EDUCATION: PH. D. in English, 1988. The University of North
Carolina at Chapel HillCURRENT POSITION: Florida Southern College:
Professor of EnglishPUBLICATIONS: "Before the Mouse: From
Glass-Bottom Boats to Gatorland." Florida in the Popular
Imagination. Ed. Steve Glassman. Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland, 2009. 19 – 32.“Lumber Mills, Phosphate Pits, and Phantom
Lands: Polk County, Florida as a Literary Setting.” Florida
Studies: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College
English Association. III (2008).“Judging Mr. Watson: Peter
Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone and Henry Flagler.” Florida Studies:
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English
Association. II (2007): 101 - 107.“The Brown Sisters in
Antebellum Florida: Florida Writers?" Florida Studies:
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida College English
Association.I (2006): 75 - 80.Echoes From a Distant
Frontier: The Correspondence of the Brown-Anderson-Aldrich Family
in Frontier Florida, 1835-1850. The University of South
Carolina Press, 2004. with James M. Denham."Lieutenant James
Anderson and the Second Seminole War, 1842." The Florida
Historical Quarterly. 82:1. with James M. Denham.“Our Desired
Haven: The Letters of Corinna Brown Aldrich from Antebellum Key
West, 1849-1850.” The Florida Historical Quarterly (Spring
2001). with James M. Denham. “With Scott in Mexico: Letters of
Captain James W. Anderson in the Mexican War,1846-1847.” The
Journal of the Military History of the West (Spring 1998).with
James M. Denham.Current Research Interests: Letters of George
Brown; Drama of Zora Neale HurstonPROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: College
English Association; Florida College English Association; Modern
Language Association; National Council of Teachers of English;
South Atlantic Modern Language Association.