Academic Degrees

Awards and Grants

Teaching Experience 

Editorial & Research
Experience

Conference Papers &
Panel Presentations

Departmental Service
 

M.A.  English, University of Delaware (2000)

B.A.  English Literature, Cum Laude, Seaver College, Pepperdine University (1997)

Awards and Grants (at the University of Delaware)

English Department Graduate Student Foreign Research Award (2003)

Center for American Material Culture Studies London Research Program (Winter 2002)

Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Assistantship (2000-2001)

English Department Travel Grant (Summer 2001, Spring 2002)

Calhoun Fund Travel Grant (Summer 2001)

Teaching Assistantships, English Department (1998-2000)

Teaching Experience (at University of Delaware)

ENGL 110--Critical Reading and Writing (Fall 1999; Spring, Fall 2000; Spring 2003; Fall 2007): Instructor for required first-year composition course. Used self-designed syllabi focusing on current events, informal logic and rhetorical techniques.

Honors ENGL 110--Honors Critical Reading and Writing (Spring 2006): Instructor for an Honors section of required first-year composition course. Designed course on rhetoric and the gothic in the twentieth century.

Honors ENGL 110--Honors Critical Reading and Writing (Fall 2003-2004; Spring 2005): Instructor for an Honors section of required first-year composition course. Designed course on rhetoric and magic in the twentieth century.

Honors ENGL 110--Honors Critical Reading and Writing (Fall 2000): Instructor for an Honors section of required first-year composition course. Designed course on rhetoric and the sciences.

ENGL 200--Approaches to Literature (Winter 2000; Spring 2001; Spring, Fall 2007): Instructor for the non-major English course. Focused course on the genres of poetry, short story, and drama.

ENGL 205--British Literature I (Summer 2001): Instructor for a required course for University of Delaware English majors. Created a survey course focusing on major authors from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Restoration periods.

ENGL 206--British Literature II (Winter 2001; Fall 2002; Fall 2006): Instructor for a required course for University of Delaware English majors. Created a survey course focusing on major authors from the Enlightenment to Modernism.

ENGL 301--Advanced Composition (Summer 2000; Fall 2006): Instructor for upper division composition course. Used self-designed syllabus to teach methods of argumentation in scientific discourse.

ENGL 324--Shakespeare (Fall 2005): Instructor for required course for University of Delaware English majors. Generated survey course of Shakespeare's major genres with emphasis on performance, adaptation and interpretation.

ENGL 011--English Essentials (Fall 1998): Instructor of remedial composition course. Prepared at-risk freshman students to succeed in Critical Reading and Writing.

THEA104--Introduction to Theater (Fall 2003-2004; Spring 2005; Spring 2006; Spring 2007): Teaching Assistant for Introductory class on theater.

Editorial/Research Experience

Served as editorial and research assistant (2000, 2001-2002) to Donald H. Reiman for preparation of three scholarly editions:

Reiman, Donald H., and Neil Fraistat, eds. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume 1 (2000) and Volume 2 (2004). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-2004.

Reiman, Donald H., and Neil Fraistat, eds. Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. Second Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Conference Papers/Panel Presentations

“Vivian’s Legacy: Locating Women in Nineteenth-Century Conjuring,” Research on Women’s Topics, University of Delaware, October 2004.

“‘More Complacent than Frankenstein’: Victorian Performance Automatons and the Posthuman Uncanny.  Northeast Victorian Association of America, MIT, April 2003.

“‘A mere affair of the alphabet’:  Conjuring, Visuality, and Language in Gaskell’s Cranford, Central New York Conference on Language & Literature, SUNY College of Cortland, October 2002

 “Illusions of Technology:  Nationalism and Victorian Magical Automatons,” Technotopias, University of Strathclyde, July 2002.

“Effective Use of Student Writing Activities in All Disciplines,” Annual Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants, University of Delaware, August 2002.

“Bamboozled Blackface:  Bert Williams and New Millennium Minstrelsy,” Minority Discourse Group, University of Delaware, December 2001.

“The Haunting of the Home Front:  Allegory and Domestic Spaces in the Civil War Paintings of Lilly Martin Spencer,” Research on Women’s Topics, University of Delaware, September 2001.

“Including Short Writing Activities in Your Course,” Annual Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants, University of Delaware, August 2001.

“The Beauty of Innuendos:  Byron’s Aesthetic Legacy,” The XXVIIth International Byron Conference, Harvard University, New York City, University of Delaware, August 2001.

“Writing as a Tool for Active Learning in Any Course,” Annual Conference for Graduate Teaching Assistants, University of Delaware, August 2000.

“Confessions of a Justified Spender:  Self-Representation and Recompense in the Prose of James Hogg”  Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, University of Delaware, April 2000.

Departmental Service (at the University of Delaware)

Organizer, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Colloquium, English Department (2001-2002):  Scheduled both internal and visiting speakers for a colloquium focused on the literary and cultural scholarship on the eighteenth and nineteenth century.  Designed for both graduate students and faculty, this colloquium not only provides all members of the English Department community a forum to present their work in a professional setting, but also offers a series of workshops on practical aspects of academic experience (from publishing to pedagogy), as well as establishes relations with scholars outside the department through visiting lecturers.

Graduate Student Representative, English Department Graduate Committee (1999-2001):  Served both as M.A. and Ph.D. representative to the English Department Graduate Committee, presenting concerns of graduate students as well as assisting in the design of departmental policies.