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CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
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PUBLICATIONS

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.

2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.

2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.

2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.

2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.

2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.

2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.

2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.

2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.

2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Effective Academic Communication (2022-ongoing), Center for Teaching and Learning. Colby College. Waterville, Maine.

  • Affiliated faculty, Department of Educational Sciences. Lund University. Lund, Sweden. 2022.

  • Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature (2019-2022), Division for Language and Communication, Department for Communication and Learning in Science. Chalmers University of Technology. Göteborg, Sweden. 

  • Lecturer (2016-19), Division for Language and Communication, Department for Communication and Learning in Science. Chalmers University of Technology. Göteborg, Sweden.

  • Associate Professor (2015-16), English Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina.

  • Assistant Professor (2009-15), English Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina.

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.

2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.

2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.

2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.

2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.

2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.

2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.

2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.

2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.

2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in English literature. University of Southern California, 2009.

  • MA in English literature. University of Southern California, 2001.

  • MA in English language and literature. University of North Texas, 1999.

  • BA in English language and literature. University of North Texas, minor in art history, 1993.

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.

2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.

2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.

2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.

2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.

2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.

2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.

2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.

2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.

2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.

2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.

2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.

SELECTED LITERARY ANALYSIS WORK

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • 2023. “On the Margins of Harry’s World: Paratext and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Children’s Literature, 51. Forthcoming.

  • 2021. “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina." ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 11.2 (December 2021). doi:10.5038/2157-7129.11.2.1275.

  • 2021. “The Fairy Race: Artemis Fowl and Hierarchies of Race and Gender.” Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction. Eds. Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda Green-Barteet. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 35-53. ISBN-13: 978-1496833822.

  • 2016. “Stunted Growth: Dwarfs and the Rejection of Sexuality in the Artemis Fowl Series.” Tracing the Footsteps of Dwarfs: Images, Concepts, and Representations in Popular Culture. Eds. Feryal Cubukcu and Sabine Planka. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann, 107-120. ISBN-13: 978-3826059285.

  • 2015. “The Metamorphosis of Katniss Everdeen: The Hunger Games, Myth, and Femininity.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 40.2 (Summer): 161-178. doi:10.1353/ chq.2015.0020.

  • 2012. “Pamela’s Investment in Virtue.” Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz and Tara Czechowski. New York: AMS Press, 231-48. ISBN-13: 978-0404648640.

 

Selected Book Reviews

  • 2016. Review of Webb, Caroline. Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature: The Power of Story (Routledge). For Studies in the Novel. 48.1 (Spring): 141-2. doi:10.1353/sdn.2016.0009.

  • 2014. Review of Barchas, Janine. Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity (Johns Hopkins UP). For Studies in the Novel. 46.1 (Spring): 127-28. doi:10.1353/sdn.2014.0031.

  • 2008. Review of Staves, Susan. A Literary History of Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 (Cambridge UP). For Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 37.3: 320-2. doi: 10.1080/00497870801917366.

 

Recent Presentations

  • 2021. Interviewer for panel on Maja Lunde’s novel Blå/Klimakvartetten #2 (The End of the Ocean/Climate Quartet #2). Panelists: Maja Lunde, Andreas Lindhe, Emilia Sandolf. Act Sustainable’s annual Sustainability Week, a joint event between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Technical University. Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 2020. “Dress as Fairy Gold: Dress, Genre, and the Danger of Fairy Tale Tropes in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle.” Young Adult Studies Association first biennial conference. Online.

  • 2020. Roundtable speaker, “Fashion, Femininity, and Fairy Tales.” Young Adult Studies Association first biennial conference. Online.

  • 2013. “Nature Vs. Artifice: Katniss as New Philomela in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.” College English Association. Savannah, Georgia.

 

Recent Service

  • 2005-ongoing. Manuscript reviews: The ALAN Review, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Lifewriting Annual, The Lion and the Unicorn.

FELLOWSHIPS
& GRANTS
CONFERENCES & TALKS
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORK

Journal Articles

 

Recent Conference Presentations

  • 2021. “Fiction in STEM: The Case Study of ‘AI Ethics Through Fiction.’” American Comparative Literature Association. Online.

  • 2021. “AI Ethics Through Fiction.” Dealing with the Complexities of Teaching Ethics to Future Computer Science Professionals. ETHICS 4 EU Transnational meeting. Online.

  • 2020. "What Fiction Can Teach Us About AI Ethics." AI Ethics Seminar, AI Research Centre, Chalmers University of Technology. Online.

  • 2020. Co-presented with Emma Frisk. “One Book, One Chalmers: Extending Classroom Conversations.” Chalmers KUL (konferens om undervisning och lärande/Conference on Teaching and Learning). Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 2018. “Literature-Generated Empathy to Teach 'Green' Engineering Ethics.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Europe. Copenhagen, Denmark. 2018.

  • 2014. Roundtable speaker, “Let’s Get Engaged!: Creative Strategies for Meeting Pedagogical Challenges in Practice.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Media Coverage

 

Recent Service​

  • 2022-ongoing. Director, Schmaltz Family Effective Communication Initiative. Colby College.

  • 2022-ongoing. Consultant, Mid-Semester Course Analysis. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2022-ongoing. Convener, Pedagogical Partner Learning Assistant weekly meetings. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2022-ongoing. Convener, Pedagogical Community of Practice weekly meetings. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2022. Convener, “Developing Presentation Rubrics Workshop.” Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2022, 2023. Assistant, Course (re)Design Institute. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2022. Assistant, Course (re)Design Institute retreat. Allen Island, ME. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • 2021. Invited speaker on “Inter- and Transdisciplinary Theory.” For Christian Stöhr and Raffaella Negretti’s “Theory and Research in Communication and Learning in Science” (doctoral seminar). Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 2019. Invited panel chair, “Digital Genres in Academic Settings” and “Academic Writing and Identity.” European Association of Teaching Academic Writing. Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 2019. Submission reviewer, European Association of Teaching Academic Writing. Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.

  • 2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

COMPETITIVE EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

  • Chawton House Library/University of Southampton visiting fellowship. Chawton, England. 2013.

  • Henry E. Huntington Library Michael J. Connell fellowship. San Marino, California. 2005.

  • Getty Research Institute seminar fellowship. Los Angeles, California. 2002.

 

COMPETITIVE INTRAMURAL FUNDING

  • The Citadel Foundation faculty development grants. 2014, 2010.

  • The Citadel Foundation research presentation grants. 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.

  • The Citadel Foundation research grant. Summer 2013.

  • The Citadel Foundation new faculty research grant. Summer 2010.

  • University of Southern California Collier-MacKellar-Giles grant. Summer 2007.

  • University of Southern California graduate merit fellowship. 2006-07.

  • University of Southern California-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute dissertation fellowship. 2005-06.

  • University of Southern California graduate merit fellowship (declined). 2005-06.

  • Dickens Project Graduate Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2005.

  • University of North Texas Toulouse Graduate School graduate merit fellowship (declined). 1999-2000.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TEACHING AWARDS

  • Instructor, Sophomore Seminar (1 of 3 instructors chosen from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences). University of Southern California. Spring 2006.

  • General Education Graduate Assistant Award (for excellence in teaching). University of Southern California. 2003-04.

 

SELECTED ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION COURSES

  • Presenting Why Everyone Should(n't?) Read Young Adult Fiction (JP197Ej), Colby College.

  • English for Electrical and Data Engineers (LSP580), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • Professional Education in Engineering (TDA518), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • Professional English for Data and IT (LSP127), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • English for Engineers (FSP046), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • Composition and Literature II (ENGL 102), The Citadel.

  • Composition and Literature I for International Students (ENGL 111), The Citadel.

  • Composition and Literature I (ENGL 101), The Citadel.

  • Introduction to College Writing for International Students (GNRL 101), The Citadel.

  • Writing and Critical Reasoning (WRIT 140), University of Southern California.

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SELECTED LITERATURE COURSES 

  • Emerging Technology Ethics Through Fiction (TRA100 & TRA105), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • AI Ethics Through Fiction (TRA100 & TRA105), Chalmers University of Technology.

  • The Gothic Novel (ENGL 518). Directed master’s study, The Citadel.

  • Young Adult Literature (ENGL 401). Directed baccalaureate study, The Citadel.

  • Deception, Dress, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (ENGL 700), The Citadel.

  • Eighteenth-Century Women in Literature (ENGL 699), The Citadel.

  • Children’s Books (ENGL 551), The Citadel.

  • Eighteenth-Century British Novels (ENGL 525), The Citadel.

  • Graphic Novels: Art as Literature (ENGL 375; cross-listed as Fine Arts course), The Citadel.

  • Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENGL 323),The Citadel.

  • Major British Writers II (ENGL 202), The Citadel.

  • Major British Writers I (ENGL 201), The Citadel.

  • Children’s Literature and Children in Literature; honors seminar (CORE 112), University of Southern California.

 

SELECTED ADDITIONAL PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE

  • Invited class lecture, “Inter- and Transdisciplinary Theory.” For Christian Stöhr and Raffaella Negretti’s “Theory and Research in Communication and Learning in Science” (doctoral seminar). Chalmers University of Technology.

  • Invited class lecture, “Popular Pride and Prejudice.” For Celeste McMaster’s “Jane Austen and Popular Culture” (ENGL 480). Charleston Southern University.

  • Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English Medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). 2020.

  • Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 2003‑05, 2008.

  • Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 2001‑02.

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