James M. Cochran is the Director of the 21st-Century Writing Competency Program and Writing Center at Hartwick College. His research interests range from first-year writing to the intersection of twentieth-century American literature and religion. His recent research appears in Intégrité, Religion and the Arts, Word and Text, Label Me Latina/o, Open Library of Humanities, and the Journal of South Texas English Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in English at Baylor University.