B.A. English, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL 1983
M.A. English, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 1985
Ph.D. English, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1996
COURSES TAUGHT
EN115 Banned Books
EN117 Bullies, Buddies, and Bodies: YA
EN203 Introduction to British Literature
EN303 Epic and Romance
EN304 Chaucer
EN313 Shakespeare
EN321 English Romanticism and Its Legacy
EN347 The Rise of the Novel
EN335 Modern & Contemporary British Literature
EN225 English Sophomore Assessment Seminar
EN485 English Senior Assessment Seminar
Special Topics: Literary Magazine Publication
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS
Thomas Hardy
Scholarly Editing
19th C British Literature
Pedagogy - English Language and Education
General Education Composition and the Teaching of Writing
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Memberships
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English)
CCCC (Conference on College Composition & Communication)
NEATE (New England Association of Teachers of English)
The Thomas Hardy Association
Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society
Service
Reader/Judge NH Letters To Literature
Adjudicator, Conant HS Poetry OutLoud
Reader/Judge National English Honor Society Intellectual Freedom Challenge
Reader/Judge Sigma Tau Delta Scholarship Awards
Sigma Tau Delta Board of Directors, President, Vice-President, North East Regent
Adjudicator, Jaffrey-Rindge School District Shakespeare Festival
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018: Sigma Tau Delta, Outstanding Chapter Sponsor, 25th Anniversary as Faculty Sponsor
of the Iota Omega Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta at Franklin Pierce, Franklin Pierce University
Student Government Association Faculty/Staff Recognition Award
2017: Sigma Tau Delta Project Grant for “Ravens and Rivermead Read!”
2016: Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Chapter Award, NEA Big Read Grant Recipient
2010: FPU Professor of the Week, February 22, 2010 (as selected by FPTV students)
2003: CASE Professor of the Year for New Hampshire, 2003, awarded by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education
1996-1997: Franklin Pierce College Student Senate, Faculty of the Year Award
1992-1993: Franklin Pierce College, Teaching Excellence and Leadership Award
1988: University of Georgia Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
1987-1988: Outstanding Young Women of America
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Publications and Reviews
Contract with Cambridge University Press, editor for the Cambridge University Press
edition of Thomas Hardy’s Novel, The Hand of Ethelberta, 2020 expected publication
date
English Literature Web-Based Standard Setting for the CLEP English Literature Exam,
Spring 2017
Program Guide and Website Content, Sigma Tau Delta Annual Convention, Albuquerque,
NM, 2015
Reviewer, Academic Writing: Concepts and Connections, Oxford University Press, Spring
2014
Author & Editor, VanderMey, et. al’s The College Writer IRM, 4th edition, Fall 2013.
Reviewer, From Inquiry to Academic Writing, Brief Second Edition, Spring 2013
Changing General Education Curriculum: New Directions for Higher Education, No. 125,
James L. Ratcliff (Editor)
D. Kent Johnson (Editor), Jerry G. Gaff (Editor),“The Franklin Pierce Plan” April
2004
Presentations
Fall Faculty Workshop, IDEAL “Re-Imagining Exams through the Digital Pedagogy Lens"
August, 2019, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH
Keynote speaker for “The ABCs of Convention,” Round Table Moderator, Session Moderator,
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Convention, St. Louis, MO March
27-31, 2019
“Amply Endowed: Reading Big with Willa Cather,” SSAWW 2018 Triennial Conference, November
7-11, Denver, CO
"Abecedarians:The ABCs of Convention,” Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor
Society, Annual Convention, St. Louis, MO 2019, Cincinnati, OH 2018 Louisville, KY 2017
Round Table Moderator & Session Moderator, Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor
Society Annual Convention, 2016-present
“Taking the ASS out of Assessment” panel, National Council of Teachers of English
2016 Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA Nov 17-20
Convention Chair, Sigma Tau Delta 2015 Convention, Albuquerque, NM, 2011 Convention,
Pittsburgh, PA
