Curriculum Vitae

Rank and Tenure Status 

Associate Professor of English, Texas Woman’s University.  Tenured.  September 2002-Present.  

Previous Academic Ranks and/or Professional Appointments           

Assistant Professor (tenure track), Texas Woman’s University 1996-2002

Instructor and Assistant Director of Freshman English, University of Georgia, 1994-1996.

Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, 1990-1994

Officer, U.S. Navy 1980-1990

Reporter, Macon Telegraph and News, Macon, Georgia 1979-1980 

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (English), University of Georgia, 1996

                   Major Areas: Modern British, Victorian, and Romantic Literature

Dissertation: “Studies Towards a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy’s

         Novella ‘The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.’”

Director: Dr. Simon Gatrell (D.Phil. Oxford University)

• Master of Liberal Arts (English and American Literature), Harvard University Extension, 1987.

                    Thesis: “Power in Phineas Finn: A Study of a Self-Policing Society.”

                     Director: Dr. Thomas Richards (Ph.D. Stanford University) 

• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, University of Georgia, 1979 (magna cum laude). Phi Beta Kappa.

Awards

• Named among 2007 "Favorite Faculty" by TWU Graduating Seniors

• 2006 Distinction in e-Learning Award.  Texas Woman's University.

• Spring 2006. Outstanding eLearning Professor.  Texas Woman's University.

• Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Writing Award.  Conference of College Teachers of English in Texas.  March 2001.

• “College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award: Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher.”  1999-2000. Texas Woman's University.

• “Outstanding Faculty Member Award.”  Redbud Awards Festival. 1998. Texas Woman's University.

• “Favorite Professors” Award in College of Arts and Sciences 2004-2005 and 2000-2001.  Texas Woman's University.

• “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”  1998.  2000.  2005.

• Outstanding Teaching Award.  University of Georgia.  1991-1992

• "Best Graduate Paper” for 1994.  South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention.  Atlanta. Georgia.

• Phi Beta Kappa. 1979.

Current Research Interests 

Nineteenth Century Literature.  Rhetorical analysis of literature.  Mikhail Bakhtin. Anthony Trollope.  Thomas Hardy. 

Publications: 

• "Toward a Dialogic Approach to Editing Imaginative Literature.”  Proceedings of the XII International Bakhtin Conference.  Jyvaskyla, Finland.  March 2007. 

• "P.H. Newby."  The Booker Prize Winners.  Gale Publications.  2006.

• "Stanley Middleton."  The Booker Prize Winners.  Gale Publications.  2006.

• "The Architectonics of Multiplicity: A Review Essay on Three Books by Jack Stillinger."  TEXT 14.  January 2002.

• "Toward a Theory of Generative Rhetoric."  College Teachers of English in Texas Review.  September 2001.  Winner of the Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Writing Award.

• "Francis Christensen."  Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians.  Greenwood Press.  With M. Moran.  2000.

• "Bakhtin and Editorial Theory."  TEXT 11.  1998.

• "A.N. Wilson."  Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists Since 1960.  1998.

• "Charles Rollin."  Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetorical Theory.  Greenwood Press.  1994.

Presentations

• "Transgression in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction."  American Studies Association of Turkey: 32nd Annual American Studies Conference.  Ankara, Turkey.  November 2007.

• "Autism and Narrative: Toward an Architectonics of Comprehension." Federation of North Texas Area Universities.  A Symposium in Rhetoric.  Denton, Texas.  24 February 2006.  

• “The Consequences of Bakhtinian Thought for Editing Novels.”  XII International Bakhtin Conference.  Jvaskyla, Finland.  21 July 2005.

• "Aesthetics, Architectonics, and Textual Criticism: A Case Study Using Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.'" The Society for Textual Scholarship.  Thirteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference.  New York University.  18 March 2005.

• "Architectonics and Postcolonial Literature: Searching for the Relation of Author to Hero in Joyce Cary's Mr Johnson, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl.  The 14th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference and 3rd U.S. Chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference.  Savannah, Georgia.  25 February 2005.

• "Textual and Rhetorical Change in 'Letter from Birmingham Jail.'"  The Federation of North Texas Area University Rhetoric Symposium.  Denton, Texas.  February 2004.

• "Bakhtin and the Architectonics of Poetry."  The Federation of North Texas Area Universities Rhetoric Symposium.  Denton, Texas.  February 2002.

• "Toward a Theory of Generative Rhetoric."  Conference of College Teachers of English in Texas.  Amarillo, Texas.  March 2001.

• "Teaching Victorian Literature Dialogically."  South Central Modern Language Association Conference.  San Antonio, Texas.  November 2000.

• "Editing Rhetorical Texts."  Federation of North Texas Area Universities Rhetoric Symposium.  Denton, Texas.  February 2000.

• "The Cognitive Basis of Perspective Taking in Composition."  Conference on College Composition and Communication.  Atlanta, Georgia.  March 1999.

• "Mindblindness: Charting the Electrochemical Basis of Narrative."  Modern Language Association.  San Francisco, California.  December 1998.

• "Using Mental Models to Make Editorial Decisions."  Modern Language Association.  San Francisco, California.  December 1998.

• "Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Importance of Mental Models in Literary and Rhetorical Education."  Languaging: The Tenth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature: University of North Texas.  Denton, Texas.  January 1998.

• "Literature as Morality: Speculations on How and Why Literature Affects Behavior."  National Council of Teachers of English.  Detroit, Michigan.  January 1997.

• "The Ontology of Text: Some Considerations for Editors."  South Atlantic Modern Language Association.  Savannah, Georgia.  November 1996.

• "Hardy's Final Fiction."  Thomas Hardy Conference:  One Hundred Years After Jude the Obscure.    Athens, Georgia.  May 1995.

• "Tess's Little Undergrown Sister: Textual Connections Between Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and his Novella 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.'"  South Atlantic Modern Language Association.  Baltimore, Maryland.  November 1994.  Winner: Best Graduate Student Paper.

• "Creating Hypertext and Hypermedia Editions Using Standard Generalized Markup Language."  Rock Eagle Annual Computing Conference.  Eatonton, Georgia.  November 1994.

• "Historical Foundations of Authority in the Composition Classroom."  Pedagogical Strategies in Composition Teaching.  Georgia Institute of Technology.  Atlanta, Georgia.  May 1994.

Last updated: 30 October 2008