I teach a variety of courses in the English/Writing program: Shakespeare, Film, Literary Theory, and poetry. I specialize in the program in our Literature/Film Studies concentration. I also teach T'ai Chi Movement. 

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Current Projects 
I have four current research projects: I am finishing a play called "The Last Kalapooyan," and I continue to write poems.

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Selected Publications
Econolingua (Associated University Presses, 1985). 

“Drama in a Mercantilist World,” Mid-Hudson Language Studies, 6 (1983): 29-39. 

“Elizabeth Cary and Tyranny, Domestic and Religious,” in Silent but for the Word, ed. Margaret Hannay (Kent State UP, 1985), 225-37, 287-89. (Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, ed. Jennifer A. Brostrom [Gale, 1996], Vol. 30.) 

“Isabel Archer and the Enclosed Chamber,” Henry James Review, 7.2-3 (1986): 48-58. 

“’He means to pay’: Value and Metaphor in the Lancastrian Tetralogy,” Shakespeare Quarterly, 40 (1989): 149-64. (Reprinted in ReReading 3 [1991]: 141-56.) 

“Hearing Ophelia: Gender and Tragic Discourse in Hamlet,” Renaissance & Reformation, n.s. 14 (1990): 1-10. (Reprinted in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, 3rd. ed., ed. Michael Meyer [St. Martin’s Press, 1994]: 1019-20; excerpted and reprinted in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, 6th ed., ed. Michael Meyer (New York:  Bedford and St. Martin’s Press), 2002):  1561-63.) 

“Work to Do: Humanities Centers in the ‘Nineties,” ReReading 3 (1991): i-vii. 

Carolyn Forche's "Burning the Tomato Worms," Poetry (Los Angeles: Salem
Press, 1992), 2: 319-21.

Garrett Hongo's "Morro Rock," Poetry (Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1992), 2: 1418-20.

Richard Crashaw's "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord," Poetry
  (Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1992), 2: 1596-98.

“Garrett Kaoru Hongo,” Critical Survey of Poetry (Salem Press, 1992), 1567-74.

“’Cut my heart in sums’: Shakespeare’s Economics and Timon of Athens,” in Money:  Lure, Lore, and Literature, ed. John L. DiGaeani (Greenwood Press, 1994): 187-96. 

“Annie Dillard’s The Living,” American Fiction (Salem Press, 1994): 2360-65.

“Poetry and Pedagogy, or Metaphors we Teach By,” in Reinventing the Liberal 
Arts (Buffalo, NY, 1999), 1-9.

“Small Steps” (poem), published by Poets for Peace, www.iqpoetry.com , March 7, 2003.

“Surfsound” (poem), hipfish , July 2003.

 " Bear's Saga, or Revolution” (poem), accepted, The Cascade Reader.

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Selected Honors and Awards 
Presidential and Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY 

2002, Merit award for outstanding performance, Eastern Oregon Univ.

2003-05, Oregon Chautauqua Series presenter, Oregon Council for the

Humanities

2001-03, Oregon Chautauqua Series presenter, Oregon Council for the

Humanities

Faculty Scholar, Eastern Oregon University (2001, 2002)

Seminar Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library 

Oregon Chautauqua Fellow, Oregon Council for the Humanities 

Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University 

American Council of Learned Societies Grant 

SUNY Summer Research Grants 

Ernst Fellowship, University of Oregon 

Sarah Harkness Kirby Award, University of Oregon

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Community Outreach 
President, Grande Ronde Symphony Association 
La Grande Downtown Historic Landmarks Commission 
Judge, Shakespeare Oratory Contests, English-Speaking Union, Albany, NY 
Docent, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 
Instructor, Humanities Institute for Life-Long Learning, Bethlehem, NY 
Consultant, New York State Court System 
Judge, Voice of Democracy Contests (VFW), La Grande, OR 

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