Degrees

• B.A. History, Indiana University, Southeast Campus
• M.A. English, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Ph.D. American Literature (minor in English Literature), Indiana University, Bloomington Campus, 1986

Specializations

• Modern American Poetry
• Contemporary American Poetry
• 20th Century American Literature

Interests

Poets: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Langston Hughes

Authors: William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Willa Cather

Playwrights: Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee

University/Program Connections

• Graduate Coordinator for M.Ed. and M.A. students in English
• Graduate Course and Program Review Committee
• Academic Standards Committee
• Chair of the APSCUF Social Committee
• Delegate to the APSCUF Statewide Assembly

Passions & Distractions

• Travel (44 foreign countries and 42 states in the U.S. visited so far)
• Photography
• Movies
• Reading literature

Courses Taught

• English 230: Introduction to Literature
• English 312: Technical Writing
• English 425: Modern American Fiction
• English 426: Modern American Drama
• English 427: Modern American Poets
• Enlgish 429: Seminar in American Authors

Sample Publication

• "Confucianism and the Meaning of The Cantos of Ezra Pound," Dissertation.
• "Problems Between Men and Women in the Poetry of Sara Teasdale," Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, held January 11-14, 2008, CD-ROM, Honolulu: Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, Jan. 2008.
• "James Laughlin," The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, Eds. Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkle, Mary Balkun. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Dec. 30, 2005.
• "The Importance of Cultural Learning in the Cantos of Ezra Pound," Trans: Internet- Zeitschrift fur Kulturwissenschaften (Internet Journal for Cultural Sciences, published in Austria by INST, the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Sciences) 15 (2003): Section 5.2. July 2004. www.inst.at/trans/- 15Nr/inhalt15.htm