Education

 

Ph.D., English (in progress), Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2000 to present. 

             Areas of Specialization:  Modern Irish Literature, Film Studies. 

 

M.A., Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, National University of Ireland, Dublin, 1994.  Thesis:  “A Tarot               Reading:  The Prose Fiction of William Butler Yeats.”

 

B.A., English, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, 1991. 

             Areas of Interest:  Irish Literature, Shakespeare, Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

Ball State University, Graduate Assistant, 2000 to 2004.

· Taught  ENG 300:  Film and Literature (Summer 2003, Fall 2003, and Summer 2004)

· Taught ENG 205:  World Literature (Spring 2004)

· Teaching Assistant to Dr. Kecia McBride for ENG 300:  Film and Literature (Spring 2003)

· Taught ENG 103 (Spring 2002) and ENG 104 (Fall 2002, Fall 2005)

· Research Assistant to Dr. Robert Habich (Summer 2001) and Dr. Patrick Collier (Summer 2002)

· Taught library instruction classes at Bracken Library and assisted patrons at the Reference Desk (2000-2001) 

 

Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities, English Fellow, 2004-05

             Taught African-American Literature, American Literature, and World/British Literature

 

Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Instructor, 1995 to 2000.      

             Taught Principles of Composition I.

 

University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Adjunct Faculty, 1998. 

             Taught Argumentative Writing.

 

Ivy Tech State College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Adjunct Faculty, 1996. 

             Taught Introduction to Public Speaking.

 

 

Other Employment Experience

 

Indiana Public Radio, Ball State University, Muncie, IN  47306  (765) 285-5888.  Announcer, May 2002 to    present.

Reading weather forecasts, public service announcements, and underwriter announcements.

 

Patton Insurance, Inc., 3604 N. Wheeling Avenue, Muncie, IN  47304  (765) 286-4300.  Clerical Assistant, June 2002 to August 2002. 

Contacted clients, organized files, answered phones.

 

Law Office of Timothy A. Isaacs, 126 West Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, IN  46802  (260) 420-6540.  Paralegal, May 2000-August 2000.

Served as paralegal to attorney practicing criminal and civil defense litigation, bankruptcy, and family law. 

 

 

Presentations

 

Panel Discussion on Conference Presentations, Graduate Student Advisory Board, 13 November 2002, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

 

“Yeats’ Subversive Occultism.”  Modernist Studies Association Conference, 20 September 2003, Birmingham, UK.

 

“The Tragedy of Lily Bart.”  Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, 29 October 2002, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York.

 

“The House of Mirth, or The Tragedy of Lily Bart.”  Practical Criticism Midwest 2002, 1 February 2002, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

 

“Walt Whitman’s Chauvinistic Kosmos.”  Indiana College English Association Conference 2001, 19 October 2001,    Marian College, Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

“Filming Beloved:  Adaptation or Interpretation?”  Indiana College English Association Conference 2001, 19 October 2001, Marian College, Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

 

Publications

 

“Filming Beloved:  Adaptation or Interpretation?”  Interdisciplinary Humanities 19.1 (Fall 2002):  126-131.

 

“A Brief History of Temple Beth El” (editor), Directory of Temple Beth El, Muncie, Indiana.

 

 

 

Service

 

Graduate Student Advisory Board, Ball State University Department of English, 2002-Present.

 

Committee Co-Chair, Practical Criticism Midwest, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 2001-2003. 

 

 

Professional Memberships

 

American Conference for Irish Studies, 2000 to present

 

Indiana College English Association, 2001 to present

 

Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2000 to present

 

Modernist Studies Association, 2003 to present

 

Modern Language Association, 2000 to present

 

 

Grants, Scholarships, and Awards

 

Voss Scholarship, 2003