B.A., Michigan State University, 1996
On the PSU faculty since 2009

FIELDS: Fiction and nonfiction

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Twentieth-century American literature, travel literature, the literature of colonialism, publishing, overtly comic literature, video games

BOOKS
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2003)
Speak, Commentary (with Jeff Alexander) (2003)
God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories (2005)
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (2007)
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010)