Links to published pieces 

I am no better than a Pig (Forthcoming: LINK COMING SOON) -Animal 

Advocacy Article

The Inhumanity of Humanity: Historical Human Abuse of Elephants (forthcoming: LINK COMING SOON) -Animal Advocacy Article

Long line Fishing and Shark Finning in the World's Oceans -Animal Advocacy Article 

University Student Apathy Toward Dog fighting: Some Brief Facts -Animal Advocacy Article

Aggressive Posturing Does Not Produce Vegetarians -Animal Advocacy Article  

Cultural Traditions Engendering Abuse: Elephant Crushing and Street Elephants in Thailand -Animal Advocacy Article

Humanity's Enslavement of Nonhuman Animals: Why Human Nature is Not Inherently Flawed -Animal Advocacy Article 

Whale Sharks and Callous Anthropocentrism -Animal Advocacy Article  (first on page)

Anthropomorphism and Sentimentality: Flawed Rhetoric Harming Animals - Animal Advocacy Article 

The Suffering of Animals and the Public's Hatred of Animal Rights Activism - Animal Advocacy Article  (Selected Cover Story). Viewable PDF file of Spring 08 issue.

The Rhetoric of Hunting and Whaling: Sustainable Abuse  -Animal Advocacy Article 

A Braver Newer World  -Animal Advocacy Article 

Excerpt from "Vegeveganism: A Call for Unification in the Animal Rights World" -Animal Advocacy Article  

Avoid Mass Confinement Factory Farming -Animal Advocacy Article

No "Green" Eggs and Ham -Guest Op-Ed on Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 

A Case for Shelter Adoption -Lighter Animal Advocacy Editorial

A Coyote and Coy Dog Defense- Animal Advocacy Article

 Dearest Abby -Editorial regarding Companion Animals

 Midsummer -Fiction

Monsters -Fiction

A Small Grey Ghost -Creative Non Fiction

 

 Print Articles in Internationally Circulated Magazines (Some Forthcoming):

"The Logos of Abduction: A Logical Defense of Abductees." UFO Magazine. June, 2008 issue

“Fear and Leading in the Classroom: The Contemporary Gay Male University Student and His Success.” Bent Magazine issue 7/ September 2008. Forthcoming

"Holding Fast: A Southeastern Tattoo Icon Tells it Like it is." Prick Magazine. Forthcoming


 

Academic articles, essays, and essays in books

* “Moving Toward an Understanding of ‘Evil’: ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ University Freshmen, and Semiotics.” Published in Volume 7, number 1 of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall 2006)

*  “Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography. “ Published in Volume 5, number 1 of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall, 2004). 

*  The above article was also picked up for inclusion in:

Alice Walker New Edition Bloom's Modern Critical Views Infobase Publishing: New York, 2007


Selected Lectures, Readings, and Media Appearances

 *Spoke at the largest Animal Rights Conference in America to speak about the trials and hardships faced by performing elephants in circuses and other venues. AR2008 took place August 14-18 in Washington D.C.

 

·         Will be speaking on behalf of factory farmed animals by invitation of Saving Animals Via Education (S.A.V.E.) during the Walk for Farm Animals Day activities in Chattanooga, Tennessee on September 27, 2008 

 

·         Will be presenting a lecture on shark finning and hosting a viewing of the award winning film Sharkwater at the University of Tenneessee at Chattanooga’s campus on October 30, 2008 

 

* Paper entitled "From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom of Not Giving a Rip (And Being Good Enough) has been selected for inclusion in the largest Pop Culture Conference in America. I will be delivering the paper in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 3-5. More details to come.  

 

* Paper entitled “The saddest show on earth: Elephant (ab)use in touring circuses”has also been selected for the Cincinnati conference in the panel titled "Plants and Animals in Pop Culture." I have also been named Panel Chair. I hope to deliver them both; more details to come

* Scheduled to be interviewed by Australia's Abolitionist Online regarding Animal Rights issues. 

* Fiction reading of short story “Monsters.” The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Spring, 2008, Creative Writing Faculty Reading event.

*  Invited guest of WGOW 102.3 FM’s “FRED the show” hosted by Jeff Stiles to discuss animal rights issues including factory farming, animal experimentation, and other issues

·         Interviewed by James C. Koch of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Marketing Ph.D. program regarding “Going Green” in contemporary society. Interview will be included in published research report and an industry publication.

*  Paper entitled, “The Primacy of the Individual: Eighty-Eight Years of the Female Rogue from E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Capitola Black to Tom Robbins’s Sissy Hankshaw” accepted to the upcoming  SEWSA Spring 2007 multidisciplinary Women’s Studies Conference, “Talking Back, Moving Forward: Gender, Culture, and Power” as part of a panel titled, “Subversion of the Patriarchy through Art.”

*  An original short course entitled “The Primacy of the Individual: Rogues from Achilles to House in an increasingly structured society” was selected for inclusion as a two part keystone event at Rock Point Books presented on April 7, 2007

*  Creative Approaches to Leadership.” Given in conjunction with University Bound’s summer program, 2006

*  “A New Method of Teaching Homer’s Odyssey: Increasing Learning and Reducing Whining regarding the Wine-Dark Sea.” August 19, 2006. Interdisciplinary Western Humanities Conference held at the Chattanooga campus of the University of Tennessee.