Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. American Literature. 2007. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX.  Dissertation: Screaming,  Flying, and Laughing: Magical Feminism’s Witches in Contemporary Film, Television, and Novels. Dissertation Advisor: Sally Robinson. 

M.A. English Literature. 1998. Southwest Texas State University. San Marcos, TX.
Thesis: Transcendental Actress: Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime. Thesis Advisor: Claudia Nelson.

B.A. English Literature. 1995. Western Washington University. Bellingham, WA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fall 2022-current. Full-Time Faculty, San Antonio College. San Antonio, TX. 

• Teaching ENGL 1301, ENGL 1302, INRW 0420, Honors Academy classes. Serving on INRW committee, 1301 committee, Multicultural Conference committee.  Honors Academy Events Committee, Chair. GSA Advisor. Duties include: construct curriculum, teach classes in lecture or workshop fashion, design and use Canvas system for teaching.  Participating in faculty meetings and conferences. Considering diverse needs of student body to accommodate all learning styles and range of needs. Advise students on coursework, career planning, assessment with adaptation and revision of coursework, study best-practices in all learning avenues. Office Hours.

Spring 2021-Spring 2022. Adjunct Faculty, San Antonio College. San Antonio, TX. 

• Taught ENGL 1301, ENGL 1301+, INRW 0420, ENGL 2323. Served on INRW committee, Multicultural Conference committee. Duties included: construct curriculum, teach classes in lecture or workshop fashion, design and use Canvas system for teaching.  Participating in faculty meetings and conferences. Considering diverse needs of student body to accommodate all learning styles and range of needs. Teaching a Dual-Enrollment British Literature 2 course. Online Certified. Advise students on coursework, career planning, assessment with adaptation and revision of coursework, study best-practices in all learning avenues. Both virtual and in person office hours.  

2016-2020. AP Language & Composition, English Teacher, Yearbook Teacher. BASIS, TX. 

• Taught multiple sections each year of AP Language & Composition (10th grade) and 9th Grade Honors/Pre-AP Honors Language & Composition.  8th grade English Literature. Taught Journalism/Yearbook classes. Designed curriculum with attention to Texas standards, TEKS, and specialized BASIS standards. Advised students, including two senior capstone projects, hosted clubs. Attended multiple APSI training sessions, discussed AP curriculum daily with online teaching communities sharing multiple highly regarded lesson plans. Students in my 2019 AP Lang scored a significantly higher pass rate compared to national ranking on the AP exam. 

2013-2015. Adjunct Faculty. Northwestern State University, Shreveport. 

• Taught large sections of First-Year Composition I and II, with up to 40 students per class and multiple sections per semester. Significant use of digital media, including PowerPoint presentations, websites, videos, and popular culture resources in daily teaching, all of which are included in extensive Moodle course syllabuses. Students had writing-intensive paper loads, including daily journaling and several major essays, including annotated bibliographies and research projects. Peer review and daily drafting as primary revision-centered approaches. 

2007-2009. Adjunct Faculty. Louisiana State University, Shreveport

• Taught First-Year Composition 1 & 2, Technical Writing, and Survey of American Literature and First-Year Liberal Arts Seminar courses. Course load of 3-4 courses of 25 students for Composition, 50 for American Literature Survey. Designed all course materials, lectures, group projects. During this time I designed a special focus in the American Literature survey course that featured the way texts talk back and forth to each other in the American canon, calling it “Call and Response,” based on an African American literary tradition. In the Liberal Arts seminar, a course I was invited to teach by the Dean of the College, I taught first-year Liberal Arts students important skills—from online library databases to note-taking and researching—that are necessary for a LA major. We also had a series of invited guest speakers, from other university faculty to the Mayor’s Executive Assistant. Also, in Technical Writing, we focused on business writing and research methods, creating a User Manual for each student’s chosen field. These manuals were graphic intensive and required research, artistic design and skillful document principals. 

2001- 2004. Adjunct Faculty. Southwest Texas University, San Marcos. 

• Taught First Year Composition and Technical Writing courses. Generally 25-30 students with four course sections per semester. The courses featured writing-intensive rhetorical assignments, including those on Logic and avoiding Fallacies, a research project that took multiple drafts and multiple weeks. Revision-centered and peer review focused. Developed the concept of User Manual instruction for the Technical Writing course wherein students were encouraged to design a document they would actually use in their day to day job. 

2000. Editorial Assistant. South Central Review. 

• Duties included first and second line edits of the peer-reviewed scholarly articles, as wells as edits of book reviews. Prepared journal for print publication. Also performed administrative duties. I also digitally prepared—scanning and formatting for publication online— most of the back issues of the journal to be published on the SCMLA Review’s website.

1998-2000. Graduate Assistant, Teaching. Texas A&M University, College Station.

• Taught Composition and Rhetoric 1 and 2, and Introduction to Literature. The courses featured writing-intensive assignments and generally a course load of about 25 students. Designed syllabuses, essay prompts, research projects. Was the primary grader for the students. Introduction to Literature was a literary-based writing course where we focused not just on a survey-course style of teaching but on writing with literary texts. Developed the “epistolary research project” where students could research and write a creative writing styled project of letters back and forth between two people and various times in history, which yielded amazing literary results. 

1996- 1999. Graduate Assistant, Teaching and Instructional. Texas State University, San Marcos.

• Taught Composition 1 & 2 as a head teacher, responsible for supervised syllabus creation, essay assignments. Primary lectures and classroom instruction, grading. As first-year Instructional Assistant, worked with Dr. Priscilla Leder’s Survey of American Literature course, grading essays and exams and monitoring lectures. For Dr. Mark Hansen’s Science Fiction Novel to Film course, graded essays, exams, and led study groups. Also closely monitored and assisted with student group film projects. 

COURSES TAUGHT

San Antonio College: ENGL 1301, ENGL 1301 Honors, ENGL 1301+, ENGL 1302, ENGL 1302 Honors, INRW 0420, ENGL 2323.

BASIS.Ed, San Antonio: 8thGrade Lit, 9th Grade Honors/Pre-AP Lit, 9th Grade Honors/Pre-AP Language & Composition, 10th Grade AP Language & Composition, Senior Popular Culture Capstone, Yearbook/Journalism. 

NSULA: English Composition ENG 1010, 1020, and ENG 2110: Intro to Literature.

LSU-Shreveport: English Composition 1, English Composition 2, ENG 210: Intro to American Literature, Technical Writing, and Freshman Seminar 103, Liberal Arts Section. 

Texas State University, San Marcos: Composition I and II, and Technical Writing.

Texas A&M University, College Station: Introduction to Literature, and Comp and Rhetoric I & II.

Texas State University, San Marcos: As Graduate Assistant, American Literary Classics, and Film Prose and Literature/Science Fiction.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

American Literature; Women’s Literature; African American and Minority Literatures; Gender Studies; Popular Culture and Film Studies, Queer Studies.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

2016. Webb, Jeffrey and Christopher Fee, Editors. American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore. ABC-CLIO. “Anancy/Anansi”; “Juneteenth”; “La Malinche”;  “Our Lady of Guadalupe”; “Shamans.”

Fall 2014. “Tim Gautreaux, Sandra Cisneros and La Llorona, and Robert Frost’s ‘The Wall’”. PowerPoint Media Resources.” Teaching College Literature (TCL). Renee Pigeon, Editor. Available at: <http://teachingcollegelit.com/ >

Spring 2007. “‘The Dream of My Life is Not Yet Realized’: Harriet Jacobs and the Failure of the Ideal.” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies. 26:1 (2007). 64-75. 

Fall 2006. “Commodification and Women in Early Jean Renoir Films: A Feminist View.” Lingua Romana: A Journal of French, Italian, and Romanian Culture. 5:1(2006). Available online: <http://linguaromana.byu.edu/wells5.html>. 

June 2001. The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips, Ed. Westport:  Greenwood Press. 2001 “The Baron’s Gloves”; “Fatal Follies” ; “LaJeune, or, Actress and Woman”;  “Skeleton in the Closet”; “Power, as Theme”; “Thrice Tempted.” 

EDITORSHIPS

2016. Co-edited with P.K. Tyler: Mosaics 1 & 2. Two Intersectional anthologies of short fiction, essays, poetry, art. 

1998-2017. Founding Editor, Online Magazine, Women Writers, a peer reviewed literary journal featuring scholarly articles, fiction, poetry, etc.  This project published hundreds of first-time women authors, poets, book reviewers, interviews, and scholarly writers. It was a peer-reviewed journal registered with the Library of Congress (ISSN#: 1535-8402535-8402) that featured both scholarly and creative work, including the “Domestic Goddesses” 19th C Women Authors collection. The scholarly section of that website published special guest-edited issues on Autotheory, Feminist Mentorship, Afro-Caribbean religion, and Feminist Psychoanalysis. Actively published for ten years before being retired in 2017.

CONFERENCES

3/2024. "Monstrous Queerdos: Radical(?) Pedagogy in RuPaul’s Drag Race & Night of the Living Drag 2022." Presenting 3/29/2024 at PCA/ACS, Chicago, IL. 

9/2023. "Monster Number One: 'Unknown Arsonist': Queering the Monstrous Gothic of New Orleans Ghost Narratives." Presented 9/29/23 at PCAS/ACAS, New Orleans, LA.   

4/2023:  "Multicultural Conference Discussion/Presentation of  Body Positivity."  San Antonio College, TX.

3/2022. Attended UNM Spring Teaching Conference: “Teach Like a Feminist: Digitally Enhanced Intersectional Pedagogies at Teaching That Matters,” including “Black Feminism is the View;” "The Body Behind Glass," and “Feminista Pedagogies and Teaching in Nepantla."

2/2022. Fandom After #MeToo/#BalanceTonPorc, Bilingual French/English symposium. “How Can You Have a PhD in Buffy?”: Buffy, Angel & Firefly Studies and the (Increasingly Awful) Problem of Joss Whedon.” Presented, 1 July 2022, The University of Chicago, Paris /(France). 

2/2012. “Study of Mary King’s Quincie Bolliver.” Texas Regional Study Group meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). Hosted by Dr. Priscilla Leder.  

4/2009. “Afro-Caribbean Voudun and Speculative Fiction in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring” PCA/ACA, New Orleans, LA. 

2/2005. “‘She Looks Like One!’: A Survey of Art, Movies, and Visual Representations of Witches & a New  Theory of the Third Wave.” Science Fiction and Fantasy Area. The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

2/2004. “It’s Magic, But is it Practical?: Women’s Power & Alice Hoffman’s Sisterhood of Witches” Popular American Authors Section. 2004 PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX. 

2/ 2003. “That Voodoo The Sims Do: What to Do When You Become a God.” Science Fiction and Fantasy Area. The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

2/2002. “Feminists for the NRA: Sci Fi Chicks with Guns” Science Fiction and Fantasy Area. The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2/2001. “Women Writers on the Web: a Roundtable of Web Editors and Contributors.” Society for the Study of  American Women Writers (SSAWW) conference, San Antonio TX.

1/2001. “Message in an E-mail: “Is there Anybody Hiring Out There?”, or, The Place for Cyberspace Literacy in the Academic Market”. MLA. Committee: Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and  Research. 

10/2000. “From Trailer Park to Ivory Tower: Academia & Autobiography: Autobiography, the Scholar & the Essay.” ICOLL conference, Texas A&M University.

7/1999. “‘Whispering Opposition’: Jovita González’ Caballero and (Anti)assimilation.” HIJAS Del Quinto Sol  Conference. San Antonio, TX. 

3/1990. “The New ‘F’ Word: Feminism and the 21st Century.” South Central Women’s Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA. 

3/1998. “The Power of the ‘She:’ Native American Mother Mythology and the Feminist Tradition.” SCWS Conference, Houston, TX. 

9/1998. “Louisa May Alcott’s Gothic Heroines and Constructing Identity.” California State University,  Stanislaus Constructions of the Human Conference. 

4/1997. “Future Tense: Youth Gangs, Western Culture and Reflections of Fear.” AGES conference, Kent State University. 

SERVICE AND SPECIAL TRAINING

2022-Present: GSA Advisor.

2023: Master Teacher Certification, San Antonio College.

2021-Present: Member, Storyboard, "Worth Repeating," Texas Public Radio.

2021-Present: Multicultural Committee. San Antonio College.

2019. APSI: Summer institute to study/train for teaching AP Language & Composition. Held at UTSA, Downtown. 

2018. Walsworth Spring Yearbook/Journalism training seminar. 

2017. Josten’s Summer/Fall Yearbook/Journalism training seminar.

2016. APSI: Summer institute to study/train for teaching AP Language & Composition. Held at St. Mary's Hall HS. 

2009. “The Personal is Political: Riding the Third Wave of Feminism”. LSUS, Liberal Arts Symposium Speech, March.

2009. Organized and hosted “No More Dreams Deferred: A Black Literature Read-In” at LSU-S.  Robert Alford, LSU-S Theater Director, Co-Sponsor. Received local television and newspaper coverage of the event and had over 100 students participate. Hired & coordinated actors to perform specific poems, in addition to having volunteers from the gathered students read from anthologies of black literature. February.

2008. Invited Keynote Speech. “This IS Feminism: Third Wave Women Writers & the 500 Pounds of the  Internet” Author! Author! Book Festival. Shreveport, LA. July.

2008. Special Issue Co-Editor, with Dr. Kameelah Martin Samuel. “Serving the Spirits, Women and  Voodoo.” Women Writers.  

2005. Co-Editor, Reconstruction 5.4: “Fem-scape.” Spring.  Available: <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/054/contents.shtml >

2004-2005. Area Co-Chair, Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA.  Moderated, coordinated multiple panels.

2003. Invited Keynote Speech. “Thoughts on Women Writers.” For the Association of Professional Women Writers in Western, New York State,  Buffalo, October. Spoke before group about the processes of writing as a woman. The group hosted me, paid for my room and board while there, and had a special dinner for me.

2001-2004. Technical & Major/Minor Committees, Texas State University, San Marcos. Designed Power Point presentation with 50+ slides, featuring authors from all faculty syllabi, for Major/Minor Committee for advising day use. Helped host fund-raising party with Patsy Pohl. 

2000. “CROW Project, reviewer (Course Resources on the Web)”— a peer-reviewed project for collecting web resources in American Literature.  Project Editor, Dr. Michael O’Conner, Millikin University.Available at: <https://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner/crow/>

2000. Rhetoric/Reader Committee. Chose the standard adoption for all Rhetoric and Composition courses in the English Department.

2000. Webmaster and Publicity Coordinator, Intercollegiate Conference on Language and Literature. Designed and maintained website, listserv, and calls for papers, conference posters, graphics. 

1999. Web designer, Texas A&M Discourse Studies Circle. Original design of graphics & layout. 

1998. Session Coordinator, Ready Writing Competition: Region IV-AA Texas Academic Meet.

1998. California State University, Stanislaus Constructions of the Human Conference: Moderator, Gender, Sexuality and Drama Session.

1998. Texas A&M Graduate Student Conference (ICOLL): Moderator, African American Women Writers Session. 

1997-1998. Graduate Student Representative: Master’s Committee, Texas State University.

TEACHING RELATED HONORS, AWARDS & GRANTS

2009. Co-writer, $61,019 Humanities 2-Year Grant Louisiana Board of Regents (BORSF). Grant title: “Enhancing Education and Outreach Opportunities through Louisiana History-Related Audio-Visual Resources.” My portion of the grant, for the English Department, received $5,650.00 in support media electronics technology.

2008. SGA Professor of the Year, Top 20 Finalist. LSU Shreveport. Student chosen/voted honor.

2007. Outstanding Liberal Arts Adjunct of the Year award. LSU Shreveport. 

2004. English Department Nominee for P.E.O. Scholar Awards. 

2000. Runner-Up: M. Jimmie Killingsworth Graduate Assistant Teaching Award. 

1998. One of Five “Graduate Student of the Year” departmental candidates, Texas State University.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)

Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South (PCAS/ACAS)

Modern Language Association (MLA)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

LANGUAGES

French. Reading, Writing and Speaking. Fluency: high-moderate.

Spanish. Reading and Speaking. Fluency: moderate.