Andrew teaches courses about and conducts research on US literature.
Research Interests
Andrew’s research uses literature to examine the cultural history of leisure in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US. Drawing upon sociology, the environmental humanities, and critical theory, his scholarship explores what leisure has meant, what it could mean under different economic conditions or within different social configurations, and the relationship between leisure and other concepts like nature and culture. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the crystallization of leisure in its modern form—commercially exploitable periods of free time—and the efforts of industrial-era, middle-class, US authors to conceptualize and regulate the proper uses of free time.
Biography
Andrew came to The University of Mississippi from The University of Texas at El Paso, where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of US Literature. He has also taught at The Ohio State University, which is where he completed his PhD in Literary Studies in the fall of 2023. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Andrew spent several years teaching and helping to coordinate the writing program at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, New Jersey.
“Deep-Time Tourism: ‘The Encantadas’ and Crystal Palace Park.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 80, no. 1, 2024, pp. 83-115;
"Darl's Bucket, Cash's Casket, and a Rogue River-Log: The Nature of Wood in As I Lay Dying." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 69, no. 2, 2023, pp. 232-254;
“Making Sympathy ‘Vicious’ on The Island of Doctor Moreau.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 2, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2021.1898229;
“Health or Wealth? Environmentalism and Consumerism in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.” The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, 2019, pp. 402–418;
"Wasted Bulls and Fungus-Ridden Fish: Waste, Travel, and Entitlement in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." The Hemingway Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019, pp. 27–41
Courses Taught
- English 220 Survey in Literary History: Literature and Leisure
- English 223 Survey in American Literatures to the Civil War
- English 340 Transcendentalism and Reform
Education
B.A. English, University of Richmond (2008)
M.A. English, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (2012)
Ph.D. English, Ohio State University Main Campus (2023)