curriculum vitæ
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EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Central Connecticut State University, 2004-present
Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut
State University, 2001-2004
Assistant Professor, Iona College, 2000-2001
Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut
State University, 1997-1999
Instructor/Tutor, Yale University, Instructor/Tutor, 1996-1999
Instructor, Albertus Magnus College, 1997
Lecturer, Texas Tech University, 1991-1992
Teaching Assistant, Texas Tech University,
1989-90
Dissertation, "John Gower, the Confessio Amantis, and the Rhetoric of Omission."
Director: Lee Patterson, Yale University.
Rice University, B.A., 1979
BOOKS
American Chaucers. New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007.
ARTICLES
“Skeltonics,” Companion to Pre-Sixteenth-Century Poetry, edited by Michelle Sauer. 2008.
“Extra-Credit Opportunities for Students in General Education Courses,” in Effective Teaching: Systematic Reflections on the Scholarship of Teaching, Edited by Paulette Lemma. Vol. 2. New Britain, CT: Central Connecticut State University, 2005. 95-99.
“‘Misframed Fables’: Barclay’s Gower and the Wantonness of Performance.” Mediaevalia 24 (2003): 193-223.
“Old and Middle English Poetry,” Section Introduction for The Longman Anthology of Poetry. Edited by Lynne McMahon, Ryan Van Cleave, and Averill Curdy. Longman, 2006.
REVIEWS
Review of Medieval Schools by Nicholas Orme in Children’s Literature. Forthcoming.
Review of What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education Michael Bérubé in Vanguard.
Review of Chaucer as Children’s Literature: Retellings from Victorian and Edwardian Eras by Velma Bourgeois Richmond in Children’s Literature 35 (2007): 196-199.
Review of Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff in Vanguard 26:2 (January-February 2006): 5.
Review of Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme in Children’s Literature 32 (2004): 203-208.
Review of Chaucer’s “Legal Fiction”: Reading the Records by Mary Flowers Braswell in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 353-356.
Review of Ordering Medieval Society: Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations edited by Bernhard Jusserand, translated by Pamela Selwyn in The Medieval Review, 2 July 2002: http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/.
Review of An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Fiction, Writing, Context by Helen Phillips in The Medieval Review, 3 December 2000: http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/.
Review of Political Allegory in Late Medieval England, by Ann W. Astell in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22 (2000): 448-51.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
AAUP University Research Grant, 2007-08, CSU Research Grant Committee.
AAUP University Research Grant, 2006-07, CSU Research Grant Committee.
CCSU Curriculum Development Grant, 2006, “Doing Things with Old English Literature,” WVU Seminar, 1-4 June 2006.
AAUP University Research Grant, 2005-06, CSU Research Grant Committee.
CSU Learning Assessment and Improvement Grant, 2004, “Frequent Targeted Practice.”
AAUP University Research Grant, 2004-05, CSU Research Grant Committee.
CSU Assessment Grant, 2003, “Extra-Credit Opportunities for Students in General Education Courses.”
CSU Assessment Grant, 2002, “Measuring the Effectiveness of Poetry in Freshman Composition Courses,” Co-director with David Cappella, CCSU English Dept.
AAUP University Research Grant, 2002-03, CSU Research Grant Committee.
Travel Grant, 2000, New Chaucer Society.
Travel Grant, 1999, Medieval Academy of America.
Curriculum-Related Activities Grant, May 1999, Office of Faculty Development, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
Graduate Fellowship, 1990-1996, School of Graduate Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
"Tracing Court(ly) Conventions in Royal Texts of John Skelton’s Poetry,” 29 March 2007, Texts & Images Conference, CCSU, New Britain, CT.
“Tracing Court(ly) Conventions in Royal Texts of John Skelton’s Poetry,” 28 December, 2006, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
“Love on the Margins,” 7 November 2005, Ex Libris talk sponsored by CCSU English Graduate Student Association and Sigma Tau Delta.
“The Prisoner’s Tale: Reading Chaucer in German POW Camp,” 22 October 2005, 10th CSU Faculty Research Conference, New Britain, CT.
“Assessing Assessment in the World Literature Class: Frequent Targeted Practice,” 2nd Annual Four-Campus Assessment Conference, ECSU, Willimanatic, CT, 29 April 2005.
“Dressing the Part: American Women and Popular Culture Trump the Academy,” 3 November 2004, Women and Gender Lecture Series, Rice University, Houston, TX.
“Courtly Performance and Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale,” 16-17October 2004, New England Medieval Conference, Connecticut College, New London, CT.
“Chaucerian Pageants at Wheaton College,” 20 July 2004, 14th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Glasgow, Scotland.
“Courtly Performance and Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale,” 24 April 2004, 9th CSU Faculty Research Conference, New Haven, CT.
“Chaucer, Bananas, and an American Seaport,” 18 March 2004, Faculty Presentation Series, English Department, CCSU, New Britain, CT.
“Courtly Performance and Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale,” 10 April 2003, Medieval Academy of America, Minneapolis, MN.
“American Women Retell/Retail Chaucer: The Case of Gordon Brinley,” 3 April 2003, June Baker Higgins Conference for Gender Studies, CCSU, New Britain, CT.
“American Women Retail Chaucer,” December 2002, MLA, New York, NY.
“Amans’ Confession,” May 2002, 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“American Women Retail/Re-tell Chaucer,” 20 April 2002, June Baker Higgins Conference for Gender Studies, CCSU, New Britain, CT.
“America Reads Chaucer,” 6 April 2002, 7th CSU Faculty Research Conference, New Haven, CT.
"Extra-Credit Options: Opportunities for Cultural and Intellectual Growth,” 2 November 2001, 7th Annual Connecticut Consortium for Enhancing Learning and Teaching, Willimantic, CT.
“’There is a trespass done’: Chaucer and Nineteenth-Century America’s Imperial Project,”19 October 2001, Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, LA.
“‘Weel purtreye and write’: Courtly Performance in The Squire’s Tale,” May 2001, 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“’Redeth Gower’: Caxton’s Marketing of the Confessio Amantis,” July 2000, New Chaucer Society, London, England.
“Raiding England’s Golden Treasury: Nineteenth-Century America’s Appropriation of Chaucer,” May 2000, 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Integrating Critical Thinking Skills in the Developmental Composition Classroom,” 5 November 1999, 5th Annual Connecticut Consortium for Enhancing Learning and Teaching, Hartford, CT.
“Virtues vs. Vices: The Legal Battle in Gower’s Mirour de l’Omme,” 15 February 1999, Medieval Studies Lunch Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
“Barclay Reads Gower, or Grumpy Old Men,” 10 May 1998, 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Esquire John Gower,” 11 May 1997, 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“John Gower: The Judicial Self,” 14 February 1997, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
“The ‘Strange Matiere’ of Gower Studies,” 19 October 1996, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Binghamton, NY.
“Lydgate’s ‘Dedli Slepe,’” 12 October 1996, Medieval Association of the Midwest Conference, Terre Haute, IN.
“‘What strengest is of erthli thinges’: None of the Above,” 9 May 1996, 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
“The Intertexts of Chaucer’s House of Fame,” 8 February 1994, Medieval Studies Colloquium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
“The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale: A Reading of Chaucer’s Two Canons,” 5 November 1992, Medieval Studies Colloquium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
“Introductory Literature Classes: How the Writing Center Can Help,” 17 February 1992, Colloquium for Writing Center Theory and Practice, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
“Producing The Play of the Sacrament for Strangers,” 1 February 1992, Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium, Lubbock, TX.
TEACHING HONORS
Finalist, CCSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007-2008.
Honor Roll, CCSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006-2007.
Honor Roll, CCSU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005-2006.
SERVICE
Session Organizer, 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2008.
Session Moderator, MLA, 28 December, 2006, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
Session Moderator, CSU Faculty Research Conference, 22 October 2005.
Session Organizer, “Colonial Chaucer,” July 2004, 14th Intn'l Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Glasgow, Scotland, 15-19 July, 2004.
Panel Chair, 2 November 2001, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association Annual Conference, SCSU, New Haven, CT.
Session Organizer, May 1997, 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
College/University
Member, Mission and Purposes Subcommittee, NEASC Self-Study Committee, 2007-2008.
Member, Facilities Planning Committee, 2007-present
Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2007-present.
CSU-AAUP representative, Standing Advisory Committee, Board of Governors of Higher Education, State of Connecticut, 2006-2008.
Co-Chair, Election Committee, Faculty Senate, 2005-2006.
Member, Appointments and Personnel Committee, 2005-2006.
Council Representative, CSU-AAUP Executive Committee, 2005-present.
Member, CCSU-AAUP Executive Council, 2005-present.
Chair, Take-A-Legislator-To-Work ad hoc Committee, 2004-2006.
Member, Enrollment Management Team: New Student Programs/Student Success, 2004-2006.
Board Member, CCSU Women and Film Festival, 2004-present.
Member, University Faculty Senate Elections Committee, 2004-2006.
Representative, University Faculty Senate, 2003-present.
Faculty, First Year Experience, 2002-present.
Member, Take-A-Trustee-to-Work Committee, 2002-2004.
Contributor of World-Famous, West-Texas-Style Enchiladas and Fresh Salsa, IRC Faculty Auction for Scholarship Fund, 2002 & 2003.
Board Secretary, United Protestant Campus Ministry, serving CCSU, 2002-2006.
Evaluator, On-line Writing Evaluation Program (Criterion) Report, Fall 2001, CCSU.
Mentor, Retention Task Force Subcommittee on Undergraduate Day Student Retention, 2001, Iona College.
Moderator, Tennessee Trails, Iona in Mission, 10-18 March 2001, Iona.
Organizer, Teaching Round Table, Fall 2000, Iona.
Remediation Workgroup, Undergraduate Curriculum Forum, Office of Academic Affairs, Spring 1999, Southern Connecticut State Univ, New Haven, CT.
Honors Faculty, 1998, SCSU.
Weekly Teaching Colloquium, 1997-99, SCSU.
Organizer, Annual CSU Undergraduate English Conference, 2006-present.
Co-coordinator, Annual Marathon Poetry Reading, CCSU Courtyard, 2006-present.
Faculty Advisor, The English Club, 2003-present, CCSU.
Member, Appointments Committee, 2002-present, CCSU.
Prepared representative syllabi (ENG 110, 203, 205, 332, & 450) for NCTE accreditation.
Reader/Grader, Graduate Student Comprehensive Exams, 2003-present, CCSU.
Ad hoc member, Appointments Committee for Early Modern Hire, 2001-02, CCSU.
Speaker, “Falling in Love at the Margins,” Sigma Tau Delta Initiation, April 2001, Iona College.
Pilot Conference Coordinator, “Finding Meaning in Multicultural Literature: Teaching Innovations,” Spring 1999, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
Curriculum Committee, 1997-99, English Department, SCSU.
Ad-Hoc Committee for Teaching Theory and Literary Analysis, 1998-99, English Department, SCSU.
Freshman Rhetoric and Composition Textbook Selection Group, Composition and Rhetoric Committee, 1992, English Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
Designer of model syllabi for Introductory and Advanced Composition and Rhetoric courses at Texas Tech.
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