Education
Ph. D.
Concentration in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Specialization in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
University of Texas at Austin
May 2009 (expected)
Dissertation: Dangerous Language: Religion and Violence in English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Co-directors: Frank Whigham and Jacqueline Henkel
Master of Arts Degree
University of Texas at Austin
May 2005
Supervisors: Frank Whigham and Douglas Bruster
Thesis: "On Division and Doubleness in Othello"
Bachelor of Arts Degree
East Texas Baptist University
summa cum laude, May 2003
Major: English
Minor: Religion
Minor: Political Science
Publications
Conference Papers
- "Gender and the Mentor: How writing mentoring challenged and changed my assumptions about writing instruction." Annual Conference of the International Writing Centers Association. Houston, Texas. April 2007.
- "Imagining Women's Spaces and Women's Voices in The Floure and the Leafe." Fifteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. New York City, New York. July 2006.
Awards and Honors
- Semester Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English (Fall 2008)
- MEME Award (Mastery of Electronic Media in Education) with John Jones, Nathan Kreuter, and Vessela Valiavitcharska (May 2007)
- Crow Scholarship in Geoffrey Chaucer Studies (2006)
Academic Positions
- Assistant Instructor, Department of English (2007-2008)
- Instructor, University Extension Program (Summer 2007)
- Graduate Research Assistant for James Garrison (Summer 2007)
- Graduate Research Assistant for Wayne Rebhorn and Frank Whigham (Summer 2007)
- SWC Curriculum Consultant for the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (Summer 2007)
- Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing (2005-2007)
- Proctor, Computer Writing and Research Lab (2006-2007)
- Writing Mentor, College of Liberal Arts (2006-2007)
- Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center (2005-2006)
- Teaching Assistant, Department of English (2003-2005)
Courses Taught
As an Assistant Instructor in the Department of English:
As an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing:
As an Instructor in the University Extension Program:
- RHE 306: Rhetoric and Composition (Summer 2007)
As a Teaching Assistant in the Department of English:
- E316K: Masterworks of British Literature (Spring 2004 for Andrew Cooper, Fall 2004 for Eric Mallin)
- E316K: Masterworks of American Literature (Fall 2003 for Joseph Kruppa, Spring 2005 for Betsy Berry-Graham)
Technology and Pedagogy
- Creator and developer of http://writingmentoring.pbwiki.com, a resource for writing mentors in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2007).
- Instructor, Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2006, Spring 2007). Responsibilities in this position included teaching rhetoric and writing and literature courses in a computer-assisted classroom, as well as developing and maintaining a course web site using the Drupal content-management system.
- Proctor, Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2006, Spring 2007). Responsibilities in this position included proctoring a computer lab for students enrolled in CWRL courses, working as a member of the Visual Rhetoric Workgroup, and contributing to the Visual Rhetoric web site at http://workgroups.cwrl.utexas.edu/visual/.
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Renaissance Society of America
- New Chaucer Society
Languages
References
- Jacqueline Henkel, Associate Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin
- Wayne Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor in English, The University of Texas at Austin
- John Rumrich, Thaman Endowed Professor in English, The University of Texas at Austin
- Frank Whigham, Thaman Endowed Professor in English, The University of Texas at Austin