- B.A. (Southern Mississippi)
- MA (Victoria)
- PhD (Southern Mississippi)
American Literature with emphasis on Southern writers such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker; the Beat Generation; War Literature, especially from the Vietnam conflict, including Non-Fiction (e.g., Michael Herr, Phillip Caputo); Civil Rights Era Literature by figures such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Angela Davis; Literature and Trauma; Law and Literature; W.B. Yeats and Modernism; New Criticism and Psychoanalysis; Film Studies; Environmental Literature; Academic and Technical Writing.