Education
- Ph.D in Rhetoric and Composition, Ohio University, June 2010; Graduate Certificate: Womens and Gender Studies; Dissertation: Surfacing Teacher and Student Voices: the Implications of Teaching Practices for Student Attitudes Toward Revision. Dissertation Director: Jennie Nelson.
- M.A. in English, Montclair State University, January 2004; Major Emphasis: Writing Studies; Masters Thesis: Reawakening the Student: Exploring Teaching Kinesthetic; Writing in the College Writing Classroom. Thesis Director: Robert Whitney
- B.A. in English, Muhlenberg College, May 2000
Teaching and Research Interests
- Western and non-Western womens rhetorics
- New media and writing with technology
- Revision and pedagogy
- Feminist theory and pedagogy
- History of composition
- Japanese literature, film, and popular culture
Teaching Experience
- 91做厙: Composition 120: Expository Writing; English 315: Topics in Specialized Writing
Conference Presentations and Workshops
- Habitus and the Composition Classroom: Reimagining Classroom Practices. College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY (2010).
- The Rhetoric of the Journey: Global Rhetoric and the Female Religious Body in Sarashina Nikki and The Book of Margery Kempe. Feminisms and Rhetorics, East Lansing, MI (2009).
- Blogging Local, Thinking Global: Blogs and Community Building. College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA (2009).
- Outside the Masters Grace: Emma Goldmans Rhetoric of Inclusion and Killing the Angel Metaphor." College English Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH (2008).
- Authorship and Interface: Questioning the Human/Cyborg Divide. Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY (2007).
- Bringing the Anime and Manga Hype into the Writing Classroom. College English Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH (2007).
- "Reclaiming the Narrative of Grammar. (with Nathan Shepley) Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY (2006).
- Negotiating Student Resistance to Racialized Texts in the Writing Classroom. College English Association of Ohio, Columbus, OH (2006).
- When the Questioning Stops: Rethinking the Role of ESL Tutoring through the Scope of Literature. (with Laura Lubrano and Annette Roberts) International Writing Center Association/National Conference for Peer Tutors in Writing, Hershey, PA (2003).
Professional Associations
- National Council of Teachers of English
- College English Association
- Modern Language Association