Although I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, I’ve become a “DC Girl” by virtue of education and career. I earned my PhD in American literature from The George Washington University in 2005, and taught introductory and advanced composition and literature at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (Go Patriots!) from 2002 until retiring in 2023. I became assistant director of the Composition Program in 2006, and promoted to associate director in 2012.

Before coming to George Mason, I served as a program assistant to the EDSITEment project, the educational website of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was at NEH that I became intrigued by the way in which educators could use digital media to enhance classroom instruction.

RECENT COURSES

2010 – 2023 Composition Courses: ENGH 302M, Advanced Composition (Multidisciplinary); ENGH 302B, Advanced Composition (Business); and ENGH 302H, Advanced Composition (Humanities), in f2f, online, and Active Learning Classroom learning platforms.

2011 – 2018 Literature Courses: ENGH 201, Reading and Writing About Texts, online; ENGH 309, The Popular Fiction (Spring 2015 and 2017), ENGH 202 Marriage Plots (Fall 2013), ENGH 202 Why Women Read Romance (Fall & Spring 2011, Spring 2013)

HEADER IMAGE: Green Slippers (1918). Sir William Russell Flint (Scottish 1880-1969)

A young woman reads in green slippers on the beach beside the sheltered waters of the Gareloch on the Roseneath peninsula in the borderland between the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, where Flint in 1918 painted a number of pictures during his periods of leave from the Royal Air Force. He was stationed on the lower Clyde and found the stretches of water on the Gareloch idyllic for painting.