Education:
- BA English, Education; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- MA English, Education; Appalachian State University
- MA Certificate in Rhetoric and Composition; Appalachian State University
Certifications:
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: Early Adolescence/English Language Arts
- North Carolina State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction: Academically/Intellectually Gifted (K-12), Middle Grades Language Arts (6-9), English (9-12)
- National Writing Project: Teacher-Consultant
Teaching Awards & Honors:
- Faculty Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching
- College of Arts & Sciences Academy of Outstanding Teachers
- College of Arts & Sciences Non-Tenure Track Teaching Excellence Award
- Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Faculty Award
- "Most Helpful" Faculty and Staff List
- Alpha Delta Kappa Honorary Organization for Women Educators
Presentations:
- Finding the Stars in the Darkness of the Prescribed Curriculum -- co-presented at North Carolina English Teacher Association Fall Conference, Nov. 2023
- My Here, My Home: Place-Based Writing in a Plural World -- presented at the Appalachian Mountains Writing Project, June 2023
- Contract Grading: Two Approaches -- co-presented at App State’s 2020 Rhetoric and Composition Institute, Dec. 2020
- Designed for Download: Using Podcasts as Texts -- presented at App State’s Tech4Teach Fair, Feb. 2020
- Digital Multimodal Writing -- co-presented at App State’s 2019 Rhetoric and Composition Institute, Oct. 2019
- Designed for Download: Strategies for Using Podcasts in Writing Courses -- co-presented at App State's 2018 Rhetoric and Composition Institute, Feb. 2018
- "I ain’t in your dream Keisha. You’re in mine": Spectral Communities and "More than Social" Consciousness in Twenty-First Century London Literature -- presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Oct. 2016
- Did You Really Mean Happy and Healthy are All that Matter?: A Mother’s Willingness to Write Multiple Narratives for Her LGBTQ Child -- presented to the Caldwell County PFLAG Chapter and on the News Talk Morning Show of 1340 WJRI, Jan. 2014
Advisor:
- App State Club Cheer
Title: Adjunct Instructor
Department: Department of English
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-2318