Georgia Institute of Technology

Post-Doc, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture

Thesis Title: The Fiction and Memoirs of WWII Combat Veterans (2008)

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I am a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech.  I completed my Ph.D. in English at Saint Louis University, where I was Director of the Writing Program's Computer Assisted Instruction Lab.  I specialize in what might be called American Cultural Rhetoric, a broad-based course of study that allows me to pursue my interests in American literature and culture as well as rhetorical theory and composition studies.  Generally speaking, I examine the production and reception of 20th-century American cultural texts, including fiction, memoir, film, popular culture and history.  An undergraduate English major recently asked me what my approach to literature was, and I told her that I try to show how literature illuminates history and history illuminates literature.

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