Biography
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, and the editor of Jazz and American Culture (Cambridge, 2024). 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, from 1999 to 2009. Currently, I serve as Director of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech.
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