EDUCATION Ph.D., English, New York University, New York,
NY 1995
MA, English, New York University, New York, NY 1989
A.B., magna cum laude, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1987
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College English
Department, fall 2004-present (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State College English Department, fall
1997-spring 2004 (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Assistant Adjunct Professor, New York University General Studies Program, 1996-1997;
New York University College of Arts and Sciences, 1997
Lecturer, New York University School of Continuing Education, Adult Non-degree
Program 1991-1997
Preceptor, New York University Expository Writing Program, 1990-1995
TEACHING EXPERIENCE, LITERATURE
Bridgewater State College English Department
EN 231 Major American Writers to 1865
EN 231 Major American Writers to 1865 (Honors)
EN 251 Literature of the Atlantic World (Honors Learning Community)
EN 309 Early American Literature
EN 331 US Literature in the Nineteenth Century I (1820-1855)
EN 332 US Literature in the Nineteenth Century II (1855-1900)
EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: The Early American Novel
EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: Real and Imagined: Nineteenth-Century
African American Slave Narratives; Twentieth Century
Re-Visions.
EN 496 Seminar in American Literature: The American Sentimental Novel
EN 570 Graduate Seminar in American Literature: Race and the Literary Imagination
in Nineteenth-Century Literature
New York University College of Arts and Sciences, English
Department
American Literature I: Beginnings to the
Civil War
Literary Interpretation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE, COMPOSITION
Bridgewater State College English Department
EN 101 and 102 Writing I and II
EN 102-H1, Honors Writing II
EN 203 Writing About Literature
New York University General Studies Program
Prose Composition I & II
New York University Expository Writing Program
Expository Writing Workshop 1 & II (6 semesters)
International Writing Workshop II (4 semesters)
Writing Tutorial (4 semesters)
Honors Writing Workshop II (1 semester)
New York University School of Continuing Education, Adult Non-degree
Program
Improving Writing Skills (15 semesters)
College Preparatory Writing Workshop (2 semesters)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Honors Program Award, Outstanding Faculty
Contribution to the Honors Program at
Bridgewater
State College (2004)
New York University Dean's Graduate Student Teaching Award, 1993
Teaching Fellowship, Expository Writing Program, New York University, 1990-1995
University Fellowship, New York University, 1988-1990
Phi Beta Kappa, Colgate University, 1987
Awarded Honors in English, Colgate University, 1987
COLLEGE SERVICE
Executive Committee Member, MSCA Bridgewater Chapter, 2004-2006
Co-Coordinator,
Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research, fall 2004-present
Acting Co-Coordinator, Adrian Tinsley Program Summer Research Grants,
summer 2002
Founding Member,
Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research
(formerly
BUROP) Advisory Board, fall 2000-present
Member, CART Advisory Board,
fall 2003-spring 2006
Advisor, New Student Orientation,
summer 2003
Mentor, Glen dePontbriand, summer 2003 recipient of Adrian Tinsley
Program Grant
Humanities Panelist, GER Teaching Event, June 20, 2003
Panel organizer and panlist, Bridgewater
State College CART Celebration VII, " May 18, 2005.
Panelist, Bridgewater
State College CART Celebration VI, "Cross-Cultural Topographies
and
Constructed Identities."
Participants: Ann Brunjes, Leora Lev, Duilio Ayalamacedo. May
19,
2004.
Panelist, Bridgewater State
College CART Celebration V, “Undergraduate Research,”
May 15, 2003
Panelist, Bridgewater State
College CART Celebration IV, "Body Talks: Power, Gender
and the
Body," May 16, 2002
Panelist,
Bridgewater
State
College CART Celebration, "Undergraduate Research,"
May 2001
Panelist,
Bridgewater State College CART Celebration, "Undergraduate
Research,"
May 18, 2000
Trustee, Barbara Chellis Fellowship, fall 2001-present
Writing Committee Member, NEASC Self-Study: Scholarship, Research
& Instruction,
summer 2001
Judge, Entries for the Campus Climate Action Group Diversity
Scholarship,
March 2000
and 2001
Chair, Articulation Grant Sub-Committee on Assessment, spring 2000
Sponsor/Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honors
Society),
spring
1999-2002
Guest Associate Editor and Contributor, Bridgewater Review,
Fall 2000
Participant, Bridgewater State College Honors Program Retreat,
Stonehill College,
April 2000
Department Representative, Minority/Bilingual Student Awareness Day,
April 6, 1999
Academic Issues Panelist, Bridgewater State College 1998 Fall
Orientation,
September 7,
1998
Panelist, "Can We Talk?"
Bridgewater
State College June 1998 and June 2004 Family
Orientations
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Acting Department Chair, October 2006 - present.
Editor, Department
Newsletter “The English Update,” fall 2003-present
Advisor to Corie Dias, English Honors Project, fall 2004-spring 2005
Advisor to Glen dePontbriand,
English Honors Project, fall 2003-spring 2004
Chair, Search Committee, English Department Rhetoric and Composition
Position, fall 2004-
spring 2005
Member, Committee on Curriculum and
Assessment, fall 2002-present
Member, Search Committee, English
Department African American Literature Position, fall
2001 and spring 2002
Member, Massachusetts Teacher Test
Preparation Workshop Committee, fall 2000-present
Member, Curriculum Committee, spring
2001
Chair, English Honors Committee,
fall 2000-present
Member, Chair’s Executive
Committee, fall 2000-present
Member, Search Committee, English
Department Anglogophone Literature Position, fall
2000 and
spring 2001
Advisor to Christine Mavrelion,
English Honors Project, spring 2000-spring 2001
Advisor to Ryan McCarthy, Directed
Study, spring 2001
Chair, NEBHE Dissertation Fellow
Search Committee, May 2000
Member, Search Committee, English
Department Irish Literature Position, spring 2000
Member, Search Committee, NEBHE
Dissertation Fellow, March-April 1998
PUBLICATIONS
“Timothy Dwight’s Travels in New England and New
York, Samson Occom’s A Short Narrative of My Life, and the
Rhetoric of Race,” chapter in
Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American
Literature, ed. Robin
DeRosa. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
“Hugh Henry Brackenridge,” “David Humphreys,” and
“Royall Tyler,” entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets
and Poetry [Seven Volumes] edited by Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel,
and Mary Balkun. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005.
"Walled Off,"
Bridgewater Review, January 2001
"Pocket Diaries,"
Bridgewater Review, January 2001
"Female Writers and
Inquisitorial Repression in Colonial Latin America of the 17thCentury,"
Bridgewater Review, January 2001
"The American Struggle
for Identity in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Verse,"
Bridgewater
Review. June 1998
BOOK REVIEWS
Rev. of A History of the Book in America, Volume
One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, edited by Hugh Amory and
David D. Hall. South Atlantic Review. Winter 2001.
Rev. of States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy
in the American Novel, by Elizabeth Barnes. South Atlantic Review Summer
1998: 104-106.
Rev. of Authority and Female Authorship in
Colonial America, by William J. Scheick.
Women’s
Studies Spring 1999.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Timothy Dwight’s Imaginative Conundrum:
Resistant Landscapes and the Aboriginal ‘slack
hand,’” presented at the Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference,
Alexandria
,
VA.
April 2, 2005.
"Varieties and Pitfalls of Mentoring," presented with Dr. Kevin
Curry and Dr. Andrew Harris at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Tenth
National Conference, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. June 25, 2004.
“Imperial Culture in the Atlantic World,” presented with Dr. Andrew
Harris at the Commonwealth Honors Program Council Forum on Teaching Honors
Courses, Salem State College, Salem,
MA.
February 27, 2004
.
“‘A Poor, Degraded, Miserable Race of Beings’: Dwight’s Travels,
Occom’s A Short Narrative of My Life, and the Inadequacies of the
Text,” presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego,
CA. December 28, 2003
.
"Gender Violations: Dangerous Thresholds in 19th Century
Domestic Fiction," accepted at the NEMLA (Northeast Modern
Language Association) Conference, Toronto, Canada. March 1, 2002.
"(Mis)Representing the Self in Image and Word," (panel organizer and
chair), presented at Society of Early Americanists Conference, Norfolk, VA. March
9, 2001
"The Furious Politics of Poetry: Rural Massachusetts Newspapers in
Election Season, 1800-1804" presented at Society of Early Americanists Conference,
Norfolk, VA. March 10, 2001 (also presented to the Bridgewater State College History
Department Colloquium, March 1, 2001)
"Sarah Kemble Knights Journal and the Rhetoric of Urban
Britain," presented at the Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
December 28, 2000
"Timothy Dwight and the Idea of Virtuous Communication," presented at the
Society of Early Americanists Conference, Charleston, SC. March 4-7, 1999
"'Characters Sustained in Reality': Stephen Burroughs and the Created
Authentic," presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference,
Baltimore, MD. April 17-18, 1998
"Elusive or Authoritative? Readers, Writers, and Trust in Early Nineteenth-Century
American Periodicals," presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association
Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 4-5, 1997
"'Sing them into peace': Joel Barlow as the Evangelical Republican Poet,"
presented at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. March 1996
"Team Teaching in the Composition Classroom," presented at the Conference on
College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville,
TN. March 1994
GRANTS
Co-Author and Developer
(with Dr. Andrew Harris), NCUR-Lancy Program Grant:
“Contact,
commerce and conquest: imperial culture in the Atlantic World, c. 1400-
1800,” spring 2003.
CART Travel Grant, spring 2005
CART Travel Grant, fall 2003
CART Travel Grant, spring 2002
CART Travel Grant, fall 2000
CART Faculty and Librarian Research Grant, spring 2000
CART Travel Grant, spring 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Puritan poetry and prose
Constructions of Authorship in Early America
Early American Newspapers and Periodicals
LANGUAGES
Latin: reading knowledge (City University of New York Summer Latin Institute, 1988).
Spanish: reading knowledge.
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Northeast Modern Language Association
Research Society for American Periodicals
Society of Early Americanists
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Instructor/Catechist, St.
Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church CCD, Grade 1 (2002-3) and
Grade 2 (2003-4)
Member, Bridgewater State College Catholic Center, Concerned Catholics of
Bridgewater
(Local chapter of Voice of the Faithful)
Member, Bridgewater Ad Hoc Citizens' Group, fall 2000
Member, Bridgewater Improvement Association
Module Leader,
Bridgewater/Raynham High School, fall 2000.
"Teaching
Non-fiction Texts"
Module Leader, Bridgewater/Raynham High School, fall/winter 1999-2000
"Early
American Literature"
Class President, Colgate University Class of 1987
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