08/03/05

Teaching Vita

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Bloomington, IN 47405

Assistant Director of  GROUPS Program                                     January 2004 to August 2004

New Teacher Consultant                                                                  August 2001 to May 2003

Associate Instructor                                                                           August 2000 to July 2004

Teaching Fellow                                                                                  August 2004 to present

 Courses Taught at Indiana University

·        Literary Interpretation (L202)                                                            Fall 2005

·        English Literature 1800-1900 (E303)                                              Summer 2005

·        Intro to Fiction (L204)                                                                         Fall Semester 2004

·        American Bestsellers (L141)                                                            Fall Semester 2003

·        Professional Writing (W231)                                                             Summer 2003

·        Elementary Composition (W131)                                                     Fall 2002

·        Intro to College Composition (J101)                                                Summer 2002

·        Basic Composition (WB131)                                                            Spring 2002

·        Elementary Composition (W131)                                                      Fall 2001

·        Intro to College Composition (J101)                                                Summer 2001

·        Elementary Composition (W131)                                                       Spring 2001 

·        Elementary Composition (W131)                                                       Fall 2000

MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   

Springfield, MO 65804

 Adjunct Instructor                                                                                August 1999 to Dec 1999    

 Teaching Assistant                                                                               August 1998 to May 1999

 Courses Taught at MSU

 ·        Basic Composition                                                                            Fall 1999

 ·        Freshman Composition                                                                      Spring 1999

 ·        Freshman Composition                                                                      Fall 1998

MARSHFIELD REORGANIZED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Marshfield, MO 65706

 Public School Teacher                                                                          August 1995 to June 1997

 ·        Seventh and Eighth Grade Language Arts                                          

 SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT

Springfield, MO 65804

 Public School Teacher                                                                          January 1995 to June 1995   

 ·        AP Introduction to College Psychology                                                                              

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS  

·         “Learning Through Stories: Woolf, Epistemology, and the Pedagogical Power of Fiction," Fifteenth Annual Conference on          Virginia Woolf: Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, 2005.

·         “Lawrence, Modernism, and Education,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference: University of Louisville, Ky, February 2004

 ·        “C. S. Lewis' Representation of Evil in The Space Trilogy,” MMLA Conference: Minneapolis, MN, November 1999.

 ·        “Satanic Rhetoric: Its history, power, and influence on C. S. Lewis' Perelandra,” C. S. Lewis Centenary Mythcon XXIX Conference: Wheaton College, July 1998.

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

 Modern Language Association

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