ACADEMIC INTERESTS

I'm currently writing my dissertation on the Elizabethan complaint poem. Besides formulating a needed definition of the long-neglected genre, I'm also examining how complaint literature mirrors the life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

In addition to the complaint, my academic interests include Shakespeare, Elizabethan history, detective fiction, genre theory, and poetry in general. I am also fascinated by the influence of film on popular culture, the American Civil Rights movement, and the novels of Charles Dickens.

COURSES TAUGHT

RHE 306
Text: The Culture of Fear
Fall 2004, Spring 2005
Text: The Devil's Highway
Fall 2007

RHE 309S
Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing
Topic: The Rhetoric of Civil Disobedience
Summer 2005, Summer 2006

RHE 309K
Criminal Rhetoric
Fall 2005, Spring 2006

ENG 314L
Reading Poetry
Fall 2006, Spring 2007

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin: M.A., British Literature, 2004.

Master's Report Topic:
Shakespeare's Bath Sonnets and "A Lover's Complaint"

University of Dallas: B.A., English Language and Literature, 2002.

Junior Poet Project: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Senior Novel Project: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Clear Brook High School: Honors Diploma, Valedictorian, 1997.

PUBLICATIONS

Night of the Pompon (Archway Paperbacks, 2000).
Review of Elizabeth I: Then and Now (Libraries & Culture, 2005).