61传媒

Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley. Graduate coursework in Composition Theory

B.A. with High Honors, English, University of California, Berkeley

• Protest writing and rhetoric
• American literature and culture
• Disability literature
• Prison writing
• Short story and experimental fiction writing
• Punk rock literature and subcultures
• Writing pedagogy
• Feminist theory, disability theory, queer theory, theories of race and class

soccer, hiking, dogs, food, alternative lifestyles

• Critical Analysis: Writing for Social Change.
• Arts + Culture Review.
• Protest Writing and Rhetoric.
• Core I: Histories of the Present. Lectures: 鈥淩esisting Institutions: Representation and Social Justice in Susan Nussbaum鈥檚 Good Kings Bad Kings; 鈥溾�楾errible Memory鈥�: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥�; 鈥淩epresentations of Slavery: Frederick Douglass鈥� Narrative鈥�; 鈥溾�楽he Was Different鈥�: Identity, Representation, and the Color Line in Nella Larsen鈥檚 Fiction鈥�; 鈥淗ow to Read a 鈥榃orld Made of Stories鈥�: Leslie Marmon Silko鈥檚 Ceremony鈥�; 鈥淔ree-for-all: Hobo Literature, Punk Rock, and Critiques of Consumerism in Evasion.鈥�
• Core II: Constructions of (Dis)Ability; 20th Century Protest Movements in Words and Music; The Cultural Politics of Punk and Hip-Hop; Tragedy, Trauma, and Terror; Tragedy and National Narratives.
• Core III: Anarchist Movements and Culture; The Feminist Politics of Subcultures.

• Critical Insights: Literature of Fear, Paranoia, and Terror. Volume Editor and Contributor ("The Brain Has Corridors," "Fear and 'Paranoia' in/about Richard Wright's Novels"). NY: Grey House Press. Spring 2017.
• Critical Insights: The Slave Narrative. Volume Editor and Contributor (鈥淥n the Slave Narrative,鈥� 鈥淩ewriting the American Self,鈥� 鈥溾�楾errible Memory鈥�: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥�). NY: Grey House Press, April 2014.
• Critical Insights: Literature of Protest. Volume Editor and Contributor (鈥淥n the Literature of Protest,鈥� 鈥淣ella Larsen and Langston Hughes: Modernist Protest in the Harlem Renaissance,鈥� and 鈥淭he Meaning of Rape in Richard Wright鈥檚 Native Son鈥�). NY: Salem Press, April 2013.
• Stinging for their Suppers: How Women in Prison Nourish Their Bodies and Souls. Coeditor and Contributor (鈥淭he Crossroads Workshop鈥�). Lulu Press, March 2013.
• Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• 鈥淲omen on the Go: Blues, Conjure, and Other Alternatives to Domesticity in Ann Petry鈥檚 The Street and The Narrows.鈥� Reprinted in Children鈥檚 Literature Review, special issue on Ann Lane Petry. March 17, 2017. Originally printed in Arizona Quarterly 54.1 (Spring 1998); reprinted in A Critical Collection of Essays on Ann Petry, ed. Hazel Ervin, Greenwood Press, July 2005.
• 鈥淕enderqueering Language at a 鈥榃omen鈥檚鈥� College.鈥� The Writing Instructor special issue, 鈥淨ueer and Now.鈥� March 2015.
• Judge, the Writing Prize, an international student competition sponsored by The Atlantic and the College Board. One of twenty judges nationwide. March 2016.
• Consultant and reviewer, AP English Composition Curriculum. February-April, 2015.

• 61传媒Research Grants (2017-18, 2015-16, 2012-13, 2009-10).
• Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Teaching 2014-2015. $5000.
• Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges Grant. Faculty Development Workshop in Critical Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning. Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
• Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Teaching 2012-2013. $5000.
• Professor of the Year 2012-2013, a student-selected award.
• Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Scholarship 2010-2011. $5000.