Education

• Northeastern University
  • EdD – Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, May 2025
  • Dissertation – Real-World Resonance: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Online Humanities Students through the Lens of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • MA – English, May 2001
  • BA – Geography, May 1994

Honors and Awards

• Faculty Expert Mentor for online course design, Spring, Summer 2020-2022 – UNCC
• Teacher of the Year, Nominee 2021, 2022, 2023 – Mountain Island Charter School
• Excellence in Teaching by Part-Time Faculty, 2009 Recipient – UNCC
• Certified peer reviewer for Quality Matters excellence in online learning
• Participant in National Writing Project – Summer 2014
• Part-Time Faculty Committee representative for UNCC – 2012-2013
• Graduate Assistantship in English
• McNair Scholars Program, Meritorious Service Award, Recipient
• Teacher of the Year, Nominee 2004/2005 – Northwest School of the Arts
• Non-tenure track instructor permitted to teach 3000-level courses in English Department at UNCC

Quality Matters Certifications

• QM Peer Reviewer Certification (PRC)
• Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR)
• QM Designing your Online Course (DYOC)

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Instructor – English, American Studies, and Liberal Studies – UNCC  1/99-present
• AP Language & Composition, AP Seminar, AP Research Teacher – Mountain Island Charter School 8/19-present
• Eighth Grade English Language Arts Teacher – Mountain Island Charter School 8/12-6/19
• English Teacher – Hangzhou, China – Summer 2013

Courses Taught – UNCC:

• ENGL 1512 – Local Connections in English Studies
• ENGL 3104 – Literature for Adolescents
• AMST 3000 – Animation in America
• LBST 2212 – Seeking Identity Through Adolescent Literature and Culture
• LBST 2214 –  Food Ethics and Quality of Life
• AMST 3020 – Food in America
• AMST 3100 – 1930s
• AMST 3020 – Adolescence in America
• AMST 3020 – Contemporary American Childhood
• Honors 3700 – Food Culture Through History
• AMST 3000 – Twentieth Century American Childhood
• AMST 3210 – Childhood in America
• AMST 3000 – Adolescents in Film and American Culture
• AMST 3000 – American Children’s Games, Toys and Books
• AMST 3000 – Adversity in America
• AMST 3100 – 1980s
• ENGL 3103 – Children’s Literature
• ENGL 3104 – Literature for Adolescents
• ENGL 2103 – Masterpieces of Modern Fiction
• ENGL 1103 – Accelerated College Writing and Rhetoric
• ENGL 1101 – Freshman Composition
• ENGL 1102 – Writing the Academic Community
• LBST 2101 – Western Culture and Historical Awareness, “The Invention of Childhood”

Conferences

• Madison, Wisconsin
  • Distance Teaching and Learning Conference,                August 2019
  • “Enhancing Students’ Learning and Engagement through Experiential e-Learning”
• Hosted by University of Pembroke in Second Life
  • University of North Carolina Teaching and Learning with Technology (UNC TLT) conference,                                    March 2011
  • “Hobos, Hooch and Hooverisms: Exploring History and Culture in a 1930s Re-Creation”
• Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Children’s Literature Association (CHLA) Conference,                     Summer 2009
  • “Three Girls of the American Revolution:  Social Upheaval and Female Empowerment in Historical Fiction for Children”
• Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
  • Children’s Literature Association (CHLA) Conference,                     Summer 2002
  • “Education as Empowerment in Katherine Patterson’s Lyddie.”

Book Review

• Purdue University’s, First Opinions – Second Reactions                                 Spring 2009
  • Book Review of, The Real Benedict Arnold, by Jim Murphy
  • “The Surprising Revelations of the Infamous Benedict Arnold”