I have been teaching at Rhode Island College since 2000 in the areas of early-19th-century American Literature, Postcolonial theory and Literature, and Literary Theory. I have published in the fields of Early American Literature, Transatlanticism, Native-American Literature, Postcolonial Theory, and Afghanistan. My current research involves Afghan travel narratives from the 18th century to the present day, which I am developing into a book manuscript titled, “Overland to Afghanistan: Travel Writing and the Afghan Romance.”
Selected Publications
Books:
Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation-Building. Co-edited with David Jefferess. Duke University Press, 2011.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Globalizing-Afghanistan/
Articles and Chapters:
“The West in Afghanistan: 18th-19th Century Colonial Ambassadors, Soldiers, Adventurers in a Racialized ‘Free’ Land.” The West in Asia and Asia in the West: Essays on Transnational Interactions. Eds. Elisabetta Marino and Tanfer Emin Tunc. North Carolina: Macfarland & Co. Inc., 2015. 20-33.
Wayside Whaling: Moby Dick and the Whale Ornament in Contemporary New Bedford. Photo- essay with photographer, Jason Fiering. On-line exhibit at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. 2012.
“Teaching Transatlantic Americanism.” Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century. Edited by Jennifer Frangos and Cristobal Silva. Cambridge Scholars Press (UK), 2010. 135-54.
“Teaching “Historical Fiction and Maryse Condé’s, I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem.” African American Review 43.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2009): 1-13).
“Race and the Puritan Body Politic.” MELUS 29.3-4 (December 2004): 259-272.
“The Personal Quests of Saira Shah.” Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality Ed. Krista Jabcob. 3.2 (May 2002). http://www.iiav.nl/ezines/web/SexingThePolitical/2004/No2.PDF
“Trading Feminisms: French and Postcolonial, Spivak’s Ethics of Exchange.” Literature and Psychology: A Journal of Psychoanalytic and Cultural Criticism 48.4 (2002): 33-45.
“Puritan Imperialisms.” The Connecticut Review 23.2 (Fall 2001): 69-84.
“The Ethics of Love and Indifference: Readings of Brotherhood and Isolation in Wilson Harris and V. S. Naipaul.” Journal of West Indian Literature 9.1 (April 2000): 70-82.
“Tricksters, Captives, and Conjurers: The Roots of Liminality and Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart.” American Indian Quarterly 23.1 (Fall 1999): 25-44.
http://www.slideshare.net/NB_WhalingMuseum/wayside-whaling
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