Category: Research

My proposal was accepted for the 2020 College English Association of Ohio Conference. But, due to COVID, this conference has been postponed until 2021, and I will attend from China via videoconferencing.

This proposal was accepted for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association national conference, to be hosted in Boulder, Colorado, in October, 2020.

My book proposal for Narnia, Middle-Earth, and Beyond: The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic Literature was accepted by McFarland Publishers. During the spring and summer of 2020, I will be writing the final chapter and revising the entire manuscript. In August…

This proposal was accepted for the 2019 American Literature and Religion Society conference, held in conjunction with the American Literature Association, to be hosted in Boston, MA, in May.

I am honored that Layman Poupard Publishing (LPP) has approached me to participate in writing the entry on Lord Dunsany in the Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism series. I will be responsible for selecting the best representative pieces of Dunsany scholarship and…

This proposal has been accepted for the 2019 national conference for the Center for Vision and Values, hosted by Grove City College, Grove City, PA. Romantic Conscience as Gothic Transgression: The Limits of Subjectivism and the Necessity of Natural Law…

This proposal was accepted for the 2018 international conference of the Association of Texts and Courses, hosted by Concordia University, Irvine, CA. Exploring Classical Thought and Culture in the East and the West: Teaching Hamlet and The Banquet in the…

The following proposal was accepted for the 2018 Center for Vision and Values conference. Fantasy Literature and the Great War: The Response of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Lord Dunsany It is an understatement to say World…

The following book chapter proposal was accepted for inclusion in an upcoming book addressing the intellectual, artistic, and cultural relationships between Romanticism and rock music. Escaping the Caves of Ice: Rush and the Romantic Quest for Creative Independence and Visionary…