Resume

• 2012

  Canyon

  Texas

  I am Associate Professor of British Romanticism and Victorian Literature at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU). I publish scholarly essays of literary criticism and history in professional periodicals and book-length collections. I present my work at professional conferences

  and I am a frequent speaker at community events. \n\nI am an award-winning teacher of literature and writing. I work with undergraduate and graduate students

  direct Master's theses

  and supervise capstone projects for B.A. in English candidates. I develop and teach new courses in English literature

  both traditional face-to-face classes and online offerings. I work as an adviser for undergraduate B.A. in English majors and students seeking Texas certification in Secondary English Language Arts (ELA 7-12). \n\nI participate in faculty governance and professional service. My major service roles have included serving as Director of Writing Programs and as Undergraduate English Coordinator at WTAMU

  as a Faculty Fellow in WTAMU’s Advising Services

  and as co-chair of the WTAMU Emerging Leaders Academy for 2016-17 focused on Academic Integrity.\n\nFor details

  please see my curriculum vitae.

  Associate Professor of English: British Romanticism & Victorian Literature

  West Texas A&M University

  West Texas A&M University

  Director

  Office of Writing Programs

  As Director of the Office of Writing Programs (OWP) at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU)

  I am responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Writing Program and its long term strategic planning. Duties include:\n\n•\tServe as administrative head of the program;\n•\tCoordinate 120+ sections of OWP courses each academic year;\n•\tDirect the Non-Course Competency Based Program for developmental reading and writing;\n•\tCreate interdisciplinary learning communities that incorporate OWP courses;\n•\tPrepare budgets and funding requests for all OWP programs;\n•\tOversee curriculum development and implementation for developmental reading and writing;\n•\tOversee curriculum development and implementation for first year composition;\n•\tOversee curriculum development and implementation for introductory technical communication;\n•\tCreate and facilitate faculty development programs;\n•\tOversee hiring

  training

  retention

  and review of part time instructors;\n•\tOversee hiring

  training

  retention

  and review of graduate teaching assistants;\n•\tOversee hiring

  training

  and review of student tutors; \n•\tAddress student issues related to first-year writing;\n•\tChair the WTAMU ENGL Composition Committee;\n•\tServe on the WTAMU Developmental Education Committee.

  West Texas A&M University

  18- and 19th-century British Women Writers Association

  Board Member

  At Large

  Session organizer

  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

• 2005

  Hart

  University of Georgia

  West Texas A&M University

  Athens

  Georgia

  Robert E. Park Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of Georgia

• 2000

  Ph.D.

  English literature

• 1998

  MA

  English

• 1987

  BFA

  Theatre

• Curriculum Development

  Research

  Instructional Design

  Academic Advising

  Student Development

  Editing

  Higher Education

  Student Affairs

  Critical Thinking

  Tutoring

  Literature

  Social Media

  Public Speaking

  Event Planning

  Copy Editing

  Curriculum Design

  University Teaching

  History

  Adult Education

  Qualitative Research

  The Factory Exile: Ellen Johnston's Autobiography

  Poems and Songs

  The Factory Exile: Ellen Johnston's Autobiography

  Poems and Songs

  This essay details how to use the prefatory material in Ann Yearsley’s volumes as a way of introducing the patronage system and identity construction for the laboring-class writer

  and then demonstrates the importance of juxtaposing those narrative self-constructions with her poetic personae. Addressing two poems in depth

  “To Mr. R” and ““To the Honorable H——E W——E

  on reading The Castle of Otranto

  ” the author includes specific questions for classroom discussion; illustrates using the Oxford English Dictionary in the interpretive process; addresses integrating Yearsley’s work into upper-division as well as lower-level core curriculum courses; and ends with a consideration of class and socioeconomic issues in contemporary American college classrooms.

  Poeta nascitur non fit: Teaching Ann Yearsley's Life and Works (forthcoming)

  “Charlotte Smith’s Exilic Persona.”

  The essay argues that typical readings of Smith as a poet writing in a traditional Romantic mode

  creating lyrics that depict a melancholic individual subject drawing inspiration and education from the natural world

  risk marginalizing her. Recognizing exile as both biographical reality and literary trope is central to an understanding of Smith’s verse

  for she also wrote poetry with a significant political agenda

  one that distinguishes her from her early Romantic contemporaries and challenges the parameters of English Romantic nationalist discourse.

  “Charlotte Smith’s Exilic Persona.”

  \"Arson and Murder in Kate Chopin's _At Fault_\"

  Essay argues that the works of Ann Yearsley

  milkmaid turned poet

  reshape the emerging narrative of plebeian poetry during the early Romantic era. This narrative all too often holds a particularly precarious supposition to be true: that writings by laboring-class authors automatically enact either radical rebellion or absolute assimilation. In this scenario

  either the poetry should be read as overt social criticism or regurgitated middle-class rhetoric. Yearsley’s *Poems on Several Occasions* does not fall neatly into this paradigm

  as the volume’s education of the lower classes reveals a sophisticated balance of poetic protest and performance

  political acquiescence and resistance. Ultimately

  this volume takes on a radical new significance when read in context of late 18th-century arguments against education for women and the laboring-classes.

  “Protest and Performance: Ann Yearsley’s Poems on Several Occasions.”

  Book review.

  Rev. of Romanticism

  Sincerity and Authenticity

  eds. Tim Milnes and Kerry Sinanan. NBOL-19.