PhD English, Indiana University
MA English, Purdue University
BA Literature/History, Earlham College
Certificate in Resource Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

PUBLICATIONS    

Book
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature. SUNY Press, 2000

Selected Journalism
“Environmental Injustice in a Maryland Neighborhood.” E: The Environmental Magazine, forthcoming

“Rising Costs Spark Windmill Sales.” Montgomery Gazette, August 7 2008

“Capturing the Wind: Power for the 21st Century.” ProQuest Discovery Guides, June 2008

“That Sounds Geek to Me: Computer Veteran Opens Shop.” Montgomery Gazette, July 10 2008.

“Spring Fever Farm Built on Fauna Affinity.” Montgomery Gazette, June 26 2008.

“India and the Path to Sustainability.” ProQuest Discovery Guides, February 2008

“Games Go Green.” Knucklebones, forthcoming

“Chess and Go: Classics from the Past Help Children's Futures.” Knucklebones, November 2007

“China and the Path to Sustainability.” ProQuest Discovery Guides, August 2007

“Chess and Go: Classics from the Past Help Children’s Futures.” Knucklebones, November 2007

“How Clean Is Clean? Arizona’s Campaign Finance Reform.” Policy Today, June 2007

“Environmental Economics: Basic Concepts and Debates.” ProQuest Discovery Guides, April 2007

“A Tale of Two Smart Growths: Innovation in Silver Spring, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia.” E: The Environmental Magazine, November-December 2006

“Marc Elrich—Takoma Park's teacher-politician heads for the county council...probably.” Takoma/Silver Spring Voice, October 2006

“Green Buildings: Preserving the Human Habitat.” CSA Discovery Guides, October 2006

“A Little Exhibit of Heaven: New Museum Exhibit Shows Visitors How to Build Green.” Grist, July 20 2006

“Hands Across Maryland. Games Club of Maryland Creates a Franchised Group of Clubs.” Knucklebones, July 2006

“Environmental Refugees: How Many, How Bad?” CSA Discovery Guides, June 2006

“Whose Home in Maryland? Minutemen Protest Day Labor Sites.” Washington Spark, June 2006

“That’ll Anacostia. A plan to spruce up DC’s Anacostia River has some residents anxious.” Grist, March 15, 2006

“Welcome Home! Native Fish Return to Sligo Creek.” Takoma Park Newsletter, February 2006

“God, Humanity, and Nature: Comparative Religious Views of the Environment.” CSA Discovery Guides, December 2005

“Are WEO There Yet? Why We Need a World Environment Organization.” Grist, October 27 2005

Academic Articles
Review of Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development by Jan-Peter Voß, Dierk Bauknecht, & René Kemp. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. Fall 2007

“The (Not So) New Black Public Intellectuals, from the Nineties to the Oughts.” The New York Intellectuals and Beyond. Purdue University Press, forthcoming

"Unresolved Conversations." Contemporary Literature, Spring 2001

"Tangled Roots: History, Theory, and African American Studies." Modern Fiction Studies, Winter 2000

"Grace Paley's Faith: The Journey Homeward, the Journey Forward." Melus, Spring 2000

"Between Guilt and Affluence: The Jewish Gaze and the Black Thief in Mr. Sammler's Planet." Contemporary Literature, Winter 1997

"Imag(in)ing Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Recent Literature." Shofar, Fall 1996

"Frances Steloff, Past and Future." Contact II, Winter 1989

"Marianne Moore: Oddities and Eccentricities." Contact II, Spring 1988

"Blumfeld's Balls: Notes on a Situation in a Kafka Short Story." Neue Germanistik, Fall 1985

Book Reviews in Modern Fiction Studies, Melus, Indiana Review, Dissent, Contact II and East Village Eye

EDITING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Discovery Guides Coordinator, ProQuest, 2003-present.

Edit and write Discovery Guides on environmental, biomedical, business, technological, and other issues. Produce podcasts using Camtasia. Copy edit the e-journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy. Correspondence, editing, writing and Internet posting using HTML

Formulated and researched the topic Public Intellectuals and the American Diaspora.  Author solicitation and correspondence, editing

Found and indexed quality environmental sites on the Internet, including key-word selection

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer, Purdue University, 1997-2002

Taught courses in Composition and Literature: developed syllabi and lesson plans, lectured, lead discussion, developed websites and PowerPoint presentations, graded

Taught Argumentative Writing, Literature, Freshman Composition and Business Writing

Photographs published in Grist, E: The Environmental Magazine, Knucklebones, East of the River, the Takoma/Silver Spring Voice, the Washington Spark, and the Takoma City Newsletter

Member, Sierra Club, 2004-2008

Member, Games Club of Maryland, 2003-2008

Presentations at National Writers Union, Howard University, Indiana University, Loyola University, Purdue University and elsewhere, 2002-2005