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HONORS & AWARDS: |
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, West Texas A&M University, 1991
Mattie Swayne Mack Academic Scholarship, Spring, 1992
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1993
Sigma Tau Delta Certificate of Excellence, February, 1993
2nd Place, Graduate Student Essay Competition, Texas Christian University Symposium on the Teaching of Composition, 1993
Alpha Chi, 1993
Peter Rollins "Best Paper" Award: SW Popular Culture Association Meeting at Oklahoma State University, February, 1995
Phi Kappa Phi, 1996
Teaching Assistant, West Texas A&M University, 1993-1995
Mead Teaching Award for Excellence Nominee, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008
Piper Professor Nominee: 2010 |
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PRESENTATIONS: |
"Student's Rights to Their Own Language' and Politically Correct Thinking," TABU/LEU Conference on Language, College Station, Texas, October, 1992
"The Complexities of the Indian Hater's Dualistic Nature: Colonel John Moredock, Samuel Monson, and Quaker Nathan Slaughter," Peripheral Visions Conference, St. Louis University, February, 1993
"On Conferences." Guest speaker, Sigma Tau Delta meeting, West Texas A&M University, Spring, 1993
"Hobomok: An Alternative Reading." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference," University of Texas at Arlington, October, 1995
"Pinter's 'Economic' Screenplay," SW Popular Cultural Association meeting, Stillwater, OK, February, 1995
"Grand Isle: Three Textual Departures." SW Popular Culture Association meeting, Tulsa, OK, February, 1996 |
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"Writing and Generation X." Two-Year College English Association Conference, New Orleans, October, 1998
"Hemingway Defines Meaning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." SW Popular Culture Association meeting, Albuquerque, NM, February, 1999
"Muriel's Wedding: Film Review." Amarillo Film Festival, October, 1999
"Selznick's Flawed 'Sequel?': Duel in the Sun." Film Forum. Amarillo College, October, 1999.
"The Myth of the Curse of Cain." SW Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February, 2000
"Shadowlands and Christian Expression." C.S. Lewis Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, April, 2000.
"Babbette's Feast and Joy." Film Forum. Amarillo College, October 2000.
"The Sea-Wolf and the Spiritual." Christianity and Literature Conference. LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, Feb. 2001.
"Peter Weir's Romanticism & Humanism: The Year of Living Dangerously and Dead Poet's Society." Tulsa, OK, Nov. 2001.
"Peter Weir via the Novella." SW Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2002.
"Adapting Learning to the Internet." TYCA-SW Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 2002.
"Concurrent Enrollment: Bridging the Gap." Texas University Systems School-University Partnership Conference, October 2002.
"Romantic Poetry." PEA Association Meeting. February, 2010.
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PUBLICATIONS: |
"Fifteen." Poem published in 60th Anniversary issue of AC Current, Spring 1990 edition
"Tennyson's Words on Wisdom: His Personal Triumph over the Victorian Crisis of Belief." Literature and Belief. 16.1 (1996)
"Reisz's Adaptation of Fowles's Adaptation." Literature/Film Quarterly. 26.4 (1998)
"Diagnosis Apathy." Two-Year College English Association Newsletter. 27.1 (February, 1999)
"Capturing C. S. Lewis's 'Mere' Christianity: Another Look at Attenborough's Shadowlands." Journal of Religion and Film. 6.1 (2002)
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL/
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: |
· Judge:1995 Freshman Essay Contest, Lubbock Christian College
· Served as mentor/liaison for GTAs at West Texas A&M University, substituting for professor during absences, 1993-1996
· Annually met with new GTAs as West Texas A&M University to introduce the university teaching experience, 1993-1996
· Presented the freshman experience at Teacher In-Service Program for Canyon ISD teachers, January, 1995
· Judge 1999-2003: Popular Culture Association submissions for Cox Award.
· "Sharing Hope" Prison Ministry Teacher
· ESL Tutor ARW Program | |
