Education:
Ph.D. in
English,
Certificate in Women’s Studies,
August 1999
Major fields: American Modernism
and Ethnic Literature
Teaching Certificate in Jewish Studies: B’not Torah Institute;
B.A., Summa Cum Laude,
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.
“’Two or Three
Human Stories’: O Pioneers!
and the Old Testament.” In Cather
Studies 7. Ed. Guy Reynolds.
Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity,
and Gender in Willa Cather,
Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen.
Books, Articles, and Essays, continued:
“Still
(Resonant, Relevant and) Crazy After All These Years: Goodbye,
“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,
“Like a Rose Among Thorns:
Ethnicity, Demography, and Otherness in Willa Cather’s ‘Old Mrs. Harris.’”
Willa Cather in
“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,
“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
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:
Conference Presentations:
“Quicksand:
Archetypal Journeys in a Modern(ist) World”; Panel: “Reframing/ Revisiting Nella
Larsen” (moderated by Erika Williams); Northeast Modern Language Association;
“’Honey, Do We
Really Need Five Copies of This?’: April
Twilights Revisited” (invited plenary address); Willa Cather Colloquium on
the Caspersen Collection;
“’Two or Three Human Stories’:
O Pioneers! and the Old Testament”; 9th International
Willa
Cather Seminar;
Conference Presentations, continued:
“Staying Power in ‘Goodbye,
American Literature Association;
“The Composition Course as a
Venue for Teaching Difference,” University System of
“Birthing Pains: Gertrude
Stein’s ‘Melanctha,’” Modern
Language Association;
“Born Like That: Nature,
Nurture, and Normalcy in My Antonia,” 2000 International Willa Cather
Seminar;
“Like a Rose Among Thorns:
Ethnicity, Demography, and Otherness in Willa Cather’s ‘Old Mrs. Harris,’” Willa
Cather’s
“Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady:
An Arthurian Novel with Southern Roots,” Seventh International Willa Cather
Seminar;
“Writing as Healing/Healing in
Writing,” Association for Women in Psychology Southern Regional Convention;
Hilton Head, SC;
“A
Comparative Study of Photographic Images of Women in Introductory Psychology
Textbooks,” 20th Annual Association for Women in Psychology National Convention;
Full/Associate/Assistant
Professor of English
August 2001-present:
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:
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:
Teaching Associate
August 1997-May 1998:
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,
“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