Associate Professor Emeritus of English
- Myers Outstanding Book Award
- Critics’ Choice Award from American Educational Studies Association
(both awards for Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics)
- All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures; Colorizing Literary Theory (Modern Language Studies 26.4, 1996; Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (UP of Mississippi, 1998)
- American Family Album: 28 Contemporary Ethnic Stories (Heinle Thomson, 2000/2004)
- Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics (Rutgers UP, 2002)
- Pedagogy, Praxis, Politics, and Multiethnic Literatures (MELUS 30.2, guest co-editor)
- Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman (U of Tennessee P, 2006)
- Articles on multicultural pedagogy, ethnic literature, and American culture
- Current book project with working title, “Beyond Binaries: Color Symbolism in Literature and Culture”
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Education
PhD, Washington State University