education
Ph.D. in Literature, Ball State University (Muncie, IN). Expected May 2017.
M.A. in English, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS), 2010.
Master’s Project: “’That All These Recollections Seem to Flow From That Source’: Finding the Father in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint”
B.S. in Secondary Education, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS), 2008.
A.S. in General Studies, Valley Forge Military College (Wayne, PA), 2005.
M.A. in English, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS), 2010.
Master’s Project: “’That All These Recollections Seem to Flow From That Source’: Finding the Father in Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint”
B.S. in Secondary Education, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS), 2008.
A.S. in General Studies, Valley Forge Military College (Wayne, PA), 2005.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ball State University, Fall 2012-present.
Courses Taught:
English 103: Rhetoric and Writing, Fall 2012 (1 section); Spring 2013 (2 sections)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2010.
Courses Taught
English 100: Expository Writing I, Fall 2008 (1 section)
English 200: Expository Writing II, Spring 2009 (2 sections); Fall 2009 (2 sections)
Courses Taught:
English 103: Rhetoric and Writing, Fall 2012 (1 section); Spring 2013 (2 sections)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2010.
Courses Taught
English 100: Expository Writing I, Fall 2008 (1 section)
English 200: Expository Writing II, Spring 2009 (2 sections); Fall 2009 (2 sections)
Related experience
Graduate Program Assistant, Kansas State University, Spring 2010.
Responsibilities included: creation of new departmental database; migration of departmental database to new software; working closely with DGS to complete other projects.
Responsibilities included: creation of new departmental database; migration of departmental database to new software; working closely with DGS to complete other projects.
conference presentations
“She Had Learned to Know Her Body Playing Ball”: Exploring Representations of the Jewish Mother Through Baseball Fiction.” PCA/ACA National Conference. Washington, DC. March 27-30, 2013.
“’She Remembered the Playground Games and the Dawn of Her Awareness of Being a Woman’: Exploring Female Masculinity in Silvia Tennebaum’s Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife.” NINE Conference. Tempe, AZ. March 13-16, 2013.
"Finding Ford[ester]: Examining the Fact and Fiction Behind Henry Ford Through Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime." Practical Criticism Midwest. Muncie, IN. February 8, 2013.
“Henry Ford in Fiction, Thirty Years Apart: The Role of Henry Ford in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.” South West Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 10-13, 2010.
“A Hero Emerges: The Impact of Simulacra on Performance and Audience in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo and Philip Roth’s Deception.” South West Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 25-28, 2009.
“’She Remembered the Playground Games and the Dawn of Her Awareness of Being a Woman’: Exploring Female Masculinity in Silvia Tennebaum’s Rachel, the Rabbi’s Wife.” NINE Conference. Tempe, AZ. March 13-16, 2013.
"Finding Ford[ester]: Examining the Fact and Fiction Behind Henry Ford Through Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime." Practical Criticism Midwest. Muncie, IN. February 8, 2013.
“Henry Ford in Fiction, Thirty Years Apart: The Role of Henry Ford in E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.” South West Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 10-13, 2010.
“A Hero Emerges: The Impact of Simulacra on Performance and Audience in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo and Philip Roth’s Deception.” South West Texas PCA/ACA Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 25-28, 2009.
Service
Member, Freshman Connection Book Selection Committee, Ball State University, Fall 2012-present.
President, SAGE: Student Association for Graduate Students in English, Kansas State University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, Kansas State University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Assistant Editor for Nonfiction, Touchstone, annual journal of poetry and creative prose at Kansas State University, 2009-2010.
Student organizer. 7th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO. April 16-18, 2009.
Member, SAGE: Student Association for Graduate Students in English, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Member, SOCS: Student Organization for Cultural Studies, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
President, SAGE: Student Association for Graduate Students in English, Kansas State University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, Kansas State University, Fall 2009-Spring 2010.
Assistant Editor for Nonfiction, Touchstone, annual journal of poetry and creative prose at Kansas State University, 2009-2010.
Student organizer. 7th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. Kansas City, MO. April 16-18, 2009.
Member, SAGE: Student Association for Graduate Students in English, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Member, SOCS: Student Organization for Cultural Studies, Kansas State University, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Memberships
Society for American Baseball Research, 2012-present.
Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, 2009-present.
Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, 2009-present.
