TEACHING INTERESTS American Studies and Cross-Culturalism; Multicultural American Literature; Women and Literature; Business and Professional Writing (Public Relations, Grants, Arts Management); Twentieth Century American Literature; Interdisciplinary Courses in Literature and Culture; Film and Literature; Personal essay (literary journalism); Feature Writing & Travel Writing; Freshman Composition. OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE Consultant in Public Relations and Communications (1981-present) for a number of arts/educational institutions including: The Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf, The Virginia State Ballet, The Institute of Early American History and Culture (portfolio of articles on request). ACADEMIC BACKGROUND l97l-75 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: M.A. bypassed; Ph.D. in English, August l975. Dissertation: "Critical and Historical Edition of Wolfert's Roost by Washington Irving." Published in l979 as one volume in the CEAA's Complete Works of Washington Irving. Dissertation Dir: Lewis Leary. l967-7l Queens College, City University of New York: B.A. in English with minor in Education, Honor's Program. Licensed to teach English, Grades 5-l2. HONORS AND AWARDS Fulbright Teaching Award to Taiwan. Commonwealth Teaching Award nominee, CNU (1994 & 1997) PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND ARTICLES "Storytelling and Ceremonial Healing: Louise Erdrich's Use of the Multiple Narrative Tradition in Tales of Burning Love," MELUS, Fall 2002. Women's Studies: An Interdiscplinary Anthology. Edited Roberta Rosenberg. New York: Peter Lang Inc., 200l. "`Being There': The Importance of a Field Experience in Teaching Native American Literature," Studies in American Indian Literatures," (Summer 2000), 38-60. "Native American Literature in the South," The Southern Companion to Literature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2001. The Language of Power: Women and Literature, 1945 to the Present.New York: Peter Lang Inc., 1997. "`I Hate This Book': Middle-Class Virtues and the Teaching of Multicultural Texts," Readerly/Writerly (Spring/Summer 1995), 29-39. "Southern Women in Communities: An Introduction," in Proceedings of the Virginia Humanities Conference on Southern Women in Communities: Traditions and Innovations. Edited by Roberta Rosenberg. Virginia: Virginia Humanities Conference, l994. l-l0. "Creating a Portfolio System to Meet State-Mandated Assessment," in The Uses of the Portfolio. Edited by Patricia Belanoff and Marcia Dickson. Boston: Boynton-Cook Publishers, l99l. 69-79. "The Community-Based Report: A Strategy for College-Community Collaboration," Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, March l99l, 43-5l. "Unlocking the Post-Patriarchal Door: Gender in the Contemporary Literature Classroom," in a special issue entitled "The Politics of Teaching Literature," College Literature, l990 l09-l20. Captain John Smith: A Brief Biography. Edited by Roberta Rosenberg. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, l986. An Historical Introduction and Critical Edition of Wolfert's Roost by Washington Irving. Boston: G.K. Hall, l979. One volume in the CEAA series on the Complete Works of Washington Irving. "A Checklist of the Writings of Lewis Leary," Early American Literature, VIII, (Winter l974), 298-304. PAPERS PRESENTED "Listening to All the Ancestral Voices: Building Bridges Between Native and Non-Native Scholars." Modern Language Association Division of American Indian Literatures, MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 2001. "If `Native' Isn't `Native," Then How Can It Be `Southern,'" Modern Language Association Convention: Special Session on "The Native American South: New Disciplinary and Imaginary Intersections, New Orleans, December 2001. "`Ancestral Imagination' and the Redefinition of Genre in Native American Literature," Native American Literature International Symposium, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, November 2000. "En-visioning the World: The Use of Multiple Narrators in Native American Literature," Modern Language Associa- tion Convention, Chicago, December 1999. "If `Native' Isn't `native,' then how can it be `Southern?'" Multiethnic Literature of the United States Convention, Nashville, Tn., March 1999. Another version of this paper will be given at the American Literature Association Convention in Baltimore, June 1999. "Multicultural American Literature by Women: A Workshop," National Chungking University, Department of Foreign Literatures, May 1997, Tainan, Republic of China. "Women and Work in Contemporary Literature," National Chengchi University, Department of English, March 1997, Taipei, Republic of China. "`Being There': Teaching Native American Literature Through a Field Experience," Modern Language Association National Convention, December 1996, Washington, D.C. "Feminine Fantasies and the Puritan Work Ethic: Working Women in Contemporary Literature, Southeastern Modern Language Association Convention, November 1996, Savannah, Georgia. "Belles Who Run with the Wolves: A Jungian Analysis of Lee Smith's `Artists,'" Society for the Study of Southern Literature National Convention, April 1996, Richmond, Virginia. "`I Hate This Book': Middle-Class Virtues and the Teaching of Multicultural Literature," Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States National Convention, April 1996, Greensboro, North Carolina. "Dis(man)tling Medical Hierarchies: Women and the Healing Arts in Contemporary American Literature," South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Convention, November l994. "A Feminist Interpretation of Alan Acykbourn's Absurd Person Singular, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, May l993. "The Demise of God, the Old White Banker: Heterodox, Feminist Spirituality in The Color Purple, Virginia Humanities Conference, the College of William and Mary, April l993. "Sexual/Textual Imperialism: The Politically, but not Anatomically Correct Narrator in Norman Rush's Mating," Women's Studies, Special Lecture Series, College of William and Mary, October l992. "Searching for Persephone Off the Georgia Coast: The Emergence of the Black Goddess in Tina McElroy Ansa's Baby in the Family," Southern Humanities Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February l992. "Assessing the Major in English," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, March l992. "The Scarlet `A' Stood for Abstinence: Sexuality and Isolation in Contemporary Literature. National Conference of the Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, March l99l. "Assessing the Major in English through the Use of a Portfolio," American Association for Higher Education Conference, Washington, D.C., June l990. "Utilizing the Portfolios for State-Mandated Assessment of a Writing Program," Conference on College Composition and Com- munication, Chicago, March l990. "Gender and Literary Texts: Where We Are Going," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, December l989. "Motherhood Without Men: Feminist Solution or Cultural Disorder?" Susquehanna University, October l988; Virginia Humanities Conference, April l988. "Infusing Women's Studies in the Literature Curriculum," Women's Studies Conference, Old Dominion University, October l989. "College-Community Collaboration: The Community-Based Report," Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, March l988. "The Community-Based Report: A New Strategy for Teaching Business Communications," Association for Business Communication Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October l987. "The Voyage and Design: The Influence of Cotton Mather's Religious Biographies on American Literature," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York l972. RESEARCH INTERESTS Gender Studies and Culture, Multicultural literature of the United States, Twentieth-Century American Studies, Professional Writing for the Arts, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Culture. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Modern Language Association, Society for American Indian Literature, American Studies Association, Multiethnic Literature of the United States Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Virginia Humanities Conference.

  

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