2003 - Present | Professor of English, Collin College | |
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2002 - 2003 | Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Dallas | |
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2001 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of English, Northampton Community College ‐ English | |
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Disciplines
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Nomination, Communication and Humanities Department, Collin College, 2009-2010
- The National Society of Leadership and Success, Excellence in Teaching Award. December 2010
- Royden L. Lebrecht Endowed Chair for Scholarly and Civic Engagement. Appointed January 2007-May 2009.
- Collin Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement, Ambassador Award, 2005.
- Collin Faculty Study Grant, Summer 2005. Awarded $3300 to study the development and impact of race and racial discourse in Early American Literature.
- Collin Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement: 2005 Ambassador Award.
- Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Nomination, Communications and Humanities Department, Collin College, 2003-4.
- Director’s Special Recognition Award—for achieving the highest GPA of all graduating minority students at the doctoral degree level at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, May 2003.
- The Benjamin S. Carson Outstanding Achievement Award
- Faculty Innovation Grant —awarded $7,000 to co-develop and team teach a literature and history cross-disciplinary course entitled Women, Power and American Culture for the Spring 2002 term at Northampton Community College.
- Research Fellow, Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color. Grant awarded through the Research Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of English.
- Scholars for the Dream Award, National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.
- IUP Doctoral Fellowship Award, 1997
- IUP Graduate Merit Scholarship, 1997
- IUP Graduate Assistantship, 1997-99
- Neff-Lewis Scholarship for Graduate Studies, 1991-92
Courses
- Basic Writing
- Composition 101 and 102—Computer Intensive
- Creative Writing
- Introduction/Approaches to Literature
- The American Experience in Literature
- Composition and Rhetoric 1 and 2.
- Early American Literature, 1400-1865
- Latin American Literature in Translation
- 20th Century Literature by Women
- Ethnic American Literature
- Advanced Composition
- Ethnic American Literature, Graduate Seminar
- Immigration/Nation: Exploring the Personal and Political Dimensions of Immigration—A Learning Community Course taught jointly with Dr. Betsy Brody, Professor of Political Science.
- Honors Early American Literature, beginnings to 1865.
- Honors Composition 1301
- Mexican-American Literature
2003 | Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania ‐ Literature and Criticism | |
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1993 | MA, La Sierra University ‐ English | |
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1991 | BA, Atlantic Union College ‐ English | |
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