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"Women, Myth, and 20th Century Poetry," Public Lecture, Owensboro, KY, July 23, 2006

“Questioning the Origin of the Nation: Anglo-Saxonism and Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and ‘An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England,’” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, Louisville, KY, Feb. 23-25, 2006

“Derek Walcott's Omeros and the Textual Space of Postcolonialism,” Kentucky Philological Association (KPA), Highland Heights, KY, Mar. 4-5, 2005

“Popular Culture and Simulation in Postmodernity: Reassessing Kenneth Koch's Seasons on Earth,” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, Louisville, KY, Feb. 24-26, 2005

“David Jones’s The Anathemata and the Modernist Search for Origins,” North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH), Morgantown, WV, July 15-17, 2004

“Representations of the Witch in Jacobean Drama: The Case of The Witch of Edmonton,” West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association (WEVSARA), Morgantown, WV, Apr. 1920, 2002

“Olson's Maximus, Schwerner's Tablets, and the Shift from Modernist to Postmodernist Long Poem,” West Virginia University-Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, Mar. 15-16, 2002

“The Dialogics of James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover,” The West Virginia Association of College English Teachers (WVACET), North Bend State Park, WV, Oct. 15-16, 1999

“Making a Mappemunde’: Space and Ontology in The Maximus Poems,” West Virginia University Graduate Student Colloquium, Morgantown, WV, Feb. 26-27, 1999

“From the Imaginary to the Symbolic: The Monster’s Acquisition of Language in Frankenstein,” The Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA), Erie, PA, Apr. 17-19, 1997

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Kentucky State University

SACSCOC Faculty Representative 2016-2017 Faculty Senate, Chair of Academic Policies Committee, 2015-Present Academic Appeals Committee, member 2015-Present Advising Task Force Committee, 2016 Faculty Senate, Nominations Committee, 2016 Operation 4.0 Retention Program, mentor, 2015-2016 LINK Mentorship Program, 2015-2016