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Education
· Ph.D. Candidate. University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV
o Primary Area: Rhetoric and Writing
o Secondary Areas: Medieval and Early Modern Literature
o Comprehensive exams: Fall 2009
· M.A. English. University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, 2005
o Primary Area: Medieval Literature
· B.A. Language, German Emphasis. Southern Utah State College, UT, 1984
Research and Academic Interests
· Chaucer and Medieval literature.
· Early Modern women writers, specifically Dorothy Leigh’s A Mother’s Blessing.
· Seventeenth Century religious poetry.
· Wikis in college composition courses.
· Rhetoric of the “uninhabited desert,” specifically rural downwind ranchers
Conference Presentations
National Conferences:
· “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Professor’s: Remixing Peer Review Spaces in College Composition Courses.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY, March 2010. (Proposal Accepted)
· “The Voice of One Crying in the ‘Virtually Uninhabited’ Wilderness: Rhetoric of the of the Downwind Desert Rancher.” 14th Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Minneapolis, MN, May 2010. (Proposal Submitted)
· “A Space of One’s Own: Composition in a Crowded Wiki.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
Regional Conferences:
· “Let the Sheepman Ride: Rhetorical Analysis of a Southern Utah Rancher’s Advice to CSU.” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference. Sundance, Utah, October, 2009. (Proposal accepted)
· “Not Just another Pretty Page: Wikis as Teaching Tools in Beginning Composition.” TYCA Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2009. (Proposal accepted)
· “If I Were a Man’: Intersections of Gender and Genre in A Mother’s Blessing, Dorothy Leigh’s Seventeenth-Century Conduct Manual.” Writing Cultures: Class, Gender, and Authorship in Early Modern England symposium, Texas A&M University, November 2008.
· “Methinks if I were a Man: Dorothy Leigh’s A Mother’s Blessing.” Intermountain Graduate Conference, Logan, UT, April 2008
Recent Courses
Dixie State College
· English 3010--Writing in the Professions
· English 2500—Early British Literature
· English 2200--Introduction to Literature
· English 2010--Intermediate Writing
· English 1400—Fundamentals of Grammar
· English 1010--Intro to Writing
· English 0990—Basic Writing
· English 0750—Basic Writing
· German 1010—Beginning German
· German 1020—Beginning German II
University of Nevada Las Vegas
· English 407A—Business and Technical Writing (hybrid and face-to-face)
· English102—Intermediate Writing
· English 231 – World Literature
· English 232 – Worth Literature
Publications
“The Cold-blooded Murder of the English Tongue: Grammar in College Composition Courses.” compFAQs December 2007. Online
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