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EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Rhetoric, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, April 9, 2020.
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Phyllis Bridges
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Guy Litton and Dr. Linda Marshall
Areas of research: Rhetorics of silence, embodied trauma and memory, folklore, horror
- Phi Theta Kappa Advisor Institute, Dallas, Texas, September 2014
- Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, Salzburg, Austria, July 2014.
- Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute Scholar, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2014
- Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Studies Instructor Certification, Columbus, Ohio, May 2014
- Ph.D., (ABD) American Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, all coursework and exams successfully completed (122 earned hours/84 GPA hours)
Minor Area: Critical Theory
Area of Research: American postcolonial literature
- Graduate Minor Certificate, Women’s Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2004
- M.S., Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2000
Analytic Project Thesis: The Social Construction of Mental Illness in Film
- Post-master’s study, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, 1997
- M.A., English, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, 1992
Secondary Area: British Literature and Theater
- B.A., English, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, 1990
Minor: Philosophy
FELLOWSHIPS, ASSISTANTSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
- Faculty Development Leave Award, Tarrant County College District; offered AY 2019-2020, accepted Fall 2019
- Bruce Family Memorial Scholarship, Texas Woman's University, 2019-2020
- The English Chapter of the Texas Woman's University Alumni Association Scholarship, 2017-2018
- Bruce Family Memorial Scholarship, Texas Woman's University, 2016-2017
- Invited member to The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, effective 2015
- Invited member to Golden Key International Honor Society, effective 2014
- Tarrant County College Chancellor's Quarterly Excellence Award, 2014
- Bruce Family Memorial Scholarship, Texas Woman’s University, 2014-2015
- The Faculty Academy, Tarrant County College District (multiple awards), 2012-2014
- Texas Woman’s University Scholarship, 2012
- Purdue University Literary Award (multiple criticism awards), 2003
- Purdue University, Chester Eisinger Travel Research Award, Summer 2003
- Purdue University, Purdue Research Foundation Grant, Summer 2002
- Purdue University, English Department, Teaching Assistantship, 2000-2004
- Purdue University, Graduate Opportunities Fellowship, 1998-2000
- Purdue University, Sociology Department, Teaching Assistantship, 1998-1999
- Phoenix Institute Grant, 1996, The World Wide Web in the Writing Classroom: The Road to Strengthening Group Work Skills, Problem Solving and Creativity.
- Our Lady of the Lake University, English Department, Teaching Assistantship, 1991
CLASSROOM TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tarrant County College District, NE Campus, August 2010-current, Professor of English (tenured)—English Composition I and II, American Literature I, British Literature I and II, Introduction to Humanities; face-to-face and online course design and implementation
Tarrant County College District, NE Campus, January 2011-current, Instructor of Sociology (adjunct)—Introduction to Sociology; face-to-face course design and implementation
Tarrant County College District, NE Campus, August 2005 to May 2010, English Department faculty member as adjunct and full-time temporary—English Composition I and II, World Literature, British Literature I and II, American Literature I; face-to-face and online course design and implementation
Tarrant County College District, SE Campus, August 2006 to May 2007, Assistant Professor of English (Temporary)—English Composition I and II; face-to-face course design and implementation
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000 to May 2004, Teaching Assistant, English Department & Women’s Studies—English Composition I and II & Introduction to Women’s Studies
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 1998 to May 1999, Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department—graded and recorded assignments, administered tests, recorded student attendance, and other administrative tasks as needed
Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX, October 1992 to May 1998, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—Developmental Writing, English Composition I and II, Latino Literature, American Literature, World Literature
The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, August 1994 to May 1995, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—English Composition, Argumentative Writing
St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, TX, May 1992 to December 1992, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—Developmental Writing, English Composition I and II
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, August to December 1991, Teaching Assistant, English Department—Developmental Writing
Tarrant County College District, NE Campus, January 2011-current, Instructor of Sociology (adjunct)—Introduction to Sociology; face-to-face course design and implementation
Tarrant County College District, NE Campus, August 2005 to May 2010, English Department faculty member as adjunct and full-time temporary—English Composition I and II, World Literature, British Literature I and II, American Literature I; face-to-face and online course design and implementation
Tarrant County College District, SE Campus, August 2006 to May 2007, Assistant Professor of English (Temporary)—English Composition I and II; face-to-face course design and implementation
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 2000 to May 2004, Teaching Assistant, English Department & Women’s Studies—English Composition I and II & Introduction to Women’s Studies
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, August 1998 to May 1999, Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department—graded and recorded assignments, administered tests, recorded student attendance, and other administrative tasks as needed
Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX, October 1992 to May 1998, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—Developmental Writing, English Composition I and II, Latino Literature, American Literature, World Literature
The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, August 1994 to May 1995, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—English Composition, Argumentative Writing
St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, TX, May 1992 to December 1992, Adjunct Instructor, English Department—Developmental Writing, English Composition I and II
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, August to December 1991, Teaching Assistant, English Department—Developmental Writing
NONCLASSROOM WORK EXPERIENCE
Tarrant County College-Northeast Campus, Hurst, TX, April 2012 to February 2020
Director of the Cornerstone Honors Degree Program—Mentoring honor students, coordinating classes and honors faculty, managing student involvement, budgeting intended and estimated expenditures
Purdue University Writing Lab, West Lafayette, IN, August 2003 to 2004
Writing Instructor—Conferred with and tutored students on one-on-on basis regarding writing
Student Learning Assistance Center, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX, October 1995 to July 1998
Communication Skills Specialist—Conferred with students on one-on-one basis regarding writing and British, American and multi-cultural literature; designed and implemented curricula for TASP-failed writing students; managed SPICE student database; responsible for various projects, such as designing and printing new Student Handbook; recruited, hired, and supervised two to six English tutors
Director of the Cornerstone Honors Degree Program—Mentoring honor students, coordinating classes and honors faculty, managing student involvement, budgeting intended and estimated expenditures
Purdue University Writing Lab, West Lafayette, IN, August 2003 to 2004
Writing Instructor—Conferred with and tutored students on one-on-on basis regarding writing
Student Learning Assistance Center, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX, October 1995 to July 1998
Communication Skills Specialist—Conferred with students on one-on-one basis regarding writing and British, American and multi-cultural literature; designed and implemented curricula for TASP-failed writing students; managed SPICE student database; responsible for various projects, such as designing and printing new Student Handbook; recruited, hired, and supervised two to six English tutors
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Captivity Studies: Roses in Concrete, 2021 virtual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, roundtable panelist.
- The Black Family in Pop Culture Through the Lens of Lovecraft, TCCD Black History Month 2021, invited panelist.
- “The Dichotomous Nature of Folklore: A Scholarly Examination of a Few Folktales Told to Me by My Parents.” The Texas College English Association panel at the 2019 Conference of College Teachers of English annual conference, Kingsville, TX, presented.
- “Re-envisioning Racial Identity Through the Black Male Gaze” panel chair and presenter, College English Association 2019 conference, New Orleans, LA. Accepted.
- Subversive Silence: La Gritona and Sleeping Serpents in Sandra Cisneros' "Woman Hollering Creek" and "Little Miracles and Kept Promises." October 2017 South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Tulsa, OK, presented.
- "The Rhetoric of Rammstein" and a revised version of "Badassery in the Double-X Body: Mapping the Silences in Audition and American Horror Story," currently under revision.
- “Strange Magic Hidden in Their Hearts”: Archetypal Duality in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Última." October 2015 South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Nashville, TN, presented.
- Reading the Rhetoric of Horror: A NE Campus Seminar for Students, March 2014. Video portion of presentation available.
- Composing in Digital Environments contributor, May 2014
- “The Mythopoetics of Anton Chigurgh in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men,” October 2013 South Central Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, panel member.
- “Badassery in the Double-X Body: Mapping the Silences in Audition and American Horror Story” (revised), March 2013 National Conference for the American Culture Association and Popular Culture Association, presenter, Washington D.C.
- “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Introducing Visual Rhetoric.“ March 2013 TCCD-NE Campus seminar series, Rhetoric for the Rest of Us, Hurst, TX.
- Roundtable Discussion of The Cabin in the Woods. February 2013 SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, presenter, Albuquerque, N.M., panelist.
- “Badassery in the Double-X Body: Mapping the Silences in Audition and American Horror Story,” February 2013 SW/TX Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, presenter, Albuquerque, N.M.
- “Lessons from The King’s Speech: Reaching out to Resistant Students,” with Shewanda Riley, Annette Cole, Rita Wisdom, and Rebecca Balcarcel. May 2012, NISOD, Austin, TX.
- “Meeting Students Where They’re At: Integrating Social Media Inside and Outside the English Classroom,” March 2012, Conference of College Teachers of English Annual Conference, Fort Worth, TX.
- “Cyborgs, Beasties & Monsters, Oh My!: Reading Pop Culture,” February 7, 2012. TCCD NE campus Rhetoric Seminar presentation. (An earlier version was presented in March 2011 at NE campus Rhetoric Seminar.) Hurst, TX.
- “The South Rises Again...and Again: The Explosion of Female Sexuality and Performativity,” 2011 joint conference of SW/TX and national Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association, accepted.
- “Engaging Dual Credit Students Through an Interdisciplinary Approach,” Conference of College Teachers of English 2010, accepted.
- “Angled Vision: La Malinche and the Captivity Narrative,” 2004, National Conference for the American Culture Association and Popular Culture Association, presenter, San Antonio, TX.
- “I’m Telling it Slantwise: A Couple of Wild Women of 1692 and the Salem Witch Crisis,” 2002, Purdue University American Studies Symposium, presenter, West Lafayette, IN.
- “From the Observer to the Observed and Back Again: The X-Files’ Agent Dana Scully and Michel Foucault’s ‘Glance’ and ‘Gaze,’” 2001 National Conference for the American Culture Association and Popular Culture Association, accepted, Toronto, Canada.
- “Symbiosis of Violence and Awakening: A Latina’s Coming of Age” (revised), 1998, National Conference for the National Association of African American Studies and the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, presenter.
- “Como la Nuestra Señora y Yo,” Beneath the Spires: Thoughts and Images Commemorating the Centennial of Our Lady of the Lake University, 1996. San Antonio: OLLU Press.
- “Symbiosis of Violence and Awakening: A Latina’s Coming of Age” (original), 1994, Southwest Regional Conference on English, presenter.
- A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings stage adaptation for the 24th Street Experiment Theatre Company, Spring 1992, San Antonio, TX.
- “Metaphysics and Metafiction: A Comparison of Julio Cortázar’s ‘Las babas del diablo’ and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up,” 1992, Campus Conference on Student Scholarship at Our Lady of the Lake University, presenter, San Antonio, TX.
- “A Finite God: An Examination of William James’ Concept of God,” 1991, Campus Conference on Student Scholarship at Our Lady of the Lake University, presenter
COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
- South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Vice President, 2020 to September 2021
- CCTE, chair of the Literature, Film, Pop Culture area, 2020
- SCMLA, chair of the American Southwestern Literature panel, 2019
- Instructional Technology Faculty Leaders (ITFL), March 2018 to current
- Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE), Executive Committee and Web Manager, June 2014 - March 2023
- CCTE, Local Arrangements Chair, 2017 spring conference
- South Central Modern Language Association's Southwestern American Literature panel secretary, 2017-2018
- Intersectional Feminist Club (formerly known as SNAWH) TCCD student organization faculty advisor, May 2016-2018
- Student Nursing Association for Women's Health (SNAWH) TCCD student organization faculty advisor, September 2015-May 2016
- Phi Theta Kappa Advisor for NE campus Phi Tau chapter, effective July 2014
- District Professional Rights and Responsibilities Committee (appointed, Secretary), 2014-2016
- International Initiatives Council, TCCD district committee, July 2014-August 2015
- Student Leadership Academy instructor, TCCD NE 2014-present
- Learning Center Resources, NE campus committee, 2014-2016, 2018 to current
- Leadership Strategic Task Team, member, 2014-2015
- NE Campus Hispanic Heritage Month Committee chair, 2014
- Conference of College Teachers of English, Executive Council, 2012-2014
- CCTE Chair of the Rhetoric, Composition, Tech Writing, Language Studies area, 2013-2014
- Cornerstone Honors Program, TCCD NE, Director, 2012-December 2020
- Rhetoric for the Rest of Us Student Seminar Series, TCCD NE chair, 2012-current
- Women’s History Month, TCCD NE program committee chair, 2011-2012
- African-American History Month, TCCD NE committee member, 2011-2012
- Under the Clock Tower, NE campus literary journal, assistant editor, 2010-2011 & 2009-2010
- Shakespeare Carnivale (formerly known as Shakespeare Sonnet Slam), TCCD NE program committee chair, 2010-2011 & 2009-2010
- African-American Read In Committee, member 2010-present
- Living Literature, TCCD NE program committee member, 2010-2011 & 2009-2010
- Texas Review State Panel, Texas Education Agency, member, 2009
- Shakespeare Sonnet Slam, TCCD NE, program committee member, 2008-2009
- Poetry Jam, TCCD NE, program committee and judge, 2008-2009
- African-American History TCCD NE, program committee member, 2008-2009
- Purdue University’s American Studies 40th Anniversary Symposium, program committee member
- Palo Alto College Presidential Search Committee, member
- Palo Alto College Instructional Innovation Committee, member
- Palo Alto College Chicano Studies Committee, membeR
- Palo Alto College Women’s Studies Committee, member
- Palo Alto College Developmental Education Committee, member
- Palo Alto College Program Review for Limited English Assistance Program, chair
- Palo Alto College Faculty Rights/Student Harassment Task Force, co-chair
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Conference of College Teachers of English
- South Central Modern Language Association
- American Folklore Society
- Texas College English Association
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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