EDUCATION

Ph. D. English Studies, Illinois State University, Expected 2007
Concentrations: Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication,
Women’s Studies, Gender Studies

M.A. English, University of South Alabama, 2003
Thesis: “Mosiac: The Shaping of a Poet Woman Daughter”
Advisor: Dr. Dr. Sue Walker, Chair

B.A. University of South Alabama, 2001
Majors: English with a concentration in Creative Writing Minor: Communications

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Present Instructor – Illinois State University

• English 246: Advanced Composition
• English 101: Language and Composition I
• English 145: Language and Composition II

Heartland Community College
•English 102: Composition II

Fall 2002-Summer 2003 Instructor – University of South Alabama
• English 237: Literature and Gender
• English 395: Poetry Writing I (Co-taught with Dr. Sue B. Walker)
• English 101: English Composition I
• English 102: English Composition II

Spring 2001
• Tutor in the University Writing Center

CONFERENCES

• “Digital Villages: Responsibility & Authorship in the Blogosphere” English Graduate Organization, Western Illinios University, Macomb, IL, April 2005
• “See Dick and Jane Chat:Multiple Literacies and the Digital Classroom.”
  M-MLA, St. Louis, MO, November 2004
• President Graduate Student Forum, SA-MLA, Roanoke, VA, November 2004
• “Through Over-Corrective Lenses: Reflections on Evaluation.” M-MLA, Chicago, IL, November 2003.
• Chair of Graduate Student Forum, SA-MLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
• “Through A Glass Darkly: Biographical Reflections and Revisions in John Polidori’s The Vampyre.” American Conference on Romanticism, October 2002.
• “(Re)Visioning (M)Other Ireland: Evan Boland’s Feminine Poetics.” The Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Courtland, NY, October 2002.
  
  SCHOLARSHIPS

• The Shelley Memorial Scholarship in Poetry. University of South Alabama, 2001-2002.
• Angelia and Steven Stokes Scholarship. University of South Alabama, 2002-2003.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Alternate, Professional Growth Committee, Illinois State University (2004-2005)
• Graduate Forum Planning Committee, Illinois State University, Directed by Dr. Ronald Strickland (2003-2004)
• President of Graduate Student Forum, SA-MLA (2003-2004)
• Secretary of Graduate Student Forum, SA-MLA (2002-2003)
• President of the English Graduate Organization (2002-2003)
• MLA
• M-MLA
• SA-MLA
• NCTE
• CCC

REFERENCES

Dr. Sue Walker, English Department Chair, University of South Alabama

Dr. Lary Beason, Director of Composition, University of South Alabama

Dr. Janice Neuleib, Director of Writing Programs, Illinois State University