Department Faculty

Amy Sloan
Academic Department Associate in English
email: asloan@uwlax.edu
office: 433 Wimberly Hall
phone: 785-8295

Debra Hoeth
University Services Associate
email: dhoeth@uwlax.edu
office: 433 Wimberly Hall
phone: 785-8294

Professional Background:

Served 9 years at the Department of Transportation Highways scheduling and funding transportation projects. Financial Examiner for the Office of Credit Unions for 3 years.  Began at UW-L in the Finance Department in 2011; worked in the Provost's office; and currently works for English and Educational Studies Department. 

Other Interests:

Gardening, photography, reading, travel, boating, fishing, and volunteering in the community

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English- American Studies, Michigan State University
M.A. in English- Creative Writing, Michigan State University
B.A. in English, University of Michigan

Research Specialties:

Literature of the Americas, Cultural Geography, Latino/a Literature, Regional Literatures of the United States, Midwest Literature, Romanticism and Literature of Nature, Popular Culture, Poetry

Classes Taught:

Advanced Study of Major Authors
American Realism and Naturalism
Forms of Poetry
Literature of American Ethnic and Minority Cultures
Creative Writing
Literature and the Human Experience
Composition

Other interests:

Piano and guitar, searching for classic soul on vinyl, hiking, bicycling, gardening, travel

Academic Background:

B.A. in Philosophy and Literature, Johnston Center at the University of Redlands
M.A. in European Studies, Claremont Graduate School
M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Oregon

Publications:

"Discussing Disgrace in a Critical Theory Classroom." Encountering 'Disgrace': Reading and Teaching Coetzee's Novel. Camden House Press (2009).

"Nietzsche, Adorno, and Metaphysics." New Essays on the Frankfurt School. Co-authored with Dr. Carsten Strathausen. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008).

"Reply to Leonard Wilcox," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (November, 2003)

"The Baudrillardian Symbolic, 9/11 and the War of Good and Evil," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (November 2002)

"Ethical Value and Negative Aesthetics: Reconsidering the Baudrillard-Ballard Connection," PMLA (January 1999) 64-77

"Enlightenment's Other in Patrick Süskind's Perfume: Adorno and the Ineffable Utopia of Modern Art," Comparative Literature Studies 32 (1995): 401-418.

Research Specialties:

Critical Theory after Nietzsche
The Novel
The New Sincerity in music, literature, and film

Courses Taught:

Western Literature II: Enlightenment to Present
Trouble in Utopia
The Novel
Critical Theory
European Literature in Translation
The Sixties
20th Century American Literature
The Graphic Novel
The Art of Memoir
Truth and Beauty in the Contemporary Novel
Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
College Writing

Other interests:

Politics, nutrition, film, jazz, Grateful Dead, hip-hop, basketball, disc golf, my little girl Phoebe

Academic Background:

B.A. in English from University of North Carolina - Charlotte
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of Oregon

Publications:

A novel: How the Sun Shines on Noise (Livingston Press).

Research Specialties:

Creative Writing Pedagogy, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Literature of the American South, Working Class Literature.

Courses Taught:

Creative Writing
American Literature II: Since 1865
College Writing

Other interests:

 Running, biking, kayaking, jazz-drumming, blues-harmonica blowing, photography

Academic Background:

Ph.D in English, Rhetoric and Composition from Southern Illinois University

Publications:

“From High School to College: Developing Writing Skills in the Discplines.” The WAC Journal  (Nov. 2012): forthcoming.

“When Process (Theory) Becomes (Consumer) Product: How the Six Traits Fails Teachers.” The Wisconsin English Journal 52.2 (Sept. 2010): 45-53.

“Asynchronous Electronic Peer Response in a Hybrid Basic Writing Classroom.” Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, 2nd Ed.  Ed. Susan Naomi Bernstein.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.

Research Specialties:

Writing Pedagogy

Courses Taught:

Director of the Writing Center

Introduction to College Writing (Eng 050)
College Writing I (Eng 110)
American Literature I (Eng 201)
American Literature II (Eng 202)
Writing Tutor Practicum (Eng 299)
Writing for Teachers (Eng 306)
Prose Style and Editing (Eng 313)
Language Studies for Secondary Teachers (Eng 334)
Teaching and Learning English in Secondary School (English 405)
Introduction to Teaching Writing (English 433)
Advanced Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing: Studies in Authorship and Collaboration (Eng 497)

Other interests:

Contemporary fiction, food writing, cooking, vegetable gardening, yoga, travel

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (1997)
M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (1992)
B.A. in English, Bryn Mawr College, (1989)

Publications:

“Deliverance—1919,” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, ed. Susan Burch and Paul K. Longmore. New York: Facts on File, 2009.

“’Play[ing] her part correctly’:  Helen Keller as Vaudevillian Freak.”  Disability Studies Quarterly  25.3 (2005).
 
Rev. of Reversing the Lens:  Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Through Film, ed. Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Ethnic Studies Review  26.2 (2004).
 
"The Noble Ruined Body:  Blindness and Visual Prosthetics in Three Science Fiction Films."  Screening Disability. Ed. Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.
 
Editor (with Marcy Epstein).  Points of Contact:  Disability, Art, and Culture.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2000.

"Touching Scenes and Finishing Touches: Blindness in the Slasher Film." Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media.  Ed. Christopher Sharrett. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1999.

Research Specialties:

Film Studies, Disability Studies, Popular Culture, Western Drama, Feminist Theory

Classes Taught:

College Writing I
Literature and Human Society: Disability in Literature
Drama and Film
Women and Popular Culture
Foundations for Literary Studies
Studies in Film and Literature
Women and Hollywood Film
Classical Greek Drama
Literature and Human Society: Disability in Literature, Drama, and Film 
Women Authors

Other interests:

 Flower-gardening, movie-watching, knitting, running, child-rearing

Academic Background:

M.Ed. Adult Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (2002)
M.A. English Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1999)
B.A. English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (1996) 

Research Specialties: Second Language Acquisition; ESL; Service Learning; Asian American Literature; 19th Century Novel

Courses Taught: 
College Writing I (Eng 110)
College Writing II (Eng 303)
Modern English Grammars (Eng 332)
Introduction to Linguistics (Eng 432)

Academic Background:

Ph.D., English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
M.A., English, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
B.A., English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Recent Publications and Conferences:

The City of the Senses. New York: Palgrave, 2011.

"The Aesthetics of Empire: Affect and the Universality of Consumption." Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics Under the Sign of Globalisation. Eds. Mads Anders Baggesgaard & Jakob Ladegaard.  Aarhus University Press, 2011.

“New Materialism and Cultural Critique.” Special Session Chair. Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA.  January 5, 2013.

“Material Events: de Man, Badiou, and Romantic Disaster.” International Conference on Romanticism.  Tempe, AZ. November 9, 2012.

Research Specialties:

Romanticism, 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century American Literature, the City, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory 

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 204: English Literature II
ENG 367: 19th Century English Literature
ENG 484: Literary Capstone

Emory University (Atlanta, GA), PhD in English, 2006
Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), BA in English, minor in Philosophy, 1997

Recent Publications:

Review of Loving in Verse, by Stephen Guy-Bray. University of Toronto Quarterly (Winter 2007/2008)

“Ghostly Metaphysicality: A Manuscript Variant of Robert Herrick’s ‘The Apparition,’” Notes & Queries (June 2005)

Recent Conference Presentations:

“Desiring Disgust in Robert Herrick’s Epigrams,” Disgust in Early Modern Literature, Panel Organizer and Presenter, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (March 2012)

“Robert Herrick and the Five (or Six) Senses,” The Senses in Early Modern England, 1485-1668, The London Renaissance Seminar (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Birkbeck, University of London), London, United Kingdom (October 2011)

“Sex, Sense, and Reason in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,”Shakespeare and the Rejection of Sexuality Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Bellevue, Washington (April 2011)

Research Specialties:

16th and 17th Century English Literature, Subject/Object Studies, Sensation Studies, Disgust Studies, Shakespeare and Film, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Courses Taught: 

ENG 110 (College Writing I)
ENG 203 (English Literature I),
ENG 301 (Foundations for Literary Study),
ENG 362 (The English Renaissance),
ENG 363 (Shakespeare I),
ENG 364 (Shakespeare II),
ENG 464 (Milton)

Other Interests:

Yoga, World Travel, Hiking, Baking, Movie Watching

Academic Background:

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale
M.A. University of Illinois at Springfield
B.S. Illinois State University

Recent Conference Presentations:

"How to Do Satire: Old Irish Satire as Ritual Speech Act." 44th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. (May 7-10, 2009).

"'Wip faerie forth y-nome': Fairy Abduction as Metaphor in Sir Orfeo." Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (March 5-7, 2009)

"Absolutist Tendencies: Philanax and Philip Sidney's Anti-Absolutism." AEGIS Graduate Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (April 10-11, 2009).

"'Liberty and Union Now and Forever': Marianne Moore and Marriage." Midwest Conference for Language, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (March 30-31, 2007).

Areas of Specialization:

Old and Middle English Literature

Research Interests:

The High and Late Middle Ages; Chaucer; Medieval Romance; Affective Piety; Theories of Emotions and Affect; Gender Studies; Theories of Authenticity

Classes Taught:

Western Literature I (ENG 205)
College Writing I (ENG 110)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, University of Leeds
M.A. in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
M.A. in English, Winona State University
B.A. in History and English, Winona State University

Publications:

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture (Sussex Academic Press)

Research Specialty: 

Early modern drama, Shakespeare, Marlowe, supernatural and occult theme in literature.

Classes Taught:

College Writing I
Literature and Human Society (Graphic Fiction)
British Literature I,
Shakespeare,
English courses in the Academic Success Institute.

Other Interests:

Raising my daughter, exploring the world of obscure cigars and alcoholic beverages from the far reaches of the globe, occultism.

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, St. Louis University
M.A. in English, University of Colorado - Boulder
A.B. English and History, Regis College

Research Specialties:

International Folklore, English Recusant Writers, Historical Children's Writers

Classes Taught:

Milton
16th and 17th Century English Literature
Children's Literature
Young Adult Literature
Current Trends in Literature for Children and Young Adults
English Survey General Education Courses

Other interests:

Golf, backpacking, baseball, all things physical

Academic Background:

M.A. Western Illinois University (1984)
B.A. Western Illinois University (1981)

Research Specialties:

Composition and Rhetoric

Courses Taught:

College Writing,
Fundamentals of Writing,
Writing For Literature

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, Cultural Studies, University of Florida
M.A. in English, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. in English, Angelo State University
Secondary Teacher Certification in English, University of Texas - Austin
B.B.A. in Management, University of North Texas

Publications:

Research Specialties:

Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture, Globalization Studies, Folklore, Exilic Narratives

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 200: Caribbean Literature and Culture
ENG 204: British Literature and Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
ENG 357: World Literatures: Migrations of Folklore
ENG 368: 20th Century British Literature
ENG 469: Postcolonial Literature

Other interests:

Creative Writing, American and British Literature, guitar, biking, and walking the dog

Ph.D. in Literature, University of California, San Diego M.A. in German Literature, University of California, San Diego B.A. in Literature and Writing, University of California, San Diego

Research Specialties:

Courses Taught:

Other interests:

Academic Background:

M.E.P.D. Secondary Education, UWL, 1992
B.A. English, UW-L, 1988

Publications:

Letters Home: Experience as Short Story in Europe
Letters Home: Experience as Short Story in Ireland

Courses Taught:

ENG050
ENG110
ENG200
EFN205
C&I 405/605
CST110

Other interests and biographical tidbits:

writing short stories and polemics, humanities, environment, classic fiction, current nonfiction, married, two children, one grandchild

Academic Background
Ph.D. English, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A English, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.Phil. Himachel Predesh University, Shimla, India
M.A. English and B.Ed., Kashmir University, Srinagar, India
B.A English, Political Science, Sanskrit, Kashmir University, Srinagar, India

Publications:

Books, special issues, co-editor and contributing author:

Indian Cinema. Special Issue. Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind. 3: 2 (Winter 2009)

Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience. Special Issue. College Literature. vol. 33: no. 1 (Winter 2006).

Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses, 2003
Comparative Poetics: Non-Western Traditions in Literary Theory. Special Issue. College Literature. vol. 23: no.1 (Feb. 1996).

Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism and Culture. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995

Criticism and Lacan: Essays in Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious. Athens, Georgia: the University of Georgia Press, 1990

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

“Prophesying with Accents Terrible: Emotion and Appraisal in Macbeth,” Towards a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. Ed. Frederick Aldama. Austin, Texas: the University of Texas Press, 2009. 465-520

“Color and Artefact Emotion in Alternative Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Gabbeh, Mirch Masla, and Meenaxi: A Tale of 3 Cities.” Indian Cinema, 2009

“From Despair to Wonder: Scenes of Transcendence in Indian Cinema.” Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind. vol.2. no.1 (Summer 2008). 78-94

“Von der Verzweiflung zum Staunen: Szenen der Transcendenz im indischen Kino.” Trans. Anne Bartsch. In Audiovisuelle Emotionen. Köln: Von Halem Verlag, 2007.

“Emotion, Perception, and Anagnorisis in Comedy of Errors.” Cognitive Shakespeare, 2006. 94:126
“Orientalism and Anxiety of Influence: Seeking Sakuntala in Goethe’s Faust.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. vol. 2: nos.1& 2. (Fall 2004).
“Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamcharita and The Winter’s Tale.” Literary India, 1995. 103-131.

“Dhvani and the “Full Word”: Suggestion and Signification from Abhinavagupta to Jacques Lacan.” Comparative Poetics, 1996. 142-163.

“Language in the Textual Unconscious: Shakespeare, Ovid, and Saxo Grammaticus.” Criticism and Lacan (1990). 248-26. Reprint. Classical and Medieval Literature. vol. 58 (2004). 305-313

Research Specialties:

Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Critical Theory, Cognitive Theory, Studies in Emotion and Narrative, Indian Film and Literature, Comparative Aesthetics and Postcolonial Theory

Courses Taught:

Shakespeare I and II, Critical Theory, Renaissance Literature, Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, surveys in International Studies in Literature, British Literature, Western Literature, American Literature, Literature and Human Experience and Freshman Writing.  

Academic Background:

1986 PhD in English, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1975 MA in English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1973 BA in English, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

Research Specialties:

American Literature after 1945, especially postmodern, African American, and Chicano/a literature. Recent research focuses on Toni Morrison.

Courses Taught:

Literature and Human Experience Course: Mythologies of Modern Memory
Foundations for Literary Studies
Various 300 and 400-level courses in American literature
Major Authors: William Faulkner & Toni Morrison
Urban Ethnic Literature
Literature Capstone
Writing for Business, Management, and the Professions

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English, University of California - Davis
M.A. in Creative Writing, University of California - Davis
M.S. in Wine Chemistry, University of California - Davis
B.S. in Mathematics, University of California - Davis

Publications:

Neil Simon: A Casebook
Numerous scholarly and popular articles

Research Specialties:

American Literature, Drama, Musical Theatre, Computer Technology, Film History

Courses Taught:

American Literature: 1865 to Present
Reality Literature
American Drama
Modern Drama
Drama: Ancient Greece to Present
"Yanks vs. Brits" (Anglo-American Drama)
Feature-Article Writing
Technical Writing
Writing in the Sciences

Other interests:

Professional theatre organist, wine collector, longtime Mac guy, English department webmaster (1999–2010)

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (August 2000)
M.A. in English, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (May 1993)
B.A. in English with a Minor in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire (May 1991)

Positions:

Writing Programs Coordinator, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning
Associate Director, Lesson Study Project

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Academic Background:

Ph.D. in English specializing in Rhetoric and Composition and Literary Theory, Purdue University (1993)

Research Specialties:

Rhetorical Invention, Comparative and Contrastive Rhetoric

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 306: Writing for Teachers
ENG 333: Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 337: The Rhetorics of Style
ENG 434: Chinese Discourse: Different Ways of Thinking and Writing
ENG 413: Language Studies for Secondary Teachers (ENG334), Writing Portfolio)
ENG 496: Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Director of the Writing Center

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (concentration: sociolinguistics)
M.A. in Linguistics, University of South Carolina (concentration: sociolinguistics)
B.A. in French and Russian, La Salle University

Selected Publications:

“Conducting fieldwork with 'vulnerable populations.'” To appear in Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk (eds.), Data collection in sociolinguistics: Methods and applications. Routledge. Forthcoming.

2012. "Speaker attitude as a predictive factor in listener perception of gay men's speech.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 1. 206-230.

2011. “Drag queens’ use of language and the performance of blurred gendered and racial identities.” Journal of Homosexuality 58. 793-811.

Recent Conference Presentations:

“Expanding the 'urban' / 'rural' binary: Evidence from listener perceptions of gay male speakers of Southern American English.” Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (Aug. 21-24, 2012)

“The effect of family of origin and created kinship network strength on gay men's attitudes toward and use of Gay American English.” Lavender Languages and Linguistics 19, American University, Washington, DC. (Feb. 10-12, 2012)

Research Specialties:

sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language & sexuality, language & gender, language attitudes, folk dialectology, social varieties of American English, language & identity

Courses Taught:

College Writing I (ENG 110)
Modern English Grammars (ENG 332)
Introduction to Linguistics (ENG 432/532)

Other Interests: 

cooking, playing the saxophone, attending theater and music events, hiking, NFL football

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Professional/Technical Writing and Rhetoric, Illinois State University
M.A. in Feminist Rhetorics and Women's Autobiography, Illinois State University
B.A. in English at Buena Vista University

Recent Publications:

Moeller, Marie, Darci Thoune, and Bryan Kopp. “What? We’re a Writing Emphasis?: The Rhetoric and Writing Emphasis at The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.” 19 Program Profiles. Eds. Greg Giberson, Lori Ostergaard, and Jim Nugent. Logan, UT: Utah State UP.  Forthcoming, 2013.

“Pushing Boundaries of Normalcy: Employing Critical Disability Studies in Analyzing Medical Charity Websites.”  Rhetorical AccessAbility. Charles H. Sides Technical Communication Series. Ed. Lisa Meloncon. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2012. 67-89.

“Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Rebooting Contingent Faculty’s Marginalized Status in Online Writing Courses.” Forum: Special Issue on Contingent Faculty. College English. 73:4 (2011): 450-464.

Research Specialties:

Issues of Gender and Disability in Technical/Professional Writing
Feminist Rhetorics
Writing Pedagogy
Online Education

Courses Taught:

College Writing I (110)
Writing for Management, Public Relations and the Professions (307)
Introduction to Professional Writing (335) 
Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition (497)

Other interests:

Academic Background:

B.A. with Honors in English with French Literature, Stanford University (1991)
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Cornell University (1997)

Research Specialties:

pedagogy of teaching composition, integrating creative writing into traditional composition courses

Courses Taught:

College Writing I (110/112)
Modern Languages 299

Other interests: Hiking, baking, reading, writing short fiction and non-fiction

Academic Background:

Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis (2011)
M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis (2005);
M.A. in English, Bucknell University (2004)

Publications and Conferences: 

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered (co-edited with Courtney Weiss Smith, Wesleyan University; under contract at Bucknell University Press)

"James Thomson and the Affective Body in/of The Seasons," for a special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination, "James Thomson'sThe Seasons, Textuality, and Print Culture," edited by Sandro Jung (in-progress)

"Communal Sexuality: Mutual Pleasure in Sade's La philosophie dans le boudoir," Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming, Winter 2012-2013).

Research Specialties:

Eighteenth-century French and British literature, sexuality studies, feminist criticism, intersections between poetry and the novel in the eighteenth century

Courses Taught:

ENG 110
ENG 203

Other Interests:

my daughter E and partner J; sampling vegan food; gardening; being outside (preferably with my dogs, ideally near water and maybe involving a snack); women's health activism

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in American Literature and History, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1987)
M.A. in American Studies, University of Minnesota (1978)
B.S. in English and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (1976)

Research Specialties:

Pre-1900 American Literature, Wisconsin/Midwest Literature, Journalism and Mass Communication

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 201/202: American Literature Survey
ENG 307: Writing for Management, Public Relations and the Professions
ENG 321: Advanced Writing about Literature
ENG 325: News Reporting and Editing
ENG 455: American Literature Before 1800 (ENG455)
ENG 465: The American Renaissance
ENG 475: American Literature Between Two Wars
ENG 479: The American Novel

Warwick (Ph.D)
Minnesota (M.A., B.A. cum laude)

Courses Taught:

Other interests:

Academic Background:

2008 M.A. English | St. Cloud State University
2001 WI Teacher Certification English & History (Grades 7-12) | UW-Superior
1996 B.A. English | St. John's University

Publications:

Contributor – Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook – “Writing for the Web” editing and cover design: Poetry Selections – Upper Mississippi Harvest & Kaleidoscope literary magazines: 2007-2008.

Research Specialties:

Rhetoric & Composition, Modern American Literature, Creative Writing

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 202: American Literature II

Other interests:

Music, Art, Nature, Gardening, Cooking, Poetry

Research Specialties:

Treaty Rights Dispute in Northern Wyoming, Science Fiction, Literature and Drama, Shakespeare

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 200: Literature and the Human Experience: Science Fiction

Other interests:

Shakespeare in the summer at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Science Fiction--especially Star Trek, reading, poetry, music, working with Church Libraries, spending time on the family farm, long walks in the country, spending time with friends, gardening and baking.

Academic Background:

Ph.D. English from University of Nevada, Reno

Publications and Conferences:
Five published poetry collections including two with Penguin Books, Absentia (2011) and the National Poetry Series selection Nervous Systems(2007).  

Research Specialties:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Composition and Rhetoric

Courses Taught:

ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 305: Creative Writing
English 343: Creative Nonfiction
English 499: Forms of Poetry

Other interests:

biking, basketball, gardening, music, travel.

University of Oregon, Ph.D. (2008)
UC Davis, J.D. (1998)
Yale University, B.A. (1994)

Publications:

Courses Taught:

Other interests: