I've
been teaching courses in English, the Humanities, and Creative-Writing
for about ten years. I've taught at the University of Houston,
the Houston Community College, Athens Technical Institute, and
now Salem College. Currently I'm teaching Creative-Writing at
Salem, an all women's liberal arts college. Click
here to view my teaching philosophy.
The following a CV which focuses on my career as an English teacher:
Writer/English
Teacher
Experienced teacher of freshman and sophomore
English courses, and Creative Writing, at the collegiate level.
Knowledgeable in crafting a syllabus, setting goals for a course,
and completing a course in a timely and efficient manner. Excellent
mentor to students of varying ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities.
Trained in large and small classroom settings. Ability to determine
a student’s strongest needs and work to meeting the needs
of that student in the classroom or in private sessions. Well
read in English, American, and Central American Literature, with
a BA, and MA, and MFA in English Literature and Creative Writing
Fiction. Excellent nonfiction and fiction writer with superb graduate
school GPA. Careful, fair, and deliberate grader. Eight years
of teaching experience in higher education. Skilled evaluator
of creative work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with particular
emphasis on instructing students in the fundamentals of imaginative
writing.
Salem College
2006 - present
INSTRUCTOR, CREATIVE-WRITING
Designed and taught upper-level course and writing
workshop in the craft of writing Poetry. The course combined readings
of 20th Century women poets such as Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton,
Ann Sexton, Mary Jo Salter, Sharon Olds, and Sylvia Plath with
intensive critical analysis of the students’ own work in
Poetry.
Designed and currently teaching introductory course
in Creative Writing. The course includes introductory assignments
in the writing of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and it includes
a heavy reading load in all of those genres. Students are expected
to leave the course with a firm grasp of the fundamentals of Creative-Writing.
The University of Houston
1998-2000
INSTRUCTOR, ENGLISH
Designed and taught freshman and sophomore English
classes, two classes per semester, twenty-seven students per class.
Designed course work and syllabi for University of Houston core
curriculum English requirements. Designed and taught original
course for sophomore level English on Literature and Culture.
Reviewed the teachings practices and classroom teaching methods
of fellow English instructors.
Athens Technical Institute
2001-2003
INSTRUCTOR, ENGLISH
Designed and taught freshman and sophomore English
classes, one class per quarter, twenty-five students per class.
Designed and taught one weekend course in English and Rhetoric,
one quarter, fifteen students. Designed and taught one course
in Humanities, one quarter, twenty students.
Houston Community Colleges
1999-2000
INSTRUCTOR, ENGLISH, TUTOR
Designed and taught freshman and sophomore English
classes, one class per semester, ten to fifteen students per class.
Reviewed the teachings practices and classroom teaching methods
of fellow English instructors. Tutored and supervised a writing
lab for students needing assistance writing their English papers.
Awards, Fellowships, and Publications
Writer in Residence, Writers-in-the Schools, Houston,
TX, 1999-2000
Artist in Residence, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside,
CA, 1998
Artist in Residence, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 1996
Fellow, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA,
1995-1996
First Prize for Fiction, Texas Association of Creative Writing
Teachers, 2000
1996 Stanley Elkin Memorial Award for Short Fiction, Colorado
Review, 1996
Individual Artist Grant, Georgia Council of the Arts, 1995
“The Bomb Plant” (short story), Blue Mesa Review,
2005
“Shotgun" (short story), New Delta Review, 2001
"Chicken Catchers" (short story), West Branch, 1997
"Tadpoles" (short story), Colorado Review, 1996
"Bankfalva" (photo-essay), Grand Tour, 1996
"Light After Dark" (film), Atlanta Independent Film
& Video Festival, 1997
"Sticks" (film), Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA,
1998
Features articles and photographs for the Athens Daily News, 1993-94
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