Curriculum Vitae

Education
Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Albany, August 2002
B.A., English, magna cum laude, Russell Sage College, Troy, May 1993

Awards & Honors
Alumni Award for Excellence, Western State College of Colorado, 2007, 2008, 2009
Presidential Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, SUNY-Albany, August 2002
Doctoral qualifying examination, Passed with Distinction, SUNY-Albany, September 2000

Doctoral Dissertation
"Visual Perversity: A Re-articulation of Maternal Instinct"
The look that passes between - and binds - mother and child has been unquestioningly characterized as one of intense love and devotion. Implicit however in this gaze of the maternal is an unconscious hatred of the child and a desire for its annihilation. 

Teaching Experience
Western State College 2005-present, Assistant Professor of English
State University of New York at Albany 1997-2005, Department of English
Siena College 2004-2005, Department of English
Hudson Valley Community College 2002, Department of English

Academic Service and Professional Experience
Western State College of Colorado:
CALLoquium 2006: “(Don't) Look, Mom, I Wrote a Book!”: How to Subvert the Publishing Order
Faculty Senate
Teacher Education Committee
Center for Teaching Excellence
Honors Council
Committee for Assessment and Curriculum in English 
Graduate school advisement
Academic Advisement
Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Alpha Xi Pi Chapter), International English Honor Society

SUNY-Albany:
Advisor, senior thesis for Honors Program 2005
Director, senior thesis for Honors Program 2004
Director, independent study of Doctor of Arts in Humanistics candidate 2004
Advisor, Teaching Assistant Training Program Spring 2001-Spring 2002

Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
North American Victorian Studies Association
Popular Culture Association