“‘A Vague, Invarious Delight’: Ezra Pound’s ‘Middle-Aging Care’ and Bernard Hart’s Psychology of the Complex,” Literature of the Americas, no. 7, 2019.
“‘Mandate of Eros’: The Disease of Love in Eliot, Pound, and British Psychology,” Contemporary Studies in Modernism, no. 12, 2018.
“Menippean Satire and Carnivalism in Ezra Pound’s ‘Pisan Canto 74,’” Ezra Pound and the Spanish World, Clemson University Press, forthcoming.
“Ezra Pound,” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
“Marianne Moore,” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
“Gertrude Stein,” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
“William Carlos Williams,” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
Selected Poetry
“Uncle Sam, The Repo Man,” Ezra’s Book, Clemson University Press, 2019.
“Gold Rush,” Ezra’s Book, Clemson University Press, 2019.
“The Americaniad,” Ezra’s Book, Clemson University Press, 2019.
“We Are Singing the West,” The Common Language Project Anthology, The Writer’s Garret, 2018.
“The Catlin Staircase, Smithsonian American Art Museum,” The Ekphrastic Review, 2018.
“The Legend of Indigo Jones,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 47, 2018.
“Red River Snagging,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 47, 2018.
“Paper Money,” A Packet of Poems for Ezra Pound, Clemson University Press, 2017.
“Race and a Rebel,” A Packet of Poems for Ezra Pound, Clemson University Press, 2017.
“The Americaniad.” White Rock Zine Machine, vol. 3, 2017.
“Peleus.” Ramify: The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017.
“Paper Money,” Make It New, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015.
“The Exchange, January 1923.” Ramify:The Journal of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 35, 2014.
Selected Book Reviews
Review of View from the Stork Building: Chinese Variations, by Joe Survant, Make It New, vol. 6, no. 1, forthcoming.
Review of The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art, by Lance Esplund. Make It New, vol. 5, no. 1, 2019.
Review of The Humility of the Brutes: Poems, by Ron Smith. Deep South Magazine, April 2018.
Review of For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America, by Charles Dorn. Make It New, vol. 4, no. 4, 2018.
Review of Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance, by Anthony F. D’Elia. Make It New, vol. 3, no. 4, 2017.
Review of The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de Medici, by Stefano Dall’Aglio. Make It New, vol. 3, no. 3, 2017.
Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve, by Roger Lowenstein. Make It New, vol. 2, no. 4, 2016.
Selected Presentations and Invited Talks
2019 “Texas Poetry.” The World is Bare Now: Nature and Human Flourishing, Braniff Conference in the Liberal Arts, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas.
2018 “Modernist Poetry and Modern Psychology.” University of New Orleans Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Brunnenburg Castle Museum, Dorf Tirol, Italy.
2020 “The Sweet New Friendship of Dante and Cavalcanti in La Vita Nuova,” The Art of Spiritual Friendship. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, TX.
2019 “The Rhetoric of Solitude: Antithesis in John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.” The Christian Storyteller. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX.
2019 “‘Las Cosas Más Necias y También Las Más Sublimes’: Satire and Insanity in Cervantes, Galdós, and Pound.” Ezra Pound and the Spanish World. Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
2019 “‘Love Torturing Itself to Emotion’: Portraits of Hysteria in Eliot and Wagner.” The Image and the Word: Interactions between American Literature, Media, Visual Arts and Film. Spanish Association for American Studies, Salamanca, Spain.
2019 “Open Educational Resources and Opening Doors for Tarleton Students.” 16th Annual Excellence in Teaching Conference, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.
2017 “American Prophet, Texas Poet: The Legend of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Pancho and Lefty.’” Seminar on Bob Dylan and Poetic Song Verse. Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX.
2017 “‘Mandate of Eros’: Erotic Love in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.” Ezra Pound, Philadelphia Genius, and Modern American Poetry. Ezra Pound International Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. PA.
2017 “The Non-Action of Rest: A Rhetorical Analysis of Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity.” Bridging Divides, Crossing Borders, Community Building: Core Texts, Liberal Arts, College and the Human Voice. Association for Core Texts and Courses Annual Conference, Austin College, Dallas, TX.
2016 “The Rhetoric of Virtue: Persuasion and Law in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.” Tradition, Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core Text, Liberal Arts Programs. Association for Core Texts and Courses Annual Conference, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA.
2015 “‘Those Written Records Pure’: Liberty and Doctrine in Milton’s Paradise Regained.” Christianity and Culture: The Interaction of Faith and Literature through the Ages. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, TX.
2015 “A ‘Mind Leaping Like Dolphins’: Ezra Pound and the Psychology of Pierre Janet.” Ezra Pound and the Green World. Ezra Pound International Conference, Brunnenburg Castle Museum, Dorf Tirol, Italy.
2015 “‘Frankness as Never Before’: Ezra Pound’s Enigmatic Regard for Liberty and Totalitarianism.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Scholarly Activities
Selected Awards and Grants
2019 Finalist: “Appalachia Sown,” Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize, Kallisto Gaia Press.
2019 Faculty Development Grant, Center for Instructional Innovation, Tarleton State University
2018 Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
2014 Professional Development Grant, Toyota Alumni Fund, Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts
2013 Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
Professional Affiliations
Association for Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers
Modern Language Association
European Association for American Studies
Spanish Association for American Studies
Kenneth Burke Society
Ezra Pound Society
Texas Poetry Society
National Federation of State Poetry Societies
Degrees
Ph.D. (cum laude) in Philology, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Salamanca, 2020.
Ph.D. (with distinction) in Literature, University of Dallas, 2017.
M.A. in English, University of Dallas, 2015.
B.A. (faculty academic excellence award) in Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, 2012.
