Division of Languages and Literature 2000-01
ENGLISH
Publications:
Article in SHC’s President’s Report and Honor Roll of Donors, 1999-2000”: “Why I Teach”
Attended:
Association of College English Teachers of Alabama meeting, University of Montevallo, Alabama
Member of panel on “Ethical Considerations in Constructing the Literature Curriculum”
American Association of Colleges and Universities annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sigma Tau Delta (English honorary society) national convention, Corpus Christi, Texas
Sponsored three students who read papers
SHC faculty development workshop: Dr. Barbara Walvoord
Faculty Friday panel on service learning
SHC technology workshops: ERes, tabs
Lectures/presentations/workshops given:
Lead monthly discussion at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Fairhope on short story film series
Member:
SHC Board of Trustees Committee on Educational Policy and Academic Affairs
Friends of Spring Hill College Library: Board of Directors
Ecumenical Ministries of Baldwin County, Inc.: Chair, Board of Directors
Developed new course: ENG 440 The American Novel
Introduced service learning project in Advanced Writing course: students visited the Methodist Mission and then wrote a newsletter to help the Mission advertise itself
Wrote and received mini-grant from Alabama Humanities Foundation for Literary Conversations with Emerging Alabama Writers sponsored by Friends of Spring Hill College Library
Director of Literary Conversations with Emerging Alabama Writers for Friends of Spring Hill College Library, 2000-2001
Presided over three public literary events presented by Friends of Spring Hill College Library
Participated in SHC’s first Poetry Slam; read original poem with Dr. Martha Patterson
Evaluated Senior Seminar Essays for English Department, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Selected Teacher of the Year, 2001-2002
Selected as Tri Delta Teacher of the Year
Incorporated some of Dr. Walvoord’s ideas into freshman composition course
Used ERes in one class
Works in progress:
Continuing work on scholarly article on the Christ figure in modern literature
Attended:
Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana
Presented: “A Rip in Time: Opting out of Progress?”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, Colorado
Presented: “Blurbs, Reviews, and Acknowledgments: Building a Community of the Book?”
Program committee meetings, Mobile Senior Center
Submitted a panel proposal on social justice and contemporary U.S. fiction for the Modern Language Association Convention 2001
Introduced service learning project in Introduction to Non-Fiction Prose course: students interviewed senior citizens at the Mobile Senior Center about their memories of Mobile and then wrote manuscripts about the memories; students in the publishing class suggested a design for the Mobile memories book and copy-edited some of the manuscripts; a professional writing major will finish the copy-editing this summer
Posted paper assignments and published student presentations on the website
Did minor funding research for Mobile Senior Center
Works in progress:
Making Sense, a composition reader being published by Houghton Mifflin: Have completed final draft and first copyedit; working on the instruction manual and companion website
Full manuscript for Academic Professions (MLA Publications)
Paper to be presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing conference
Awarded Altmayer Chair in Literature 1999 - 2001
Publications:
Forthcoming article on Mary McNeil Fenollosa in A Biographical Guide to Alabama Literature
Review of Ben Erickson’s A Parting Gift in the Mobile Register and in First Draft, the journal of the Alabama Writers Forum
Forthcoming review of Patricia Mayer’s Terminal Bend and Charlotte Miller’s Behold, This Dreamer in the Mobile Register
Being reviewed for possible publication by professional journals:
Article on teaching non-fiction
Article on the Japanese novels of Mary McNeil Fenollosa
Five short stories
Three poems
Attended:
Fulbright Association meeting, Washington, DC
Monroeville Literary Symposium
Discussion leader and interviewer
Lectures given:
Luncheon Lecture: “Teaching Literature Today,” Government Street Presbyterian Church
Member:
Friends of the Mobile Public Library: Board of Directors
Alabama Humanities Foundation: Board of Directors
Alabama Chapter, Fulbright Association: President
Mobile Tricentennial Committee
Interviewer of Ben Erickson at Friends of Spring Hill College Library Emerging Alabama Writers session
Chair and judge of high school creative writing contest of Mobile Public Library
Works in progress:
Tricentennial essays about Mobile
Work on Mary McNeil Fenollosa
Continue creative writing
Awarded Altmayer Chair in Literature for 2001-2003
Attended:
Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC
American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
Planning session, Cooperative Center for Study Abroad
Heartland/Delta Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
SHC faculty development workshop: Dr. Barbara Walvoord
SHC faculty development workshop: Karen Desotelle
SHC workshop: ERes
Lectures/workshops given:
Faculty workshop on writing on the computer
Helped organize workshop on checking for online plagiarism
Reviewed a new edition of a drama book published by St. Martin’s Press
Substantially revised Modern European Fiction course, adding four new novelists and doing research necessary to support these additions
Incorporated ERes into all classes
Works in progress:
Article for Conference on College Composition and Communication on constructing a valid thesis in a freshman paper
Lectures/workshops given:
Guest lecturer for Alpha Sigma Nu induction/luncheon
Attended:
Heartland/Delta Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
Served as group facilitator
Researched:
New scholarly works on medieval art, architecture, literature, drama, biography, and philosophy for LIS 502 The Medieval World (MLA course)
New scholarly works on 20th century British writers for ENG 307 Modern British Writers
Inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit Honor Society
At Father Lucey’s request, serve as book club facilitator/moderator for a group of women who support SHC
Works in progress:
Revising three short papers:
Christina Rossetti
John Ruskin and his pupil Louise Blandy
John Ruskin and a letter from Alexander MacDonald
Martha Patterson
Paper on Ellen Glasgow and neurasthenic discourse was accepted for inclusion in the December 2001 Modern Language Association conference
Reviewed a manuscript précis for Blackwell Publishers
Attended:
Heartland/Delta Conference, Xavier University
SHC faculty development workshop: Dr. Barbara Walvoord
SHC faculty development workshop: Karen Desotelle
Lectures/workshops/presentations given:
Faculty Friday presentation
Received SHC’s Mitchell Scholarship Grant
Organized:
A “poetry slam” attended by students from SHC and USA
A race, class, and gender reading group for faculty at SHC and USA
Developed and used first PowerPoint presentation with links to performance poetry websites
Works in progress:
Revising book manuscript for publication; tentative title is ‘Survival of the Best Fitted’: The Trope of the New Woman in American Literature
Publications:
Annual bibliography of works by and on David Mamet in The Mamet Review, Summer 2000, with Janice A. Sauer
“Oleanna and The Children’s Hour: Misreading Sexuality on the Post/Modern Stage, Modern Drama, Fall 2000
Attended:
Modern Language Association Convention
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA) Orientation meeting and Board meeting
Presentation given:
On A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s “Theater in the Mind” program, Montgomery, Alabama
Reviewer for American Drama
Member:
David Mamet Society: Board of Directors
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA): Board of Directors; Assistant Director, Summer Program 2000
Awarded sabbatical for fall 2000
Posted course materials on ERes
Works in progress:
David Mamet Research and Production Sourcebook (120 pages completed) for Greenwood Press
Book on Modernism and Postmodernism in American Drama (one chapter remaining)
Lectures/workshops/presentations given:
Faculty Friday presentation on contemporary Irish dramatists, especially in reference to the situation in Northern Ireland
Continued work with Dr. Raymond Hebert of Thomas More College on innovative ideas and teaching approaches for team-taught courses in Ireland (offered through Cooperative Center for Study Abroad)
Continued research for a new sophomore-level course in Irish Drama to be offered in Fall 2002
Active in Mobile’s 12-step community through spiritual direction, individual counseling, sponsorship, and being a guest speaker
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Member:
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
Alabama Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages (AATFL)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Southwest Conference on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
Attended:
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies Conference, Vera Cruz, Mexico
Presented paper: “Nellie Campobello’s Cartucho: A Child’s Perspective on the Revolution”
Pychonomic Society Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Reviewed the text Espejos for Houghton Mifflin
Spent 10 days in Costa Rica acquiring research materials and absorbing native culture
New course preparations: Advanced Spanish Composition, Advanced Spanish Conversation, Senior Seminar (Hispanic Studies)
Works in progress:
Article on Nellie Campobello
Research on the novel of the Mexican Revolution and contemporary Costa Rican fiction
Began working on Ph.D. research topic (Bartolome de Las Casas); will pursue Ph.D. in Spanish full-time at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa beginning fall 2001