Education:

 

            Ph.D. in English, Emory University, May 2000

Certificate in Women’s Studies, August 1999

Major fields: American Modernism and Ethnic Literature

 

            Teaching Certificate in Jewish Studies: B’not Torah Institute; Jerusalem, Israel; June 1993

 

B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Drew University, Madison, NJ, May 1994

Major: English

Minor: Jewish Studies

 

Awards:

 

Teaching:

            Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005

Graduate:

Woodrow Wilson Mellon Fellow, 1995-1996

Undergraduate:

John G. Berg Memorial Prize for Excellence in English (Drew University, May 1994)

 

Publications: Books, Articles, and Essays

 

“`Honey, Do We Really Need Five Copies of This?’: April Twilights Revisited.”  In Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions.  Ed. Merrill Skaggs.  Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2008.

 

“’Two or Three Human Stories’:  O Pioneers! and the Old Testament.”  In Cather Studies 7.  Ed. Guy Reynolds.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2007.  86-105.

 

Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather,

Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen.  New York: Routledge, 2004. (2nd printing, Summer 2005)

 

Books, Articles, and Essays, continued:

“Still (Resonant, Relevant and) Crazy After All These Years: Goodbye, Columbus and Other Stories.” In Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author.  Ed. Derek Royal.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.  8-23.

 

“Tales from the Front...of the Classroom.” Philip Roth Society Newsletter 2:2 (Spring 2004): 4-5.

 

“From ‘French Toast’ to ‘Happy Days’: A Lost Lady as an Introduction to the Novel.”  Teaching

Cather 3:2 (2003): 8-11.

 

“From ‘Fancy-Schmancy’ Seminars to the Composition Classroom: Reflections on Teaching

‘Goodbye, Columbus.’”  The Philip Roth Society Newsletter 1:1 (Fall 2002): 3, 5.

 

“Like a Rose Among Thorns: Ethnicity, Demography, and Otherness in Willa Cather’s ‘Old Mrs. Harris.’” Willa Cather in New York.  Ed. Merrill Skaggs.  Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2000.  266-78.

 

“Camelot, Back Creek and Sweet Water: Arthurian Archetypes and Southern Sensibility in Willa

Cather’s A Lost Lady. Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter and Review 42:2 (Fall

1998): 39-44.

 

 

Publications: Encyclopedia Entries

Dictionary of Literary Characters. Ed. Michael Sollars. NY: Facts on File, 2010. 

            Willa Cather’s “Coming Aphrodite”

            Willa Cather’s “Double Birthday”

            Willa Cather’s “Neighbour Rosicky”

            Willa Cather’s “Old Mrs. Harris”

            Willa Cather’s “On the Gulls’ Road”

            Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case”

            Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

            Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”

Nella Larsen’s Passing

Nella Larsen’s Quicksand

            Bernard Malamud’s “The Jewbird”

            Bernard Malamud’s “The Magic Barrel”

            Susan Minot’s “Lust”

Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”

Grace Paley’s “A Conversation with my Father”

Grace Paley’s “An Interest in Life”

            Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews”

            Philip Roth’s “Defender of the Faith”

            Philip Roth’s “Eli the Fanatic”

            Philip Roth’s The Human Stain

Encyclopedia Entries, continued:

The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story.  Ed. Abby Werlock.  NY: Facts on File, 2009.

            “Willa Cather’s ‘A Wagner Matinee’”

            “Philip Roth’s ‘Goodbye, Columbus’”

            “Philip Roth’s ‘Defender of the Faith’”

            “Philip Roth’s ‘Epstein’”

            “Philip Roth’s ‘You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings’”

 

Encyclopedia of American Literature, Vol 3.  Eds. M.J. Bruccoli and R. Layman. (forthcoming)

            “Gertrude Stein”

            “Nella Larsen”

          The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

            Three Lives

            The Making of Americans

 

The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel.  Ed. Abby Werlock. NY: Facts on File, 2006.

            “Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl 

            “Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 

            “Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha

 

“Willa Cather.”  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry.  Ed. Jeffrey Gray. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

 

Scholarly Service:

Associate Editor:

Philip Roth Studies.

Editorial Board:

            Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Reviewer:

            Journals: Frontiers, Modern Language Studies, Philip Roth Studies

            Publishers: Wadsworth, Prentice Hall, Longman, McGraw Hill, Beau Monde Press

 

Conference Presentations:

Quicksand: Archetypal Journeys in a Modern(ist) World”; Panel: “Reframing/ Revisiting Nella Larsen” (moderated by Erika Williams); Northeast Modern Language Association; Baltimore, MD; March 3, 2007.

 

“’Honey, Do We Really Need Five Copies of This?’: April Twilights Revisited” (invited plenary address); Willa Cather Colloquium on the Caspersen Collection; Drew University, Madison, NJ; September 30, 2005.

 

“’Two or Three Human Stories’:  O Pioneers! and the Old Testament”; 9th International Willa

Cather Seminar; Ripton, VT; June 1, 2003.

 

Conference Presentations, continued:

 

“Staying Power in ‘Goodbye, Columbus’:  the Jewish, the American, and the Jewish-American”;

          American Literature Association; Cambridge, MA; May 25, 2003.

 

“The Composition Course as a Venue for Teaching Difference,” University System of Maryland Conference: Teaching Diversity and Thinking Diversity; Towson University, Towson, MD; October 12, 2002.

 

“Birthing Pains: Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha,’” Modern Language Association; Washington, DC; December 29, 2000.

 

“Born Like That: Nature, Nurture, and Normalcy in My Antonia,” 2000 International Willa Cather Seminar; Nebraska City, NE; June 20, 2000.

 

“Like a Rose Among Thorns: Ethnicity, Demography, and Otherness in Willa Cather’s ‘Old Mrs. Harris,’” Willa Cather’s New York, An International Colloquium; Madison, NJ; June 23, 1998.

 

“Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady: An Arthurian Novel with Southern Roots,” Seventh International Willa Cather Seminar; Winchester, VA; June 26, 1997.

 

“Writing as Healing/Healing in Writing,” Association for Women in Psychology Southern Regional Convention; Hilton Head, SC; October 25, 1996.

 

 “A Comparative Study of Photographic Images of Women in Introductory Psychology Textbooks,” 20th Annual Association for Women in Psychology National Convention; Indianapolis, IN; March 3, 1995.

 

 

 

Teaching Experience:

 

 

Full/Associate/Assistant Professor of English

 

August 2001-present: Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD

            American Literature 2

            Bible and Literature

            Accelerated Composition and Literature

Composition and Literature 2

Introduction to Women’s Studies

            Basic English 1 and 2 (Developmental)

 

Teaching Experience, continued:

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

August 2000-May 2001: Emory University, Atlanta, GA

            Jewish-American Literature (upper level)

            Understanding Poetry (sophomore level)

            Composition and Literature (Themes: the Literature of Aging, Cross-Cultural

Families, Medical Humanities)

 

            Instructor

August 1999-May 2000: Emory University, Atlanta, GA

           

Teaching Associate

August 1997-May 1998: Emory University, Atlanta, GA          

 

 

Academic Service:

 

National Service:

May 2003-present: Secretary/Treasurer, The Philip Roth Society

            College/ Departmental Service:

                        Fall 2009-: college-wide Academic Standards

                        Fall 2009-: college-wide Ad Hoc TFO Committee to Review PAT Procedures

                        Fall 2009-: chair, departmental Planning and Assessment Committee

Summer 2009: departmental Faculty Search Committee (Reading)

Fall 2008-Spring 2009: college-wide CCDE Retention Subcommittee

Spring 2008: departmental Faculty Search Committee (4 positions)

Fall 2007-Spring 2009: chair, departmental Ad-Hoc Textbook Committee

Fall 2007-Spring 2008: chair, college-wide Security Awareness Committee

Fall 2006-Spring 2009: chair, college-wide Athletic Oversight Committee

                        Fall 2006-Spring 2008: departmental Peer Advisory/Review Committee

Fall 2005-Spring 2007: college-wide Honors Advisory Board

Fall 2002-present: departmental Part-Time Review committee

Fall 2007-Spring 2008: departmental Ad-Hoc Textbook Committee

Spring 2005: Departmental Faculty Search Committee (4 positions)

                        Fall 2004-Spring 2005: college-wide work team to assess students’ speaking skills

                                                Fall 2003-Spring 2006: departmental Website and Instructional Technology committee

Fall 2003-Spring 2005: departmental Curriculum committee

Fall 2002-Spring 2004: college-wide Academic Council

                        Fall 2002-Spring 2004: college-wide Diversity Team

                        Fall 2002-Fall 2003: chair, departmental Curriculum subcommittee

           

Grants, Professional Development and Community Service:

 

The Tender Bridge, Inc

            Summer 2006-2010: Volunteer Sailing Instructor, HOOD Kids Sailing Program

The Wild Center, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Lake, NY

            Summer 2008 and 2009: Invited Speaker on the ADA and Assistance Dogs

Designs for Learning Outcomes Assessment Grant

            AY 2006-2007: “Study of Student Placement and Impact of Student Outcomes”

Professional Development Grant

                        Summer 2003: Women’s Institute for Race and Gender Studies

Continuing Education Instruction

                        Fall 2002-present: Anne Arundel Community College Speaker’s Bureau

            “Sonnets—Then and Now”

            “Willa Cather—Relevance in the 21st Century”

Spring 2001: Instructor, Atlanta Senior University of Mercer University, Atlanta, GA

                                    “Understanding Poetry”

 

Languages:

 

            Biblical Hebrew

            French

 

Professional Organizations:

 

Council of Editors of Learned Journals

National Association for Developmental Education

Northeast Modern Language Association

The Philip Roth Society

Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation