SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Faculty Advisor for the International Student Association
• Trainer for ESL Tutors at the Write to Excellence Center
• Freshman-Sophomore Committee, Department of English and Foreign Languages
• PASS/Bridge Committee
• Assessment and gathering of data for Freshman English courses for benchmarking, QEP, and SACS Report
• Work with particularly challenged students, especially English as a Second Language students and “nontraditional” students
• Secretary, Council for International Concerns. Active in coordinating, with other campus groups and community/civic groups and individuals, presentations and activities regarding our international population (at the university AND in the community)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Fiction Writing
• Folk Music Research
• Since the spring of 2005, I have worked with Dr. Delma McLeod Porter, Dr. Keagan LeJeune, and others on “Crossing the Marsh: An Oral History of Cameron Parish,” which examines occupations in Cameron Parish and the relation of the character of the people to the geography of the area. This was part of a grant from the Louisiana Division of Arts, but was interrupted by the hurricanes of fall 2005. The work is still in progress as Cameron Parish begins to rebuild.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
• South Central Modern Language Association
• Louisiana Folklore Society
• Louisiana Council of Teachers of English
• Louisiana Association for Developmental Education
SELECTED WORKS
Books
• Bridging the Gap: Developing Academic Writing Skills. Sulphur, OK: Fountainhead Press, 2007 (with Dr. Delma McLeod-Porter and Shonell Bacon)
• Bridging the Gap: Research and Writing. Sulphur, OK: Fountainhead Press, 2006 (with Dr. Delma McLeod-Porter and Shonell Bacon)
• Bridging the Gap: Learning to Write Effectively. Sulphur, OK: Fountainhead Press, 2005 (with Dr. Delma McLeod-Porter et al.)
Articles
• “A Collaborative Essay: Documenting Individual and Community Responses to Hurricane Rita.” Louisiana Folklore Miscellany Fall 2007 (with Dr. Keagan LeJeune, Dr. Stella Nesanovich, and Wendy Whelan-Stewart)
• “Annotated Bibliography Regarding the Louisiana Neutral Zone or No Man’s Land.” (with Dr. Keagan LeJeune and Wendy Whelan-Stewart). Part of a larger project, “Louisiana’s Frontier: A Summary Report to Five Parishes West of the Cultural Survey of the Region,” in conjunction with a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, also involving other folklife researchers in the state (Spring 2007)
Presentations
• “The Boy with Cartoon Vision,” Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 2004
• “The 13th Buzz,” McNeese State University (Part of graduating MFA candidates’ presentation)
• “Roads,” McNeese State University, Women’s Studies Brown Bag Lunch Readings
• “Girl of Light,” excerpt published in McNeese Women’s Studies Newsletter, Spring 2002
• “The Boy with Cartoon Vision,” Texas Writers Association conference, Beaumont, Texas, Fall 2002
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