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Education
Doctor of Philosophy. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. 1997.
Dissertation: Knowing is " Seaing:" Conceptual Metaphor in the Fiction of Kate Chopin
Director: James T. F. Tanner
Committee Members: Haj Ross, Barbara Rodman
Master of Arts. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. 1994.
Texas Teaching Certificate. Southwestern Adventist University. Keene, Texas. 1988.
Teaching Areas: English, Business Administration, Special Education
License Status: Lifetime
Bachelor of Arts. Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee. 1985.
Forthcoming Books
The Awakening by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition, with Barbara C. Ewell and Pamela Glenn Menke. Under contract, Broadview Press. Forthcoming, 2009.
Books
Voices of the American South. General editor. Comprehensive anthology of southern literature. New York: Longman Publishers, 2005.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists, with Lisa Abney. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman B Gale, 2004.
Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945, with Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings, with David J. Caudle. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.
Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana, with Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works, with David J. Caudle. Introduction by Emily Toth. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Grants Funded
National Writing Project B Continuation of Funding Proposal. Proposal to continue the work of the NSU Writing Project was accepted for the 2005-06 funding cycle; funded in the amount of $43,000.
National Writing Project B New Site Proposal. The National Writing Project (NWP) provides an annual, intensive summer institute for public school teachers to improve writing instruction across disciplines. Summer institutes are supplemented by ongoing inservice opportunities throughout the school year. The ultimate goal of the NWP is for institute participants to become writing consultants in local school districts, thus making training in writing instruction available to as many teacher as possible. Co-authored with Lisa Rougeou, NBCT. Authored Summer 2003; Funded for $30,000.00 for the first year.
Teacher Institute for Advanced Study. Program sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Provides funding for an intensive summer graduate course for public school teachers. Authored Fall 2002; Funded for Summer 2003 in the amount of $26,051.00.
Graduate Fellows Program. Program sponsored by Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund. Provided a two-year research assistantship for a superior graduate student. Funded in the amount of $22,000 for two years. Co-authored with Lisa Abney. Authored Fall 1997; Funded 1999-2001.
Council for University Research Incentive Awards (CURIA) Research Grant for production of Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Co-authored with Lisa Abney. Funded in the amount of $2,000 by Northwestern State University. Authored Spring 1999; Funded 1999-2000.
Council for University Research Incentive Awards (CURIA). Research Grant for James Aswell Manuscript Project. Co-authored with David J. Caudle. Funded in the amount of $1,200 by Northwestern State University. Authored Fall 1998; Funded 1998-1999. |
