B.A., summa cum laude, English, University of Pittsburgh
Professional Experience
Teaching Experience:
Shakespeare I: Of Kings and Lovers
Shakespeare II: Deception and Betrayal
Shakespeare and the Theater of Violence and Obsession
Chaucer: Bawds and Churls
British Literature I & II
American Literature I & II
Professional Experience:
Chair, Department of English, 2017-2020
Grievance Committee, 2018-2020
Third Year Review Committee, 2018-2020
Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2013-2017; 2019-2020
University Honors Program Advising Council, 2010-2016
Director, University Honors Program, 2010-2013
Chair, Faculty Development Committee, 2009-2010
Research / Creativity Interest Area
Publications:
The Theatricality of Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Unmasking Conventions in Context, Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2011
“Masques as Ephemerae: Their Importance to Plot, Characterization, Irony, and Cultural Significance” Journal of Drama Studies (Fall, 2008)
“Contextualizing Collaborative Learning: Social Justification and the Revision Process” EAPSU ONLINE, English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (Fall, 2008)
“Reading the Stage Rubrics of Mary Wroth’s Folger Manuscript of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.” In New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, edited by Michael Denbo. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
“Sonnets as Theater: The Performance of Ideal Love and the Negation of Marriage in Mary Wroth’s Masque” Explorations in Renaissance Culture (Summer 2003)
Works in Progress:
“Stella’s Wise Direction, Astrophil’s Acquired Grace.” (Under the revision process)
“The Profanely Erotic Bridegroom Passages in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” (Under the revision process)
Selected Conference Presentations:
“The Profanely Erotic Bridegroom Passages in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” Performing Women/Performing Gender in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond. Shakespeare Association of America, April 20, 2019.
“Stella’s Wise Direction, Astrophil’s Acquired Grace.” Celebration of Faculty Research. Georgian Court University. Fall, 2018. This research was funded by a Georgian Court University Sabbatical, Spring 2017.
“The Profanely Erotic Bridegroom Passages in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” [Re]Fusing the Bible: Revision and Parody in Medieval Britain. Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March, 2013.
“Computers and Collaborative Learning: A Public Forum for Revision Strategies,” Computers and Writing 2009: Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing, University of California, Davis, June, 2009.
“‘miseries in woeful cries / Deliver’d forth’: Pamphia Defined,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 2007.
“Reading the Stage Rubrics of Mary Wroth’s Folger Manuscript of “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,'” 42nd International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, May, 2007.
Mary Wroth’s Rubrics of Performance in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus,” Medieval-Renaissance Conference, University of Virginia, September, 1998.
