HIs specialty is 20-century American literature. In Fall 2011, his article “The Superhero and the Prospective Geography: Tropes of the Cityscape in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth” came out in an issue of the International Journal of Comic Arts. His articles “Urban Rail Maps and the Organizational Sublime” and “’Balefires on the Distant Ridges’: Dismantling the Apocalyptic Zombie Trope in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road” are both currently under consideration. He is currently working on a book on the American cosmopolitan. Executive Committee