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English Instructor Education Ph.D. in English (August 1998), University of New Mexico Areas of Experience
Teaching Experience
Course: Teaching Assistant Courses: Literature Instructor Course: Introduction to Literature Composition Instructor Course: English 101, Accelerated Composition Part-time Instructor Course: English 100, Developmental Composition Publications "Clubs and Salons." In American History through Literature, 1870-1920, edited by Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, pp. 267-273. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 267-273. Review of Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature, by Susan J. Rosowski. American Literary Realism, 34.1 (Fall 2001). 82-84. "Visualizing the Page: Cross-Cultural Influences in ESL Students' Technical Writing." The Selected Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Southwest Symposium 1997: 93-99. "ESL Students and the Process Approach to Writing Instruction." The Selected Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Southwest Symposium 1996: 55-62. "From the Word to the Sentence to the Story: Teaching Poe's 'Ligeia' in an Introductory Literature Course." Tag: The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Southwest Symposium 1994: 168-172. Review of Poverty in Rural America: A National Overview, by Kathryn H. Porter, and The Other Housing Crisis: Sheltering the Poor in Rural America, by Edward Lazere et al. The Workbook, 15.2 (Summer 1990): 83. Review of Reshaping the Bottom Line: On-Farm Strategies for a Sustainable Agriculture, by David Granatstein. The Workbook, 15.1 (Spring 1990): 12-13. Conference Papers "Visualizing the Page: Cross-Cultural Influences in ESL Students' Technical Writing." Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, April, 1997. "Visually Contrastive Rhetoric: Teaching ESL Writers to Use Graphics in Technical and Professional Communication." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Albuquerque, October, 1996. "ESL Students and the Process Approach to Writing Instruction." Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, March 1996. "Document Specialization: New Directions in Technical Editing." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Spokane, Washington, October, 1995. "From the Word to the Sentence to the Story: Teaching Poe's 'Ligeia' in an Introductory Literature Course." Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, April, 1994. "'A Rightly Read Weede': George Gasgoine's The Adventures of Master F.J." Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, April, 1991. Editorial Experience Co-Editor, First Person: Multicultural Student Voices (1995 and 1996). A collection of student essays, published by the Minority Math and Engineering Program at the University of New Mexico. Editor, New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG), Albuquerque (1989-1995). NMPIRG is a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy organization. Editor, English Graduate Students Association, University of New Mexico (1990-1992) Dissertation: "Modern Writers in New Mexico: Charles Lummis, Oliver La Farge, D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and the Quest for Purpose and Place in the Southwest." I argue that modern writers came to New Mexico seeking sanctuary from the modern, largely urban world. They believed that the New Mexican people retained a spiritual, intellectual connection to the land and one another that was no longer possible in the modern world. When modernists came to New Mexico, they tried to emulate and to some extent integrate with the Native American, Anglo, and Hispanic cultures they found. Ultimately, however, the modernists were unsuccessful and remained isolated. The experience of isolation within a well-integrated community became the focus of the writing they produced in and about New Mexico. This experience charged their writing with modernist paradoxes, making their work complex and engaging. |