EDUCATION

Ph.D. English (with Honors): University of Washington, 2002

M.A. English: University of Washington, 1997

B.A. English: Reed College, 1994

2003-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Wingate University

Medieval and Renaissance Drama

Shakespeare

Renaissance Literature

Shakespeare and Film

British Literature Survey 1

College Writing

Desktop Publishing

Literary Writing and Research

2002-2003, Lecturer, Humanities Program, West Virginia University

Introduction to Humanities: Ancient to Medieval

Introduction to Humanities: Renaissance to Contemporary

2000-2002, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, West Virginia University

Technical Writing

Composition and Rhetoric

Introduction to Poetry and Drama: Renaissance to Post-Modern

1999-2000, Visiting Instructor, Department of English, Washington State University

Accessing Information for Research

Advanced Rhetoric

Composition

1996-1999, Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Washington

British Literary Culture 1600-1800

Composition and Social Issues

Composition and Literary Genres

HONORS THESIS DIRECTING/ADVISING

Director, Senior Honors Thesis. “Cross-Dressing and Anti-Theatricality in Shakespeare” by Jenni Connor Greer (Spring 2005).

Wingate 101 Orientation Course and Advising, Wingate University, 2005

Undergraduate Student Advising, Wingate University, 2004-present.

PUBLICATIONS      

Refereed Articles:

“‘He is turned a ballad-maker’: Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England.” Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003): 1.1-21.

 http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/09-2/fishball.html

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Books:

Editor (with Rebecca Steinberger), Encountering Ephemera from Shakespeare to Swift: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom

Contributor, “Introduction:Toward a Pedagogy of the Ephemeral” and “Ephemeral Traces in the Domestic Wagering Narrative”

Misreading and the Parameters of Exemplarity in Early Modern England

Articles:

Fashioning Familiar Space in the Domestic Travel Writing of John Taylor the Water-Poet

“Anti-Theatricality and the Limits of the Exemplary in Early Modern England”

PRESENTATIONS

“Seeing Red and White: Nature and Artifice in the Early Modern Cosmetic Debate” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX December 2005.

“Matters of Absence: Remembering, Forgetting, and Ephemera in the Classroom.” Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Orlando, Florida, October 2004.

 “‘I sing in my own defense’: Autolycus, Nightingale, and the Staging of Broadside Ballads in Early Modern England.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Newport Beach, California, October 2003.

 “Ventriloquism, Mimicry, and Misreading in John Taylor the Water-Poet.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2003.

 “Conversion, Translation, Faith, and the Englished Jew.” Session Chair, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Tampa, Florida, November 2002.

“Anti-Theatricality and Limits of Exemplary Authority in Early Modern Drama.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2002.

“Misreadings of Textual and Geographic Place in the Travel Narratives of John Taylor the Water-Poet.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2001.

“‘Strange Yet English Fashions’: Re-Defining Ethnographic Boundaries in the Early Modern Wagering Journey Narrative.” Sixteenth Century Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, October 2001.

"Cosmetique Usurpations: Face Painting and Problems of Subjectivity in Webster’s The White Devil." Sixteenth Century Studies Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 1998.

“‘To Read Him By His Form’: Hermeneutic Ambiguity and the Fashioning of Identity in Ralph Roister-Doister and Twelfth Night." Sixteenth Century Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.

"Mispointing and Missing the Point: The Duplicitous Letter in Udall’s Ralph Roister-Doister." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 1997.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE 

Director, Shakespeare Recitation Contest, Wingate University 2007-present

Enrollment Management Committee, Wingate University 2004-present

Student Development and Retention Committee, Wingate University, 2003-2004

Finalist Judge, Annual Shakespeare Recitation Contest, Wingate University, 2003- 2007

Assistant Administrative Director, GenEd 300-Accessing Information for Research Program, Washington State University, 2000

English Graduate Organization, University of Washington, 1995-1999

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

Robert Heilman Distinguished Dissertation Prize, University of Washington (2002)

Honors Distinction, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Washington (2002)

Honors Distinction, Doctoral Preliminary Examinations, University of Washington (1999)

Travel Grant, University of Washington (1998)

International Travel Grant, University of Washington (1997)

Travel Grant, University of Washington (1997)

Modern Language Association

Renaissance Society of America

Sixteenth Century Studies Association

South Central Renaissance Association

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association