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

Community and Club Connections

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/-
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