Curriculum Vita :  

Education

    Ph.D. English, Duke University , 1995              

    M.A.  English, Duke University , 1990

   B.A.  English, Macalester College , 1987

Employment         

    Positions Held

      Associate Professor of English, Western Kentucky University (2001-present)

    Faculty Associate, Western Kentucky University Center for Teaching and Learning (2001-present)

    Assistant Professor of English, Western Kentucky University (1995-2001)

    Instructor, Twentieth Century America Program (TCAP), Duke University (1993-1995)

      Graduate Instructor, Duke University Writing Program, Duke University [1989-95]

Fellowships and Awards

    Nomination for Potter College Teaching Award,   Western Kentucky University , 1996, 1999, 2000, and 2001

   Junior Faculty Research Grant, Western Kentucky University , Spring 1997

Publications

    “A Hazard of New Forms: William Dean Howells and Popular Entertainment.”  Chapter in Teaching American Realism and Naturalism, ed.

    Louis J. Budd and Thomas Dean. [forthcoming from the Modern Language Association]

   “The Case of Kalem’s Ben-Hur (1907) and the Transformation of Cinema.”  Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18.3 (August 2001). 

   Book Review of American Madonna: Images of the Divine Woman in American Literary Culture.  American Literature, December 1998

Work in Progress

    “’None Tell the Truth as I Know It’:  John Brown in Historical Fiction.”  Article in Progress

   “Developing an Interdisciplinary Film Minor.”  Article in Progress

Conference Presentations

    “Cinema in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching Film and Video.”  Session Chair and Presenter.  American Studies Association Annual

    Conference, Washington , D.C. (November 2001)

     “Multiple Texts, Multiple Intersections:  Creating Intersections in Faculty Reading Groups.”  Professional and Organizational Development

     Network in Higher Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis (October 2001)

     “Literary Representations of John Brown.”  Introduced and served as respondent to panel.  John Brown 2000 Conference, Harpers Ferry ,

    WV (May 2000)

     "John Brown's Perpetual Resurrection."  Organized and chaired panel, delivered paper.  Modern Language Association Annual Conference,

     Chicago (December 1999)

    "Subjectivity in The Sweet Hereafter: Novel and Film."  Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis (November 1999)

    "Teaching Cinema Studies in Non-Cinema Studies Departments."  Organized and chaired workshop.  Society for Cinema Studies Conference,

    University of San Diego (April 1998)

    "The Uneasy Alliance of Word and Image in the ' Garfield Edition' of Ben-Hur."  Organized and chaired panel, delivered paper.  Modern Language

    Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto (December 1997)

    "The Ben-Hur (1907) Legal Case and the 'Authorizing' of Cinema."  Society for Cinema Studies Conference, North Texas University (March 1996)

Invited Lectures, Talks, and Workshops

    “Center For Teaching and Learning Reading Roundtable.”  Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002

    “Women Film Pioneers.”  Theories of Gender, Race and Class, Dr. Deborah Logan, October 2000

    “Teacher as Editor.”  Workshop sponsored by the Western Kentucky University Center For Teaching and Learning, March 2000

    "Citizen Kane as Art and as History."  American Press History, Dr. Linda Lumsden, March 1998 and 1999

    "Interdisciplinary Studies."  Introduction to Graduate Studies, Dr. Joseph Millichap, October 1998

    "Problems and Potentials of Interdisciplinary Teaching."  Potter College Faculty Colloquium, 1998

    “How We View Students:  Images, Metaphors, Assumptions.”  Workshop sponsored by the Western Kentucky University Center for

    Teaching and Learning, January 1997

Professional Membership

    Modern Language Association (1991-present)

    Society for Cinema Studies (1992-present)

    American Studies Association  (1994-present)

    Midwest Modern Language Association (1998-present)

    Professional and Organizational Development Network for Higher Education (2001-present)