"Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one."
—Henry David Thoreau

Hometown

Merritt Island, formerly of Hackensack, NJ.

NJ claims Manhattan, but Florida has the beach all year long.

Degrees

M.A. English Literature, University of Central Florida
B.A. in Fine Arts, Montclair State University, NJ

Current Project

Integrating Writing and Research: A Collaborative Project to Promote Information Fluency on a Regional Campus--QEP Grant 2007-2010.

Writing Center Articles and Presentations

Designing and Evaluating Writing Sessions as an Effective Means of Developing IL Skills in College Learners. GA Conf Information Literacy 2007.

The Hybrid Writing Center: Post-Colonial Theory and the Satellite Campus. SWCA 2008.

The Hybrid Writing Center: Colonizing the Regional Campus. Writing Lab Newsletter (accepted for publication).

Developing a Mission Statement for a Joint University-Community College Writing Center. IWCA CCCC Collaborative 2009 (proposal accepted).

Professional Affiliations

International Writing Centers Association
Southeastern Writing Center Association
Pacific Modern and Ancient Languages Association
Florida College English Association
Space Coast Writers' Guild

Writing Courses Taught

English Composition I and II
English as a Second Language
Professional Writing

Writing Philosophy

A physicist friend (writing was not his entertainment) shared with me his freshman comp instructor's reactions to his first college essay. "She told me that she read the first paragraph, and the second, but then had no reason to continue. Reason to continue? It dawned on me that this was not just an exercise in my humiliation; a reader had a right to expect enjoyment from the read. After that I wrote about ideas that actually interested me. She read those essays all the way through." Moral: only when we find an angle that genuinely interests us can our writing engage others.