Education:
Ph.D. English Literature; Department of English, Washington State University, 1994.
M. A. English Literature; Department of English, Washington State University, 1990.
B. A. English-Biology; Chatham College, 1988; Senior Thesis: “The Communication Gap Between the Layman and the Scientist, or Why Won’t You Come Visit Me In the Lab?”

Dissertation:
Class, Gender, and Education in the Formation of Epistemic Positions of Renaissance Narrative Versifiers.
Dissertation Readers: Prof. Louise Schleiner (director), Prof. Stanton Linden, Prof. Carol Siegel, and Prof. J. M. Massi.

Teaching Experience:
At Northern State University (Fall, 1995-present):
English 497: Independent Study.  Supervised various independent study projects with students.
English 498, English Internship.  Institutional supervisor for student internships at various positions, including Senator Johnson’s office, juvenile detention, and NSU’s Athletic Office.
English 437, Seminar in Milton.  A senior-level, capstone course; English majors are required to take as least one major figure seminar. The students conducted an intense study of Paradise Lost prefaced by a look at other religious writers of the 17th century, some of Milton’s prose tracts, and followed by a reading of Samson Agonistes.
English 432, Shakespeare II.  A senior-level course which covers the tragedies and romances.  This class also fulfills a humanities general education requirement and often enrolls many non-majors.
English 431, Shakespeare I.  A senior-level course which covers the comedies and history plays. This class also fulfills a humanities general education requirement and often enrolls many non-majors.
English 313, Renaissance Survey.  A sophomore/junior survey course; covers British and European writers as well a short selection of Central American works. This class also fulfills a humanities general education requirement and often enrolls many non-majors.
English 303, Technical and Professional Writing.  This is a new course being offered for the first time in the fall of 2000.  The main objective of this course is for the students to gain experience in writing specifically for the workplace.  Writing assignments are pragmatic and designed to simulate specifically work-related challenges.
English 284, Introduction to Literary Studies.  This course is designed as the introductory course for English majors.  It is designed to help them learn the writing and close-reading skills expected of majors.
English 258, Literature and Culture.  This is a variable topics course in which I explored literature written by and about women in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.  We looked at the changing domestic culture over this period, and compared women’s views of themselves to those presented by men.
English 201H, Honors Composition II.  The second-semester writing course required of all students.  This section was directed specifically at honors students and asked that they examine issues in more depth and more critically than the non-honors section.
English 201, Composition II.  The second-semester writing course required of all students.  This is a theme-based, content oriented writing class.  Readings in my classes center around the theme of “the American Dream” and asked what that dream is, and who has access to it.  I have taught this class both in the computer lab and without.  I teach this course through a portfolio approach.
English 101H, Honors English Composition I.  A freshman-level writing course for incoming honors students.  Course readings confront social and aesthetic issues.
English 101, English Composition.  The freshman-level writing course required of all students.  I teach this course through a portfolio and conferencing approach.
Honors 195, Honors Seminar I.  This is a one-credit, voluntary course open only to honors students.  In the fall of 2000, we will examine problem solving across disciplines, hearing from a variety of guest speakers from across campus.

At Washington State University:
English 305, Shakespeare before 1600.  A sophomore/junior- level course centering on works by Shakespeare before 1600.
English 302, Writing about Literature.  A sophomore/junior-level course designed for English majors.  Course readings covered a wide variety of literary periods and genres, and included a limited amount of theory.
English 301, Logic and Rhetoric.  A sophomore/junior- level writing course designed for non-majors.
English 210, Survey of British and American Literature, 1800-Present.  A sophomore-level course designed as one of two “gateway” courses for English majors.  The class also filled a general university requirement for non-majors.
English 209, Survey of British and American Literature, Medieval to 1800. A sophomore-level course designed as one of two “gateway” courses for English majors.  The class also filled a general university requirement for non-majors.
English 201, Writing and Research.  A sophomore-level writing course designed to stress research writing.
English 108, Reading Literature.  A freshman-level course designed to introduce students to literature from a variety of periods and genres; the course stressed critical reading skills.
English 101, Freshman Composition.  A computer-assisted (Macintosh) writing course required of all entering freshmen; the course reader followed a multi-cultural/interdisciplinary approach.
Teaching Assistant, The Bible as Literature.  Professor Paul Brians, instructor of record.
Tutor in the Writing Lab.

 
Correspondence Courses:
English 201, Composition II.  I have designed and am currently teaching this course over the Internet.  The course design was funded by a Governor’s Technology Grant.
I have written course books for the following classes at Washington State University:
1997, English 306x, Correspondence Course in Shakespeare after 1600.
1995, English 305s Correspondence Course in Shakespeare before 1600.
1989, English 388x, Correspondence Course in Victorian Literature.
1989-95, Grader, correspondence courses in Shakespeare’s drama and poetry.
1994, Proofreader, correspondence courses in English literature and composition.

Honors/Grants:
1999, Governor’s Technology Grant to develop and implement an Internet version of English 201 – a full summer contract, plus a $5000 equipment budget.
1998, Director of a two-week Summer Teachers’ Institute, “Women’s Literary Legacy,” funded by the South Dakota Humanities Council, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities -- $11,909.
Spring, 1998, Grant from the Office of Instructional Development to research and implement a cross-disciplinary Shakespeare course with Michael Shiller in the Theater Department -- $750.
1997, Participant in an NEH Summer Seminar at The Ohio State University on “The English Reformation: Literature, History and Art,” directed by Prof. John N. King -- $4,000.
1997, Grant from the Office of Instructional Development to attend NCTE conference on “Conflict and Consensus: Exploring Diversity and Standards in the Portfolio Movement” – $750.
1994, Jerard Summer Research Fellowship, WSU -- $2,000.
1993, Summer Dissertation Research Grant, WSU -- $2,000.
1993-94, Most Supportive Mentor/Graduate Student, English Graduate Organization, WSU.
1992, a first Place, WSU Graduate and Professional Students’ Research Exposition, Arts and Humanities Division -- $500.
1990-94, Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, WSU; Ph.D. appointment.
1988-90, Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, WSU; M.A. appointment.
1984-88, Full Tuition Scholarship, Chatham College.

Conference Presentations:
April, 2000, “Using Science to Teach Fiction: Computers in the Literature Classroom,” for the Northern “Plains Conference on Early British Literature.
April, 1999, “Teaching Shakespeare through Performance and Text” with Michael Shiller, for the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature.
Oct., 1998, "'A Lamentable discourse of Truth': Anne Dowriche's Female Martyrological Voice and John Foxe's Book of Martyrs," for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada
May, 1997, “High Expectations--Spenser’s View of Audience,” for the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Bannf, Alberta.
Apr., 1996, “The Feminine Grotesque in Pope’s Dunciad,” for the Fourth Dakotas Conference on Early English Literature, Peru, NE.
Oct., 1995, “Euphues and the Madrigals” with Prof. Lori Wiest, for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Spokane, WA.
Feb., 1995, “Ann Dowriche and the Symbolic Re-telling of Protestant History,” for the Arizona Center For Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tempe, AZ.

Other Conferences:
Apr., 2000, Attended the Conference of the Midwest Regional Honors Council with 9 student members of the Honors Program.
Apr., 1997, Served as faculty mentor for a student as she revised and then presented a paper at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Austin, TX.
Jan., 1997, Attended the NCTE conference “Conflict and Consensus: Exploring Diversity and Standards in the Portfolio Movement” in New Orleans as a department representative.

Publications:
“Using Science to Teach Fiction: Computers in the Literature Classroom,” forthcoming in The Proceedings of the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature.
“Translation as Image-Making: Elizabeth I’s Translation of The Consolation of Philosophy,” forthcoming in Early Modern Literary Studies.
“The Feminine Grotesque in Pope’s Dunciad,” The Proceedings of the Fourth Dakotas Conference on Early English Literature.

Academic Committees:
Feb., 2000, Scholarship Committee.
Jan., 2000-present, Chair, Honors Committee.
Fall, 1999-present, Member, Media Board.
Fall, 1998, Member, General Education Steering Committee.
1998-2001, Member, Faculty Senate.
1997-98, Member, Presidential Search Committee at NSU.
1997-98, Member, Assessment Committee.
Spring, 1997 and 1998, Member, committee to coordinate Language Arts Day, a day for area high school students to travel to NSU and compete in various language arts-related activities such as creative writing contests and an English Bowl (trivia contest).
1996-97, Member, search committee for the Technical Services Coordinator, Williams Library.
1996-present, Committee member, Student Orientation Committee.

Academic Service:
Jan., 2000-present, Director, Honors Program.
Jan., 2000-present, Advisor to the Asssociation of Honors Students
1999-2000, 2000-2001, Collaborate with South Dakota A.P English instructors in course design and assignments.  This year, I have set up a listserve to communicate more effectively.
Aug., 1999, Presented a workshop in teaching and assessing writing with Vicki Polaski at faculty in-service.
Spring, 1999, Co-directed Northern’s production of The Merchant of Venice.
July 31, 1998, Participant, Board of Regents’ roundtable discussions on general education, Pierre, SD.
1996-present, Serve as faculty advisor for English majors.
Spring, 1997, developed a career guide for English majors.
Fall, 1996, Developed a pamphlet describing English course offerings for distribution to faculty advisers across campus.
1995-present, Graduate faculty member.
1995-present, Grader, English placement exams for entering freshmen at Northern.
1996-present, Participant, in several recruiting activities for NSU, including Northern Bound Days, and the Top 100 Banquet.
1995-present, Co-sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honor Society, NSU chapter.

Non-Conference Presentations:
1997-20009, Vaious presentations for the Aberdeen Shakespeare Club.
Apr., 1998, “Poetry, Beauty, and a College Education,” for the Phi ETA Sigma induction banquet.
Feb., 1998, Panel discussion on women in history and the effects of stereotyping following a performance of Vinegar Tom by Northern’s theater department.
Oct., 1997, Presentation on performance issues in Olivier’s and Brannagh’s movie versions of Hamlet, for the Aberdeen Shakespeare Club.
Oct., 1996, Performed Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” for the Celebration with Words and Music at NSU’s Williams Library.

Related Experience:
Spring, 1998, Dramaturge for NSU’s production of Richard III.
1997, Dramaturge for NSU production of Fortinbras; wrote a short summary of Hamlet for the program.

Professional Organizations:
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference