Professor of English

Contact

  • Office: C205 Tribble Hall
  • Phone: (336) 758-5380
  • Emailmaine@wfu.edu

Degrees

  • PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • BA University Virginia

Areas of Interest

  • Modernism
  • American Novel
  • Literature and Other Arts

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

  • ENG 170 Introduction to American Literature
  • ENG 175 Studies in American Literature
  • ENG 300 American Fictions Abroad
  • ENG 363 Studies in Modernism: Art and Modern Memory
  • ENG 373 Literature and Film
  • ENG 782 20th-Century American Historical Fiction
  • ENG 382 20th-Century American Fiction
  • ENG 380 19th-Century American Fiction
  • FYS – Art Collection at Reynolda House

Selected Publications

  • Dos Passos: The Critical Heritage. Routledge. 1988
  • “Picture and Text: Venetian Interiors by Henry James and John Singer Sargent,” Henry James Review, 23 (May 2002), 136-156..
  • “Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis and Nelson Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking: A Nominal(ist) Revision.” Poetics Today, 1999.
  • “Portraits and Privacy: Henry Adams and John Singer Sargent,” in Henry Adams and the Need to Know (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004), 177-205.