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Classes Taught:

• College Writing I
• College Writing II
• Writing & Rhetoric in the Digital Age (Spring 2019)
• Introduction to Shakespeare (Fall 2019/2020)
• Introduction to Literary Study (Fall 2020)
• Fiction Writing I (Spring 2020)

Short-form Biography:

I was born in southwest Indiana and educated all over that state. I moved around the Midwest in my post-undergrad years, attending graduate school and working as an adjunct at multiple schools. I am a fiction writer by trade and passion, but fell in love with teaching Composition & Rhetoric, and so I pursued a Ph.D. in that field. My interests are in the moves and creative elements in student writing and how burgeoning writers in academe sort out and invent new and weird ways to get their ideas across in a tricky environment like the university. 

I am the current faculty advisor for Kent Tusc's English Club, which meets every Thursday in a meeting room in the Library. If you're interested, please contact me by email or just show up! The English Club is in the process of re-booting the literary journal, now titled Paper Bullets. (The line is from Much Ado About Nothing's character Benedick.) If you want to submit, please send fiction, essays, art, or whatever you'd like to paperbullets.mag@gmail.com.

Further Interests in Comp & Rhet:

• the essays of Peter Wayne Moe (a co-author on work with me)
• any work by Paul Kameen
• Teaching Queer by Stacy Waite
• Neil Postman's books on education
• The Plural I by William E. Coles, Jr. (and any subsequent article pub.'d before this book)
• using fiction writing tools to inflect and influence composition assignments and pedagogy
• anything that connects ancient rhetoric to contemporary student needs
• how rhetorical tropes can be used as lines of thought, viz. Jeanne Fahnestock's research
• how Shakespeare can be used as a model for composition students in college