Writing
Books
Rubicons (a Freaks novel)–Young Adult superhero horror (Imbrifex Books)
Travelers (a Freaks novel)–Young Adult superhero horror (Imbrifex Books)
Freaks–young adult novel (Imbrifex Books)
Lord of Order–novel (Imbrifex Books)
Comanche–novel (Imbrifex Books)
The Subtle Dance of Impulse and Light–short story collection (Ink Brush Press, April 2013)
Short Fiction
“Golgotha”—Big Muddy, an Interdisciplinary Journal of the Mississippi River Valley 9.1
“Lost and Found”—First Class 35.2
“Hot Wheels for Jesus”—Big Muddy, an Interdisciplinary Journal of the Mississippi River Valley 12.1 (story published under the name Brendan West-Moreland)
“Old Shoes”—Metal Scratches issue 13
“The Cat in the Backyard”—Folio fall 2010/spring 2011 issue
“The Hair on His Cape”—The Evansville Review Vol. XXII
“A Face to Die For”—Blue Lake Review June 2012 update
“Doing It Like a Man”—The Wisconsin Review 46.2
“Hook” (short story)—Allegory 18.45 spring/summer 2012
“An Ending”—Separate Worlds Jan./Feb. 2013 update
“An Element of Blank”—The Evansville Review vol. XXIII (2013)
“Fifth and Cedar”—Red Rock Review 32 (fall 2013)
“Doesn’t Mean They’re not Out to Get You”—The Broadkill Review 4.4
“The Security System”—The Broadkill Review 4.5
“An Anecdote”—The Broadkill Review 5.1
“Dated” —The Broadkill Review 5.2
“A Transcript Found on My Hard Drive (I)”—The Broadkill Review 5.3
“Just Because You’re Paranoid”—The Broadkill Review 5.4
“Phone Tag” —The Mochila Review Vol. 14 (2012)
“Orville’s Song”–The Variety Show, 8-11-2015
“What Lies in Ambush”–Solstice Literary Magazine fall/winter issue 2016
“An Element of Blank” (reprint): Nth Degree featured story
“Far Away from the Path and a Little Bit Lost”–Ghost Town
“Hyacinth”–The Broadkill Review 31 October 2017 update
“Everyone Here Comes from Somewhere Else”–The Courtship of Winds winter 2018
“Closed for Storm”–The Baltimore Review winter 2018
“Salvation Is a Joke with no Punchline”–Solstice Literary Magazine
“Mating Behaviors of Urban White Males in the Southern United States”–Bluestem
“Summer Home”–f(r)iction
“Thy Rod and Thy Staff”–West Trade Review
“Alien”–The Barcelona Review
“After We’re Gone”–Madville Publishing’s Runaway Anthology
“The Long-Promised Return of One-Eye Battle”–Love in the Dunes Anthology
Screenplays
Candy’s First Kiss
Grand Prize Winner in the Horror/Sci-Fi genre, New York Screenplay Contest
LONDON FILM AWARDS
Third Place, 2014 London Film Awards Screenwriting Competition
Gold Prize Winner, Horror genre, 2014 Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest
Honorable Mention, 2014 WeScreenplay International Screenwriting Competition
Grand Prize in Horror, 2015 Hollywood Screenplay Contest
Creative Nonfiction
“My Resistance Is not the Same as Your Hate” (essay)–Role Reboot
“When White Privilege Is a Matter of Life and Death” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Assault, Bigotry, and Self-Hatred: Not All Wounds Bleed” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Some Jokes Just Aren’t Funny” (essay)–Foliate Oak Magazine
“Past, Present, Popcorn” (essay)–Wild Violet
“We Are All Las Vegas, But We Don’t Have to Be” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Floating the Yacht” (essay)–Rougarou
“Was This Trip Really Necessary?” (essay)–Green Hills Literary Lantern
“Why I Won’t Be Watching the Roseanne Reboot” (essay)–Role Reboot
“The True Horror of Hereditary: Patriarchy” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Why You Need to See the Mister Rogers Documentary” (essay)–Role Reboot
“BlacKkKlansman and the American Past That’s Still Present” (essay)–Role Reboot
“A Tale of Two Women: On Joan Jett and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Halloween 2018: A Horror Film for the #TimesUp Era” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Bohemian Rhapsody‘s Fumbling Representations of Sexuality” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Dumbo and Me” (essay)–Literary Orphans
“The Golden Globes: A Celebration of Diversity, Sort Of” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Gillette Is Right, Guys; We Can Get Better” (essay)–Role Reboot
“The 2019 Grammys: A Soundtrack for Change” (essay)–Role Reboot
“The 2019 Oscars: An Improved Show with a Few Huge Missteps” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Meeting a Familiar Enemy: Jordan Peele’s Us” (essay)–Role Reboot
“The Best of Enemies: It’s Still All about Whiteness” (essay)–Role Reboot
“Dreaming in Stereo” (essay)–under the gum tree
“Re-Reading Avengers #1-10 from a Contemporary Perspective” (essay)–F(r)iction Log
“Searching for Haunted Fiction in American Literature” (essay)–CrimeReads
“Just Talk to Her, Dude” (essay)–Broad River Review (2020 issue)
“The Functions of Friction and Surface Tension” (essay)–Barely South Review
“The Most Wildly Different Books about Deeply Flawed Teenage Protagonists” (annotated list)–shepherd.com
“Introduction”–American Ghost Stories (Flame Tree Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
Academic
Separation Anxieties: Representations of Separatist Communities in 20th Century Fiction and Film (doctoral dissertation)
Book Reviews
Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints by Sam Brower, Concho River Review 26.1
Interviews and Such
Interview conducted by JeanBookNerd for her blog
Interview conducted by Courtney Harler for in The Masters Review
Interview conducted by Jeff Rutherford for the Reading and Writing Podcast
Interview with Authority Magazine
Videos
Freaks Book Trailer
Comanche Book Trailer
Lord of Order Book Trailer
Las Vegas Voice Reading, 20 December 2019
Teaching
Education
Ph.D. in English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (May 2006)
Doctoral dissertation—Separation Anxieties: Representations of Separatist Communities in Late Twentieth Century Fiction and Film
Director: Dr. Rick Moreland
Committee: Dr. John R. May, Dr. John Lowe, Dr. James Catano
Dr. Gregory Schufreider, Dean’s Representative
Separation Anxieties: Representations of Separatist Communities in Late Twentieth Century Fiction and Film analyzes seven fictional works in which a group is philosophically and/or geographically isolated—sometimes by choice, sometimes not—from mainstream America. Studying these texts leads to a reconsideration of traditional American myth—the “Union,” equality, inalienable rights, the various freedoms that America is supposed to embody—and to a reexamination of why those myths might be rejected, of what kinds of communities might be formed, and of how those communities might succeed and fail.
M.A. in English, American Literature, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA (May 1997)
B.A. in English, Minor in History, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR (December 1994)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas/Henderson, NV
Tenured Professor, English Department, fall 2012-present
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Full-Time Instructor, English Department, fall 2006-spring 2012
Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, LA
Adjunct Instructor, English Department, fall 2004-summer 2006
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Adjunct Instructor, spring 2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department, 1998-summer 2004 (instructor of record in all sections)
University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA
Adjunct Instructor, English Department, 1997-98
Graduate Assistant, English Department, 1996-1997 (instructor of record in all sections)
COURSES TAUGHT
Senior-Level Courses
Advanced Studies in Comparative and Multicultural Literature
Advanced Studies in American Literature
Advanced Studies in African-American Literature
Independent Study
Junior-Level Courses
Forms of Creative Writing–Adapting Literature into Film, Writing Television Pilots, and Writing Genre Fiction
Introduction to English Studies (Literary Theory course)
American Fiction to 1900
American Poetry to 1900
Sophomore-Level Courses
Fiction Writing
Contemporary Literature
Introduction to the Short Story
Themes of Literature–The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War; A Tour of American Creative Nonfiction; The Screenplay/Teleplay as Fifth Literary Genre
Introduction to Creative Writing
African-American Literature
Literature and Ethnicity
Introduction to Fiction
Honors American Literature I
American Literature I
American Literature II
World Literature I
World Literature II
Freshman-Level Courses
Honors Freshman Composition
English Composition II
English Composition I
Remedial Grammar and Composition
Composition and Introduction to Literature
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