Freelance Writing
Publications & Presentations
Professional Experience
Professional Development
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Publications & Presentations
- “The Rhetoric of Childhood: Imagining Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Children.” Conference of College Teachers of English, March 2022, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX. Virtual Conference Reading.
- “What Did It Mean?”: Authentic Grief in Kate Allen’s The Line Tender.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Feb. 2022, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Reading.
- “Toni Morrison's Sula and Distant Reading.” Data, Humanities, and Society Symposium, 12 November 2021, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Virtual Presentation.
- “Begin with the ‘End in Mind’: Graduate Student Experiences and Outcomes.” CoLA Graduate Student Welcome, 23 August 2021, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Roundtable Presentation.
- “Review of The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature: Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood, by Lucy Andrew.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 46 no. 2, Summer 2021, pp. 224-226.
- “Review of Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin. Edited by Diane Warren and Laura Peters.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 97-100. \“Review of Malory’s Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862–1980, by Elly McCausland.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 45 no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 124-127.
- “Imagining the Child in the Time of COVID.” Cultural Constructions Conference, 4 March 2021, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Virtual Conference Reading.
- "Merlin as King-Maker: Nationalism in Arthurian Legend." Conference of College Teachers of English, 6 March 2020, Collin College, McKinney, TX. Conference Reading.
- "Sir Gavin and the Sawn-off Shotgun: An Analysis of Haddon’s Use of Medieval Romance in 'Wodwo'." Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, 21 Feb. 2020, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Reading.
- “The Case for Mark Haddon.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, 23 Feb. 2019, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Reading.
- “Merlin’s Role as Nationalist in Monmouth and Malory,” MA Thesis, The University of Texas at Tyler, 2018.
- “Mise-en-Scene in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom.” The Beacon: A Literary Magazine [East Texas Baptist University], 2017.
- “The Story and Selected Poems.” The Beacon: A Literary Magazine [East Texas Baptist University], 2017.
- “Canonicity: The Case for Mark Haddon.” UT Tyler Lyceum, 2017, Tyler, TX. Presentation.
- “Evil in The Wizard of Oz and Wicked.” LeTourneau University Student Conference, 2016, Longview, TX. Conference Reading.
- “Blessed Assurance.” The Beacon: A Literary Magazine [East Texas Baptist University], 2015.
Professional Experience
- Assistant Director, Writing Center - University of Texas at Arlington
- Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of Texas at Arlington
- Adjunct English Instructor - Tyler Junior College
- Adjunct English Instructor - East Texas Baptist University
- English Teaching Assistant - East Texas Baptist University
- Developmental English Adjunct - Texas State Technical College
- Writing Consultant [East Texas Baptist University, Kilgore College, University of Texas at Arlington]
Professional Development
- 2022 2020 CCTE/TCEA Conference
- 2022 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
- 2021 UTA Data, Humanities, and Society Symposium
- 2021 UTA Cultural Constructions Conference
- 2020 CCTE/TCEA Conference
- 2020 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
- 2019 CRTLE Graduate Student Conference
- 2019 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
- 2019 Canvas Online Certification
- 2019 Canvas Face-to-Face Certification
- 2017 Research Analyst
- 2017 UT Tyler Lyceum
- 2016 LeTourneau University Student Conference
- 2016 Instructor Level Certification
EDUCATION IS NOT THE FILLING OF A PAIL, BUT THE LIGHTING OF A FIRE.
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