EDUCATION:
1988: Ph.D. English, University of Virginia
1975: B.A. cum laude Georgetown University (faculty family scholarship) and University of Aix-Marseille. Double major: French literature; English. Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics: certification as a French/English translator

DISSERTATION:
"To Keep It Forever: Deanimating Imagery in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Bishop's perception of life as unreliable and filled with loss leads to her transformation of the natural world into images of immutable art and artifact. Dissertation director: J. C. Levenson.

TEACHING: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY
1991-Current. Classes taught: English 100 (formerly 090); Freshman Composition 111 and 112; Intro to Poetry; Creative Writing--Poetry; Intro to Drama; Methods of Teaching Writing; Theories of Writing; Nonfiction Prose; Creative Nonfiction; Autobiography; Technical Writing, Eastern Spiritual Classics as Literature.

VISITING PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY
1990-1991: English 090; Freshman Composition.

GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
1977-1979: Freshman Composition; Survey of Poetryb

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:
"Writing the Travel Memoir: Spirit, Place, and Change" creative nonfiction workshop, July 18-24, 2004, University of Minnesota.
National Conference on College Composition and Communication 2000, Minneapolis; 1994, Nashville; 1991, Boston; 1990, Chicago.
Teaching in the First Year Classroom, 1998, Albuquerque.
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (NCTE) 1997, Estes Park.
College Reading and Learning Association, 1995 Tempe.
New Mexico Council of Teachers of English, 1994, Albuquerque.
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1992, Ogden.
New Mexico Highlands University Retention Workshop, 1992.
New Mexico College Reading and Learning Association, 1992 and 1991, Albuquerque.

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED:
"'Enormous Lights and Mysteries': Rethinking Texts for Basic/First Year Composition." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, April 14, 2000.

"The Uses of Memory." College Reading and Learning Association, Tempe, April 7, 1995.

"The Village, the Ranch, and the Mainstream Career Menu." Roundtable, College Reading and Learning Association, Tempe, April 7, 1995.

"Writing Home: Personal Writing in a Homeless Shelter." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, March 18, 1994.

"Happiness and the Blank Page." New Mexico College Reading and Learning Association. Albuquerque, December 3, 1992.

"Writers' Nights." Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association (RMMLA), Ogden, October 15, 1992.

PUBLICATIONS:

"Cherub." Creative nonfiction story accepted 2005 for publication by Travelers' Tales press in an anthology of women's travel writing.

"'Something to Have at Heart': Another Look at Memorization." Winter 02-03 JAEPL (The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning). This article was then anthologized in 1999 in Writing, Teaching, Learning: A Sourcebook (the fourth and newly titled edition of Rhetoric and Composition) edited by Richard Graves, "reflecting the best writing about the teaching of writing published during the 1990s."

"Happiness and the Blank Page: Csikszentmihalyi's Flow in the Composition Classroom." Winter 97-98 JAEPL (The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning).

"The Monument and the Iceberg: The Arts of Losing in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Accepted in 1998 by College English. Withdrawn by me due to change in editor.

Book review of Writing as Revelation by Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford. Fall/Winter 1992 Focuses, a national journal linking composition programs and writing center practice.

PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND ARTICLES:

"Lessons with the Mystics." Proposal for Conference on College Composition and Communication 2006.

"Watching out for the Boys: Understanding Depression in College Males." Proposal for Conference on College Composition and Communication 2005

"Lessons from the Mystics: Refreshing Our Vision at Mid-Career." Proposal for Conference on College Composition and Communication 2004.

"Shelter Workshops 101" article proposal for SUNY collection City Comp: Teaching Writing in Urban Spaces.

"Off-Center: Lessons in Creativity from the Lives of Eccentrics." Article proposal for collection of essays on expanded perspectives in learning.

"A Dolphin at the Keyboard: Animal Mascots for Metacognition." Proposal for National Council of Teachers of English conference.

"The Dark Side of the Glowing Screen." Proposal for Conference on College Composition and Communication.

CREATIVE WRITING:
IN CIRCULATION OR REVISION AS TIME PERMITS
"Life Without Jam." Creative nonfiction.
"'The Hidden Ones' Ride Amtrak." Creative nonfiction.
"The Glitch." Short story.
"The Ali Baba Box." Ghost story for middle readers.

WORKS IN PROGRESS
"The Glitter Aisle." Creative nonfiction.
"Fallet Young." Creative nonfiction.
"Under the Coconut Palms." Creative nonfiction.
"A Prism" (working title). Creative nonfiction.
(I have laid aside, indefinitely, my 200-page manuscript of a novel for middle readers, The Amateur of the City, in order to focus my attention on the creative nonfiction essay.)

ADMINISTRATIVE:
Writing Center Director, 2002 Fall-current.
Director of Composition, Fall 1994-1999 with one hiatus.
Director of the Writing Center, Fall 1991-Fall 1995.

COMMITTEES:
Composition Committee (English discipline) Fall 1995-current (Chair through Fall 1999).
Graduate Committee (English discipline)-current.
Student Affairs, Fall 2003-current.
Faculty Affairs, Fall 2000-Fall 2001 (sabbatical Spring 2002).
President's Athletic Advisory Committee, Spring 2001.
Teacher Education Advisory Committee, Spring 1998-current (only every few years).
Core Outcomes Assessment Committee, Fall 1999-Spring 2000.
Freshman Orientation Committee, Fall 1995-Fall 1999.
ACE Advisory Committee, Fall 1995-Fall 1999.

COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Taught multiple English review sessions for the New Mexico Teacher's Exam
Served on thesis committee of English graduate student Mary Alice Garcia, Fall 2005.
Served as outside member on these thesis committees (and, in most cases, commented extensively on multiple drafts): Business student Amanda Vigil, Spring 2005; Education student Lititia Coleman, Fall 2004; Business student Julian Barela, Fall 2004; Computer Science student Kaye Hartzler, Fall 2004; Social Work student Valencia Bizahaloni, Spring 2004.
Served on English master's student Wylee Rogers's creative thesis committee, Fall, Spring 2003-2004.
Wrote extensive revision suggestions on book chapters of English graduate student David Johnson.
Annual service as one of judges for Freshman Essay Contest.
Practicum advisor for Marco Sanchez at West Las Vegas, Spring 2004.
Helped edit grant proposal, En CASA (violence prevention) program in Las Vegas schools, Spring 2004.
For Las Vegas's 21st Century Learning Centers, created program of resources and tutor training workshops (presented by NMHU Writing Center staff) for Las Vegas high school students who tutor at-risk kids.
For Learning Center high school tutors, presented a workshop on teaching goal achieving, February 2003.
Served as thesis director for English graduate student Maggie Romigh; chaired her April 10, 2003, orals.
Volunteered for eight weeks in GED class at Santa Fe Community College, Summer 2002.
Coordinated with the Superintendent of Questa Schools on plan to set up workshops for elementary school teachers; perhaps because of budget, the workshops did not materialize (Fall 2000).
Served as outside committee member for School of Business master's student Steve Saavedra, April, 2001.
Edited portions of annual report for Legacy Foundation (tobacco control), 2001.
St. Elizabeth's, family shelter, Santa Fe, 1993-2000: over thirty workshops on using writing to explore personal, educational, and career goals.
Covenant House, teen shelter, Washington, DC, 1998: life path journal workshop.
Joy Junction, teen shelter, Albuquerque, 1994: journal workshop.
La Luz, family shelter, Santa Fe, 1993: writing workshop.

LANGUAGES:
French: fluent (high school award for Best French East of the Mississippi; five semesters of undergraduate French; 1971-1972 attended University of Aix-Marseille; passed French oral comprehensives with distinction).
German: good comprehension, elementary conversation (three semesters undergraduate German; worked in Glucksburg, North Sea, for six weeks in summer camp for at-risk children; au pair four months Munich).
Italian: good comprehension, elementary conversation (four semesters undergraduate Italian, including Dante; au pair one month Cortina d'Ampezzo; one year American high school in Rome).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
National Council of Teachers of English

PROFESSIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS:
College Composition and Communication; College English; Creative Nonfiction; Harpers.

Updated 8/2005