EDUCATION

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Ph.D. in English Literature, 2000
Dissertation: "From Protest to Process: Pacifism and Post-1970 Women's Novels Written in English" articulates a narratological theory of pacifist novels using Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts as a model. Based on Birgit Brock-Utne's feminist pacifism, this theory defines pacifist novels as texts that move beyond merely depicting war's tragic results and into analyzing, through implication, causes of and solutions to war. Woolf's Between the Acts and the other novels examined--novels by Margaret Atwood, Bessie Head, Fay Weldon, Sheri S. Tepper, and Toni Morrison--possess a similar structure that foregrounds oppression and violence in the domestic sphere in an effort to explain the global violence occurring in the background. Against this structure, the novels' formal elements represent radical alternatives to oppression.
Advisory Committee: Margaret R. Higonnet, Regina Barreca, Eleni Coundouriotis

Teaching and Research Interests: 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century British literature; ethnic American literature; postcolonial and Irish literatures; women's literature; science fiction and fantasy; literary theory; composition and rhetoric; professional writing; media and culture studies; humanities computing

Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, M. A. Teaching Writing, 1995
Thesis: "Improving Student Writing through Comparing Published Narratives"

Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, M. A. English Literature, 1995
Thesis: "Seaworthy, a Novel"

University of California, Los Angeles, B. A. East Asian Studies, 1990, Cum Laude

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Business Administration 225: Report Writing (Spring 2002; Summer 2006)

• Education 508: Oregon Writing Project (Summers 2004-05, 2007, 2008-11)

• English 104: Introduction to Literature (Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Winter 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2009 on campus and online, Summer 2010 online)
• English 109: World Literature III (Spring 2003 ; Spring 2009)
• English 205: Writers of the British Isles (Spring 2001: Literature and Empire; Spring 2002: Nature and British Literature; Summer 2002 and Spring 2004: Modern Irish Literature; Spring 2003: Women's Writing; Spring 2005: British and Indian; Spring 2006: Gothic Literature; Spring 2007 Detective Fiction; Spring 2009 Romantics)
• English 206: Applied Literary Criticism (Spring 2001: Revolutionizing Literature; Fall 2002; Winter 2003; Fall 2003; Winter 2011)
• English 210: Selected Topics (Spring 2002: James Welch's Fools Crow)
• English 239: Genres (World War I Literature online)
• English 310: Regional Authors (Summer 2009)
• English 322: Historical Literature (Winter 2002: Modernism; Fall 2003: Restoration and 18th-Century Drama: Spring 2009 Romantics; and online)
• English 339: Genres (Spring 2003, Spring 2010, online Summer 2010: The Novel)
• English 390: Multicultural/Postcolonial Literature (Fall 2000, Winter 2007: South African Literature; Winter 2003: Nigerian; Winter 2009: India hybrid on campus and online; Winter 2011 hybrid)
• English/Gender 395: Gender in Literature/Film (Fall 2001: Women's Science Fiction, and online)
• English 401: Research (Lady Audley's Secret)
• English 403: Capstone
  
• English/Writing 407: Seminar: British Canonical Literature (Fall 2002; Spring 2006; Fall 2006; Spring 2009;Spring 2010; and online)
• English 409: Practicum
• English 410: Selected Topics (Vladamir Nabokov’s Lolita)
• English 436: Literary/Film Themes (Fall 2004: Peace and War)
• English 446: Critical Theory (Fall 2005, Fall 2009)
  
• English 448: Major Authors (Tom Robbins, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood online; Charles Dickens Fall 2010 hybrid)
• English 507: Oregon Writing Project (Summers 2004-05, 2007, 2008-11)
  
• English 525: Studies in Contemporary Literature (Summer 2002: Modern Irish Literature)

• Gender Studies 110: Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture (Fall 2002)
• Gender Studies 410: International Women's Week (Winter/Spring 2004)

• Liberal Studies 401: Capstone
  

• Humanities 112: Introduction to American Language and Culture (Fall 2005)
  
• Humanities 114: Global Perspectives on American Language and Culture (Spring 2005)
• Humanities/Social Science 200I: INTACT: Instructor of record for student-taught courses
  

• Social Science 207: Community Service Learning (Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004)

• Writing 115: Introduction to Expository Writing (Fall 2001; Fall 2006; Fall 2007; Fall 2008; Winter 2010)
• Writing 121: Expository Prose Writing (Spring 2001: Nature Writing; Winter 2003, Fall 2003, Winter 2005, Fall 2007: Sociology; Fall 2005, Winter 2007; Fall 2006: Art; Spring 2007; online Summer 2010; online Winter 2011)
• Writing 131: Exploratory Prose (Winter 2001: The Rules: Exploring Personal Values)
• Writing 206: Applied Discourse Theory (Spring 2002)
• Writing 210: Selected Topics (CBEST preparation)
• Writing 225: Argumentation (Winter 2001, Winter 2002, Summer 2002, Winter 2004)
• Writing 310: Writing Portfolio (experimental; Fall 2002, Winter 2003)
• Writing 310: Selected Topics (Grammar)
• Writing 310: Selected Topics (Grantwriting; Winter 2008)
  
• Writing 320: Technical Writing (Winter 2001, Winter 2002, Winter 2003, Summer 2006, and online)
• Writing 328: Writing Theory (Fall 2005)
• Writing 329: Grantwriting (Winter 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2009; Fall 2010; Winter 2011 Weekend College Portland)
• Writing 330: The Electronic Word (Winter 2008 online)
• Writing 401: Research
  
• Writing 403: Capstone
  
• Writing 409: Practicum
  

Lecturer/Teaching Associate, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, 1994-96
Courses Taught: College Writing (50), College Writing Lab (50L), First-Year Reading and Composition (100), Introduction to Literature (105)
Responsible for all aspects of instruction, including text selection, syllabus and policies, assignments, classroom instruction, student writing conferences, supervision of tutors and writing lab, and assessment. Special experience includes a team-taught student publishing unit where students planned, wrote, edited and laid out their own publication and collaboration with other instructors to improve the first-year portfolio assessment system, through which all HSU freshmen must pass.

Teaching Intern, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, 1994-96
Courses Taught: Practical Criticism (320), Introduction to the English Major (120), Composition and Theory for the Secondary Teacher (406; including computer lab 406L), Introduction to Literature (105)
Under faculty supervision, responsible for delivering lectures, mediating classroom discussion and group work, and evaluating student writing, presentations, projects and examinations. In 406, collaborated with Dr. Tom Gage and fellow interns to develop a classroom structure that continues to be used today where interns teach students and then students teach one another computer skills.

International Program Director/English Teacher, Japan-America Society of Miyakonojo, Japan, 1988 and 1989
Prepared lessons and selected and supervised instructors for summer program located in Japan.

ADMINISTRATION

Discipline Representative, English/Writing, 2006-2007
Coordinated program meetings; drafted accreditation documents; facilitated course approval; collaborated on scheduling, staffing, and budget; revised program documents; administered program survey and analyzed data; initiated major redesign; and enhanced communication with majors and minors.

Director, Oregon Writing Project, 2004-present
Wrote successful federal grant renewals, Project Outreach $36,000 grant, and other smaller grants; supervised annual budget of over $100,000; coordinated annual Invitational Summer Writing Institutes in Bend, La Grande, Ontario, and Pendleton; coordinated Advanced Leadership Institute in Ontario; coordinated international teacher exchange program, Student Writers' Workshops, Steering Committee meetings, writers' retreats, and continuity programming; inservice, outreach, and other workshops, and technology liaison responsibilities; participated in state-wide OWP network and in Northern Lights Regional Network; participated in the La Grande School District's 6+1 Traits professional development; with Carol Lauritzen developed the Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing; provided an institutional home for Cori Brewster's Cove Film Camp; attended the annual NWP Convention and Rural Sites Network meetings; participated in the NWP Professional Writing Retreat; and provided writing-across-the-curriculum and professional-development expertise to EOU, particularly related to the First-Year Experience Program.

Writing Coordinator, 2001-2010
Advocated for writing across the curriculum including integration of University Writing Requirement outcomes in writing-intensive courses, maintanence and phase-out of Writing Proficiency Examination, and providing writing workshops to faculty; assisted in staffing decisions for composition service courses; mentored English/Writing instructors; supervised Writing 115 portfolio reading; acted as a liaison between faculty and administration; vetted proposed online and dual-credit courses and instructors; participated on first-year experience committees.

GRANTWRITING

Successful Student Grantwriters

Juli Bloodgood $5,000 Kinsman Foundation grant toward Elgin Opera House handicapped ramps

Deborah Hoffnagle grant supporting the Community Garden

Jessica Johnson $3,100 Wildhorse Foundation grant supporting Union County Healthy Start

Dodie McDaniel almost $10,000 for Wallowa County organizations (multiple grants)

Brynne Morningstar $5,000 Windhorse Foundation Grant for the EOU Speel-Ya Pow-Wow

Dawn Schiller Wildhorse Foundation Grant for Shelter from the Storm supporting "throwaway" teen advocacy

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Textbook Reviewer, Routledge, August 2008

Coordinator, 15th Annual Oregon Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 5-6 October 2007

Textbook Reviewer, Thompson-Wadsworth, June 2007

SAT Scorer, Pearson Education, March 2005

Chair, Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee, 2010-2012

Chair-Elect, Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee, 2008-2010
Member, Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee, 2002-present
Recommended policy regarding administering and teaching English and writing courses as part of state-wide committee.

President, Canadian Literature Section, Midwest Modern Language Association, 2002-2003
Secretary, Canadian Literature Section, Midwest Modern Language Association, 2001-2002

Technology Liaison, Oregon Writing Project, 2001-2003
Created OWP web page and OWP-L listserv. Member of OWP Steering Committee.

Textbook Reviewer, Longman, 2000

Assistant, Connecticut Writing Project, 1997-2000
Edited and laid out the bi-annual Connecticut Writing Project Newsletter; participated on the Executive Board, which plans events for teachers and students; wrote a successful $3,000 grant proposal; designed instructional and promotional materials; and supervised web site and e-mail discussion list.

English Tutor, Center for Academic Programs, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1997
Tutored at-risk students taking Basic Writing (104) during the summer as part of their provisional admittance to the university.

Redwood Writing Project Fellow, 1996
Participated in National Writing Project Summer Institute training for teachers teaching teachers (kindergarten through college). Delivered interactive presentation to institute teachers on personality and response to student writing.

AWARDS

EOU Women of Courage and Vision Award, 2010

EOU Merit Award, 2002, 2004, 2005 (each time applied)
EOU Summer Stipend, 2001, 2003 (each time applied)
Doctoral Fellowship, 2000
First Place, AETNA Teaching Award, 1999
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1998
Second Place, AETNA Graduate Critical Essay Contest, 1997
Joseph S. Woolford, M. D. Rotary Club Fellowship, 1994
Phi Kappa Phi, Humboldt State University, 1994
Golden Key, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Chair, Provost Search Committee, 2010

Member, Betty Cleveland Master's Thesis Committee, 2009

Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society Lambda Phi Chapter 2009-present

Member, Elementary Teacher Education Generalist (Pendleton) Search Committee, 2009

Member, Education Generalist search committee, 2008
Member, University Assessment Committee, 2007-present
Member, International Enrollment Management Committee, 2007
Member, College Personnel Committee, 2006-2008
Chair, Standards 2 and 4 Subcommittee, Accreditation, 2006-2008
Advisor, English Club, 2006-2007 and 2008-2009
Chair, Film Criticism and Theory search committee, 2006
Member, Elementary Education search committee, 2006
Member, Subcommittee on Impact of Collective Bargaining, Accreditation, 2006
Member, Education Policy and Curriculum Committee, 2005-2007
Member, Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Board, 2005-2007
Chair, Media Arts/Multimedia search committee, 2005
Member, Journalism search committee, 2005
Member, General Education Review Committee, 2005
Member, Institutional Integrity Subcommittee, Interim Accreditation, 2003
Coordinator, International Women's Week, 2003-2005
Awards and Scholarships Officer, Phi Kappa Phi Chapter #277, 2003-present
Chair, Assembly Executive Committee, 2003-2004
Women's Research and Resource Center Steering Committee, 2002
Vice-Chair, Assembly Executive Committee, 2002-2003
Member, Ad Hoc Diversity Committee, 2002
Member, Sociology search committee, 2002
Member, Assembly Executive Committee, 2001-2002
Distance Learning Faculty Specialist, 2001-2004
Advisor, The Ink Well (English Club), 2001-2002
Writing Proficiency Exam Reader, 2001-2006
EOU New Student Orientation 2001 and 2002: EasTrek, Book Talk, and FEAT group
Member, Service Learning Steering Committee, 2001-2003
Member, Gender Studies Advisory Council, 2000-present
Chair, Graduate Student Colloquium Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Teaching Awards Committee, 1999-2000
Participant and Discussion Leader, slAAm! Asian-American Reading Group, 1999-2000
Mentor, Teaching Associate Mentor Program, 1999
Co-Founder, Teaching Associate Discussion Group, 1999
Member, Irish Studies Alliance, 1998-2000
Summer Reading Discussion Group Leader, 1998 and 1999
Judge, AETNA Freshman Writing Awards, 1998
Judge, Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, 1992-93

PUBLICATIONS

"Imperial Attitudes in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret." With student Katherine Race. New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Ed. Jessica Cox. Forthcoming from Rodopi.

"Active Pacifism in a World at War: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf's Pacifist Theory on Narrative Structure." Woolf, Women, and War: Contemporary Discussions on Gender and Virginia Woolf's War Writing. Ed. Jane Wood. Forthcoming from Mellon Press.

"Why Books Matter" contribution. Oregon English Journal 31.1 (Spring 2009): 35.

"Crane Dorms" (poem). Libraries of Eastern Oregon Anthology. Forthcoming November 2009.

"The Voyage Home: Peter Walsh and the Trauma of Empire in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway," forthcoming in the Selected Papers from Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference

"Teacher Energy Promotes Student Energy." With Cori Brewster. Northwest Education 13.3 (Spring-Summer 2008): 12-17.

"New Technology, Newer Teachers: Computer Resources and Collaboration in 'Literature and Composition.'" With M. Wendy Hennequin. Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options. Eds. James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

"Virginia Woolf's Pacifist Narrative Structure." Virginia Woolf Miscellany 60 (Spring 2002): 5.

"Argument by Credibility in Patrick McGinley's Bogmail." English Language Notes 39.3 (March 2002): 79-87.

"Dissolving Stereotypical Cultural Boundaries: Allusions to Virginia Woolf in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart. Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Eds. Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman. New York: Pace UP, 2001. 67-72.

"Why Red Ink Fails: Standard English and the Zone of Proximal Development." Oregon English Journal 23.1 (Spring 2001): 10-12, 51. Issue selected for national distribution by the National Council of Teachers of English.

"'I'll Drown My Book': Mixing Medieval Texts and Modern Technology." With M. Wendy Hennequin. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 14.2 (1999): 179-98.

"A Community of Women Looking at Men: The Photographs in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas." Virginia Woolf and Communities: Selected Papers from the Seventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Eds. Jeanette McVicker and Laura Davis. New York: Pace UP, 1999. 91-96.

"Exile to the Garden: Garden Imagery in Selections from Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart." Notes on Modern Irish Literature 11 (1999): 4-12.

"Virginia Woolf's Dome Symbolism: si monumentum requiris circumspice or Monuments to Patriarchal Infantile Fixation." Woolf Studies Annual 4 (1998): 86-100.

"From Babies, Artillery, Dairy Queen, and Mill Closures to the Classroom: Inviting First-Year Non-Traditional Students into College Work," National Council of Teachers of English 99th Annual Convention, 21 Nov. 2010, Orlando, Florida.

"Journeys of Faith: Reading John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cormac McCarthy's The Road as Apocalyptic Unveilings of the Roots of Faith." Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945, 19 June 2010, Portland, OR.

Chair, "Ideals and Urban Spaces," Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945, 17 June 2010, Portland, OR.

"Writing 115 as Ellis Island: Using the Composition Classroom to Encourage Engagement and Persistence among Non-Traditional College Students," Oregon Rhetoric Conference, 8 May 2010, Portland, OR.

"LEAP in Oregon: High Impact Practices" with Colleen Dunne-Cascio and Sarah Witte. 96th Annual Meeting of the Associating of American Colleges and Universities, 22 Jan. 2010, Washington, DC.

"Multiwriting La Frontera," National Writing Project Rural Sites Network Conference with Jill Gibian, 14 March 2009, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

"Cookies and Tinkertoys: What to Do When First-Term College Students Won't Buy the Textbook," National Council of Teachers of English 98th Annual Convention with Anna Maria Dill and Susan Whitelock, 22 Nov. 2008, San Antonio, Texas.

"Standing on the Table: Student Engagement in Classroom Learning," EOU Colloquium, 22 May 2008, La Grande, Oregon.

"La Frontera: Teaching in the Borderlands," National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference with Neva Sanders, 25 April 2008, Denver, Colorado.

“The Eastern Oregon Writing Project’s Greatest Hits!” Oregon Council of Teachers of English English Language Arts & Reading Conference with Norma Barber, Karen Lawrence, Shannon McClellan, John Scanlan, and Mary Thouvenel, 5 April 2008, Pendleton, Oregon.

"War Planes and Body Bags: Feminist Pacifism in Woolf and Morrison," 17th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Oxford, Ohio, 10 June 2007.

"Writing across the Range in the Oregon Outback," National Writing Project Rural Sites Network Conference with Tom Wallis, 9-10 March 2007, Albuquerque, New Mexico

"The Art of Writing is Professional: Using Reading to Teach Professional Writing," Northwest Regional National Council of Teachers of English Conference, 5 March 2006, Portland, Oregon.

"The Bell Jar and Mrs. Peters' Hat: Social Construction, Self-Expression, and Narrative in Plath and Woolf," 15th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 10 June 2005, Portland, Oregon.

Panelist, 60s Week, Women’s Lib. night, 29 May 2003, La Grande, Oregon.

"Revising University-Wide Writing Assessment," 13th Annual Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, 26 April 2003, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.

"Writing 310 (Writing Portfolio) and University-Wide Writing Assessment," Colloquium, 10 April 2003, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon.

"Bridging the Gap between Distance Learning Faculty and Administration: The Faculty Specialist at Eastern Oregon University," Eighth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) with Anna G. Cavinato, 10 November 2002, Orlando, Florida

"Writing for the Web: Teacher and Student Empowerment," Oregon Writing Project at Eastern Summer Writing Institute, 1 July 2002, La Grande, Oregon

"Teaching Woolf in the 21st Century," Twelfth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 7 June 2002, Rohnert Park, California

Chair and "Structural Violence and Narrative Structure in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook," Society for Critical Exchange session "(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 12-13 April 2002, Toronto, Canada

"Killing Them Softly: Building the Blind Assassin," Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention with Lina Carro, 1-3 November 2001, Cleveland, Ohio

Panelist, EOU Women and Graduate School Panel, 2001 and 2002

"Revising Fiction from a Literature Teacher's Perspective," Oregon Writing Project Retreat, 5 October 2001, Wallowa Lake, Oregon

"The Voyage Home: Peter Walsh and the Trauma of Empire in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway," Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 15 June 2001, Bangor, Wales.

"Dissolving Stereotypical Cultural Boundaries: Allusions to Virginia Woolf in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart," Tenth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 10 June 2000, Baltimore, Maryland

"Personality and Responding to Student Writing," Orientation Session for the Connecticut Writing Project Summer Institute, 3 June 2000, Storrs, Connecticut

"Speculating in/on Information Technology: Humanities and the Funding of Higher Education," New Information Technologies & Liberal Education, 5 May 2000, Greenville, South Carolina

Chair, Two-Year College Caucus, "Empowering Student Response," Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 8 April 2000, Buffalo, New York

"McDonald's U: Virtual Technology and Humanities Futures in the Corporatized University," Society for Critical Exchange panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention with Lina Carro, 27-30 December 1999, Chicago, Illinois

"Teaching Teachers to Teach Writing: Vygotsky in the Collaborative Computer Classroom," Modern Language Association Annual Convention with Lina Carro, 27-30 December 1999, Chicago, Illinois

"Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts as Pacifist Art," Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 11 June 1999, Newark, Delaware

Co-Chair, Two-Year College Caucus "The Politics of Transfer: Access, Articulation, Outcomes," Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 17 April 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Collaboration through Technology: Integrating Computer Resources into 'Literature and Composition,'" Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention with M. Wendy Hennequin, 6 November 1998, St. Louis, Missouri

"A Community of Women Looking at Men: The Photographs in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas," Eighth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 6 June 1998, St. Louis, Missouri

"Our Fantasy Classroom: Techniques of Collaboration and Mediation in English 109," Seventeenth Annual High School Cooperative Program Conference with M. Wendy Hennequin, 23 April 1998, Storrs, Connecticut

"Understanding What We Learn: Vygotsky in the Collaborative Computer Classroom" (Two-Year College Version), Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention with Lina Carro, 17 April 1998, Baltimore, Maryland

"Empty Rhetoric: Argument by Credibility in Patrick McGinley's Bogmail," Tenth Graduate Irish Studies Conference, 28 March 1998, Storrs, Connecticut

"Understanding What We Learn: Vygotsky in the Collaborative Computer Classroom" (Four-Year College Version), Computer Research Section at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention with Lina Carro, 7 November 1997, Chicago, Illinois

"Our 'Sig': Harriet E. Wilson's Christian Parody," Seventh National American Women Writers of Color Conference, 2 November 1997, Ocean City, Maryland

"Living the Myth: Merging Student and Teacher Needs in Responding Effectively and Efficiently to Student Papers," English Council of California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC) Statewide Conference, 17 October 1997, San Francisco, California

"Virginia Woolf's Dome Symbolism," Seventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, 13 June 1997, Plymouth, New Hampshire

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Job Shadow, La Grande Middle School Student, 2010

Secretary, Empowering Successful Teens through Education, Awareness & Mentoring (ESTEAM) Board of Directors, 2010-present

Secretary, ArtsEast Board of Directors, 2009-present

Reporter, Greenwood Elementary PTS, 2009-present

Parent Volunteer, Miss Chadwick's Greenwood Elementary First Grade, 2009-2010

Coordinator, Blue Mountain Writers, 2005-present
Hosted monthly open mic and critique group meetings; networked with other regional writing groups; coordinated writing events for Crossing the Blues: La Grande Summer Festival, including writing marathon and Union County Poetry Contest; updated web site

Advisor, Reading in the Blues, 2004-2005
Instructor of Record for Social Science 207: Community Service Learning, 2002-2005
Reader, Sleepy Time Story Hour, 2002
Peacemakers Conference Committee Member, 2001
Instructor of Record for Technical Writing Student Volunteers, 2001-present
Academic Supervisor for Observer Student Writer, 2000-01
Nature Conservancy Volunteer, 2000-01

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association; National and Oregon Councils of Teachers of English; National, Oregon, Connecticut, and Redwood Writing Projects; Virginia Woolf Society

LANGUAGES

German: advanced reading and intermediate speaking ability
Japanese: basic reading and speaking ability