Drew University.  Madison, NJ.

	Ph. D.,  1998	English Literature
	Dissertation:  (Abstract)	"Solitude, Alienation, and Exile: Mary Shelley In Context"
	M. Phil.,  1994	English Literature
	Areas of Competence:	English Romanticism  American Romanticism  African American Narrative  William Shakespeare  Psychoanalytic Theory
	M. A.,  1992	English Literature
	Thesis:	"Alienation, Community, and the Search for Identity in African American Northern Migration Literature"

University of Delaware.  Newark, DE.

	B. A., cum laude,  1991	Major: English Education Minor: Psychology
	Honors:	Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lecturer.  Morgan State University.  Baltimore, MD.  1999 to present.

	Eng101 (Syllabus)		Reading and Writing.  First part of the Freshman English program. Introduces the basic components of composition, including discussion of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and structure.
	Eng102  (Syllabus)		Reading and Writing II.  Second part of the Freshman English program, focusing on the research paper and incorporating discussion of various types of literature, including poetry, drama, and fiction, both short story and novel. Incorporates discussion of such authors as Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth.

Hum201 (Syllabus)

Humanities: Ancient and Transitional.  First half of the Humanities core, examining world literature from its origins. Includes literature from Egypt, Africa, Europe, and Asia, incorporating discussion of religious writings from  Egyptian, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist thinkers, as well as "pagan" writers of Greece and Rome.

Hum202 (Syllabus)

Humanities: Modern.  Second half of the Humanities core, examining world literature from the 17th century, with an emphasis on African and African American writers.  Examines writings from Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America, including poetry, novels, plays, and slave narratives.

Adjunct Lecturer.  Drew University.  Madison, NJ. 1998.

Eng 1 (Syllabus)

A basic composition class for first-semester, first-year students.

Part-time Lecturer.  Rutgers University.  New Brunswick, NJ.  1995 to 1998.

Eng100 (Syllabus)

A composition class for first-semester, first-year students.

Adjunct Lecturer.  Middlesex County College.  Edison, NJ.  1993 to 1996.

Eng121 Eng122

English Composition I and English Composition II: Introduction to Literature. Two courses taken by mostly non-traditional age students in an urban setting.

Adjunct Instructor.  County College of Morris.  Randolph, NJ.  1993.

	Eng100		English Composition. Introduced the basic components of literary study.
	AmLit201		American Literature. Explored the field from its beginnings up into the Civil War, examining the canonical writers as well as lesser known writers, including Native American and slave writers.

PUBLICATIONS

	Review of Speaking Volumes:  Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen.  By Patricia Howell       Michaelson.  Rocky Mountain Review. Forthcoming Fall 2003.
	“‘This ain’t no slavery time talk’:  The Evolution of African American Folklore in Hurston’s ‘Go Gator and Muddy the Water.’” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. Forthcoming Spring 2003.
	“Gender, Class, and Mental Health in Mary Lamb’s Mrs. Leicester’s School.” Annals of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research and the National Academy of Educational Research.  University Press of America.  Forthcoming Spring 2003.
	“Recovering the Absent Mother in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley” CEA-MAGazine. Forthcoming Spring   2003.
	Review of Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out.  By Paul Elledge.  Rocky Mountain Review. 56.2 (2002): 96-97.
	“Placing Maurice Within the Shelley-Godwin Circle.” CEAMAGazine. 14 (2001): 23-33.

	“‘Freedom Found Me’:  Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form.” Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review. 14.1 (1999): 24-30.
	“Pre-Columbian Literature.”Humanities in the Ancient and Pre-Modern Worlds:  An African Emphasis.  Ed. Wendell Jackson, Frances Alston, Linda Carter, et. al..  Needham Heights:  Pearson, 1999.  589-91.
	“Mules, Men, and Women: Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Folklore.” Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. 14 (1992-93): 36-44.

RESEARCH

2002 Faculty Summer Research Grant  Project Title:  Maternity and the Scene of Instruction in Romantic Era British Women’s Writings

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

	Chair, Mary Shelley Panel Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention Missoula, MT.  October 2003
	“‘Altered by a thousand distortions’:  Dream-Work in Mary Shelley's Early Works” Eleventh Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference  Fort Worth, TX.  March 2003
	Session Chair, “Literature: Polarizing Ideological Viewpoints”  College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference  Bowie, MD.  March 2003
	“Well-manned Ships and Centers of Trade: Teaching The Last Man” Alternate Chair, Mary Shelley Panel Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention  Scottsdale, AZ.  October 2002
	“Recovering the Absent Mother in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley”  College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference  Washington, DC.  March 2002
	“Placing Maurice Within the Shelley-Godwin Circle”  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention  Vancouver, BC.  October, 2001
	“Using the Internet for Research in a Basic Composition Class”  Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Methodology  Seventeenth Anniversary  National Conference of the Zora Neale Hurston Society  Baltimore, MD.  June 2001
	“Maternity and the Scene of Instruction in Mary Lamb and Mary Shelley”  Ninth Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference  Lawrence, KS.  March 2001
	“Gender, Class, and Mental Health in Mary Lamb’s Mrs. Leicester’s School”  Joint Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research   Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.  November, 2000
	“The Evolution of African American Folklore in Hurston’s ‘Go Gator and Muddy the Water’”  Sixteenth Anniversary National Conference of the Zora Neale Hurston Society  Baltimore, MD.  June 2000
	“Incorporating the Internet into the Humanities Classroom”  College Language Association Sixtieth Annual Convention  Baltimore, MD.  April, 2000
	“Incorporating the Internet into the Composition Classroom”  College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference  Largo MD.  March, 2000
	“‘Freedom Found Me’:  Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form” Middle Atlantic Writers Association Annual Conference Dover, DE.  October 1999
	“‘I enjoy what is’:  Mary Shelley's Final Three Novels” Eighth Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Albuquerque, NM.  September 1999
	“‘Tomorrow he dies the death’: Mary Shelley and The Last Man”  Seventh Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Chapel Hill, NC.  March 1998
	“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Use of the Short Story” Fourth International Conference on the Short Story in English Cedar Falls and Iowa City, IA. June 1996
	“The African Other: Aspects of Slavery in the Poetic Consciousness of the Early Romantics” Duquesne University Multicultural Studies Conference Pittsburgh, PA.  November 1994
	“Zora Neale Hurston and African American Folklore” University of Delaware Women's Studies Conference Newark, DE.  April 1994

COMMITTEES

	Morgan State University Humanities Committee  Freshman English Committee  Humanities and Technology Ad Hoc Committee
	Drew University Graduate Student Association  GSA Bookstore Advisory Committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

	College Language Association  Modern Language Association  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association  College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group           Member:  Executive Council  18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Association  Middle Atlantic Writer’s Association  Zora Neale Hurston Society

REFERENCES

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