curriculum vitæ
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Education:
Ph.D., English, University of Connecticut,
1995.
Dissertation title: Transatlantic
Translations: Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë
M.A., English, University of
Connecticut, May, 1990
B.A., Western Michigan University,
August, 1973.
Majors: English, Mathematics.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors College; also obtained a Michigan
Secondary Level Teaching Credential.
Academic Positions:
Associate Professor of English,
Central Connecticut State University, 1993-99
Assistant Professor of English,
Central Connecticut State University
Lecturer, St. Joseph College,
West Hartford, CT, 1986-88
Courses Taught:
Teaching of Literature for Children
Special Topics in American
Literature: Louisa May Alcott: "The 'Oversoul' and Oysters"
Writing Women: American Women
Writers Before 1900
Children's Literature
Storytelling
American Literature from 1860
to the Present
American Literature to 1860
Introduction to Women Writers
(International)
American Women Writers
Masterworks of American and
British Literature
Freshman Composition
Composition and Literature
Literature for Young Adults
The Literature of Early Childhood
Related Academic Experiences:
Guest Speaker, "Louisa May Alcott and Henry James," Kansas State University, 2001
English Department Guest speaker at Faculty Development Workshop on "Telling Herstory: Female Mythology in Literature," West Hartford high schools
Guest lecturer on Jane Eyre at Conard High School, West Hartford, 2000
Guest lecturer on "The Fairy Tales in Jane Eyre," Miss Porter's School, 1998-99, Farmington, Ct. July,
Lecturer on "Goethe's influence on Louisa May Alcott" at Alcott's home, Orchard House, Concord, Mass., as part of the "School of Philosophy" lecture series, August, 1998
Lecturer on "Charlotte Bront¿'s Influence on Louisa May Alcott's Writing," Orchard House, 1997
Lecturer, "Louisa May Alcott's "A Long Fatal Love Chase" for the CCSU English Graduate Students Association's series, "Ex Libris," discussions of books that have influenced our professional lives (March 12) 1996
Lecturer, "Gender and Genre: Three Faces of Louisa May Alcott," sponsored by Women's Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University (March 14) 1995
Participant, Curriculum Development Seminar for FYE (First-Year Experience) program, CCSU; participant in FYE program as part of Freshman Composition course. 1994-95
Consultant to Kent Bicknell on the transcription of Louisa May Alcott's manuscript for A Long Fatal Love Chase, published by Random House in 1995.
Co-Editor, Children's Literature, (Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association, published by Yale University Press), Spring 1991
Member, Committee on Notable
Books in the Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English. Duties
included selecting outstanding children's books each year, presenting them
at the national conference in November, and writing critiques for publication
in journals, 1989-1992.
Publications:
Six entries in The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, eds. Anne Phillips and Gregory Eiselein, Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Louisa May Alcott." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 239, Nineteenth-Century Prose Writers, 1820-1870, Eds. Katherine Rodier and Amy Hudock. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001; 3-23.
Entries on Louisa May Alcott and on her story, "Behind a Mask," The Reader's Companion to the Short Story. Ed. Abby Werlock, Checkmark Books, 2000.
Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations (Knoxville: Univ. of Tenn. Press, 2000)
"Louisa May Alcott: New Texts and Contexts," Children's Literature, 1999 (Review essay).
"Communities of Education in Alcott and Brontë." In Little Women and the Feminist Imagination. Eds. Jan Alberghene and Beverly Lyon Clark. Garland Press, 1999; 261-83.
"Notable Novels in the Classroom: Helping Students to Increase Their Knowledge of Language and Literature." in Booktalk: Books That Invite Talk, Wonder and Play with Language. Eds. Jan Kristo and Amy McClure. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. 78-91.
"Say What You Mean: Written
Communication." in Effective Communication: Theory intoPractice.
Eds. Sarah King, Andrew Moemeka, Serafin Mendez-Mendez. McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Recent Conference Papers/Participation:
Paper accepted for Children's Literature Association annual conference, Ender's Game Ender's Shadow: Orson Scott Card's Post-Modern School Stories" June 2001.
"German Literature in Louisa May Alcott's March Novels," Children's Literature Association 28th Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York, April 2001.
"Back to the Future: Time in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Orson Scott Card's Enchantment," Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (Nashville, Tennessee) June 2000.
"Letters in Little Women: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender, Genre, and Geography," Children's Literature Association 27th Annual International Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, April 2000.
Participant, 6th Annual General
Education Symposium, Berkelee College of Music, Boston (a conference on
Writing in the Disciplines), Dec. 1999.
Paper accepted for MLA conference,
Chicago, entitled "Letters in Little," March 1999.
"The American Girl: Louisa May Alcott 'Talks Back' to Henry James," Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature, (Nashville, March 25-27) Dec. 1997
Panelist and organizing committee member, "A Workshop on Teaching American Studies at CCSU"
Professional Memberships:
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Children's Literature Association
National Council of Teachers
of English
Children's Literature Assembly
of NCTE
National Storytelling Association
Connecticut Storytelling Board
Awards/Honors:
Recipient, Honor an Educator
Award, CCSU Chapter of Delta Kappa Pi, International Honor Society in Education,
May 2000
Keynote speaker, Academic Honors
Convocation, CCSU, May 2000
Recipient, 2000 Excellence
in Teaching Award, CCSU
Semi-Finalist for 1999 Excellence
in Teaching Award, Central Connecticut State University.
Nominee, 1998 Excellence in
Teaching Award, Central Connecticut State University.
Semi-Finalist for 1997 Excellence
in Teaching Award, Central Connecticut State University.
Nominee, 1996 Excellence in
Teaching Award, CCSU.
Outstanding Scholar Award,
English Department, University of Connecticut (1989-91).
Two- and-one-half year fellowship
awarded to the outstanding student in the English Department Graduate Program.
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