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EDUCATION

• 1982-1986: Ph.D., English, University of Minnesota
  • Specialization: American Literature from 1620 to 1900
  • Supporting Field: Linguistics
  • Dissertation: "'A Testimony of My Innocency': The Literary Aspects of Robert Keayne's Last Will and Testament, 1653."
• 1980-1982: M.A., English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
• 1972-1977: M.S.T. (Master of Science in Teaching), University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI.
• 1966-1971: B.S., English, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 1987 to present: Professor of English, Graceland University
  • Teaching Duties: American Literature to 1900; American Renaissance; Ethnic and Minority Literature; Language and Literacy; Introduction to Mass Media; Methods of Teaching Secondary English; Technical Writing; Modern Rhetoric.
  • Other Courses Taught: 20th Century British and American Literature; British Literature from 1800 to 1919; Native American Literature; Writing for the Mass Media; Advanced Essay Writing; Senior Seminar.
• 1986-1987: Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  • Teaching Duties: Technical Writing; Business Writing
• 1980-1986: Teaching Associate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Teaching Duties: Introduction to Literature; Introduction to American Literature; Introduction to Modern Fiction; Technical Writing; Business Writing; Writing and Literature; Freshman Composition.

• 2000 to present: Chair, Humanities Division

• Publications
  • "Robert Keayne, Puritan Merchant & Education Benefactor." Notable American Philanthropists. Ed. Robert T. Grimm Jr. Greenwood Press, 2002.
  • "Slow Dancing with Skeletons: Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2002, 86-96."
  • Review of Michael W. Kaufmann's Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exhile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New England. American Literature (Sept. 2000): 625-26.
  • Dream Business: Ethnomimesis in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
    Nebraska English Journal 43, Summer 1998: 54-59
  • History, Narrative, and Authority: Poe's 'Metzengerstein.'
    College Literature, 24.2, June 1997: 71-81
  • Melville's 'The Piazza' and the Myth of Male Transcendence.
    Nebraska English Journal, Fall 1992: 57-70
  • Fact, Fiction, Fatality: Poe's 'The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade.'
    Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1991: 365-370
  • Linguistic Dilemma in Edward Taylor's 'Preparatory Meditation 1.22'
    English Language Notes, March 1989: 19-24
  • The De-Thundered Textman: Benjamin Tompson's Epitaph for His Father
    Early American Literature, Spring 1988: 82-87
  • Edward Taylor's 'Preparatory Meditation 1.22': The Semiotics of God's Glory
    Explicator, Winter 1988: 9-11
  • Earning Respect as a Manager
    Administrative Management, October 1987: 14-15. Co-authored with James C. DeKeyser
  • Pragmatics on Wall Street: The Use of Language in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'
    Papers from the 1985 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Ed. James L. Armagost.
    Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University Press, 1986: 54-64

  Other Publications

  • Eight abstracts published in 'Seventeenth-Century News', 1987-1991
  • Learning Guide for American Literature to 1900.
    Written for the Graceland University Outreach Program, 1988; revised 1995

  Presentations

  • "Between the Gravities of Source and Destination: Liminality in 'The Toughest Indian in the World'"
  • "Story in Flutie." Native American Literature Symposium. March 2003. Minneapolis, MN.
  • "The Situated Self in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms." Native American Literature Symposium. Minneapolis, MN. April 2002.
  • When Discourses Collide: Sherman Alexie's 'The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire'
    Creighton Conference on Language and Literature. Omaha, NE. April 1999
  • Dream Business: Emersonain in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
    Creighton Conference on Language and Literature. Omaha, NE. March 1998
  • Slow Dancing With Skeletons: Sherman Alexie's 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'.
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, April 18-19, 1997
  • The Trickster of History: Gerald Vizenor's 'The Heirs of Columbus.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1996
  • Accommodation, Resistance and Subversion in Silko's 'The Man To Send Rain Clouds.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1995
  • Darker and Deeper Themes: Reading and Writing the Self in Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1994
  • Subverted Narrative in Poe's 'Thou Art the Man.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1992
  • Home as Laboratory: Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1992
  • Male Science and the (De)construction of the Female Body.
    Iowa Council of Teacher of English Convention, Luther College, Decorah, IA, 1992
  • Melville's 'The Piazza' and the Myth of Male Transcendence.
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, 1991
  • Self-Creation in Robert Keayne's 'Aplogia.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Dana College, Blair, NE, 1990
  • The Ritual of Self in 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Dana College, Blair, NE, 1989
  • Poe and Mersonian Transcendentalism
    Iowa Council of Teachers of English Convention, Des Moines, IA, 1989
  • Fact, Fiction, Fatality: Poe's 'The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Schehrazade'
    Midlands Conference on Language and Literature, Dana College, Blair, NE, 1988
  • Pragmatics on Wall Street: The Use of Language in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'
    Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 1985
  • King Kong: An Archetypal Approach
    Wisconsin Education Association Convention, Milwaukee, WI, 1977

• 2002 to present: referee: College English

• Modern Lanuage Association; Midwest Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Association for the Study of American Indian Literature

• Nominated for 2004 and 1999 Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award.