EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of Iowa, July 1999

Dissertation: The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939. A study of the relationship between the economic image of the Jew in British and American literature and the development of literary Modernism, examined in the context of economic history and the development of economic thought. (Kevin Kopelson, director; Garrett Stewart, Thomas Lutz, Adelaide Morris, Deirdre McCloskey, committee). To be published by Routledge in 2002 as part of the Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series.

M.F.A., Writing (Fiction), Washington University in St. Louis, May 1990

B.A., English. University of California, Berkeley. Highest Honors, May 1988

HONORS AND AWARDS

Iowa Fellowship, University of Iowa 1993-1997.
University Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis, 1988-90.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1988.
First Prize, Elizabeth Stuart Mills Award for Literary Composition, U.C. Berkeley, 1987.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Writing and composition; 19th and 20th century American and British literature; economics in literature; ethnic and post-colonial literature.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of English, Ashland University, Ashland OH, 2000-2001

• English 101 (4 sections)
• English 102 (2 sections)
• Advanced Composition
• American Literary Experience (2 sections-- one as survey and one as topics course)
• The Modern Novel
• The Bible as Literature

• American Literature II, English 102 (2 sections) Spring 2000
• American Literature I, English 101, Fall 1999

• American Literature II, English 101, Spring 2000

• Expository Composition II, Fall 1997, Fall 1998, Fall 1999 (5 sections total)

• American Literature, Spring 1999

• Interpretation of Literature (emphasis on canonical literature), Spring 1996
• American Lives (American autobiography), Fall 1995
• Biblical and Classical Literature, Fall 1995
• Interpretation of Literature (emphasis on world and post-colonial literature), Fall 1994-Spring 1995

• Introduction to Fiction Writing, Fall 1989-Spring 1990

SCHOLARSHIP AND CONFERENCES

Publications

Forthcoming 2002: The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series. New York: Routledge.

Conference Presentations

"Syntax, Semantics, and Inquiry: The Impact of Computer Assessment of
Essays on WAC," Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio. November 2-4, 2001.

"Writing Across the Core: A Second Chance," National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. May 31-June 2, 2001.

"Our Mutual Creditor: Limited Liability Laws, a Market Bubble, and 'the Jew' in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend" at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference: The Century of Victoria and Verdi." Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia. March 22-24, 2001.

"Buxom as Beste: The Issue of Regionalism in the Alliterative Morte Arthure," Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 1996.

"The Indefinable Smile: False Enigma in Heart of Darkness," Conrad's Century: A Special Meeting of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, Kent State University, April 1995.

"Workers of the World, Spatialize: Marxist Literary Theory and the Filipino Novel in America," SUNY-Cortland Conference on Language and Literature, October 1994.

Short story "350 Pounds of Bobo" appeared in Byzantium, U.C. Berkeley literary journal, 1987.

SERVICE

Ashland University

Composition Committee, August 2000-present

• recruited, hired, and supervised adjunct composition faculty; designed and conducted portfolio assessment of composition program; conducted statistical analysis of existing developmental writing program; designed and conducted writing assessment for College of Business; gave Writing Across the Curriculum workshop at Faculty College; participated in WAC initiatives involving Writing Center

Ashland University High School Workshop, November 2000

University of Iowa

Interpretation of Literature Textbook Committee, 1995-6.

Graduate Admissions Reading Committee, 1996.

LANGUAGES

Reading and speaking proficiency in Spanish; reading ability in ancient Hebrew.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

19th Century Studies Association

Midwest Modern Language Association