Courses Taught:
Exploring the Options: Finding Purpose and a Path in College
Why are we Here? Student Culture and the Problem of College
The Little Dickens
Dickens and London
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Fallen Women and Ruined Men: Studies in Nineteenth-century English Literature
Progress and Peril: Studies in the Nineteenth-century British Novel
Practice and Pedagogy for the Secondary School English Teacher
Professional Semester in Secondary Education
Recent Publications:
"Lessons from the Gutter: Sex and Contamination in Trollope's The Way We Live Now." Victorian Literature and Culture.39.2 (September, 2011). Cambridge U Press.
“The impact of a short-term urban field placement on teacher candidates' perceptions of urban schools, students and teachers.” Teaching and Teacher Education.27 (November 2011) 1170-1178. Elsevier.
"Legible Liars: Thackeray's Barry Lyndon as Professor of Imposture." Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought. Volume 1 (May, 2011). York University, Canada.
"The Last Class: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Course Effectiveness, and Student Engagement." Honors in Practice. Volume 6 (April, 2011). National Collegiate Honors Council. U Nebraska Press.
“(De)regulation Acts: The Democratization and Erasure of Travel in Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon” in Transport in British Fiction, 1840-1940. (Forthcoming)Adrienne Gavin and Andrew Humphries, editors. Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K. Affiliated press: Palgrave MacMillan.
Recent Presentations:
“Student-faculty Team Teaching and Student-led Seminars.” National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Annual Convention. Fellow presenters Natalie Lazo, Kaitlin Hulburt, and Victoria Wolak, Ithaca College. Boston, MA. November 17, 2012.
"'Teaching Creatively in an Era of Standardization." Annual Convention of the National Council of English Teachers (NCTE). Las Vegas, NV, November 16, 2012.
Recent Event Production:
Dickens In Ithaca: A Celebration of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday
http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/english/dickensfestival/
Upcoming Event Production with Prof. Katharine Kittridge:
2013 Pippi to Ripley: The Female Figure in Fantasy and Science Fiction
The second "Pippi to Ripley" conference will be held on May 4-5, 2013 at Ithaca College. The keynote speaker will be Tamora Pierce.
http://faculty.ithaca.edu/kkittredge/cfp_pippi_to_ripley/