Iowa State University, August 1994
M.A. English: Creative Writing
Thesis: Playing Destiny

Australian National University, 1991-1992
Fulbright Fellow in architectural history
Research area: Australian architectural practice of Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin

Rosary College, Summa cum laude, May 1989
B. A. Honors: Art History
Thesis: Walter Burley Griffin's Midwestern Residential Architecture: 1901-1913
B. A.: English
Thesis: Cats Will Be Cats and other Cautionary Tails

"A New Way of Doing Business: Articulating the Economics of Composition." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (1999): 679-697. (co-authored)

"Reframing the Ruins: Pruitt-Igoe, Structural Racism, and African American Rhetoric as a Space for Cultural Critique." Journal of Western Communication 63.3 (1999): 291-309.

"Reinventing First-Year Composition at the Nation's First Land-Grant University: A Cautionary Tale." Writing Program Administration 21.1 (1997): 19-30. (co-authored)

"Marshmallow Creme." Briar Cliff Review Spring (1999): 54.

"Falling Away." Prairie Schooner Spring (1999): 45-59.

"Avoiding the Fête Worse than Death: Negotiating Men, Motherhood and Postmodernity." Discourse April (1997): 59-68.

"Small Things."River Oak Review Fall (1995): 69-78.

"Re(per)forming War: Capturing Contemporary History in Two Film Versions of Shakespeare's Henry V. " Film and History 2000 CD-ROM Annual. Ed. Peter C. Rollins. 2001

"Gender Differences in TA Response to Student Papers." Our Own Voice Eds. Tina Good and Leanne Warshauer. New York: Allyn-Bacon: 1999. 200-211.

Under Review: Books/Articles/etc.
"Marion Mahony, Architectural Attribution, and Millikin Place: Response to the Call for Reinterpretations of Architectural History." Architectural Theory Review.

Searching for Marion Mahony: Gender, Erasure, and the Discourse of Architectural Studies. University of Illinois Press. Ed. Joan Catapano. (Manuscript.)

Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Denver, CO, March 2001
"Composing Gated Communities: Gender, Exclusion, and Discourse in Architectural Studies."

Rhetoric Society of America, Washington, D.C., May 2000
"Policing the Architectural Canon: The Mechanics of Recovery, Revision and Re-entrenchment."

Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 1999
"Battle Fronts: The Rhetorical Spaces of Mahony Griffin's Magic of America"

Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998
"Pruitt-Igoe, Structural Racism, and African-American Rhetoric as a Framework for Cultural Critique."

Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Chicago, IL, April 1998
"Repositioning Tenure Track Faculty: An (Un)Fortunate History of First Year Composition"

From Boundaries to Borderlands: Intersections of Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Oregon State University, August 1997
"Rorty's Recontextualization: Feminist Hope Meets the Impossibility of Ethnocentrism"

Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs), Milwaukee, WI, March 1996
"Gendered Teaching: Responding to Mixed Messages"

Association for Business Communication (ABC), Orlando, FL, November 1995
"Unsilenced Voices: Secretaries' Unions as Spaces for Empowerment"

Regional Conferences
Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Madison, SD, April 2001
"The Limits of Linearity: Architecture/Text/ Hypertext."

Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, October 2000
"The Battle Fronts of Marion Mahony Griffin's Magic of America."

Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Grand Forks, ND, October 1999
"'If I Were a Woman, I Would Be in Love with Rick': the Homoerotics of Hard-boiled Masculinity from Casablanca to LA Confidential. "

Red River Conference of World Literatures, Fargo, ND, April 1999
"The New Rhetorics of National Cinemas: Articulating Australian Postcolonial Masculinities in Gallipoli and 'Breaker' Morant"

Linguistic Circle of North Dakota and Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, October 1998
"Toward A Minor Rhetoric"

Red River Conference of World Literatures, Fargo, ND, April 1998
"Performing Subversive Masculinities: Undermining Notions of Hybrid Identity in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid"

Workshops/Lectures
Writing Grants for Funding Technology Transfer Projects, Fargo, ND, November 2004
CATTT (Center for Advanced Technology Transfer Traineeships) Workshop

Writing Grants to Fund Non-profit Organizations, Fargo, ND October 2, 2004
Bremer Foundation Program

College of Agriculture Teaching Circle, NDSU, 27 February 2004
Assigning and Responding to Student Writing (w/Kevin Brooks)

Communiversity Lecture Series (w/ Glenda Swan), Fargo, ND February 2004
"A Lost History: Women in Art and Architecture"

Communications Department Noon Seminar, NDSU, 21 January 2004
Assigning and Responding to Student Writing (w/Kevin Brooks)

FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning) Pedagogical Luncheon, NDSU, 15 October 2003
Teaching Engagement Workshop, Panel

Last Lecture Series (Student nominated lecture/presentation series), NDSU, 2 October 2003
"You Can’t Live on Chicken Soup Alone: Other Media for the College Student’s Soul"
"Writing Proposals—Generic Conventions" NDSU, 24 September 2003
Communications Department Seminar

Training for Memorial Union Student Workers, NDSU, 21 August 2003
"Workplace Communication"

Governor’s School, NDSU, June/July 2003
Creative Writing Workshop (high school participants)

FIEL (Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning) Pedagogical Luncheon, NDSU, November 2002
"Composition is the Problem: Problem Based Learning in a First Year Writing Class"

Professional development session for Memorial Union Supervisors, NDSU, 16 October 2002
"Supervisory Communication."

International Programs Office, NDSU, September 2002, September 2003
"Writing Successful Fulbright Applications."

FEC Fall Workshop, NDSU, August 2002
"Evaluating First Year Writing/Assessing Classroom Practices."

Workshop introducing Fulbright application process (with international programs office, NDSU, May 2002, 2003
"Summer Checklist for Fulbright Applications."

FIEL Pedagogical Luncheon, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND November 20, 2002
"Composition is the Problem: Problem Based Learning in a First Year Writing Class."

"Creating a Coherent Professional Writing Curriculum: Fostering Collaboration, Encouraging Technology Use, and Developing and Assessing Uniform Course Goals."
Professional Development Workshops (15 hours, 3 workshops), North Dakota State University, June 2001

"Designing and Responding to Writing Assignments" (with Kevin Brooks)
New Faculty Workshops, North Dakota State University, August 2000

Women Studies Lecture Series, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, September, 2001
"Why Are There No Great Women Architects?: Architectural History and the Erasure of Women"

Prairie Writers Reading Series, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, December, 1999
"Small Things" (Reading)

North Dakota State University English Seminar, Fargo, ND, November 1999
"Mahony Griffin, Magic of America and the Architectural Canon" (Seminar paper)

Haggard Fellow Lecture, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, April 1999
"Battle Fronts: The Rhetorical Spaces of Mahony Griffin's Magic of America" (Lecture)

Hemingway Days Festival, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL, July 1995
"Small Things" (Reading)

Excellence in Research Award, (University research award), ISU, December, 2000.

Best Fantasy Story, Editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 1999.

Pushcart Nomination (Poetry), Briar Cliff Review, 1999.

IOWA Literary Prize (First Place Poetry), Iowa Writers' Association, 1998.

Richard Wright Award (Literary/Critical Writing), ISU, May 1996.

River Oak-Hemingway Foundation National Fiction Award, River Oak Review, July 1995.

Excellence in Teaching Award (University teaching award), ISU, May 1994.

Sketch Award (Second Place, Fiction), Sketch, May 1990.

Instructional Development Grant (Coordinating Upper-level Writing), NDSU, 2001

Professional Development Grant (Travel Funding), NDSU, 2001, 2002

Haggard Dissertation Fellowship (Dissertation Research), ISU, 1998-1999

Rosann Berry Fellowship (Research in architectural history), Society of Architectural Historians, April 1998

Pearle Hogrefe Grant-in-Aid (Fiction writing), ISU, May 1996

Miller Grant (Funding for curriculum development and TA training), ISU, 1996-1997

Hughes Grant (Funding for curriculum development for learning team project), ISU, 1995

Fulbright Fellowship (Research Fellowship), Australian National University, 1991-1992

Architectural Study Tour Scholarship (Research in architectural history), Society of Architectural Historians, May 1991

University Committee on Women, ISU, 1997-1998

Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty and Alumni Recognition, ISU, 1996-1998

BEST Curriculum Development Committee, ISU, 1995-1996

Hiring Committee, NDSU, 2001-2004

First Year English Committee (FEC), NDSU, 2001-2002

Social, Outreach, and Regnition Committee, Chair, NDSU, 2001-2004

Search Committees to fill seven positions, (six hires made) 2001-2004

Ad hoc committee to develop writing major, NDSU, 2000

Administrative Committee (Hiring), ISU, 1998

Graduate Studies Committee, ISU, 1996-1997

First Year Composition Committee, ISU, 1996-1998

Served on or directed ten graduate portfolio assesments, 2001-2004

Oversaw one technology transfer traineeship (graduate student), NDSU, 2001-2002

Red River Conference of World Literatures, Planning Committee, 2002-2003

Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, Executive Board, 2001-2004

Researching and WritingGrants and Proposals (English 459/659), NDSU

Advanced Writing Workshop (English 458/658), NDSU

Language Bias (English 454/654), NDSU

Practical Writing (English 320), NDSU

First Year English I and II (English 110 and 120), NDSU

Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

The Collaboration

Fulbright Association

Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

National WOmen's Studies Association

Walter Burley Griffin Society of America

Writing Program Administration