July 2024 - Present | Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Department of English | |
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July 2015 - January 2023 | Dean, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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1998 - 2015 | Professor, University of Dayton ‐ Department of English | |
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1997 - 1998 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University ‐ Women's Studies | |
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1991 - 1992 | Lecturer, UBC-Ritsumeikan Program, Department of Language Education, University of British Columbia | |
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1989 - 1990 | Co-Director, Vancouver English Language Institute | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
2022 - Present | Member Advisory Board (2022-), and Chief Operating Officer (2024-), Human Energy | 2019 - Present | Member, Board of Directors, East Bay Leadership Council |
Courses
- Stories of the Universe (January Term)
- Multicultural Thought (Collegiate Seminar)
- Humanities Seminar (for MBA students)
- Feminist Theologies
- Teaching Women’s Studies
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Twentieth-Century American Women’s Memoir
- Feminist Approaches to Interpretation
- Women’s and Gender Studies Capstone Seminar: Women’s Life Writing
- English Capstone Seminar: Louise Erdrich
- Major American Writers
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Women Reading and Writing the Sacred
- Images of Women in Literature
- Gender in Fiction
- Multicultural US Women Writers
- Women and Creativity (mini-course)
- Focus on Women (topical, multi-disciplinary symposium): (1) Women and Embodiment; (2) Women, Power, and Community
- Service Learning in Women’s Studies
- Feminist Theory & Methodology
- Feminist Theory
- Canadian Culture and Communication for Internationals
- Academic Discourse for Internationals
- Introduction to the University (for English majors)
- Introduction to the University (for undeclared Arts students)
- Writing Seminar I: Intercultural (for native & non-native speakers of English)
- College Composition I: Intercultural (for native & non-native speakers of English)
- College Composition I and II
- First Year Honors Writing Seminar
- Berry Scholars (First Year) English Seminar
- Introduction to Women’s Studies
1997 | PhD, Women's Studies, Emory University | |
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1991 | MA, English, University of Toronto | |
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1988 | BA, English, Honours, University of British Columbia | |
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