Published materials

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"Yahoo.fr, Anyone: The Challenges of an International Service Project," Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Bulletin, Spring 2009

ARTICLE: "Varying Narrative Styles in Faulkner's 'Flags in the Dust' and 'Absalom, Absalom!'" Tennessee Philological Bulletin

Article: "Narrative Authority in Hawthorne's 'The Ambitious Guest,'" Tennessee Philological Bulletin, Volume XLV, 2008.

ARTICLE: "Social Spaces: Family Secrets and Today's Students," in This is Just to Say, the newsletter of the Assembly on American Literature, NCTE affiliate organization.

ARTICLE: "Social Spaces: Family Secrets and Today's Students," in This Is Just to Say, the newsletter of the Assembly on American Literature, NCTE affiliate organization.

Unpublished papers

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Paper, "Varying Narrative Styles in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust and Absalom, Absalom!," Tennessee Philological Association conference, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Wrote a monthly commentary for the Kankakee Daily Journal.

Paper, "George Herbert: The Joyful Life of a Protestant Catholic," Tennessee Philological Association.

D.A. Dissertation: "Eliminating Barriers and Expanding Borders Through White Trash Literature: A Study of Dorothy Allison, Connie May Fowler and Kaye Gibbons."

"Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables and Bahktin's Chronotope," SAMLA convention, Atlanta, Georgia

Outside teaching activities

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"Out of Africa" presentations for: Kiwanis of Bradley/Bourbonnais, College Church of the Nazarene, Manteno Church of the Nazarene, Bourbonnais Chapter of Illinois Education Association Retired Teachers, five presentations at Bradley-Bourbounnais High School Foreign Language Department, and Beta Xi chapter, Alpha Delta Kappa Teachers Honorary Sorority.

Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso, teaching for the full academic year at University of Ouagadougou, and including sessions with English-speaking classes and an interview with students on government television.

Professional activities

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Panel: "Designing General Education Literature for Survival," College English Association Convention, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 2009.

Reading: "Language to Change America: A view of Sherman Alexie's Prose," Tennessee Philological Association Convention, Memphis, Tenn., February 2009.

Presentation: "Narrative Authority in Hawthorne's 'The Ambitious Guest,'" Tennessee Philological Conference, Austin Peay University.

Presented Journaling Workshop for Riverside Breast Cancer Support Group

Treasurer, Assembly on American Literature, NCTE affiliate.

Presented paper, "Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Film," at the Tennessee Philological Association meeting, Columbia, Tennessee, February 2004.

Panel reviewer for Illinois State Board of Education English Language Arts Program reviews.

Presented "The Interactive Literature Classroom" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, November 2003.

Presented workshop on multicultural literature as it relates to matters of faith, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Conference in English, Seattle Pacific University, summer 2001.

Travel

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Traveled to England with study group of 15 students.

Traveled to England with 15 students, spring 2000.

Traveled to England.

Community service

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Member, professional Development Committee, La Vasseur Elementary School, Bourbonnais.

Served as a member of LeVasseur Elementary School's Professional Development Committee.

Volunteered for the American Cancer Society.

Local Professional Development Committee community member for Noel LaVasseur School.

Member (representing the community), LaVasseur Elementary School's Professional Development Committee.

Speaker, Mundelein Church of the Nazarene women's retreat.

Personal recognitions

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Recipient of the 2010 Samuel L. Mayhugh Award for Scholarly Excellence.

Speaker, Delta Kappa Gamma Education Sorority, on African experience.