Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American, The Civil War, Westward Expansion, Women's studies, African-American studies, Native American studies

Historical Fiction, Narrative/Literary Nonfiction, Film: historical fiction, biopics, westerns. New Historicism, Narrative, Digital Humanities, Reader Response

Graduate Assistant at IUP

Transcriptionist

• Frank Yerby Short Stories, previously unpublished, Spring-Fall 2018

Research Assistant to Dr. Gail Berlin, Fall 2017

• Medieval Ditches
• Literary Metaphor

Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Literature and Criticism, expected graduation 2022
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, M Ed in Literacy, 2007 - Reading Specialist
Penn State University, BS in Secondary Education, 2001 - English

Teaching Experience

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• English 121 - Fall 2019
• English 101 - Spring 2020

Marion Center School District

• Reading Specialist, grades K-3

Forest Hills School District

• Reading Specialist, grades 10-12
• Reading Specialist, grades K-6
• ELA grade 7

Conemaugh Valley Jr./Sr. High

• Secondary English, grades 7-12; Journalism and Yearbook Co-Advisor