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I began teaching in the English program at the University of Mary in 2005. I teach composition and general courses in the English major, as well as specialty courses in British literature, the Gothic, and literature about London. Before coming to Mary, I taught at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Community and Professional Interests
- Participating scholar in North Dakota Reads, a program of the North Dakota Humanities Council
- Research interests include literary representations of the city of London, nineteenth and twentieth century Gothic literature, Irish poetry and prose, and the life and work of Charles Dickens
- Performing guitarist/songwriter
On Servant Leadership . . .
“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. He or she is sharply different from the person who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions [. . .]” --Robert Greenleaf
Education
Ph.D. Nineteenth Century British Literature
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
M.A. English Literature
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
B.A. Theatre
Coker College, Hartsville, SC
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
- American Conference on Irish Studies (ACIS)
Publications
- Book project In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in the Victorian Era under contract with McFarland Press
- ‘In that Boney Light:’ The Bakhtinian Gothic of Our Mutual Friend” in Dickens Quarterly (September 2005)
- “No Answers, Only Connections: A Conversation with Novelist Leah Stewart” in Yemassee (Fall 2003)
- “Charles Dickens,” “London,” and “Robert Louis Stevenson” entries in Grolier’s Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (Fall 2003)
- “‘I Know the City Well:’ The Metaphysical Cityscape in Iris Murdoch’s
- Under the Net” in Literary London (March 2003)
- Review of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore in The Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 2003)
- “A Terrible Beauty: ‘Carmilla’ as Aisling” in Cleave (Fall 2002)
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- The Writing Process
- Surveys of British Literature (I and II)
- Introduction to Literature
- London in Literature (special focus)
- The Literary Vampire (special focus)
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