Scholarly Interests:

20^th and 21^st Century American Literature

Designated Emphasis: Critical Theory

Specific interests include: Beat poetics, literature and film; mid-20^th century poetics; women’s poetry; psychoanalytic theory; self-censorship & composition; African-American Literature.

Education:

MA, English Literature, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Thesis: “Unscrew the Locks!”: Resisting Censorship in Beat Texts

Teaching Certificate in Composition and Post-Secondary Reading, SFSU, San Francisco, CA

BA, English Literature & Language, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Teaching Experience:

UC Davis

TA, Film History I: Origins to 1945 (161A)

TA, Film History II: 1945 to the Present (161B)

TA, Masterpieces of English Literature, 1832 to Present (46C)

San Francisco State University

Second Year Written Composition (Eng 214)

First Year Composition III (Eng 106)

Effective College Reading (Eng 118 & 121)

Reading Theory and Methods (Eng 656)

Academic Literacy and the Urban Adolescent (Eng 678)

Awards & Publications

Derby University Undergraduate Scholarship (Liverpool)

Edward Rathbone Prize, Special Merit in English Literature (Liverpool)

Winner of Bay Guardian Short Fiction Prize, 2005

“Artistic Productivity, Sexual Politics & The Muse: Joan Vollmer Burroughs and Neal Cassady” Interpretations, San Francisco State University Journal, April 2004

Conference Presentations

“Baldwin as a Beat Writer?” James Baldwin: In His Time, In Our Time, Suffolk University Conference, Boston (Mar 19-22, 2009)

“Allen Ginsberg: Clothed in Nakedness.” British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Conference, Leicester, UK, (19-22 April, 2007) and National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE) Conference, San Francisco, CA (28 Feb-3 Mar, 2007).