Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Catawba College
“Hopelessness and Hope in J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.” In The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond. Ed. Lana A. Whited. U of Missouri P, expected January 2024.
“Conspiracy: Not Just a Theory in Young Adult Literature.” In Critical Insights: Conspiracies. Ed. James Plath. Grey House, 2020.
“Introduction to Literary Studies.” 2018. Textbook used in English 200: Introduction to Literary Studies at Ferrum College.
Editor of Critical Insights: The Outsiders. Grey House, May 2018.
“S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and Theories of Moral Development,” in Critical Insights: The Outsiders.
With Lana A. Whited, “Critical Reception: The Outsiders,” in Critical Insights: The Outsiders.
“On The Outsiders,” in Critical Insights: The Outsiders.
With Lana A. Whited, editor of Critical Insights: Harry Potter. Grey House, July 2015.
“’Contemporary’ Is Not ‘Modern’: The Harry Potter Series as a Sampler of Western Literary Traditions.” In Critical Insights: Harry Potter. Ed. Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes. Grey House, July 2015.
Introduction to Critical Insights: Harry Potter. Ed. Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes. Grey House, July 2015.
Review of On Agate Hill by Lee Smith, Now and Then magazine, winter 2007.
“Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and Archetypal Hero.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 217. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. Rpt. from The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, ed. Lana A. Whited, University of Missouri Press, 2002; paperback edition 2004.
“Bill and Vera Clever.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford UP, 2006.
Review of Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, edited by Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson, in alca-lines, the publication of the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, in winter 2004-2005.
Synopsis of “Publishing on Potter: Dodging the Bludgers,” a panel of authors and editors of books about the Harry Potter series at Nimbus 2003: A Harry Potter Symposium, Orlando, Fla., 17-20 July 2003, and published in print and on CD-ROM in June 2004.
“Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and Archetypal Hero.” Essay published in The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, ed. Lana A. Whited, University of Missouri Press, 2002. Paperback edition, 2004.
With Lana A. Whited. “What Would Harry Do? J. K. Rowling and the Theories of Lawrence Kohlberg.” Essay published in The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, ed. Lana A. Whited, University of Missouri Press, 2002. Paperback edition, 2004.
“The Valley of Virginia.” Article published in The Companion to Southern Literature, ed. Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan, Louisiana State UP, 2001.
“Colonial Newspapers in the South.” Article published in The Companion to Southern Literature, ed. Joseph Flora and Lucinda MacKethan, Louisi ana State UP, 2001.
“Where the Lilies Bloom: A Guide for Teachers.” Study guide published on AppLit: Resources for Teaching Appalachian Literature, ed. Tina L. Hanlon and Judy Teaford. http://www2.ferrum.edu/applit/studyg/lilies.htm 2000.
“The Altar of Patriarchy in John Ehle’s The Winter People.” Paper presented at the 1998 Virginia Humanities Conference, Ferrum, Va. Published on AppLit: Resources for Teaching Appalachian Literature, ed. Tina L. Hanlon and Judy Teaford. http://www2.ferrum.edu/applit/articles/ehle.htm 2000.
“Wacky Women and the Working Man’s Plight.” Review of Snow Man by Carolyn Chute. The Roanoke Times. September 26, 1999.
Articles, press releases, and photographs in Teaching K-8, The Virginia Journal of Education, The (Stuart VA) Enterprise, Franklin (VA) News-Post, Martinsville (VA) Bulletin, Smith Mountain (VA) Eagle, and Scott County (VA) Star.
Book and theatre reviews in The Roanoke Times, Greensboro News & Record, High Point Enterprise, and The Franklin (VA) News-Post.
Guest commentaries in The Roanoke Times, including “Students Should Teach Critics About 20th-Century Books,” August 1998.
Entries for Masterplots series: “Cane, by Jean Toomer;” “Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein;” “Kinflicks, by Lisa Alther;” “Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.”
Entries for Collier’s CD-ROM encyclopedia, 1997: “Alice Walker,” “Janis Joplin,” and “Jodie Foster.”
Our Mutual Burdens Bear. Play, 1996. (Staged reading at Ferrum College.)
Southern Literature
African American Literature
The works of J.K. Rowling
