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Curriculum Vita

Selected Papers and Projects (under construction)

Current Positions (Spring 2006):

Graduate Instructor, Saturday and Evening Program

Current course: 8:83 SCA Topics in African American Literature, Subtitle: Women's Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives, 6:00-8:30 TH in 208 EPB (Spring 2006)

Graduate Instructor, General Education in Literature Dept.

Current course: 8G:15 Sec. 2 Women in Literature, Subtitle: Radical Heroines, 3:55-5:10 TTH in 205 EPB (Spring 2006)

Writing Center Tutor, Rhetoric Dept. Writing Center

Tutorial Hours: 6-8 PM Wednesdays, Quadrangle Dormitory Recreation Room (Spring 2006)

Doctoral Candidate

Department: English

Institution: The University of Iowa

Specialization: 19th and early 20th C. American literature (1820-1920)

Interests: Literature of the American frontier and Native American literature

Comprehensive Exam Areas

Historical Period: 19th C. American Literature, 1820-1920 (dir. Professor Kathleen Diffley)

Special Interest Area: Family, Kinship, and Community in Native American Literature, 1883-present (dir. Professor Linda Bolton)

Article: "Words are Fearful Weapons": Ann Stephens' Malaeska as Revisionist Historical Romance (dir. Professor Laura Rigal)

Syllabi: Historical Period and Special Interest Area

Dissertation (in progress)

Title: Sisters Without Sunbonnets: Hybrid Heroines in Anglo-Native Frontier Narratives, 1827-1927

Selected Anglo-American Authors: Ann Stephens, Helen Hunt Jackson, Willa Cather, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Selected Native American Authors: Mourning Dove, Zitkala-Sa, Luci Tapahonso

Selected Critics/Historians: Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhabha, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Louis Owens, Gerald Vizenor, Richard White