Experience

University of Maine at Farmington

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Honors Director

  • Aug 2023 - Present

• Associate Professor

  • Aug 2021 - Present

• Assistant Professor of English

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2021

  I teach literature and writing at UMF. I teach a range of courses from early British literature, Shakespeare, and Austen, to writing courses focusing on art and/or women's studies. I am a faculty advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, at UMF. I am currently working on two book projects, one as an editor of a volume of essays on transatlantic 18th-c. women travelers, and another on Jane Austen.

• Visiting Assisant Professor of English

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2016

  I teach literature and writing at UMF. I teach early British literature through the Romantic period, but my specialty is in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. I also teach themed-based writing courses as well as general education courses in early British literature and literary analysis across American, British, and world literature.



University of Tennessee

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctoral Lecturer

  • Aug 2010 - May 2011

  At UT I taught two first-year writing courses (one focusing on rhetoric and argument, and the second on research) and the first half of the British literature survey. At UT I taught two first-year writing courses (one focusing on rhetoric and argument, and the second on research) and the first half of the British literature survey.



University of Tennessee

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2004 - May 2010

  I studied British literature and taught writing courses, early British literature, and women's literature.

• Assistant to the Director of the Women's Studies Program

  • 2009 - 2010

  Serving the director; coordinating sections of courses; planning events

• Assistant Director - Writing Program

  • 2008 - 2009

  Coordinating sections of first-year writing; reviewing syllabi; working with faculty on course preparation; evaluating instructors

• Editorial Assistant - Restoration

  • 2005 - 2009

  I corresponded with the authors, proofread papers, copy-edited papers in MS Word, helped the editors set text and make changes in InDesign, and helped compile subscription notices.



Texas A&M University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Lecturer

  • Jun 2003 - Jul 2004

  I taught technical writing during this year. I taught technical writing during this year.



Texas A&M University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • 2002 - 2003

  I designed and taught first-year writing and literature.

• Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching

  • 2001 - 2002

  I was a teaching assistant for a film studies course and for a linguistics course.