Education

CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Ph.D., English Literature, February 2015; M. Phil., May 2009

Queens College, Flushing, NY
Post-Baccalaureate Certification Program in English Education, 2014-2015

City College of New York, New York, NY
M.A., English Literature, May 2004

Tufts University, Boston, MA
B.F.A., May 1997

Teaching Experience

Professor, Suffolk County Community College, New York, 2015-Current

Teaching Fellow, Lecturer, Queens College, New York, 2008-14

Supervisory and Administrative Experience

Academic Chair, Department of English, Suffolk County Community College, 2023-current

Assistant Chair, Communication, English & Humanities, Suffolk County Community College, 2019-2022

Hybrid Coordinator, Center for Teaching & Learning, Baruch College, New York,
2013-15

Assistant Director of First Year Writing, Queens College, New York, 2012-14

Publications

Books

Kate Chopin in Contexts: From Theory to Practice. Co-Editor with Heather Ostman. Palgrave-MacMillan, September 2015.

Articles and Short Stories

“Eight of Cups.” Toronto Journal. Accepted April 2024. Publication June 2024.
“Don’t Be Merle.” Superpresent Magazine. Fall 2023
“The Weight.” Nomadartx Review. September 30, 2022.
“Kate Chopin: A Woman of and Beyond Her Time.” Women and Southern Naturalism in the Fiction of Kate Chopin. Gale Researcher Guide, July 2018.
“Teaching Chopin Through Multimedia.” Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2015.
“When Your Neighborhood School is Not Enough.” InsideSchools.org, 9 October 2014.
“The End of Ramadan in Queens.” The New York Times, 4 August 2014.
“Keep Your Hand on the Plow.” Crossed Out Magazine, 2013.
“How it Begins.” Bard Institute Writing and Thinking Journal, 2012.
“Common Core Standards.” Queens College Revisions Journal, 2012.

Conferences

2024 Kenyon Review Fiction Writing Workshop (participant), July 8-12, 2024.
2021 American Literature Association Conference, Boston MA. Panel Organizer and moderator: Kate Chopin Teaching Roundtable.
2018 Modern Language Association Conference, New York, NY. Presenter.“Suffolk Voices: Using Student Narratives as Texts in a Divided Community.”
2017 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. Presenter. “Kate Chopin, Ruth Stuart, and the New York Literary Market.”
2016 New York College English Association Conference, Selden, NY. Presenter. “Looking for the Possible: ‘Borderline’ Students in Developmental Writing.”
2016 Developmental Studies Association Conference, Selden, NY. Presenter. “Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the College Composition Classroom.”
2016 Society for the Study of Southern Writers, Boston, MA. Presenter. “An Appetite for Antebellum Nostalgia: Ruth McEnery Stuart and the New York Literary Marketplace in the 1890s.”
2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA. Presenter. “Revisiting the Politics of Literary Recovery: Kate Chopin and Ruth Stuart.”
2014 CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College. Presenter. “Answering the Hybrid/Online Challenge.” With Luke Waltzer, Debra Caplan, Antonietta D’Amelio, Kannan Mohan
2014 Teaching with Technology Conference, Baruch College. Presenter. “CUNY Students Using Technology.” Co-Presenter: Luke Waltzer
2014 Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, IL. Presenter. “Sound Essays: A Cure for the Common Core.” 21st Century Pedagogies Panel
2013 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. Presenter and panel organizer. “Teaching Chopin in the 21st Century: Multi-Media Approaches.”

Curriculum Vitae