Education:

Ph.D., English, University of California, Davis
          Dissertation: In Time, Just: Staging Ethics and Physics in Post-Cold War Drama

M.A., English, University of California, Davis
          Thesis: Gift Unpossessed: Community as 'Gift' in The Calcutta Chromosome

B.A., English: Literature, University of Redlands
          Thesis: Reading Contemporary Fiction through Tempestuous Eyes

Scholarly Interests:

20th-century British literature; science and literature; drama; Victorian literature; modernism; postmodernism; postcolonialism; 21st-century literature

2009-2010 Courses

Fall:

• College Writing (Workload 57)
• Dr. Strangelove Was Right: Finding the Humor in Nuclear Terror (FRS 2)
• Advanced Writing: Writing the Self (UWP 101)

Winter:

• College Writing (Workload 57)
• Introductory Topics in Drama: The State, Language, and Control (ENL 43)

Spring:

• Topics in Global Literatures and Cultures: Contemporary World Drama (ENL 139)

Previous Teaching Experience:

Critical Inquiry: Playing (with) Science: Relations between Science and Drama

Introduction to Literature:

• Literature in English from King Lear to Contemporary Science Fiction
• Modernism and its Framework (Computer Aided Instruction)
• Introduction to English and American Literature (CAI)
• Introduction to English and Irish Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Irish Poetry, English Fiction, and The Importance of Being Earnest
• Introduction to British Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Literature Courses as Assistant:

Renaissance Literature: The Sonnet; Romanticism; The Eighteenth Century English Novel; British Literature, 1900-1945; Approaches to Reading; Introduction to Fiction; Introduction to Drama; Analysis of Literature

Composition Courses Taught:

Advanced Writing (Computer Aided Instruction):

• Writing the Self
• Posthumanism and Personal Statements

Expository Writing:

• Rhetoric, the Scientist’s Mindset, and the “Real” World
• Forms of and Reasons for Protest
• Identity Politics, Social Action, and Nonviolence
• Nonviolence, Social Action, and “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

College Writing