Assistant Professor of English and Literature,
Acting English Department Mentor

Education:      Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Degree:  Ph.D. in English (December 2005)
Dissertation: “After Scotland: Irvine Welsh and the Ethic of Emergence” Passed (Fall 2005)

Nominated by Department of English for LSU Dissertation of the Year (2005-2006)
Recognized by LSU Graduate School as Nominee for LSU 2005 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (Spring 2006) http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-10202005-154721/

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Degree:  M.A. in English (March 1999)
Total Graduate Transcript Summary: 159 Hours—3.961 (4.0 Scale)

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Degree: B.S. in Secondary Education/Language Arts (March 1995)
                             Magna Cum Laude
Total Undergraduate Transcript Summary: 151 Hours—3.83 (4.0 Scale)

Editorial, Administrative, Professional, and Institutional Activities
Acting as Department Coordinator/Mentor at River Parishes Community College (Fall 2007-Present)
Introduced and Facilitated Poetry Readings at River Parishes Community College (RPCC, April 2007-Present)
Coordinating Preparatory Writing and Reading (RPCC, Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
Co-Chairing Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Committee and Writing QEP for SACS Reaffirmation (RPCC, Fall 2007-Present)
Serving on the Following Committees:  Future Educators Club, Library/Learning Resource Services Advisory Committee, Teacher Education Advisory Committee (RPCC, Fall 2007-Present)
Served on Nominating Committee for Phi Theta Kappa All-Star Student (RPCC, Fall 2007)
Interviewed Candidates for the Associate in Science of Teaching (AST) Program (RPCC, Fall 2007)
Consulted Vice-Chancellor during Drafting of Rank and Promotion Policy (RPCC, Fall 2007)
Served on Search and Hiring Committee for College Public Relations Officer (RPCC, Fall 2007)
Served on Search and Hiring Committee for Two Full-Time English Faculty Positions (RPCC, Summer 2007)
Edited National Science Foundation Grant Proposal (RPCC, March 2007-Present)
Drafted (Pro Bono) Grant Proposals for The Millennium Fund, a Not-for-Profit Organization Serving At-Risk Youth Displaced to the Baton Rouge Area by Hurricane Katrina; Awarded Approximately $20,000 (2006)
Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue of College English (2003-04)
LSU English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) (2000-04):

Communications Chair (2003-2004)
Procedures Chair (2002-03)
Co-President (2001-02)

Drafted Constitution and Bylaws
Organized Professional Development Series

Curriculum Committee Member (2000-2001)

Assistant Academic Coordinator/English Specialist of Service-Learning (LSU, 2002)
Graduate Student Representative, English Graduate Program Committee (UAB, 1998-99)
English Department Representative, Graduate Student Association (UAB, 1996-97)
Member of National Council of Teachers of English (1994-Present)

Academic Employment:
Assistant Professor of English and Literature, Acting Department Coordinator (Mentor), Coordinator of Preparatory Writing and Reading (RPCC, Fall 2007-Present)
Instructor of English (One-Year Appointment at RPCC, 2006-07)
Adjunct Instructor of English (RPCC, Spring-Summer 2006)
Graduate Teaching Associate at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2002-04)
Instructor, Sophomore Literature, Advanced Poetry for Non-Majors (LSU, Summer 2003)
Assistant Academic Coordinator/English Specialist of Service Learning (LSU, Spring 2002)
Instructor, First-Year Writing, Introduction to Composition II (LSU, Summer 2001)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (LSU, 2000-02)
Writing Instructor, Minority Medical Education Program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (Summer 2000)
Part-Time Instructor, Introductions to Freshman Composition and Introductions and Surveys of Literature (UAB, Spring 1999-Summer 2000)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (UAB, Spring 1997- Spring 1999)
Teacher of Language Arts, Soccer Coach at Pinson Valley High School, Jefferson County School System, Homewood, Alabama (August 1995-August 1996)
Op-Ed Columnist, Kaleidoscope, College Newspaper (UAB, 1991-95)

Academic Awards and Honors:
Recognized as Nominee for 2005 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences by LSU Graduate School (LSU, Spring 2006)

Department of English Outstanding Dissertation Nominee (LSU, 2005-06)

Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship (LSU, 2004-05)
Graduate Assistantship, Associateship, and Fellowship (LSU, 2000-04)
University College Recognition for Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award (LSU, Spring 2004)
Alumni Association Teaching Assistant Award (LSU, 2002-03)
Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Partner Award (LSU, Spring 2003)
Composition Student, Krystle Baker, Winner of Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award (LSU, Spring 2001)
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Inductee (Spring 1999)
Outstanding English Graduate Student Co-Recipient (UAB, 1998-99)
English Graduate Student Program’s Nominee for Samuel Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (UAB, 1999)
Graduate Assistantship (UAB, 1997-99)
International English Honor Society of Sigma Tau Delta Inductee (Spring 1998)

Publications
“Ethics of Argument Redux:  Kairos—Untimely Rupture, Timely Composition” (article in progress, anticipated spring 2008 submission).
“Struggling with Class in English Studies,” Co-written with Sherry Lee Linkon and Irvin Peckham, Social
Class and English Studies, Special Issue of College English 67.2(November 2005): 149-53.
“Portals to Knowledge: Confluence and Conflict between Enlightenment and Postmodern Currencies,”  
Reconstruction 4.4 (Fall 2004): http://www.reconstruction.ws/044/lanier.htm.

“Holy Dubya’s Prayer,” Indie Voice: A Progressive Magazine for Baton Rouge 1.3 (Fall 2004): 14-15.             
Review of Irvine Welsh’s Novel Porno, New Delta Review (Spring 2003).
“Writing the Self through Service, a Dietetic Ethics,” Academic Exchange Quarterly 7.2 (June 2003): 130-41.
“Candia McWilliam,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 267: Twenty-First-Century British and Irish Novelists (2002): 203-10.
Poems in Paris/Atlantic (1997-2000, details available upon request).
Op-Ed Columns in Kaleidoscope, College Newspaper (UAB, 1991-95).

Presentations:
Presenting Paper, “Common Life Beyond the Parcel of Rogues Nightmare: Irvine Welsh's and Antonio Negri's Ethics,” at Global Studies Conference (May 2008)
Co-Presenting a Service-Learning Breakout Session at 30th Anniversary NISOD Conference with Doctors Fabienne Lee Kleinpeter (RPCC Psychology) and Iris Henry (RPCC Biology) (May 2008)
Co-Presenting a Test Anxiety Breakout Session at 30th Anniversary NISOD Conference with Dr. Fabienne Lee Kleinpeter (RPCC Psychology) and Ms. Ashley Gray (RPCC Student Counseling) (May 2008)
Information Literacy Series, (five sessions, upcoming, RPCC March-April 2008)
 “Literacy and Learning: Mapping and Making,” Student Success Workshop (RPCC March 2007 and October 2007)
 “Global Warming,” Student Success Workshop, Co-presented with Henry Smith, Instructor of Science (River Parishes Community College, April 2007)
Readings from Samuel Beckett in Musical Performance of Bennie Beach’s Three Preludes for Tuba and Triangle, Octubafest 2005(LSU School of Music, October 2005)
“Earclippings: Scotland’s Influence on the Presbyterian Past, Present, and Future,” a Series of Six Lectures at Highland Presbyterian Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Spring 2005)
“Twa Humes, Many Scotlands: Mapping a Nation that Is Not,” Inaugural Lecture of the Department of English Graduate Circle (LSU, March 2005)
Selections from Original Poems, Readings at Chelsea’s Series, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (April 2003)
“Deadly Kittens and Homicidal Fowl: Scots Dismembering Empire,” 13th Annual Mardi Gras Conference (LSU, February 2003)
“Making Connections: Learning Objectives and Experiential Assignments,” Service-Learning Workshop (LSU, March 2002)
“Epistemological Portals to and from Globalization: Currencies of the Eighteenth Century and Leftist Critique in the Twenty-First Century,” 12th Annual Mardi Gras Conference (LSU, February 2002)
“Relevance of Hate: An Analysis of Nazi and Later Rightist Rhetoric,” 11th Annual Mardi Gras Conference (LSU, February 2001)
“How It Is with the Witness-Hero/Witness-Traitor: Beckettian and Lyotardian ‘Aethetics’,” Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics & Aesthetics Conference (University of Notre Dame, April 2000)
“John Bull, Erin, and Shaw: Postcolonial Trinity,” 37th Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (Virginia Tech, May 1999)
“The Heretic Fili: J.M. Synge’s Poetic Mediation of Ireland’s Past, Present, and Future,” Graduate Student Research Day (UAB, April 1998)
“The Sublime of Lyotard and beyond Lyotard in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo,” 26th Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (University of Louisville, February 1998)

Coursework:
LSU Graduate Work (in order of enrollment):
Feminist Theory Seminar (Critical Theory); Reference, Relevance, and Reason Seminar (Linguistics); Practicum on Teaching Writing (Rhetoric and Composition); Science Fiction and Critical Theory Seminar (Critical Theory); Benjamin, Adorno, and Cinema Seminar (Critical Theory); Memory, Narrative, and Life-Writing Seminar (Modern Literature and Critical Theory); Poetry and the Beautiful Seminar (Modern Literature and Critical Theory); Enlightening Colonialism Seminar (Pre-Modern Literature and Critical Theory); Lacan, Sexuality, and Film Independent Study (Critical Theory); Dissertation Hours

UAB Graduate Work (in order of enrollment):
Modern British and European Drama (Modern Literature); Literary Theory and Criticism Seminar (Critical Theory); Advanced Grammar (Linguistics); Modern American Literature, 1914-1945 (Modern Literature); Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Pre-Modern Literature); Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Modern Literature); Twentieth-Century British Novel (Modern Literature); Special Topics—Joyce (Modern Literature); Special Topics—Faulkner (Modern Literature); Special Topics—“Crip Cultures” and Disability Studies (Critical Theory); Special Topics—Expanding the ‘60s (American Literature); Prosody and Poetics Seminar (Literature and Critical Theory); Bibliography and Research Methods Seminar; Early American Literature, 1620-1820, Seminar (Pre-Modern Literature); Byron and the Shelleys Seminar (Modern Literature); Novels and the Narrative Tradition Seminar (Literature and Critical Theory); Postmodern Theory Seminar (Critical Theory); Directed Studies

UAB Undergraduate Work Pertinent to Field (in order of enrollment):
Freshman Composition I and II (English); Introduction to Fiction (Literature); American Literature Survey II (Literature); British and Irish Literature Surveys I and II (Literature); Shakespeare (Literature); Advanced Grammar (Linguistics); History of the English Language (Linguistics); Victorian Poetry and Poetics (Literature); Modern World Literature (Literature); Introduction to News Writing (Communications); Public Speaking (Communications); Communication Theory (Communications); Teaching in the Discipline (Secondary Education/Language Arts)