Education:

Ph.D. Literature; Graduate Minor Women's Studies, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, expected 2007. Major fields of interest: Postcolonial literature and theory, trauma studies, feminist literature.

M.A. English, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 2003. Thesis defense passed: May 2003. Fields covered: Postcolonial literature (Major field), Jamaica Kincaid (Major author)

B. S. Biology, Kutztown University, 1996

Master's Thesis:

"A Fourth Garden of Self-awareness in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid"

The thesis explores Kincaid's use of garden imagery to depict the failed progression of her people toward self-awareness in their current chaotic neocolonial state. In her canon, Kincaid conveys: the fall of man from the first garden; the destructive wake of the European Adam's struggle to return to Eden by the creation of a second garden through settlement and/or exploitation of foreign lands; the subsequent abandonment of the second garden, relegating the third, a devastated, impoverished land of postcolonial chaos and neocolonial destruction; and finally, a fourth garden into which she desires to draw her fellow Antiguans through her writing, a reflection of their apathy and loss, presently only a linguistic space of self-healing, but one Kincaid longs to present as a physical garden of mutual healing and responsibility.

Graduate thesis sponsored by Professors James Nechas, Linda Cullum, and Janice Chernekov

Research Interests:

Contemporary Postcolonial Theories and Feminist Literature
Trauma Theories
Literatures of the Caribbean (anglophone and francophone) and Latin America
Modern Feminist Literature (Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield)
American Indian Literature (Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan)

Teaching Interests:

Contemporary Postcolonial Theories and Literature; Feminist Literature and Theories; Literature of Caribbean, Latin America, New Zealand and Africa; Trauma Studies; Women's Studies; American Indian Literature; Modernism, especially Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Katherine Mansfield; Literary Theory; African-American Literature; Native American Literature; Rhetoric and Technology

Teaching Appointments:

Teaching Assistant, Purdue University, West Lafayette Campus (full tuition plus stipend) 2004, 2005
Classes

ENGL 106: First-Year Composition
ENGL 108R: Accelerated First-Year Composition for Computer Science Students Learning Community (Science Connections)

Adjunct Professor of English, Penn State University Berks/Lehigh Valley Campus, 2003, 2004
Classes

ENG 202D: Business Writing

Adjunct Professor of English, Alvernia College, 2003, 2004
Classes

ENG 309: World Literature

Adjunct Professor of English, Northampton Community College, 2003, 2004
Classes

ENGL 020: Basic English
ENGL 101C: English I (Composition)
ENGL 151C: English II (Introduction to Literature)

Adjunct Professor of English, Lehigh Carbon Community College, 2003, 2004
Classes

ENG 105: College English I (Composition)
ENG 106: College English II (Introduction to Literature)

Professional Development in Teaching

Certificates and Awards

Advanced Graduate Teacher Certificate (AGTC), Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University. In progress.

Graduate Teacher Certificate (GTC), Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University. Awarded May 2005.

Coordinator of Students Lindsey Beever, Jen Hansen, Iggy Munoz, Christ Niedhammer, and Chris Springstun. "1st Place Best Display of a Project"; "1st Place People's Choice Award"; "2nd Place Best Project in its Original Form" for "You're It!: The Rise of Date Rape on College Campuses." Introductory Composition At Purdue's Showcase of English 106 Student Work. West Lafayette, IN. April 12, 2005.

Offices

Representative. "Excellence in Teaching" for Purdue University's Graduate Student English Association (GradSEA). 2005.

Workshops

Participant. Purdue University's Center for Instructional Excellence College Teaching Workshop - Student-Teacher Relationships; University Policies and Procedures Related to Teaching; Designing Instruction; Lecturing Techniques; Using Discussion; The Basics of Testing; Getting Feedback to Improve Your Teaching; Micro Teaching

Professional Development in Technology

Webmaster. ENGL 590: Trauma Theories (graduate directed reading seminar). http://blogalice.com/trauma 2005.
Webmaster. USACLALS. http://usaclals.org. 2005.
Webmaster. Alice's Drupalrama: A Purdue ENGL 106 Introductory Composition Blog. http://joe.english.purdue.edu/sp05/damore1. 2005.

Academic Classes in Field

ENGL 590 Directed Reading in Caribbean Women Writers, with Aparajita Sagar
ENGL 590 Directed Reading in Trauma Theories, with Shaun F.D. Hughes
ENGL 590 Directed Reading in Authors and Indians: 19th C., with Phillip Round, U. Iowa, and Kristina Bross
ENGL 596A Afra-Latin American Women Writers
ENGL 657S Fighting Words, Graduate Seminar
ENGL 673B Postcolonial Theories, Graduate Seminar
ENGL 673F First Nation Fiction, Graduate Seminar
ENGL 678F Faulkner, Morrison History (Trauma), Graduate Seminar
ENGL 679E Woolf in Context, Graduate Seminar
FR 594F Studies in Francophone Literature
SA 590N Study Abroad: South Africa Resistance Tradition
WOST 680 Feminist Theory and Methodology, Graduate Seminar
WOST 681 Pen and Protest: Women Writers in Freedom Struggles, Graduate Seminar

Academic Work Experience:

Writing Lab Tutor, Purdue University, 2005
Writing Center and Chemistry Tutor, Lehigh Carbon Community College, 2002, 2003
Manager, Kutztown University Writing Center, 2002
Head Tutor, Kutztown University Developmental Studies Summer Program, 2002
Research Graduate Assistant for Kutztown University's English Department, 2001

Publications:

"Kincaid's Garden: A Fourth Garden of Self-Awareness." MaComère: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS). 7 (2004-05). Forthcoming.

"Paula Gunn Allen," "Linda Hogan," and "Leslie Marmon Silko." Contemporary Ethnic American
Poets. Linda Cullum, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.

"Susham Bedi," "Rohinton Mistry," and "Susan Nunes." Asian American Short Story Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Guiyou Huang, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Editor. The Write Way: A Semi-Annual Publication of Kutztown University's Writing Center, 2002.

Editor. The Litterateur: A Biannual Publication for Graduate Students at Kutztown University, 2001, 2002.

Conferences:

Presenter. "Fragile Shoot: Interrogating Heteronormativity in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother" for special session Queering the Caribbean. 121st Annual MLA Convention. December 27-30, 2005.

Presenter. "Autobiographical Ruptures: Rhoda's Traumatic Displacement." 15th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf: The Art of Exploration. Portland, Oregon. June 9-12, 2005.

Roundtable Discussion. "Authorship, Manuscript, Print, and Performance in Native America." Committee on Institutional Cooperation/American Indian Studies Consortium & Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities Conference: Narrating Native Histories in the Americas. Madison, Wisconsin. April 8, 2005.

Presenter. "Echo in the Garden: Subversive Spaces of Representation in The Autobiography of My Mother and Cereus Blooms at Night." The 36th Annual CEA Conference: Space(s). Indianapolis, Indiana. April 1, 2005.

Presenter. "Kincaid's Garden: A Fourth Garden of Self-Awareness." 14th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference and 3rd Conference of the US Chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies: Culture and Conflict: Crossing and Negotiating Borders. Savannah, Georgia. February 24, 2005.

Participant. "Transforming the Future, Transforming our Focus." CCCC Pre-Conference Worskhop W.10. The Writing Center as A Site of Transformation. New York, New York. March 19, 2003.

Moderator. "African-American Identity." English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities 2001: Exploring Inner Space. Kutztown, Pennsylvania. October 19, 2001.

Seminars:

Participant. "Authors and Indians: Performance, Manuscript, and Print in Nineteenth-Century Native America." The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), American Indian Studies Consortium, & Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Graduate Seminar. Winter-Spring 2005.

Languages:

Reading and translation knowledge of French, German, and Latin

Professional Organizations:

IPCS (Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
MLA (Modern Language Association)
ALA (American Literature Association)
NCTE (The National Council of Teachers of English)
CEA (College English Association)
USACLALS (United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies)
IVWS (International Virginia Woolf Society)

Honors Associations:

Alpha Epsilon Lambda, Gamma Chapter, Inducted 2002
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Chapter 269, Inducted 2002
Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Nu Chapter, Inducted 2002

Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:

Information and Computer Literacy Integration Program Fellowship, Purdue University, 2004, 2005

Offices Held:

Graduate Representative for Executive Committee of USACLALS, 2005
Vice-president of Sigma Tau Delta, Lambda Nu Chapter, 2002
Treasurer of Kutztown University's Graduate Student Association, 2002