He has published essays about and presented on numerous American and British writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Richard Aldington, Lawrence Durrell, J. R. R. Tolkien, and others. He enjoys teaching Modernist literature, Southern literature, Christian literature, and Poetry. His most recent book, Hemingway’s Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway examines Hemingway’s work in the light of his lifelong devotion to Catholicism. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and his M.A. and B.A. from SUNY-New Paltz. He is currently working on a book-length examination of the short stories of Elizabeth Madox Roberts and a book of poetry.