Dual Credit/HEH/ACP English 1301 and English 2322 Literature 2326 Literature 2331 Distance Education - Freshman and Sophmore English English 1301 English 1302 DWRT 0371/ENGL 0301
Professional Experience
Blackboard Workshops, Beaumont, TX 2009-2015
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teacher's Conference, Houston, TX. September 2007
Chair of session and reaching of original work, "Devil Woman."
Texas Association of Creative Teacher's Conference, San Angelo, TX. September 2006
Chair of session for fiction and poetry reading
Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Conference, Oxford, MS. July 2004.
Presented Hurricanes, Swampland and Gumbo Mud: Louisiana's Place in Southern Literature, with a focus on how place creates identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Dallas Goethe Center, January 2003.
Poetry/Fiction reading of translated German texts
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teacher's Conference, Beaumont, TX. September 2002.
Participant in panel discussion on creative writing pedagogy, with a focus on pedagogical approaches in playwriting.
Dallas Goethe Center, September 2002.
Read translation of German poetic and scholarly works.
Computers and Writing Conference. Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. May 2002.
Participant in panel discussion on teaching, writing, and publishing with new media technologies, with a focus on employing visual and performance elements
SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2002
Participant in panel discussion on humor in literature, with a focus on how humor is used to underscore the serious situations in Sam Shepard's True West.
Performed, directed, or choreographed in over 25 university, college, and community theatre productions since 1991.
Service
First Year Curriculum Committee - Fall 2018-present Hiring Committee, Instructor position - Summer 2018 PNG Reflections Literary Contest Judge - Fall 2015 Texas Academy of Leadership Mentor - Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH British Literature - Spring 2011 Lead Instructor of ACP/HEH English 1301 - Summer 2010 Assessment Committee for General Studies - Spring 2010 ACES Development Committee of Comp 1302 - Fall 2009 Arts and Sciences Council Committee - 2008-2011 Academic Advising Committee - Spring 2008 Assessment Committee for SACS 2007-present CLEP grading committee - 20017-present
Awards and Honors
ACUE Certification for Effective Teaching Practices - Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Cohort TLE Best Practices for Online Learning Experiences - Spring 2018 Awarded a teaching grant for innovative teaching - Fall 2008