He joined the faculty in 2007 after teaching a year as a senior fellow in the Blount Undergraduate Initiative. He teaches graduate seminars on literary modernism and a broad range of undergraduate courses, from sophomore surveys of British literature to senior-level courses on 20th-century poetry, modernism and literature between the wars. He recently established Alabama in Ireland, a study abroad program in conjunction with the National University of Ireland, Galway, where UA students take classes with Galway faculty and also study James Joyce’s “Ulysses” with McNaughton. He works with numerous undergraduate, master’s and doctoral English students at all stages of their studies and theses.