EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, Temple University, 1996
M.A. English, Temple University, 1991
B.A. English, The College of St. Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1988
BOOKS
One-Smoke Stories by Mary Austin, with a critical introduction by Noreen Groover Lape (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003).
West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000). Winner of a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, 2002.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
“The Healing Power of Revision in Therapeutic Writing,” (with Kristin Taylor) Wellness and Writing Connections, ed. John Evans (Washington: Idyll Arbor Press, 2009).
“Giving Voice to Tutors’ Really Useful Knowledge: A New Plan for Writing Center Podcasts.” Writing Lab Newsletter, 34.2 (2009). Nominated for the IWCA 2009 Best Article Award.
"Training Tutors in Emotional Intelligence: Toward a Pedagogy of Empathy," Writing Lab Newsletter, 33.2 (2008).
“Trickster at Our Table: The Columbus State University Writing Center,” Southern Discourse 11.2 (2008).
“The Frontier Origins of North American Realism: A Transnational Approach to Caroline Kirkland and Susanna Moodie,” Western American Literature 42.4 (2008).
“The Politics of Representation in Asian American Literary Criticism,” College Literature 29.4 (2002).
“’I would rather be with my people, but not to live with them as they live’: Cultural Liminality and Double Consciousness in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims,” The American Indian Quarterly 22.3 (1998).
“’There was a part for her in the Indian life’: Mary Austin, Regionalism, and the Problems of Appropriation,” Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing, eds. Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997).
Review of Jose David Saldivar's The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History, Journal of Modern Literature,1996.
“Eliza Lynn Linton” in Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology, eds. Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell (New York: Garland Publishing,1995). Chose the essays in the selection and wrote the biographical introduction and headnotes.
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Training Counselors to Use Writing as an Intervention in Therapy,” (with Ric Long) Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010.
"Tutors as Transformative Leaders: The New Genre of Tutor- Centered Podcasts,” (with Brooke Cosby) National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2009.
“Training Counselors to Use Writing as an Intervention in Therapy,” (with Ric Long) Wellness and Writing Connections Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009.
“Building Emotional Intelligence in Tutors: Empathy, Vulnerability, and Deep Listening,” Poster Session at International Writing Center Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
“Wit by Margaret Edson: A Viewing and Discussion,” Wellness and Writing Connections Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008
“Reciprocity in the Writing Center: Undergraduate Peer Tutors as Transformative Learners,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Savannah, Georgia, 2008
“Speaking the Silences in Me: Constructing Literacy and Teaching Narratives” (co-written with Kristin Taylor), Western Literature Association, Tacoma, Washington, 2007
“Service Learning and the Work of Peer Writing Consultants,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007
“Frontier Space and Placelessness in the Travel Writings of Caroline Kirkland and Susanna Moodie,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006
“Mapping the Writing Center: A Director in the Borderlands,” Southeastern Writing Center Association, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2006.
“How History Majors Use the Writing Center,” Georgia Association of Historians, Clayton State University, Morrow, Georgia, 2006.
“The Frontier Origins of North American Realism: A Transnational Study of Susanna Moodie and Caroline Kirkland,” Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, California, 2005.
“Mary Austin and the Politics of Appropriation,” Georgia Association of Historians, Columbus, Georgia, 2005.
“‘In the land of make believe’: Nature-Faking and Culture-Faking in Mary Austin’s ‘Speaking of Bears.’” Western Literature Association, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2002.
“‘Between Art and Knowledge’: Authenticity and Ownership in Mary Austin’s One-Smoke Stories.” Western Literature Association, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2001.
“Shaping a Faithful Guide: The Dialogue Among Emigrant Guide and Travel Writers.” Western Literature Association, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2000.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Responding to Student Writing
Prompting Writer Revision
Building an Effective Assignment Sequence
The Art of Creating Effective Assignments
Reflective Writing in Service-Learning Courses
Crash Course for Foreign Language Writing Tutors
How Not to Plagiarize
How History Majors Use the Writing Center
Readers and Readings: A Workshop for Composition Teachers
Using WebCT to Enhance the Freshman Composition Class
Visual Literacy Pedagogy or Using Photographs in English Composition
Using Journals and On-line Discussions in CSUS 1106
How to Use Portfolios in Freshman Composition
Using CommonSpace Software
PEER REVIEWER
Western American Literature, 2009-present
Writing Lab Newsletter, 2008-present
College Literature, 2002-present
Ohio University Press, 2004
WRITING PROGRAM REVIEWER
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, April 2010
COURSES
Peer Writing Consultation
Composition Theory
Freshman Composition
Basic Writing
Research and Critical Thinking
Advanced Exposition
World Literature I and II
Survey of American Literature I
African American Literature I and II
American Women Writers
Multicultural Literature
Harlem Renaissance Literature
The Short Story
Contemporary Literature
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
I have mentored many students over the years, assisting them through the writing process with several projects that have earned different kinds of public attention:
1.) I helped one student revise an essay that was published in The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students (2010).2.) I co-wrote an essay with the same student, and it was published in the anthology Writing and Wellness Connections (Washington: Idyll Arbor Press, 2010).
3.) I assisted two students with an essay that was published in Writing Lab Newsletter (October 2009).
4.) I helped a student revise an essay that won first prize in the formal essay category for the Southern Literary Festival Contest in 2007.
5.) I worked with three students on essays that they later presented at Sigma Tau Delta National Conventions in 2006 and 2007.
6.) I mentored the projects of 37 different students who presented original research at eight different writing center conferences.