Experience

PennWest California

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Associate Professor Of English

  • Jul 2022 - Present



PennWest California

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Associate Professor Of English

  • Jul 2019 - Jul 2022

• Assistant Professor Of English

  • Aug 2013 - Jul 2019

  Early American LiteratureJames Fenimore Cooper StudiesNative American StudiesEnvironmental LiteratureAnimal StudiesDigital Repatriation of Native American Language and Indigenous KnowledgeDigital Archiving Humor Studies -Collaborating with Director and Archivist of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at the American Philosophical Society to design digital repatriation projects -Preparing and editing digital transcripts of Charles Cooke's 1,300-page manuscript of traditional Haudenosaunee names, collected from 1900 to 1951 by the Mohawk ethnographer -Directing digital repatriation of 157 traditional Haudenosaunee narratives collected at Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve by Frederick Wilkerson Waugh from 1912 to 1918 -Directing digital repatriation of William Martin Beauchamp’s Papers on Personal Iroquois Names (1914) -Directing digital archive projects of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Quaker writings for Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, 2010-2011, 2017 -Collaborating with the Senator John Heinz History Center to transcribe and publish nineteenth-century manuscripts housed in western Pennsylvania historical societies in Allegheny, Blair, Greene, and Washington CountiesPublicationsScholarship published in Early American Literature, Journal of the Early Republic, Oxford Bibliographies, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Defining a National Literature, Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, The Midwest Quarterly.Grants --PASSHE Grant. Recovering and Revitalizing Haudenosaunee Names: Digital Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge in William Martin Beauchamp’s Papers on Personal Iroquois Names. California University of PA, Six Nations Polytechnic, University of Pennsylvania, American Philosophical Society. 2015-16.--Grant Writers Fellow, California University of Pennsylvania, 2014.--Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the James Fenimore Cooper Society. Show less



The Cooper Edition, Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

• AMS Press

• Editor

  • 2011 - Jul 2022

  -Editing new scholarly edition of James Fenimore Cooper's 1835 novel, The Monikins -Constructing clear text from extant manuscripts and collation of first edition printings -Composing historical introduction, textual history, textual notes, emendations, and other textual apparatus -Editing new scholarly edition of James Fenimore Cooper's 1835 novel, The Monikins -Constructing clear text from extant manuscripts and collation of first edition printings -Composing historical introduction, textual history, textual notes, emendations, and other textual apparatus



Swarthmore College

• Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

• Visiting Associate Professor of English

  • Aug 2010 - May 2013



Immaculata University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Instructor of English

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2011



Penn State University, York

• Instructor of English

  • Aug 2010 - May 2011



Lehigh University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor of English

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2009