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Title : Senior Lecturer of English
Department: English
Colleges and Universities Attended and Degrees Received :
Duquesne University, BA, 1980
Kansas State University, MA , 1983
University of Cincinnati, Ph.D., 1989
Scholarly/Professional Accomplishments :
Over forty articles, essays, short stories, and poems published; invited to speak at over seventy scholarly and professional conferences; courses created in Film and Literature; past Director of Academic Assessment for the college, served as Chair of LRC's Information Management Committee, and has served on the college president's cabinet since 2002.
Some Recent and Upcoming Publications :
“Teaching Autobiographies from Early American and Canadian Literature”. MLA's Teaching Life Writing Text , Modern Language Association. March 2008.
“Twilight Innings” (poem), Along These Rivers (Celebrating Pittsburgh's 250 th anniversary), Quadrant Publishing.
“The Ancient Child” (Momaday), “The Closets of Heaven'”(Glancy), “ The West Pole” (Glancy), Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature , Facts on File.
“A Student of Robert Frost” (Creative Nonfiction). UC Magazine . July 2007.
“Canadian Literature of the Sea”, Encyclopedia of Maritime History , Oxford University Press. Feb. 2007
“A Perfect Moment” (Creative Nonfiction). Nebraska Magazine , Fall 2006.
“Just Ask,” a short story, The Storyteller . Jan/Feb/March 2006 issue.
“Metacognative Journals: A Common Place for Mutual Learning and Assessment” Kansas English . Fall 2005.
“E.L. Doctorow”, “F. Scott Fitzgerald”, “Diane Glancy”, Samuel Hazo”, “Yong Ik Kim” Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, Greenwood Press. 2005.
“Teaching Text and Performance Through Soundscripting,” MLA Approaches to Teaching Hamlet , Modern Language Association, 2002.
A Few Recent and Future Conference Presentations:
“The Holy, Healing Metaphysics: Metaphors and Conceits in Donne's ‘Valediction Forbidding Mourning' and ‘Meditation 27'”, The Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation , Bridgewater College (Oct. 2008).
“The Everyhero: Doctor Who as Multiple British Heroic Archetypes,” Film and History , Chicago (Oct. 2008).
“Assessing Literacy of the Word and the Idea: Writing and Information Across the Curriculum” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference , Cleveland (Nov. 2007).
“The Fiction Game's Afoot: Language and Performance in Classic Mystery Films and Literature,” EAPUS Conference , Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Oct. 2007).
“Reading and Teaching Children's Collections: The Many Roads from Hogwarts to Sodor and to Cair Paravel.” Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts , Pittsburgh (Oct. 2007).
“Thus Always to Rebels: The Tragic Cost of Fighting for Freedom from Shakespeare to Hemingway and Beyond,” Pennsylvania College English Association , West Chester (April 2007).
“Building the Virtual Seminar Room: Blackboard and the Literature Course”, 4th Annual? Teaching & Learning Conference of the Pittsburgh Blackboard ?Users , Duquesne University (March 2007).
"Smoke to Blood, Portrait to Pan: Cinematic Styles of War from Birth of a Nation , to the Bard, to Black Hawk Down ," SW/TX Popular & American Culture Associations , Albuquerque (Feb. 2007).
“Harry's Rules: The Art of War and Leadership from Richard II through Henry V ” Ohio Shakespeare Conference , Marietta College (Nov. 2006).
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Comfort of Metaphoric Technology.” The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Conference , San Francisco (Oct. 2006).
“The Transformation from Boy to Wizard, from Child to King: Harry Potter and Shakespeare's Henry V, ” Children's Literature Association . Los Angeles (June 2006).
“20,000 Versions Under the Sun: Adapting Verne to the Screen and to our Changing Cultures”, Popular Cultural Association , Atlanta (April 2006).
“Rulebreakers, Loners, Saviors: Contemporary Cinematic Heroes,” Pennsylvania Sociological Association , State College (Oct. 2005).
Awards and Recognitions :
Nebraska Magazine, 2006 Writers' Contest, Third Place.
Who's Who Among America's Teachers , 8 th (2003/2004) and 9 th (2005/2006) editions.
Who's Who in the South and Southwest , 1995/1996 edition.
Faculty Enrichment Grant, support for study of Canadian Literature at the University of New Brunswick, both Fredericton and Saint John campuses, York University, University of Ottawa, and Concordia University, awarded by the Government of Canada (1994).
Recognition Award for Contributions to Students, UN-L Teaching Council and Parents Association, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1991).
William C. Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati (1988).
University Graduate Scholarship. University of Cincinnati (1985-1989).
Senior Leaders Award, Duquesne University (1980).
Favorite Films, an incomplete list in no particular order : Adventures of Robin Hood , Casablanca , Grand Prix , She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , Chariots of Fire , Lord of the Rings trilogy, Henry V (either 1944 or 1989), Maltese Falcon , Pride and Prejudice (especially the BBC's version), Citizen Kane, any Harry Potter , The Mummy (1999).
Joined La Roche : 1996
Hometown : Pittsburgh but also lived in Central Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, and West Virginia
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