CURRICULUM VITAE
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno (2021- )
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender, Race and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno (2015- )
Director, Core Humanities Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2022-2025)
Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities (2019-2021)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2021)
Instructor, Department of English, University of Delaware (2013-2015)
EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
PhD (with distinction), English Literature, May 2014
Dissertation: "Fiction on the Radio: Remediating Transnational Modernism" (chair: Priya Joshi)
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC
BA (cum laude), English Literature, May 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 2020.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Voices from the Global Marketplace: Radio Drama, Neoliberalism, and the BBC in Nigeria.” The Global South 15.2 (2022): 117-134.
"Egypt, Orientalism, and the BBC World Service, 1952-2013." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television 39.3 (2019): 553-67.
"Sounding Dismodernism in James Joyce's Ulysses." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 12.4 (2018): 459-75.
"An Impatient Modernist: Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernist Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2015): 83-98.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (Spring 2011): 87-105.
Book Chapters
"Dylan Thomas at the Microphone: The BBC's Book of Verse and Imperial Cultural Propaganda" British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond, ed. Beatriz Lopez, James Smith & Guy Woodward. Bloomsbury, 2024. 48-62.
"Joyce and Broadcasting." The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts, ed. Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Keith Williams. Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (under contract).
"African Anglophone Literature and the Cold War: Radio, Print, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds." The Cambridge Companion to Global Cold War Literature, ed. Steven Belletto. Cambridge University Press, 2026 (under contract).
Book Reviews
"A History of the BBC's Black Atlantic." Review of James Procter, Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic. Contemporary Literature 65.1 (2025): 118-125.
Review of Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media ed. by Caroline Pollentier and Sarah Wilson. Modernism/modernity 27.4 (2020): 870-872.
Review of Carolyn Owen-King, British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema. Journal of British Studies (commissioned, not yet submitted).
SELECTED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Peripheral Modernisms in Gen Ed.” Modernist Studies Association, Boston, October 2025.
Organizer & Presenter. “Mediating Empire: Comparative Colonialisms, Comparative Media Studies.” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 2024.
“Ou Boum: Sonic Aesthetics in Three Radio Dramatizations of A Passage to India.” (read in my absence by Debra Rae Cohen) Modernist Studies Association, Portland, October 2022.
“Sounding World Lit in English,” Christ Church, University of Oxford, May 2022.
“South Asian Anglophone Literature and the Eastern Service.” Public Broadcasting: Impacts, Legacies and Future Directions, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (online), March 2022.
Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Temple University Department of English, March 2022.
“The BBC’s Book of Verse and the Postwar Literary Canon.” The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict, Durham University (online), July 2021.
“A Queer Archive: Re-Orientating Forster’s Broadcasts.” Re-Orientating E. M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions, University of Cambridge, April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Intermedial Negotiations of Influence: Sam Selvon and James Joyce.” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, October 2019.
“Publishing Modernism in the Listener.” Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers, Sydney, Australia, July 2018.
"Reimagining the Postcolonial Home." American Comparative Literature Association, Los Angeles, March 2018.
"Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of Postcolonialism." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
"Story, Story: Voices from the Global Marketplace." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
“Bush House, the BBC, and Transnational Modernism.” Keynote. BBC and the World Service: Debts & Legacies, King’s College, London, UK, February 2017.
"Lagos and London: Wole Soyinka and Anglophone Literary Broadcasting." Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
"Talking Books: Print Culture and the Sonic Turn in India." Society for the History of Authors, Readers, & Publishers, Paris, France, July 2016.
"Ventriloquizing Radio Drama: V. S. Pritchett's Mash-Up History." Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
"Documents that Move and Speak: Asa Briggs and the BBC Archives Administration." Modernist Studies Association, Boston, November 2015.
"Broadcast as World Literature: Charting the Waves of the Wake." Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
"Sounding British Culture: C. L. R. James at the BBC." Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2012.
"An ‘Impatient Modernist:’ Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group, University of Pennsylvania, November 2011.
"Britannia Rules the Waves: The BBC’s The Listener as Print Contact Zone 1929- 1940." Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1890-1940, University of Delaware, September 2011.
"Your Friend the Phonograph: Advertising the Virtual Voice in Early Film." Virtual Histories: 11th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2011.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011.
"Talking to India: The BBC and Indian Print Culture 1929-1947." 39th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2010.
"The (Mal)function of the Gramophone in Woolf’s Between the Acts." The 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University of Ohio, June 2007.
CONFERENCE SEMINARS ORGANIZED
"Speaking Through the Archive: Global Modernism and Postcolonial Networks." (w/ Sejal Sutaria, King's College, London), Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Teagle Foundation, Cornerstone: Learning for Living, Recognition Grant ($50,000), with co-PI Dr. Sean O’Neil, Core Humanities
Best Graduate Mentor, English Graduate Organization, University of Nevada (2017 and 2019)
CLA Faculty Fellowship, University of Nevada
Director's Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Beebe Award (for best seminar paper on twentieth-century literature): “Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting.” Dept. of English, Temple University
Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
CURATED EXHIBITION
“Thy Father’s Spirit: Paternity in and of Ulysses.” The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, June-September 2013.
CURATED EVENT SERIES
“Sounding Identity” (with Louis Nieber, Dept. of Music), Gender, Race and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2016).
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of English (2015-Present)
Twentieth-Century British Fiction
The Booker Prize (graduate seminar)
The Novel after Ulysses (graduate seminar)
Global Modernism, the Archive, and Theories of Totality (graduate seminar)
Globalization and Literature
Film Analysis and Interpretation
Contemporary British Literature
Sounding the Anglophone Novel (graduate seminar)
Public Intellectualism (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar)
Teenage Wasteland: Joyce, O'Brien, and the Problem of Irish Youth
The History and Future of the Book (graduate seminar)
The Modern World (Core Humanities)
Queer Modernism
University of Delaware, Dept. of English, Instructor (2013-2015)
Tools of Textual Analysis
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings—1660
Critical Reading & Writing
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor (2012-13)
Ulysses Reading Course
Temple University, Dept. of English, Instructor (2006-13)
Modernism, Media, and “Camparative Accoustomology” (seminar)
Literature and Criticism
The Short Story
Introduction to Non-Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Writing for Business and Industry
First-Year Writing
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Dissertation--Chair: 2
Laura West-Brownell, “The Market as a Site of Struggle: Women Writers and the Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s” (Spring 2024)
Daniel Adler, “Metamodernism: Modernist Legacies and the Contemporary Novel” (in-progress; Spring 2026)
Dissertation--Committee Member: 9
MA Exam--Chair: 5
MA Exam--Committee Member: 4
MA Thesis--Reader: 4
MA Project (Journalism)--Reader: 1
MM Exam (Music)--Reader: 5
MFA in Creative Writing--Committee Member: 6
Graduate Research Assistants: 4
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers
American Association of University Professors
REFERENCES
Available on request.
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno (2021- )
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender, Race and Identity, University of Nevada, Reno (2015- )
Director, Core Humanities Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2022-2025)
Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities (2019-2021)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2021)
Instructor, Department of English, University of Delaware (2013-2015)
EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
PhD (with distinction), English Literature, May 2014
Dissertation: "Fiction on the Radio: Remediating Transnational Modernism" (chair: Priya Joshi)
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC
BA (cum laude), English Literature, May 2004
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 2020.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Voices from the Global Marketplace: Radio Drama, Neoliberalism, and the BBC in Nigeria.” The Global South 15.2 (2022): 117-134.
"Egypt, Orientalism, and the BBC World Service, 1952-2013." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television 39.3 (2019): 553-67.
"Sounding Dismodernism in James Joyce's Ulysses." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 12.4 (2018): 459-75.
"An Impatient Modernist: Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernist Cultures 10.1 (Spring 2015): 83-98.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (Spring 2011): 87-105.
Book Chapters
"Dylan Thomas at the Microphone: The BBC's Book of Verse and Imperial Cultural Propaganda" British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond, ed. Beatriz Lopez, James Smith & Guy Woodward. Bloomsbury, 2024. 48-62.
"Joyce and Broadcasting." The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts, ed. Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Keith Williams. Edinburgh University Press, 2026 (under contract).
"African Anglophone Literature and the Cold War: Radio, Print, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds." The Cambridge Companion to Global Cold War Literature, ed. Steven Belletto. Cambridge University Press, 2026 (under contract).
Book Reviews
"A History of the BBC's Black Atlantic." Review of James Procter, Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic. Contemporary Literature 65.1 (2025): 118-125.
Review of Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media ed. by Caroline Pollentier and Sarah Wilson. Modernism/modernity 27.4 (2020): 870-872.
Review of Carolyn Owen-King, British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema. Journal of British Studies (commissioned, not yet submitted).
SELECTED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Peripheral Modernisms in Gen Ed.” Modernist Studies Association, Boston, October 2025.
Organizer & Presenter. “Mediating Empire: Comparative Colonialisms, Comparative Media Studies.” Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 2024.
“Ou Boum: Sonic Aesthetics in Three Radio Dramatizations of A Passage to India.” (read in my absence by Debra Rae Cohen) Modernist Studies Association, Portland, October 2022.
“Sounding World Lit in English,” Christ Church, University of Oxford, May 2022.
“South Asian Anglophone Literature and the Eastern Service.” Public Broadcasting: Impacts, Legacies and Future Directions, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (online), March 2022.
Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Temple University Department of English, March 2022.
“The BBC’s Book of Verse and the Postwar Literary Canon.” The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict, Durham University (online), July 2021.
“A Queer Archive: Re-Orientating Forster’s Broadcasts.” Re-Orientating E. M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions, University of Cambridge, April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
“Intermedial Negotiations of Influence: Sam Selvon and James Joyce.” Modernist Studies Association, Toronto, October 2019.
“Publishing Modernism in the Listener.” Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers, Sydney, Australia, July 2018.
"Reimagining the Postcolonial Home." American Comparative Literature Association, Los Angeles, March 2018.
"Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of Postcolonialism." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
"Story, Story: Voices from the Global Marketplace." Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.
“Bush House, the BBC, and Transnational Modernism.” Keynote. BBC and the World Service: Debts & Legacies, King’s College, London, UK, February 2017.
"Lagos and London: Wole Soyinka and Anglophone Literary Broadcasting." Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
"Talking Books: Print Culture and the Sonic Turn in India." Society for the History of Authors, Readers, & Publishers, Paris, France, July 2016.
"Ventriloquizing Radio Drama: V. S. Pritchett's Mash-Up History." Modern Language Association, Austin, January 2016.
"Documents that Move and Speak: Asa Briggs and the BBC Archives Administration." Modernist Studies Association, Boston, November 2015.
"Broadcast as World Literature: Charting the Waves of the Wake." Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 2014.
"Sounding British Culture: C. L. R. James at the BBC." Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2012.
"An ‘Impatient Modernist:’ Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group, University of Pennsylvania, November 2011.
"Britannia Rules the Waves: The BBC’s The Listener as Print Contact Zone 1929- 1940." Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1890-1940, University of Delaware, September 2011.
"Your Friend the Phonograph: Advertising the Virtual Voice in Early Film." Virtual Histories: 11th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 2011.
"Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster, Empire Broadcasting, and the Ethics of Distance." Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011.
"Talking to India: The BBC and Indian Print Culture 1929-1947." 39th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2010.
"The (Mal)function of the Gramophone in Woolf’s Between the Acts." The 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, Miami University of Ohio, June 2007.
CONFERENCE SEMINARS ORGANIZED
"Speaking Through the Archive: Global Modernism and Postcolonial Networks." (w/ Sejal Sutaria, King's College, London), Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena, November 2016.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Teagle Foundation, Cornerstone: Learning for Living, Recognition Grant ($50,000), with co-PI Dr. Sean O’Neil, Core Humanities
Best Graduate Mentor, English Graduate Organization, University of Nevada (2017 and 2019)
CLA Faculty Fellowship, University of Nevada
Director's Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Beebe Award (for best seminar paper on twentieth-century literature): “Only Connecting?: E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting.” Dept. of English, Temple University
Graduate Teaching Fellowship: Center for the Humanities, Temple University
CURATED EXHIBITION
“Thy Father’s Spirit: Paternity in and of Ulysses.” The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, June-September 2013.
CURATED EVENT SERIES
“Sounding Identity” (with Louis Nieber, Dept. of Music), Gender, Race and Identity Program, University of Nevada, Reno (2015-2016).
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of English (2015-Present)
Twentieth-Century British Fiction
The Booker Prize (graduate seminar)
The Novel after Ulysses (graduate seminar)
Global Modernism, the Archive, and Theories of Totality (graduate seminar)
Globalization and Literature
Film Analysis and Interpretation
Contemporary British Literature
Sounding the Anglophone Novel (graduate seminar)
Public Intellectualism (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar)
Teenage Wasteland: Joyce, O'Brien, and the Problem of Irish Youth
The History and Future of the Book (graduate seminar)
The Modern World (Core Humanities)
Queer Modernism
University of Delaware, Dept. of English, Instructor (2013-2015)
Tools of Textual Analysis
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings—1660
Critical Reading & Writing
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, Instructor (2012-13)
Ulysses Reading Course
Temple University, Dept. of English, Instructor (2006-13)
Modernism, Media, and “Camparative Accoustomology” (seminar)
Literature and Criticism
The Short Story
Introduction to Non-Fiction
Introduction to Literature
Writing for Business and Industry
First-Year Writing
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Dissertation--Chair: 2
Laura West-Brownell, “The Market as a Site of Struggle: Women Writers and the Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s” (Spring 2024)
Daniel Adler, “Metamodernism: Modernist Legacies and the Contemporary Novel” (in-progress; Spring 2026)
Dissertation--Committee Member: 9
MA Exam--Chair: 5
MA Exam--Committee Member: 4
MA Thesis--Reader: 4
MA Project (Journalism)--Reader: 1
MM Exam (Music)--Reader: 5
MFA in Creative Writing--Committee Member: 6
Graduate Research Assistants: 4
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Modernist Studies Association
Society for the History of Authors, Readers, and Publishers
American Association of University Professors
REFERENCES
Available on request.
