Dissertation Title: The Girl Within: Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath (Working Title)

Service: Writing I Board Convener, Writing I Program; Facilitator, Freshman Reading Program

Conferences: (1) Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium, Oxford University, England, Attending October 2007, Presenting modified version of "Alice in Cambridge" which places more emphasis on Plath's response to cultural narratives of girlhood and female sexuality. Teaching Experience: Writing I, Writing II, Composition and Rhetoric I and II (University College), Praxis 111: Communication that Works, Introduction to Literary Study (Co-taught with Professor Pollak).

(2) Graduate Humanities Conference, University of California-Riverside, Spring 2007, Presented paper entitled "Alice in Cambridge," which focused on Sylvia Plath's appropriation of fairy-tales in order to explore adult female sexual fantasy.

Awards: Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching 2003-2004