Religion and Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, 2012, pp. 87-109.

7. “Keeping the Dream Alive: Meridian as Alice Walker’s Homage to Martin Luther King and the Beloved Community.” Religion and the Arts, vol. 15, no. 5, 2011, pp. 603-27.

8. “Secular and Spiritual Salvation in 1961 Birmingham, Alabama: Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community as Imagined in Vicki Covington’s The Last Hotel for Women.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 61, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77-99.