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Education
• A.B. Harvard, 1981
• M.A. Oxford, 1983
• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Interests
Literature of the American West

Selected Works

• The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (Oxford, 1992)
• Co-editor, Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (Univ. of California, 1998)
• Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature (Routledge, 1998)
• Imagining the African American West (Univ. of Nebraska, 2005)
• The Melon Capital of the World:  A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
• ed., A History of California Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021)
• Tongues of Settlement:  Where the World Becomes Basque (forthcoming, 2022)

Interest Areas
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
• American Literature & Culture