Curriculum Vitae

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Creative Thesis: These Small Hours (first 150 pages of a literary fiction novel) 

Critical Thesis: “Southern Hauntings: William Alexander Percy’s Influence on Walker Percy”

Mentors: Sandra Scofield, Steven Huff, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Venice Berry

Dissertation: Finding Love in the Ruins: The Philosophy of Walker Percy 

Dissertation Advisor D.G. Kehl, Readers Kenneth Laine Ketner and Mark Lussier

Study areas: 20th century American literature, Southern American literature, Middle English   Alliterative literature, Philosophy and literature, Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Blake, critical theory 

Thesis: “Setting Free the Power of Woman”: Gloria Naylor’s Revision of Patriarchy

Thesis Advisor   D.G. Kehl, Readers Jewell Parker Rhodes and James Green

Study Areas: Feminist literature, African American literature, 20th century American poetry, 19th and 20th century American women writers, rhetoric

Major: English

Minor: Journalism

2019 – Present

English Professor, Northern Virginia Community College—Loudoun Campus

2006 – 2019

English Faculty, Scottsdale Community College

2004 – 2006

English department chairperson, Red Mountain High School

1998 – 2004

Graduate Teaching Associate, Arizona State University

1989 – 2004

English teacher, Red Mountain High School

First Year Composition, Argumentation, American Literature surveys, British Literature surveys, World Literature surveys, Southwestern Literature, Detective Fiction, Children's Literature 

• “Southern Hauntings: William Alexander Percy’s Influence on Walker Percy.” The South Atlantic Review, Winter 2023 
• “Canyonlands” (poem) Lily Poetry Review, Winter, 2022. LilyPoetryReview.blog
•  “Remembrance” (poem) Ninth Letter. Winter, 2019. University of Illinois,   Urbana.
• “Walker Percy’s Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3+3=4.” Walker Percy, Philosopher. Leslie Marsh, ed. Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
•  “Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills and the Power of Choice.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 375. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Gale, 2014. 222-24.
•  “All   the King's Men.” Postwar Literature, 1945-1970 (Research Guide to American Literature). Manly, 2010.
•  “The Moviegoer.” Postwar Literature, 1945-1970 (Research Guide to American   Literature). Manly, 2010
•  “Will Barrett (Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman, 1966).” Students Companion to American Literary Characters. Manly, 2006.
•  “Thomas More (Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins, 1971).” Students Companion to American Literary Characters. Manly, 2006.
•  “Lancelot Andrewes Lamar (Walker Percy, Lancelot, 1977).” Students Companion to American Literary Characters. Manly, 2006.
•  “Gloria Naylor’s Vision for the Future.” Notes on Contemporary Literature (27)   1997: 10-12.

• The South Atlantic Review, Special Edition: Walker Percy, Winter 2023, (co-editor)
• Percy, Walker. Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning. Mercer University Press, 2019, (co-editor)

Peirce Studies

• “Solving the Crisis in Psychiatry: Walker Percy’s Therapists at Work.” – Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 94th Annual Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, November 11-13, 2022.
• “Walker Percy’s Reducible Tetrad: Lessons Learned at NIMH.” – Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 93nd Annual Conference, A Virtual Conference through Accelevents, November 4-6, 2021.
• “Southern Hauntings: William Alexander Percy’s Influence on Walker Percy.” – Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 92nd Annual Conference, A Virtual Conference through Accelevents, November 13-15, 2020.
•  “Taking the Mound: An Examination of Gender and Race in Walker Percy’s ‘The Centerfielder.'” – Presented at the American Literature   Association 27th Annual Conference on American Literature, San Francisco, California, May 26-29, 2016.
•  “Walker Percy and the Semiotic Heart of Madness.” – Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 87th  Annual Conference, Durham, North Carolina, November 13-15, 2015.
•  “Alienation, Dislocation, and Restoration: The NIMH and Percy’s Semiotic Anthropology” –Presented at the second bi-annual Walker Percy Conference, Loyola New Orleans, October, 2013.
• “The Territorial Body: William Blake’s Use of Feminine Space” – presented at the 1999 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, March 12-14 1999, Arizona State University.
• Panel Member: “Rhetorically Incorrect: A Roundtable on Controversial Issues in Writing.” 5th Annual Western States Composition Conference, October 25, 2001. Additional Panel Members: Ron Carlson, Sharon Crowley, Elizabeth Pearce, Joaquin Alvarado, and Laurie Notaro.

• “Using Rubrics in Canvas,” Loudoun Campus Professional Development Day. Presented January 11, 2020.
• “Guided Pathways: Site Navigation,” Scottsdale Community College Large Group Division Chairs   Meeting. Presented November 1, 2018.
• “Guided Pathways: Next Steps,” Scottsdale Community College All-College Meeting. Presented August 13, 2018.
• “Guided Pathways,” Scottsdale Community College All-College Meeting. Co-presented with Susan Peterson and Gia Taylor, January 9, 2018 to Scottsdale Community College Employees.
• “GPS @ SCC,” Scottsdale Community College All-Faculty Meeting. Presented January 8, 2018   to Scottsdale Community College Faculty.
• “Beyond the Scorecard: Using Rubrics,” Scottsdale Community College Center for Teaching and Learning. Presented March 2, 2016 (SCC), March 3, 2016 (PVCC), and March 9, 2016 (web).
• “The Impact of Brain Research on Effective Teaching Practices” presented January 25, 2005 to the Red Mountain High School Faculty.
• “How the Brain Processes Information: Part Two” presented October 24, 2005 to the Red Mountain High School English Department.
• “How the Brain Processes Information: Part One” presented October 17, 2005 to the Red Mountain High School English Department.
• “How the Brain Learns: Basic Brain Facts and Brain Development” presented September 19, 2005 to the Red Mountain High School English Department.

• Walker Percy - Gentry Harris Correspondence (Lead Editor)
• Walker Percy's Psychiatry: The Impact of NIMH on his Thought and Fiction

• 2018 Hardwick Fellow - Texas Tech University
• 2014 Hardwick Fellow - Texas Tech University

• Walker Percy Society - Vice President
• Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism
• Modern Language Association
• South Atlantic Language Association
• Association of Writers and Poets