curriculum vitae

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2003 (expected)                          Auburn University, Auburn, AL Ph.D. in English Major Field of Concentration: American Literature to 1800 Minor Fields: Nineteenth-Century American Novel, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Dissertation on American epistolary novels published around the Revolution and the relationship between the letter-form and Revolutionary ideology. Dissertation director: Dr. Patrick Morrow 1995                                           Auburn University, Auburn, AL MA in English Thesis: "Generations," a creative thesis in poetry 1990                                            Regis College, Weston, MA BA, cum laude Major: English Minors: Philosophy, Women's Studies

Education

Fall 2000 Tenture Track Instructor Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN Freshman Compostion One, 4 sections Freshman Composition Two, 1 section Fall 1999 - Spring 2000 Temporary Full-Time Appointment Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, TN  Developmental Writing, 2 sections Freshman Composition One, 6 sections Freshman Composition Two, 1 section Experiencing Literature, 1 section Fall 1998 - Spring 1999 Adjunct     Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma,TN Developmental Writing, 3 sections Freshman Composition One, 1 section Fall 1993 - Fall 1997                                                         GTA          Auburn University, Auburn, AL Freshman Composition, 6 quarters Great Books One, 4 quarters Great Books Two, 4 quarters

Teaching Experience

"What is a Sentimental Novel?", a guest lecture in an upper-level class on early American Literature, November 1994.

Guest Lectures

"Beckoning the Community in Their Eyes Were Watching God," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in the South, 1993

Presentations

Academic Service

Officer, English Graduate Organization, 1995-1997 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Application Materials, 1993

"First Christmas Away"  Inside Track  Winter, 1995 "China Futures"  Southern Humanities Review   Summer, 1995 "An Imaginary Childhood"  Henge     Spring, 1994     Winner, Academy of American Poets Prize at Auburn, 1993 "My Brother's Hands"  The Circle     Fall, 1994 "Economy of Sound"  Concho River Review     Fall, 1992 "Fourth of July, 1991"  Minetta Review     Fall, 1991

Poetry Publications

Fiction Publications

"His Train of Thought"     The Circle     Winter, 1994      Winner, The Circle short story award

Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Society, 1993 Academy of American Poets Prize at Auburn University, 1993 Delta Episilon Sigma Catholic Honorary Society, 1990 Dean's List, Regis College, 1988-1990

Academic Honors

Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Society of Early Americanists

Professional Memberships

Graduate Coursework

Writing Classes Independent Study on Poetry Writing,  R. T. Smith, FA 92 Fiction Writing Workshop,  Dr. Elly Welt, WI 93  Poetry Writing Workshop,  R. T. Smith, SP 93  English Composition: Approaches and Issues,  Dr. Beth Giddens, FA 93 Poetry Writing Workshop (audit),  R. T. Smith, WI 94  Independent Study: Teaching Creative Writing,  Dr. Jeremy Downes, FA 95 Pedagogy of Business and Technical Writing,  Dr. Joyce Rothschild, WI 96 American Literature Classes American Women Writers 1776-1865,  Dr. Laura Henigman, FA 91, SUNY The American Novel as Symbol System,  Dr. Doris Morton,  WI 93  American Literature to 1900,  Dr. Marcia Jacobson, SP 93 Limits and Reaches of the Southern Renaissance,  Dr. Bert Hitchcock, SU 93 Indep Study Am. Women Writers to 1800,  Dr. Michelle Burnham, FA 94 Sentimentalism and Imperialism,  Dr. Michelle Burnham, WI 96  American Short Fiction,  Dr. Miriam Clark, SU 96 Other Literature and Theory Classes What Was Modernism?,  Dr. Neil Baldwin, SU 91, New York University Shakespeare Two,  Mr. Kinney, SU 91, New York University New Historicism, Tennyson, and The Brownings,  Dr. Peggy Morlier, FA 92 Postcolonial Theory and James Joyce,  Dr. Patrick Morrow, SP 95  Postcolonial Theory and African Literature,  Dr. Don Wehrs, SP 96

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