Advanced Composition, "Global Literacies." Emphasizing research paper for academic publication and conferences with particular focus on the changing nature of literacy in the era of neoliberal globalization. Fall 2002-present.

English Composition. Focus on critical analysis of multi-genre writing, research for an academic context, and constructing texts for a range of audiences and purposes.

Honors Composition. Focus on critical analysis of multi-genre writing and research. Writing projects center around producing writing for public, academic presentation.

Introduction to College Composition. Introduction to composition studies, research skills, and critical analysis.

Introduction to Literature. "Literature, Class, and Culture." Focus on literature written by, about, or for the working classes. Introduces genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay through the perspective of literary studies.

"Writing the Local and the Global." First-year writing emphasizing writing as a communicativeprocess, research, and textual analysis. Fall 2001
Course focused on writing experiential narrative, close readings of non-fiction texts, and original research. In the aftermath of September 11th, collaborated with students to reconstruct the syllabus to address issues raised by the terrorist attacks.

"Globalization and Its Discontents: Writing for the Future." Intermediate Writing. Spring 2001
Students examined the competing ideologies and public articulations of globalization. Writing assignments asked students to intervene in debates over globalization by theorizing globalization, constructing a syllabus for a course on globalization, circulating public texts to the GW community, and working collaboratively on original research.

"Culture, Common Sense, and American Myths: Writing as Social Practice." First-year writing with emphasis on cultural studies and critical analysis. Fall 2000
Course asked students to consider the intersections between everyday, common sense discourse and to historicize their own subject positions within historically constructed understandings of gender, nation, and class.

"Situated Research and Struggles for Change." First-year writing with emphasis on research paper. Spring 2000
Developed strategies for researching and writing about activist movements. Students researched examples of collective political and discursive action, conducted interviews with participants, and situated their studies within histories of grassroots democratic participation.

"Writing Subjectivity in American Culture: Education, Family, Law, and Race." First-year writing with emphasis on cultural studies and critical analysis. Fall 1999
Examined the shaping of subjectivity through the institutional discourses of education, the family, and law.

"Writing Civil War Fiction" Techniques of writing creative historical fiction. Summer 2000

ENG 111: College Composition: focus on writing as a social practice
"Writing Subjectivity in American Culture: Education, Family, Law, and Race." Fall 1998
"Democratic Citizenship: Rhetoric, History, and Critique." Fall 1997
"Writing Technologies and Social Construction." Fall 1996
"Discourse Technologies and Identity." Fall 1995

ENG 112: Composition and Literature: focused on the rhetorical nature of language and literature
"Composition and Literature: Beyond Political Correctness." Spring 1999
"Composition and Literature: Boundaries, Margins, and Resistance in the Period of U.S. Imperialism." Spring 1998
"Composition and Literature: Colonizing Subjects." Spring 1997
"Rhetoric of Crime in American Culture." Spring 1996

1994-1995 Writing Studio 105: focus on writing as process
Writing Studio 205: focus on rhetoric and the process of critical reading
Responsibilities also included developing teacher training for new graduate student teachers and introducing new teachers to electronic classroom resources.

1993-1994 Writing Studio 105 and 205
Writing Center Consultant

• Academic Challenge Dissertation Fellowship, Miami University. 1999-2000
• Graduate School Service Award, Miami University, Sept. 1999
• Outstanding Teacher Award, Dept. of English, Miami University, 1998-1999
  
• Thomas R. and Ida C. Sinclair Memorial Scholarship, Miami University, 1995
  
• Graduate School Summer Fellowship, Miami University, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
  
• Graduate School Research Grant for the Advancement of Teaching, Syracuse University, 1994-1995

• Acting Director, Kutztown University Labor Education Institute, fall 2003 to summer 2004
• Commission on the Status of Women, Kutztown University, committee member, 2003-2005
• Faculty advisor, Kutztown University Campus Greens, fall 2002 to present
• Faculty advisor, Kutztown United Students Against Sweatshops, spring 2003 to present
• English Department Web Page Committee, Kutztown University fall 2002 to present
• English Department Temporary Faculty Evaluation Committee, Kutztown University, fall 2002 to present
• Composition Committee, Kutztown University, fall 2002 to present
• English Department Temporary Faculty Hiring Committee, Composition Representative, fall 2002-Spring 2003
• APSCUF (faculty union) Membership Committee, fall 2002 to present
• Part-time faculty representative, George Washington University English Dept, fall 1999
• Faculty advisor for three student organizations, George Washington University, 2000-2001
• Co-organizer of regional conference for progressive student organizations working to improve campus climate for people of color, women, and gays and lesbians, Miami University, spring 1999
• Co-host of "AJAR Radio" on WMSR, Miami University, 1997-1999
• English 111 textbook selection committee, Miami University, fall 1998
• Co-coordinator of a coalition of student organizations working to revise the sexual assault policy, prevent campus hate crimes, and expand campus debate to include public discussion of campus environment, Miami University, fall 1998-1999
• Co-manager of English Graduate Organization web site documenting hate crimes, Miami University, fall 1998-2000
• English 111 curriculum committee, Miami University, fall 1996-spring 1998
• Presenter, Training Workshop for new graduate teachers, Miami University, summer 1997
• Co-founder and editor of AJAR, and independent journal of progressive student, faculty, and community writing, Miami University, fall 1997-2000
• Coordinator of workshops on public writing and writing conference papers, Miami University, spring 1996
• Committee for the improvement of new teacher mentoring, Syracuse University, summer 1994-spring 1995.
• Research committee to study the use of information technology in the composition classroom, Syracuse University, spring 1994

• Education Committee member, United Labor Council, Reading, Berks County, PA
• Invited guest, "Centering on Peace." Berks Community Television (BCTV). Tuesday, April 8, 2003. 9-10pm
• Founding member, Lehigh Valley Coalition for Sustainable Development
• Invited discussion leader for Muhlenberg College's second annual "New Student Activist Conference," April 5, 2003. Sessions focused on activist literacies, strategies, and tactics
• Panel participant, "Iraq Teach-in," Sponsored by KU Campus Greens. Talk focused on the genealogy of US policy in Iraq and the construction of the discourse of Empire
  

Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
American Studies Association

German (intermediate), Spanish (basic)

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