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14 November 2008

 

 

Education | Teaching | Publications | Reviews | Presentations | Media and Technology Projects | Service | University Employment | Honors | Memberships


Education

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of English (2003)
American and British Twentieth-Century Literature, Drama
Dissertation: "'Sick in Twos and Threes and Fours': Representation, Redemption, and Mental Illness in Arthur Miller's Later Plays" (Director: Kimball King)

M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of English (1992)
Thesis: "Christopher Hampton and Henrik Ibsen: Translating Words/Transforming Themes"

B.A. Luther College (1989)
magna cum laude, Regent Scholar
Majors: English and Scandinavian Studies (1990)

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor (2006-present)
Berea College
Department of English, Theatre, and Speech Communication

  • Last Yankees: O’Neill, Williams, Miller, and Albee
    (Senior Seminar in Literature)
  • The Teaching of English
  • ESL and American Culture
  • Exposition
  • Only Connect: The Liberal Arts, Social Networking, and Social Mobility
  • Creative Writing: Fiction
  • American Texts
  • College Composition
  • Introduction to English Studies
  • Writing for Law and Public Policy

Lecturer (2002-2006)
Indiana University South Bend
Department of English

Instructor (2001, 2002)
University of Notre Dame
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre

Senior Teaching Fellow (1996-1997)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of English

Instructor (1996)
Duke University
Writing Program

Writing Instructor (1996-2000)
Principals' Executive Program
The University of North Carolina

Provided small group writing instruction and business writing workshops for North Carolina public school administrators on topics including writing and revising strategies, professional writing, and using word processors as revision tools.

Teaching Fellow (1993-1996)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of English

  • Introduction to Drama
  • Legal Writing
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • American Literature 1930-Present

Writing Consultant (1993, 1998-1999)
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Writing Center

Publications

"How to Do Things With Witches: Performing The Crucible on Stage and Screen." forthcoming in Text & Presentation, 2008.

"The Road to Reno: Inge Morath, Marilyn Monroe, and the Embodiment of the American West" The Arthur Miller Journal 2.1 (2007): 15-24.

"Modern Scandinavian Drama" Western Drama Through the Ages. Vol. 1. Ed. Kimball King. Westport: Greenwood, 2007. 257-67.

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cross: Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues." The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 18.2 (2006): 9-26.

Reviews

Review of Arthur Miller's Global Theater, edited by Enoch Brater. forthcoming in Text & Presentation, 2008.

Review of Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller. Directed by Robert Altman, Old Vic Theatre, London. The Arthur Miller Journal 1.1 (2006): 105-109.

Review of Women, Modernism, and Performance by Penny Farfan. M/MLA Journal 38.2 (2005): 153-155.

Review of Finishing the Picture by Arthur Miller. World premiere. Directed by Robert Falls, Goodman Theatre, Chicago. The Arthur Miller Society Newsletter, December 2004. 7-8.

Review of The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller by Terry Otten. M/MLA Journal 37.2 (2004): 107-109.

Presentations

"When We Can Stop": Women and Will in Three Tall Women and August: Osage County American Drama Conference, Brooklyn, NY (2008)

"'I Don’t Truck With No Devil!': Arthur Miller’s Forthright Phantasms" Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles, CA (2008)

"'The body is not a battlefield': 'Illness as Metaphor' and Shakespeare’s Roman Bodies Politic" Seminar paper for Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas TX (2008)

"Say It As Though You Mean It: Staging Classroom Controversy" Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH (2007)

"After the Wake: Finding Arthur Miller’s True North in 2007" Mid-America Theatre Conference Theatre History Symposium, Minneapolis, MN (2007)

"Teaching Strategies from Life: Radio Days" Workshop presented at the The Compleat Teacher: 96th Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN (2006)

"The Road to Reno: Inge Morath, Marilyn Monroe, and the Embodiment of the American West" 11th Annual Arthur Miller Society Conference, Arthur Miller and the American West, Las Vegas, NV (2006)

"Escaping the 'Contemptible Country': Art and Politics in Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues" Modern Language Association, Washington, DC (2005)

"Jean Kerr: Playing Perfection" Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO (2004)

"'Sick in Twos and Threes and Fours': Engendering Hysteria in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass" Lecture presented for the Women's Studies Public Forum, Indiana University South Bend (2004)

"Acting for Our Lives: Participatory Theater Workshop Using Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun" Workshop presented at the Community Leaders Seminar, Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN (2002)

"Who Are You Calling a Shrew? A Participatory Workshop on Shakespeare's Women" Workshop presented at the Community Leaders Seminar, Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN (2002)

"'The Greatest God Is In My Selfe': Medea, Prospero, and Shakespeare's Appropriation of Ovid's Metamorphoses" Ohio Shakespeare Conference at the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (2001)

"Whose Illness Is It, Anyway?: On-stage Appropriations of Female Schizophrenia" Women's Studies Tenth Annual Graduate Research Conference (24/7: Rest and Unrest), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1999)

"'Getting Sorry': Truth and Alcohol in The Archbishop's Ceiling" 5th International Arthur Miller Conference, Brooklyn, New York (1999)

"'Of course it isn't, but that's where it comes from': The Creation of Hysteria and Other Business in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass" American Literature Association, San Diego, California (1998)

"The Lunatic's Ball: Redemption and the Aesthetics of Mental Illness in The Last Yankee" 4th International Arthur Miller Conference, Millersville, Pennsylvania (1998)

"Learning at Little River: Practitioner Inquiry and the Development of a Participatory ESL Curriculum" Presented with K. Suzanne Cadwell, Feminist Negotiations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997)

"Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller: The Ongoing Evolution of An Enemy of the People" Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia (1996)

"He and She: Intimate Illness in the Recent Drama of Arthur Miller" Feminist Navigations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)

Media and Technology Projects

Webmaster
American Theatre and Drama Society (2007-present)

Commentator
WVPE-FM (National Public Radio)
(2004-2006)

Blogger
American Democracy Project at Indiana University South Bend
(2004-2005)

Webmaster (2003-2006)
Department of English
Indiana University South Bend

SITES Intern (1999-2000)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Studio for Instruction Technology and English Studies

Service

Berea College
Ad hoc Committee on the Writing Competency Requirement (2006–present)
Teacher Education Committee (2007–present)
Faculty Advisor to the Pagan Coalition (2007–present)

Arthur Miller Society
President (2008-2010)
Vice-president (2006–present)

Indiana University South Bend
Academic Senate Student Affairs Committee (2005-2006)
One Book, One Campus Committee (2004-2006)

Department of English Administration
Cluster Leader, First-Year Writing Program (2005-2006)
Webmaster (2003-2006)
English Placement Exam Reader (2002-2006)
English as a Second Language Placement Exam Reader (2002-2006)
Department of English Committee Service
Steering Committee (2004-2006)
Senior Lectureship Personnel Committee (2004-2006)
English as a Second Language Committee (2002-2003, 2005-2006)
Principles of Composition Curriculum Committee (2002-2003, 2004-2005)
Technology Subcommittee of the First-Year Writing Committee (2002-2003)
Principles of Composition Textbook Selection Committee (2002-2003)
Elementary Composition Curriculum Committee (2002-2003)
Department of English Presentations
Developed and delivered hands-on workshops for English faculty on Oncourse and Oncourse CL, Indiana University 's online course software.

University of Notre Dame
Search Committee Member, McMeel Chair in Shakespeare and Performance, College of Arts and Letters (2000-2001)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching Fellow Group Coordinator, Department of English (1995-1997)
Volunteer ESL Instructor, Durham Literacy Center and the Little River Family Resource Center (1996-1997)

Other University Employment

General Manager (2000-2002)
University of Notre Dame
Actors From The London Stage

Coordinated all teaching and performance activities for Actors From The London Stage, an international educational theatre company teaching Shakespeare at American colleges and universities.

Assistant to the General Manager, A Center for Theatre, Education & Research University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996-2000)

Office Manager, Ernest Hemingway Foundation & Society
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-1996)

Honors

Graduate Student Teaching Supplement Award (1997)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
For incorporating Internet-based instructional technologies into Legal Writing.

Senior Teaching Fellow (1996-1997)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Appointed by the Dean of the Graduate School in recognition of excellence in teaching.

Phi Beta Kappa, Eta of Iowa (1990)

Memberships

American Theatre and Drama Society
Arthur Miller Society

Midwest Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Shakespeare Association of America