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DUCATION
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Ph.D. (English) August 15, 2009Areas of Specialization: Religion & Literature, 19th Century British PoetryDissertation:
“Kubla Khan,”
The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
, and the Decomposing Subject in Coleridge’s Corpus
M.A. (English) May 18, 2002Thesis:
“A Knocking at the Door”: Christian Hope in the Horror Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
The Master's College, Santa Clarita, California
B.A. (English) May 8, 1999Recognized by English Department as Outstanding Student for 1999GRE: 800 Verbal, 660 Quantitative, 610 Analytical; Subject (English): 650
Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina
Sophomore year completed May 7, 1994English major / Political Science minor (began with Computer Science major)
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College of Biblical Studies, Houston, TX
Assistant Professor of English
(Present)Teaching and developing courses in the core composition sequence, while also helping tocarry forward proposals to expand offerings in research methods and literary history.Belhaven College, Houston, TX
Assistant Professor of English
(2009-10)Prepared, revised, and taught courses including the core composition sequence (ENG 103,104, 105, 108), Literature (ENG 235 and 240), and European Humanities (HUM 250);revised Literature courses to focus on Anglophone literature in a highly collaborativeaccelerated/adult framework; developed proposals and took steps to build a foundationalskills development program for undergraduate and graduate students.
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Freshman Composition Instructor
2000-02, Spring 2003, 2006-07, 2008-09Prepared and taught courses in Thinking & Writing (EN 1302) and Thinking, Writing andResearch (EN 1304). Annually renewed graduate fellowship: Instructor of record fortwo sections per semester.Baiko Gakuin University, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
Professor of English
2005-2006Taught in the English Language and Literature departments, including Intensive EnglishProgram. Courses taught include Oral Communication (IEP), Reading & Writing (IEP),Creative Writing, Speech & Debate, British & American Affairs (cultural studies), andOral Communication for non-majors. Participated in widely varied committee duties,planning, and projects.
Foreign English Teacher
2003-2005[EFL Instructor, secondary] Developed curriculum, prepared and taught a wide varietyof courses in Conversational English and English Writing at six grade levels forsecondary general and English-core students. Averaged fifteen courses (eighteenclassroom hours per week, nine “preps”) per term, two per term as lead instructor.Coordinated syllabus and grade normalization with two other Foreign English Teachersand assisted Japanese English Teachers.Baylor University, Waco, TX
Graduate Assistant, Baylor Study Abroad in Maastricht
Fall 2002Assisted program director with student correspondence and coordinated paperwork forBaylor and Universiteit Maastricht (Netherlands), as well as dissemination of informationto the students. Helped arrange lodgings/transportation and tours for group andindividual student travel.
Writing Center Tutor
1999-2000Provided writing assistance to students of Baylor University, including instruction ingrammar, stylistics, structure, thesis development, and proofreading skills. Taughtworkshops in research and writing techniques.PGEsolutions Information Services Consulting, Dixon, IL
Information Services Consultant
1997-1998Provided a range of technical services for residential and small-business clients, includinghardware and software installation and troubleshooting, HTML authoring and site design,database development, and server maintenance [HTML/PHP work as recently as 2007].
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UBLICATIONS
Companion to Literary Romanticism
. Ed. Andrew Maunder. Forthcoming. New York: Factson File. Entries for Shelley’s “To Wordsworth,” Coleridge’s “France: An Ode” and“Pantisocracy,” and Charlotte Smith’s
Elegiac Sonnets
.
Dictionary of American Literary Characters
. 2
nd
ed. Vol. 2. Ed. Benjamin Franklin V. NewYork: Facts on File, 2002. Entries for characters from Tom Clancy novels
The Hunt for Red October
,
Patriot Games
,
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
,
Clear and Present Danger
,
The Sum of All Fears
,
Without Remorse
,
Debt of Honor
,
Executive Orders
,
Rainbow Six
.“Tipping the Scales: Contextual Clues in
Bishop Blougram’s Apology
.”
Studies in Browningand His Circle
. 24 (June 2001): 54-67.
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“What Milton Saw.” [free verse]
The Penwood Review
. (Fall 2009)“Disclosure.” [free verse] Kent Keeth Poetry Prize. Baylor University. (Spring 2009)“The Foreign Affair” & “To Have Boldly Gone.” [sonnets]
The Penwood Review
. (Fall 2007)“The Final Stroke.” [sonnet]
The Penwood Review
. (Spring 2002)“Meeting of the Minds.” [experimental verse]
Reflections
. (Spring 2001)“High Places.” [fourteener]
The Penwood Review
. (Spring 1999)
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RESENTATIONS
“The Time of God's Long Suffering: Reading the New Testament in Response to a BuddhistProblem.” Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Atlanta, Georgia.November 17, 2010.“‘Reading maketh a full man’: Technology and the Marriage of Christianity to HumaneEducation.” Forum for Christianity and the Liberal Arts. University of Mobile. Mobile,Alabama. September 25, 2010.“The Frozen Wave: Grammar and the Gesture of Progress.” Reading Material: Textual andCultural Objects. Conference in Language and Literature (MADLIT). University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. March 5, 2010.“Lovecraft’s
Fungi
and the Legitimacy of the Sonnet.” Southwest Conference on Christianityand Literature 2009. Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas. October 4, 2009.“‘My spirit I to Love compose’: Coleridge’s Prayers and Non-Prayers, and Their Answers.”Federation of North Texas Area Universities Rhetoric Symposium 2009. Commerce,Texas. February 6, 2009.Public Poetry Reading. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Writers’ Festival. January 10, 2009.“Abjection Overruled: The Japanese Appropriation by Christian Symbols in
Neon Genesis Evangelion
.” Japan as Image (Young Researchers Exchange), Osaka University. June25-26, 2005. [paper read
in absentia
due to illness]“Prosing Poetry: Novelistic Resistance to the Lyric in Late 19th-C Long Verse.” 2003Conference of the English Graduate Student Association, Baylor University. February 22,2003.
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