He writes mostly about the varying uses of music in the teaching of English and recently co-edited Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music (Sense, 2016). Other interests include education policy, effective professional development, Socratic Circles, and rural literacies, the latter of which is the subject of The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project: Culture, Place, Authenticity (Syracuse UP, 2016), a book he co-authored. He’s a singer-songwriter in his spare time, releasing two CDs, the most recent of which was Big Engine (2016). Last Modified: February 7, 2017