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Lecturer, August 2004-present
Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland

Masculinities in Literature and Culture (ENGL 300): Authors/texts include Euripides, Torah, Pauline Epistles, Sir Gawain and Malory, Jacobean sumptuary pamphlets, Laclos and the Libertines, Oscar Wilde, Cather, Freud, Hemingway, Baldwin, Hwang, and DeLillo. (Sample syllabus online.)

Survey of American Women Writers of Color (ENGL 386): Critical/literary authors included: Lim, hooks, Mazumdar, Yu, Kingston, Matsumoto, Yamamoto, Sethi, Mukherjee, Gunn Allen, Erdrich, Anzauldúa, Cofer, Obejas, Cisneros, Morrison, Rich, Radicalesbians. (Sample syllabus online.)

Survey of African-American Literature (ENGL 383): Authors/figures included: Equiano, Wheatley, Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, Schuyler, Hughes, Brooks, Wright, Ellison, Petry, Hansberry, Fuller, Neal, Evans, Sanchez, Karenga, Malcom X, Baraka, King Jr., Giovanni, Lorde, Angelou, Jordan, Reed, Walker, Morrison. (Sample syllabus online.)

Aspects of the Novel (ENGL 252): Authors included: Chopin, Larsen, Faulkner, Garcia.

Bible as Literature (ENGL 341): Tanakh and Gospels

Expository and Argumentative Writing (ENGL 101):
(Sample syllabus online.)

Writing About Literature (ENGL 102):
(Sample syllabus online.)

American Humanities (HUM 2450):
artistic, architectural, literary, and musical history of the United States from 1492 to the present. (Sample syllabus online.)

Survey of American Literature, 20th Century (AML 2070):
Authors included: Dos Passos, Barnes, Faulkner, Pynchon, Silko, Garcia. (Sample syllabus online.)

Survey of American Literature, 19th-20th Centuries (AML 2070):
"Fin de siècle," realism, Impressionism, modernism, Freudianism, Cubism, the emerging women's movement, socialism, and the "lesbian continuum." Authors included: Fuller, Sojourner Truth, Dickinson, Chopin, Gilman, Cather, H.D., Stein, Porter, Hurston, Parker, Barnes, Brooks, Yamamoto, Rich, Sexton, Plath, Angelou, de Plessis, Kingston, Cisneros, Walker, Silko, Mukherjee, Morrison. (Hard-copy sample syllabus available on request.)

African American Literature Survey II, 1940 - present (AML 3271):
representative issues and authors of literature by African-Americans from 1940s to 1990s through the lenses of Stuart Hall's discussions of "diaspora" and Paul Gilroy's imaginary of the "black Atlantic," including the Harlem Renaissance and calls for Négritude, through the Black Arts Movement, the Nation of Islam controversy, and women-of-color feminism. Literary/critical authors included: Morrison, Hall, Schuyler, Hughes, Wright, Petry, Hayden, Ellison, Baldwin, Hansberry, Fuller, Brooks, Evans, Neal, Karenga, Malcom X, Baraka, King Jr., Madhubuti, Sanchez, Giovanni, Lorde, Angelou, Jordan, Reed, Walker, Kincaid. (Sample syllabus online.)

Contemporary U.S. Women of Color Literature (AML 2410): Critical/literary authors included: de Beauvoir, Foucault, Pratt, Lim, hooks, Mazumdar, Yu, Kingston, Matsumoto, Yamamoto, Sethi, Mukherjee, Gunn Allen, Erdrich, Anzauldúa, Cofer, Obejas, Santiago, Cisneros, Spelman, Morrison, Rich, Radicalesbians, Sinclair. (Sample syllabus online.)

Writing With Feminism (ENC 1145): selected reading
Authors included: Plato, Aristotle, St. Paul, Freud, Mill, Engels, Wollstonecraft, Daly, Maclean, Joan Kelly, de Beauvoir, Angela Davis, Lorde, Yamata, Mazumdar, Anzauldúa, Moraga, Wittig, Radicalesbians, Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray, Walker. (Sample syllabus available on request.)

Advanced Argumentation (ENC 3312):
requirements of argumentative process, requirements of essay composition, drafting, and revising. (Syllabus available on request.)

Advanced Expository Writing (ENC 3310): selected reading list and devised syllabus for course for advanced juniors and seniors. Guided students in requirements of essay composition, drafting, and revising. (Syllabus available on request.)

Writing About Literature (ENC 1102):
(Sample syllabi online: sample 1; sample 2.)

Expository and Argumentative Writing (ENC 1101):
(Sample syllabus available on request.)

English Composition 1001

English Composition 1101 and 1102

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Co-coordinator 10th International American Women Writers of Color Conference (with Connie Richards, Associate Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University) AWWoCC online
Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004
Selected panels and papers; created, arranged and assisted in scheduling panels; selected guest writers; contacted vendors and publishing houses; managed Sarah E. Wright Graduate Paper Award selection; chaired sessions; organized bookroom; introduced guest speakers; and helped administrate a three-day International conference.

Television interviews, "Immigrant History of Halloween."
WMDT (ABC affiliate) October 31, 2006/07

Presenter: "Who You Following?" March 2006
Salisbury University NAACP Leadership Conference

Gender Studies Curiculum Committee 2006-07
Salisbury University, 2006-07

Freshman Reader Selection Committee 2006-07
Salisbury University, 2006-07

English Graduate Representative to the General Education Committee, University of Florida, 2000.
Attended and reported on General Education Committee meetings; voiced graduate student concerns.

Secretary, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida, 1999-2001.
Attended and recorded English Graduate Organization meetings; helped organize conference and speaker platforms; generated and organized information for incoming graduate students.

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