Education 

PhD, University of Texas, 1981
MA, University of South Carolina, 1976
BA, University of South Carolina, 1974 (Biology Cognate, SC Honors College, Carolina Scholar)

Areas of Specialization 

   • Eighteenth-Century Literature (especially Samuel Johnson)
   • Science Fiction (especially nanotechnology and bioethics)
   • Rhetoric and Composition (especially writing about literature)

Current Research Projects 

   • It's Alive?!: Science Fiction and Bioethics
   • Johnson's Body

Selected Publications 

   • Writing South Carolina: Selections from the Frist High School Writing Contest.  Foreword by Pat Conroy, with Aida Rogers.  U of South Carolina Press, 2015.
   • Texts and Contexts, 7^th edition.  New York: Longman, 2016 (forthcoming).
   • The Cambridge Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition.  Cambridge UP, 2010.
   • Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies.  New York: Longman, 2012.
   • A Short Guide to Writing.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1996.
   • Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.
   • "The Eighteenth Century" (review essay of General and Prose scholarship) in The Year's Work in Eighteenth-Century.  Oxford: Oxford UP. 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.
   • "Johnson's Critical Reception” in The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, edited by Greg Clingham.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.  Pp. 240-52.
   • Essays in Eighteenth-Century Studies, College English, Age of Johnson, and other places.