Degrees

B.A. English, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Minor: Russian language, literature, and history.

M.A. English, The Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D. English, The Pennsylvania State University

Specializations

• Rhetoric and Composition Studies
• Contemporary Poetics
• Avant-garde Poetry and Poetics
• Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Interests

• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Martin Heidegger
• Mikhail Bakhtin
• Poets mainstream presses hate

University/Program Connections

• Co-Chair, Title III—Strengthening Institutions Program—Federal Grant Committee
• Co-Chair, Millersville Writing Institute (2004)
• Assessment Consultant
• Pedagogy Consultant
• Faculty Adviser, George Street Carnival

Community and Club Connections

• Judge. James Hale Steinman Scholarship Fund (Lancaster, PA).

Passions & Distractions

• Poetry writing
• Gardening
• Art history
• Films of all varieties

Courses Taught

• English 110: Composition
• English 311: Advanced Composition
• The Writing Workshop
• The Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition
• Experimental / Academic Writing

Sample Publication

• "Architect / House of Being." "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 31-46.
• “Petaluma.” Poem. Muse Apprentice Guild. Spring 2003.
• "Reflection and an Appetite for Experience: Theory to Classroom Practice." Journal for the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning 4 (Winter 1998-9): 52-60.
• "Reconsidering Assessment: From Checklist to Dialectic." Assessing Writing 3.2 (1996): 173-195.