Spring 2016 Office Hours

MWF 11:00-11:50 OC 3014

MWF 1:00-1:50 online via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/6952691403 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, May 1992

         Major field of concentration:  Modern American Literature

         Dissertation: "The Role of the Family in the Novels of E. L. Doctorow"

         Minor fields:  Modern British Fiction and Modern French Fiction

M.A. in English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1984

RECENT SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:

- “Reimagining Humanities Teaching Through Online Engagement”

   Conference of the College English Association (CEA)  

   Indianapolis, IN, April 2015 

 - “Sartorius Defrocked: Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s Posthumanist Jeremiad”

   Annual Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)

   Columbus, OH, November 2015

OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK:

-“Ivorian Bonus: Teaching Abouet and Oubrerie’s Aya.” Teaching Comics and Graphic

   Narratives: Essays, Strategies, and Practice. Dong, Lan, ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland

   Publishing, 2012: 161-172. Print.

-"The Role of Talk Story in Maxine Hong Kingston’s and Amy Tan’s Versions of the Mother-

Daughter Plot.” For West, Katherine and Linda Moser, The Woman Warrior: Memories of a 

Girlhood Among Ghosts. In Critical Insights, Salem Press. Under Review.