Professional Experience

Spanish Teacher, Stuarts Draft Middle School and Stewart Middle School, Augusta County, VA. 2017-Present

Spanish Teacher, Tattnall High School, Reidsville, GA. 2016-17

Spanish Teacher, Jeff-Davis High School, Hazlehurst, GA. 2015-16

Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages, Albany State University, Albany, GA. 2014-15

Director of the English Language Institute and Professor of English and Foreign Languages, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL.  Interim Director of Honors Program, 2013-14. 2012-14

Director of Academic Services, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA. 2012

Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA. 2007-11

Director of Learning Assistance and Freshman Seminar, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA. 2005-09

Dean of External Programs and Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages at Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA. 2002-05

Instructor/Counselor in School to Work Program at Southeastern Technical College, helping Hispanic high school students with their studies and providing them with information and guidance in choosing careers.  Taught a sequence of three evening courses in medical Spanish to doctors, nurses, and staff at Meadows Regional Hospital.  Performed at local libraries as a storyteller for the PRIME TIME children’s literacy program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Worked for the Migrant Education Agency at Toombs County Middle School as a liaison between Hispanic families and the staff and faculty at the middle school. 2002

ESL instructor and curriculum development consultant at The Academy of English at Cedar Plantation, an English language school for foreign business professionals in Metter, GA. 2001

Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO. 1997-01

Instructor of English and Foreign Languages, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO. 1995-97

Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. ESL instructor at English Language Institute. 1993-95

Instructor of English and Foreign Languages, Culver Stockton College, Canton, MO. 1991-93

Adjunct Instructor of English, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO. 1990-91

Taught philosophy and Russian at the North Carolina Governor’s School for gifted and talented high school students. 1990

Visiting Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and SAGE (St. Andrews General Education), St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC. 1989-90

German Teacher at Leon and Godby High Schools in Tallahassee, FL. 1980-81

Education

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Comparative Literature in the areas of German, Russian, and English Languages and Literatures. 1997

M.A. Florida State University. German Language and Literature. Graduate minor in Russian Language and Literature. 1980

B.A. Florida State University. Major in German Language and Literature. Minor in Russian Language and Literature. 1977

Post-Doctoral Studies

Completed six graduate semester hours in Spanish from Georgia Southern University, “Poetry and Prose of the Golden Age” and “Spanish for Business” 2009

Completed six graduate semester hours in Spanish from Western Illinois University, “Advanced Spanish Syntax” and “Hispanic Culture and Civilization.” 2000

University of West Florida.  Completed coursework (28 graduate semester hours) for an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a concentration in English and minors in Philosophy and Art. 1983

Teaching Experience

St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Beginning German
Intermediate German
Freshman Writing
Romanticism to the 1960’s (Interdisciplinary team taught History of Ideas course)

Culver-Stockton College
Freshman Composition
Introduction to Literature
Beginning German
Intermediate German
Beginning Russian
Aesthetics
Developmental English
Humanities:
Renaissance to Modernism
Elementary Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Spanish for Professionals

American University in Bulgaria 
Freshman Composition
Poetry
American Lit Survey I

Brewton-Parker College
Freshman Composition
Creative Writing
Beginning Russian
Developmental English
First-Year Seminar
Beginning German
Shakespeare
Beginning Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Various upper-level literature and language courses for Spanish majors

Jacksonville State University
English as a Second Language

Albany State University
Beginning German
World Literature I
Freshman Writing

Jeff Davis High School
Spanish I
Spanish II

Tattnall County High School
Spanish I
Spanish II

Stuarts Draft Middle School / Stewart Middle School

Publications and Papers Presented

Article published in Ex Scientia:  “Late Night Thoughts While Listening to Hemingway.” 2000

Article published in Ex Scientia: “Ulysses and the Monomyth:  A Psalm of Comic Joy.” 1999

Presented paper: “Ulysses, huh?” at the Missouri Philological Association. 1999

Article published in Ex Scientia:  “Transcendence in Kafka:  Impossibility, Regression or Nightmare.” 1997

Presentation on multiculturalism in the curriculum of secondary schools at the Quincy Conference on Education. 1992

Presentation on foreign and cultural exchange programs for public schools at the Quincy Conference on Education. 1991

Professional Growth Activities

Attended Workshop on High School Classroom Management, Hinesville, GA. 2015

Attended the AAC&U national conference in Washington, DC. 2014

Attended the AAC&U national conference in Atlanta, GA.  Attended the national NAFSA conference in St. Louis, MO. Attended the Alabama Association of International Educators conference in Auburn, AL.  Attended the EducationUSA annual conference in Washington, DC.  Completed on-line NAFSA course:  Introduction to F-1 Student Advising. 2013

Member of NAFSA.  Attended the EducationUSA annual conference in Washington, DC. 2012

Completed six graduate semester hours in Spanish from Georgia Southern University, “Poetry and Prose of the Golden Age” and “Spanish for Business.” 2009-10

Participant in Liberty Fund colloquium “Liberty and the Moral Life in the Works of Spanish Traditionalists and Francis Graham Wilson,” Savannah, GA.  Attended the “1^st International Seminar on Languages for Business” organized and sponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Florida International University and the University of Salamanca in Avila, Spain. Also attended a series of workshops in Avila and Madrid, Spain organized by FIU-CIBER as part of its tenth annual Spanish language faculty development program:  “Teaching Spanish for Business: A Global Approach.” 2009

Attended the annual Georgia Association for Developmental Education conference, St. Simons, GA.  Received AIR Fellowship grant to attend Summer Institute on First Year Assessment, Savannah, GA. 2007

Attended: National Conference on First Year Experience, Atlanta, GA; Georgia Association for Developmental Education conference, St. Simons, GA; NASPA Assessment Conference, Phoenix, AZ; Summer Institute on First Year Assessment, Asheville, NC. 2006

Attended the annual Georgia Association for Developmental Education conference, St. Simons, GA and the International Conference on First Year Experience, Southampton, England. 2005

Attended the national AAHE assessment conference in Denver. 2004

Attended the national AAHE assessment conference in Seattle as a member of Brewton-Parker College’s institutional assessment team 2003

Attended Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities training workshop for PrimeTime literacy program in New Orleans, LA and tandem local workshop in Douglas, GA.  2002

Institutional Services Performed

Brewton-Parker College
President’s Cabinet, Academic Council, Assessment Committee, Admissions Committee, Enrollment Management Committee, Strategic Planning Committee, Strategic Planning Executive Committee, Student Success Team, Provost’s Cabinet, Chair of Calendar Committee, General Education Assessment Committee, Retention Committee,  International Students Committee, SACS QEP sub-committee, Tenure/Rank Task Force, Savannah Center Task Force, and assorted academic and administrative ad hoc and search committees.

Culver-Stockton College
Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Committee (ad hoc), Judicial Council, Library Committee, International Students Committee, General Education Committee.  Editor of academic journal:  Ex Scientia.

The American University in Bulgaria
Chair, General Education Committee:  The primary goal of this committee was to design a unique and challenging general education program for students who were much more academically advanced than the average entering college student in the United States.  Several search committees.

Professional-Related Community Activities

Presented workshops in creative writing for regional high school students at the annual Young Writer’s Conference sponsored by Brewton=Parker College. 2003-2010

Participated in officiating and judging Spanish competitions for regional high school students at Language Appreciation Day sponsored by Brewton-Parker College. 2005-2009

Performed as story teller for children at rural libraries in Hazelhurst and Vidalia, GA as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities Prime Time Literacy Program. 2002

Designed and conducted creative writing workshops involving Russian folklore and music for elementary school students at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO. 1992-93

Served as a part-time volunteer German teacher for fifth and sixth grade students at Canton Public School, Canton, MO. 1992

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