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Areas of Responsibility Include: 

  • School of Liberal Arts Office
  • Department of Creative Arts
  • Department of Education
  • Department of English
  • Department of History
  • Department of Modern Languages and Classics
  • Department of Philosophy 
  • Department of Political Science and International Relations
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Religious Studies
  • Department of Social Work
  • Department of Sociology
  • WVCR
  • Franciscan Center for Catholic Study
  • Center for the Study of Government and Politics
  • Hayyim & Esther Kieval Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies
  • McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution
Degree Program University
Ph.D. University at Albany
M.A. The College of St. Rose
B.A. Siena College

My Professional Experience

Year Title Organization
2007 - Now Associate Professor Siena College
2001 - 2006 Assistant Professor Siena College
2000 - 2001 Visiting Professor Siena College
1996 - 1997 Adjunct Instructor College of St. Rose
1996 - 2000 Adjunct Instructor Siena College

Articles & Book Reviews

  • The Searchers
    Fugue
    2001
  • The Alamo
    Fugue
    1997

Awards & Distinctions

  • Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee
    Category: Teaching
    Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee, 2005
  • Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee
    Category: Teaching
    Jerome Walton Teaching Award Nominee, 2004
  • English Department Graduate Award, The College of Saint Rose
    Category: Other
    English Department Graduate Award, The College of Saint Rose, 1995

Books & Book Chapters

  • College Literature

    2010
  • Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin

    2007

Presentations

  • Anger and Silence: Harriet Beecher Stowe
    2014
    American Literature Association, Washington, District of Columbia
  • Angles and Edges in Augusta Jane Evans
    2009
    College English Association, N/A, Unknown
  • Stages, Steamships, and Ox-Carts: Ellen Montgomery's Forced Passage in The Wide, Wide World
    2008
    College English Association Conference, N/A, Unknown
  • The I-Want-Polly Syndrome in The Five Little Peppers Series
    2008
    Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, New York
  • 'From Oldtown to Ghostown': Horace Holyoke's Denial of Empathy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks
    2007
    College English Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Regions of Pain and Pleasure: Masochism in St. Elmo
    2006
    College English Association, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Narrative Direction in Augusta Jane Evan's Beulah
    2005
    College English Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas
  • The 'Mother' God in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island
    2002
    Central Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
  • Transcendentalism in The Matrix
    2002
    Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Silver Springs, Maryland
  • 'The Least Bit of Oil': Smoothing the Way in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing
    2001
    Central Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
  • Return to a Tale: Narrative Structure in Chaucer's The Tale of Melibee
    2001
    International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • The Wayward Epigraphs of Dune: Narrative Resistance in Frank Herbert
    2001
    Mid-Atlantic American Culture/Popular Cultre Association, Albany, New York
  • 'Furious Dido' No More: Negative Transformation in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women
    2000
    Convivium Interdisciplinary Conference, Albany, New York
  • Gendered Narrative in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks
    2000
    Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York
  • Home as Home Front: Social Disruption in Augusta Jane Evans's Civil War Novel Macaria or Altars of Sacrifice
    1997
    Methodist College Southern Writers Symposium, Fayettesville, North Carolina
  • A Study of Multiple Narrative in Louise Erdrich's Tracks: Psychology, Mythology, Community, and Society
    1994
    Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, New York