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Department of English, Box 608
McMurry University Abilene, TX 79697-0608 |
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, English, 1996
M.A., Texas A&M University, English, 1989
B.A., Texas A&M University, English, magna cum laude, 1986
"Postcolonial Columbus: Irving's Conquest of Granada." Nineteenth-Century Literature 48.1 (June 1993): 26-43.
"To Forge a New Language: Burke and Paine." Prose Studies. 16.3 (1993): 179-192.
"Narrative Self-Justification: Melville and Amasa Delano." Studies in American Fiction. 23.1 (Spring, 1995): 35-54.
"Amasa Delano." American Travel Writers, 1776-1850. Eds. Donald Ross and James Schramer. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 183. Detroit: Gale, 1997: 90-95.
"Emma Willard." American Women Prose Writers. Eds. Amy Hudock and Katharine Rodier. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, forthcoming.
"Mary Jemison." American Women Prose Writers. Eds. Amy Hudock and Katharine Rodier. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, forthcoming.
"The Dutchman in the Attic: Claiming an Inheritance in The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon." American Literature 72.1 (March, 2000): 33-59.
"Celebrating the Past to Shape the Future: John Neal's Challenge to American History in the First Novel about the Salem Witch Trials." Arts and Sciences Faculty Colloquium. McMurry University, 1999.
"American Indian . . . Apollo: Tangled Genealogies, Cultural Orthodoxy and John Neal's Peculiar Literary Nationalism in Rachel Dyer (1828)." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, RI. 1998.
"Aspects of Love: Misguided Metaphors in Spenser's Amoretti." International Conference on Representations of Love and Hate. Atlanta, GA. 1993.
"Lion-taming: Situation Comedy, the Situationniste International, and Monty Python's Flying Circus." Undrawing the Line. Lehigh University. 1993.
"'To erect a tablet': James Murray's Historical Principles, the OED, and Modernism." What is Modern? University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1992.
"Engendering Reality in Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Islandia, NY. 1992.
"The Scar-Letter: Hawthorne, Violence, and the Work of Art." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland, NY. 1992.
"Dictating Point-of-View in Garcia-Marquez's Clandestine in Chile." Refusing the Frame. Lehigh University. 1992.
"The Imperialist's New Clothes: Genre and Character in Melville's Benito Cereno." Texas A&M Conference on Language and Literature, College Station, TX. 1989.
1997- : Assistant Professor of English, McMurry University, Abilene, TX
1995-97: English Teacher, Xavier High School, Middletown, CT
1989-95: Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut, Storrs
1987-89: Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University
Literature of the Early Republic, Secularization and Commercial culture, Romantic and Victorian Literature, Historical Literary Studies, Instructional technology
"Debatable Ground": Westward Expansion, Sentimental Aesthetics and the Literary Personas of Washington Irving." Relates Irving's development of his literary and public personas to their contemporary literary, cultural, and political contexts. Advisor: Michael Meyer.
Specialization: American literature to 1900 (with honors);
General areas: Twentieth-century American literature; Restoration and Eighteenth-century British literature;
Renaissance British literature (with honors)
Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Connecticut, 1993
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, English Department, University of Connecticut 1993
Second Prize, McPeek Essay Contest, University of Connecticut, 1992
English Department Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 1991
Honorable Mention, McPeek Essay Contest, University of Connecticut, 1991
Doctoral Exams, Honors, English Department, University of Connecticut, 1991
Fellow, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Texas A&M University, 1988-89
Lechner Fellowship, Graduate School, Texas A&M University, 1986-87
First Prize, Senior Honors Thesis Award, Texas A&M University, 1986
University Undergraduate Fellow, Texas A&M University, 1985-86
National Merit Scholar, Texas A&M University, 1982-86
Group Facilitator, Fall Faculty Retreat, McMurry University, 1999.
Technology Grant Committee, 1999.
Session Chair, "Paranoia, Paranormal, and Pollution." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, RI, 1998.
Task Force on Student Services, McMurry University, 1998-99.
Departmental Program Review, English Department, McMurry University, 1998-99.
Humanities Think-Tank. McMurry University, 1998-
Web-page design tutorial. Fall Faculty Retreat, McMurry University,1998.
Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment Site Leader, 1998-
English Department Program Review Committee, 1998
Information Resources Committee, McMurry University, 1998-
Teacher Education Committee, McMurry University, 1998
CLEP exam committee, English Department, McMurry University, 1997-
Standard Curriculum Committee, Xavier High School, 1996-97
Honors Curriculum Committee, Xavier High School, 1995-97
Native American Studies Advisory Committee, University of Connecticut, 1994-96
Assisted Veronica Makowsky in electronic research for Native-American literature course and for Mary Coyle Chase biography, 1993-94
Assisted in instruction and development, Computer classroom, University of Connecticut, 1992
Assisted Marilyn Waniek, Director, Connecticut Poetry Circuit, 1992
Assisted in orientation for new Teaching Assistants, University of Connecticut, 1990-95
South Central Modern Language Association
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Modern Language Association
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Society of Early Americanists
American Civil Liberties Union
2000 Secondary Schools English Textbook Adoption Committee, Abilene Independent School District
1999- Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Rho Social Club, McMurry University.
1998. Guitarist. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Abilene, TX
1998. Sunday Adult Education Class Leader, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Abilene, TX
1997- Monday Madness After-School Program, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Abilene, TX.
1997. Judge, Reflections Literature Contest, Bowie Elementary School, Abilene, TX.
1996-97. Clerk of the Parish, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Windham Center, CT.
1995-97. Lay Reader, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Windham Center, CT.
1995-97. Acolyte, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Windham Center, CT.