Curriculum Vitae
Education
Grad. May 2005
MA in English
Master's project: “The Habit of Building: How Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories Built Her Novels”
Grad. May 2002 (Summa Cum Laude)
BA in English
Capstone: “Teaching Composition 1 in the College Classroom”
Minor: Theater (note: until my Senior year, Speech and Theater were combined minors. Most of my minor work was in speech communication, such as Argumentation and Rhetoric.)
Teaching Experience
Title:
Developmental Studies Coordinator/Assistant Professor
Classes taught:
Co-requisite Composition 1 (Lead instructor/Course developer)
-On-ground and online
Composition 1 Supplement (Lead instructor/Course developer)
-On-ground and online
Basic Writing (Lead instructor)
-On-ground and online
College Strategies (Lead instructor)
-On-ground and online
Foundations of World Languages (Lead instructor)
-On-ground and online
Composition 1
-On-ground and online
Composition 2
-On-ground and online
Committees:
Faculty Professional Development Committee (2018-present)
First Year Experience Exploratory Committee (2017-present)
Hiring Committee Lead (2016)
Hiring Committee Member (2016)
Research Committee for COMPASS Test Replacement (2015-2016)
Investigative Committee for Co-requisite Course Exploration (2016-present)
Other duties:
Quality Matters certification
Head of Developmental Studies, English and Reading
English and Reading co-requisite transition team leader
Student advisement
Adjunct training, Developmental Studies
Coordinator for embedded tutors in Composition 1 Supplement
Title:
Teacher
Classes taught:
Freshman English
Pre-AP English
Dramatic Literature
Committees:
BTdubU (professional development committee)
Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association representative
Titles:
Tutor, Head Tutor, Graduate Assistant, Adjunct Instructor
Classes taught:
Composition 1
Zero-level Composition (assistant)
Writing for the Professions
MBA Business Communications (Lead Instructor/Course Designer)
Title:
Adjunct Instructor
Classes taught:
Composition 1
Composition 2
Consulting & Writing
Title:
Writer I
Duties:
Read and analyze proposals for readability and clarity; write proposals tailored to specific markets; create graphics for relevant information; research statistical information for proposals
Title:
Education and Communications Consultant
Duties:
Analyze and update education programs; conduct workshops on communication, conflict resolution, professionalism, etc.; facilitate documentation processes; create online classroom structures for education programs
Title:
Project-based consultant
Duties:
Found and read academic articles, scholarly reports, and other scientific material about specific medical devices in order to create a report that analyzes and synthesizes data over the use, efficacy, best practices, and safety of the devices for global clients. This required database search skills, Excel skills, very strict formatting, extensive attention to detail, and the ability to learn about complex subject matter very quickly.
Title:
Director of Development
Duties:
Grant writing; donation solicitation via ad, print, face-to-face meetings, social media, and phone; event planning from concept through execution including finding vendors and donors, securing city permits, creating all advertising design and copy, analyzing ROI, securing board and committee approvals, securing accommodations for guests and celebrity presenters, and calendar management; budget analysis; and volunteer coordination.
Resonance Center for Women (2008-2010)
Title:
Development Assistant
Duties:
Assist the development director in all areas, including grant writing, grant editing, donation solicitation via ad, print, face-to-face meetings, social media, and phone; event planning from concept through execution including finding vendors and donors, securing city permits, creating all advertising design and copy, analyzing ROI, securing board and committee approvals, securing accommodations for guests and celebrity presenters, and calendar management; budget analysis; and volunteer coordination. Create and publish monthly newsletter. Update website.
Publications
Textbook
How We Write: An Essentials-Only Guide to Composition, Fountainhead Press.
Creative Fiction
“This Magic City” Tulsa People/Nimrod Flash Fiction Contest.
Journal Articles
“Going Off the Grid: Re-Examining Technology in the Basic Writing Classroom.” New York College Learning Skills Association. Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, v31 n2 p20-25 Spr 2015.
“Low Spoon Teaching: Labor, Gender, and Self-Accomodation in Academia.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. University of Tulsa Press.
“The Necessary Labor of Naming and Respecting Chronic Anger.” Chronically Academic. 10 Dec. 2019
Book Contribution
“A Work No One Hero Could Create Alone.” Children's and YA Books in the College Classroom: Essays on Instructional Methods. Emily Dial-Driver (Author, Editor), Jim Ford (Editor), Sara N. Beam (Editor). McFarland: 2015.
Presentations
Invited Talk
“Writing Companions – The Joy of Minds Creating Together” (with Dr. Sara Beam). Nimrod Conference for Readers and Writers, Tulsa, OK, 2019
Presentations
“Substitute History: Use of MASH in In-Country.” University of Tulsa Conference, 2006. Tulsa, OK
“The Longest Wait: Teaching Waiting for Godot to High School Students.” University of Tulsa Conference, 2007. Tulsa, OK
“Going off the Grid: Re-Examining the Use of Technology in the Basic Writing Classroom.” National Association for Developmental Educators (NADE), 2014. Dallas, TX
“A Work No One Hero Could Create Alone.” American Popular Culture Association, 2015. New Orleans, LA
“Master of One: Skills Based Peer Mentorship in the Developmental Classroom.” NADE, 2016. Anaheim, CA.
“Low Spoon Teaching: Accommodating Our Disabled Selves as Educators.” NADE 2017. Oklahoma City, OK.
“Process > Terror: Teaching Students to Believe in the Writing Process Through Example.” NADE 2018. National Harbor, MA.
“Ready or Not! How We Went Coreq All at Once” Oklahoma Association for Developmental Educators, 2018. Tulsa, OK
“Ready or Not! How We Went Coreq All at Once” National Association for Developmental Education, 2018. Atlanta, GA
Awards, Involvement, Memberships, and Skills
Awards:
Teaching Assistant, University of Tulsa (2003-2005)
Chapman travel grant, University of Tulsa (2004)
Tutor of the Year, University of Tulsa (2004)
Travel grant, Rogers State University (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Community Involvement:
Past Representative for Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association
Past Board Member, Oklahomans for Equality
Campaign team, Mykey Arthrell for City Council
Volunteer, Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma
Volunteer, Lori Decter-Wright for City Council
Memberships:
Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity
Order of Omega Honors Society
Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society
National Organization for Student Success
Oklahoma Association for Developmental Educators
Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma
Order of the Eastern Star
Oklahomans for Equality
Special Skills:
Grant writing
Public relations
Technical writing
Business writing
Business etiquette and communications
Newsletter design, writing, and layout
Instructional design
Curriculum development
Google Suite
Jenzabar
Blackboard
Canvas
Microsoft Suite
InDesign
DreamWeaver