EDUCATION

            Ph.D., English, Texas A&M University

Dissertation:  “The Double Edge of Freedom:  The Evolution of Compensation and Self-Reliance in the Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  Directed by Professor Jerome Loving, 1987.

            M.A., English, Texas A&M University

Thesis:  “A Pattern of Conversion in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography.”  Directed by Professor Forrest Burt, 1980.

            B.A., English, Baylor University

ADMININSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Texas A&M University—Kingsville—

Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, 2017 - 2019 -- establish and oversee curricular and extra-curricular events related to women and gender and the Women and Gender Studies Minor

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2010 to Fall 2017— Academic Assistant Dean with responsibilities related to student and faculty issues, curricular and scheduling oversight, orientation and recruitment, promotion and tenure

Interim Director, Women and Gender Studies Program, 2015 to Fall 2017—establish and oversee curricular and extra-curricular events related to women and gender and the Women and Gender Studies Minor

Interim Undergraduate Writing Center Director and Chair of QEP Implementation Committee, May 2014 to December 2014—establish new Undergraduate Writing Center; hire, train, and supervise peer tutors; develop faculty development program; prepare SACS proposal

Member, Writing Intensive Committee, 2011—review WI proposals for College of Arts & Sciences

Chair, Arts and Humanities Research Group, 2015-2017—encouraged research and grant writing among arts and humanities faculty; approved seed money for projects

Title IX Deputy Coordinator, Fall 2014—Fall 2017—investigate and adjudicate sexual misconduct and assault claims

Interim Chair, Department of Psychology and Sociology, 2013 to August 2014—oversight of budgets, scheduling, faculty evaluations, hiring and mentoring new faculty, completing annual Institutional Effectiveness Plan and program reviews

Chair, Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2010 to August 2014—guide curriculum proposals through the College committee

Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2010 to August 2014—review university-wide curriculum proposals

         Member, Assessment Committee, 2010 to present—review program assessment plans

         Chair, BAAS Committee, 2013—review BAAS program

Chair of the Department of Language and Literature, 2003-2010—oversight of budgets, scheduling, faculty evaluations, hiring and mentoring new faculty, completing annual Institutional Effectiveness Plan and program reviews

Interim Chair, Department of Communications and Theatre Arts, 2006-08--oversight of budgets, scheduling, faculty evaluations, hiring and mentoring new faculty, completing annual Institutional Effectiveness Plan and program reviews; helped department gain cohesiveness

Co-Chair, Women’s Advisory Board, 2008 -2009—planned and approved activities related to women’s programs and recognition

Co-Chair, Alumni Awards Committee, 2007--reviewed applications for awards

Member, International Studies and Program Committee, 2007--reviewed policy

Member, 2007-2008 University Undergraduate Program Review, 2007-08—assessed program reviews

Member, Bookstore Advisory Committee, 2006-2010

Member, Writing Advisory Committee, 2005-2008—reviewed practices and recommended initiating Writing Across the Curriculum program

Member, Time to Degree Task Force, 2005—suggested ways to increase graduation rates

Member, President’s Travel Request Review Committee, 2003-2006—reviewed applications for travel funds

Member, College Building Utilization Committee, 2003-2010

Alabama State University—

         Chair, College Diversity Committee, 2000-02

         Chair, Departmental Plan Committee

         Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society

         Member, Faculty Senate, 2002-03

         Member, University Advisory Committee on Teacher Testing

         Member, Departmental Curriculum Revision Committee

         Member, Departmental Technology Committee

         Co-coordinator, Gender, Feminism, and Great Books Reading Group

Auburn University—

         Co-coordinator, Gender, Feminism, and Great Books Reading Group

Member, Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee to Explore Career Ladders for Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Co-Chair of the Association of Non-Tenure Track Faculty of English

Member, Planning and Priorities Committee

Co-coordinator of the Faculty Development Consortium, 1996-97

Member, Benson Lecture Committee

Member, Great Books Committee

Member, Sophomore Literature Committee

Lamar University—

         Member, Policy Committee

         Member, Freshman English Committee

Texas A&M University—

         Graduate Representative, Graduate Studies Committee

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 Professor, Texas A&M University-Kingsville—

American Literature courses—19th Century, American Short Story,

Understanding Poetry, American Novel, Southwest American Literature, 19th-Century American Women Writers; American Transcendentalism;

Caribbean Literature;

Introduction to Literature--Drama and Short Story; Poetry and the Novel

Online courses—graduate courses in 19th-Century American Women Writers, American Short Story, American Transcendentalism, Southwestern American Literature, Colonial and 19th-Century American Literature

Assistant Professor, Alabama State University—

American Literature survey courses, Introduction to Literature, Short Story, Advanced Composition

         Instructor, Auburn University—

American Literature survey courses, Great Books I and II, Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition

         Instructor, Lamar University—

Major American Authors, Major British Authors, Freshman Composition, Developmental Writing

         GAT, Texas A&M University—

Freshman Composition

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Women Across Time: Mujeres a Través del Tiempo, editor. (under review).

Essays Exploring the Global Caribbean, editor (Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2013)

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities (Routledge P, 2011)

Defining Travel: Diverse Visions, editor (UP of Mississippi, 2002)

Women, America, and Movement:  Narratives of Relocation, editor (U of Missouri P, 1998)

Emerson in His Sermons:  A Man-Made Self (U of Missouri P, 1995)

Articles:

“Geographies of Expansion: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing.”  Inventing Destiny, ed. Jimmy Bryan.  University of Kansas Press (Fall 2019)

“Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing.”  Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Susan Belasco, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto, and Theresa Strouth Gaul (forthcoming)

“North America/USA.”  Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson.  London: Routledge Press, 2016. 351-360.

“Caribbean Conversations:  Travel, Slavery and Empire.”  Essays Exploring the Global Caribbean.  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2013.136-156.

“Emerson’s English Traits and the Paradox of Empire.”  New England Quarterly 84.2 (June 2011):  265-285. 

“Transcendentalism and Sermons.”  Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Petrulionis, Laura Walls (Oxford UP, 2010)

 “American Women and Travel Writing.” Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, ed. Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera (Cambridge UP, 2008)

“Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliance.”  Essays on Emerson’s Bicentennial (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006)

“Geographies of the Self in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing.”  American Literary Geographies: Space and Cultural Production, ed. Hsuan Hsu and Martin Brueckner (U of Delaware P, 2007)

“Emerson in the 21st Century.”  The Concord Saunterer.  11 new Series (2003): 18-19.

“Maria Stewart and the Rhetoric of Mobility.”  Journal of International Women’s Studies, Spring 2003.

“Reform and the Interior Landscape:  Mapping Emerson’s Political Sermons.”  In The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. Ed. T. Gregory Garvey (U of Georgia, 2000)

“Ellen Montgomery’s Other Friend: Race Relations in an Expunged Episode of Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1999).

“Orville Dewey.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography:  The American Renaissance in New England, vol. 243.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Gale, 2001).

“Henry Ware, Jr.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography:  The American Renaissance in New England, vol. 235.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Gale, 2001).

“Richard Watson Gilder,” “Jeannette L. Gilder,” “J. H. Johnston and Alma Calder Johnston,” and “Henry David Thoreau.”  In The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia.  Ed. J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (Garland, 1998).

“’With the Wind Rocking the Wagon’:  Women’s Narratives of the Way West.”  In Women, America, and Movement:  Narratives of Relocation (U of Missouri P, 1998).

“Translocations and Transformation:  Place and Self in N. Scott Momaday’s The Ancient Child.”  American Indian Quarterly (1998).

“Orville Dewey,” “Albert Dod,” “Alexander Everett,” “Samuel J. May,” “Joseph Stevens Buckminster,” and “Ellen Tucker Emerson.”  In Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Greenwood, 1996).

“Stowe’s Matriarchy and The Rhetoric of Domesticity.”  In The Stowe Debate:  Rhetorics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Ed. Mason Lowance, Jr., Ellen Westbrook, and Rich DeProspro (U of Massachusetts P, 1994).

“Marriage Manuals.”  In The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States.  Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (Oxford UP, 1994).

“‘Degenerate effeminacy’ and the Making of a Masculine Spirituality in the Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  In Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age.  Ed. Donald E. Hall (Cambridge UP, 1994).

“Advice to Young Men in Ante-Bellum Nineteenth-Century America.”  Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1991).

“Young Emerson and the Mantle of Biography.”  American Transcendental Quarterly (1991).

“Beauty and the Soul:  The Beginnings of Emerson’s Aesthetics.”  Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1988).

“The Private Voice Behind the Public Text: Two Emerson Sermons.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1986).

“T. S. Eliot’s Symbolical Woman: From Temptress to Priestess.”  Midwest Quarterly (1986).

“Sexism in Present-Day English: Is It Diminishing?” with Garland Cannon, Word (1985).

Reprints of Articles:

“Narrativas de Relocalización y Desloclaización.”  In Nación, diversidad y género:  Perspectivas críticas.  Ed. Patricia Bastida Rodríguez and Carla Rodríguez González.  Trans. Esther Álvarez López. Barcelona, Spain:  Anthropos, 2010.  217-238.

Reviews:

Wrobel, David M.  Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression. Western American Literature, Summer 2015.

Argersinger, Jana L. and Phyllis Cole, eds. Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism.  Nineteenth-Century Prose, Fall 2015.

Cooper, Valerie C.  Word, Like Fire:  Maria Stewart, the Bible & the Rights of African Americans. Religion and Literature (Forthcoming).

Kevorkian, Martin.  Writing beyond Prophesy:  Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance. Emerson Society Papers, 24.2 (Fall 2013): 13-14.

Paryz, Marek.  The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism. 2012.  Prose Studies.

Field, Peter S.  Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.  In H-Net Reviews.

Newfield, Christopher.  The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America. U of Chicago P, 1996.  In Emerson Society Papers

Lackey, Kris.  Road Frames: The American Highway Narrative.  U of Nebraska P, 1997.  In Southern Humanities Review (1999).

Brown, Lee Rust.  The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole.  Harvard UP, 1997.  In Southern Humanities Review (1999).

Hedrick, Joan.  Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life.  Oxford UP, 1994. In The Alabama Review (1997).

Richardson, Robert D., Jr.  Emerson: The Mind on Fire. U of California P, 1995.  In Southern Humanities Review (1997).

“A Review Essay: A New Edition of Emerson’s Sermons.”  Documentary Editing (1993).

Cayton, Mary Kupieck.  Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845. U of North Carolina P, 1989.  In Emerson Society Newsletter (1993).

Howe, Florence, ed. Tradition and the Talents of Women.  U of Illinois P, 1991.  In Southern Humanities Review (1993).

Grusin, Richard A.  Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible.  Duke UP, 1991.  In Southern Humanities Review (1992).

Toulouse, Teresa and Andrew Delbanco, eds.  The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2.  U of Missouri P, 1990.  In Southern Humanities Review (1993).

Von Frank, Albert J., ed.  The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1; Mott, Wesley T., “The Strains of Eloquence”: Emerson and the Sermons; Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845; Cromphout, Gustaaf Van, Emerson’s Modernity and the Example of Goethe.  In Southern Humanities Review (1992).

Pahl, Dennis.  Architects of the Abyss: The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. U of Missouri P, 1989.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Hodder, Alan D.  Emerson’s Rhetoric of Revelation: Nature, the Reader, and the Apocalyptic Within.  Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Leland, S. Person, Jr., Aesthetic Headaches: Woman and the Masculine Poetics of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. U of Georgia P, 1988.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Gould, Lewis L.  Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment. U of Kansas P, 1988.  In Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1989).

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Jumping Frogs and Roughing It in the Old West,” ALA Symposium on the Short Story (Forthcoming September 2019)

“Coming of Age on the Borderlands and a Feminist Aesthetics,” Texas Conference of College Teachers of English, February 2019

“Excavating the Borderlands: South Texas Women Writers.”  Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists Conference, October 2018

“Francis Parkman: Traveler, Tourist, and Cultural Voyeur,” American Literature Association, May 2018

“Excavating the Borderlands: South Texas Women Writers.”  American Literature Association Symposium on Regionalism and Place.”  September 2017

“The Great Excursion: Expansion, Travel, and Tourism.”  Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Symposium, June 2017

“William Cullen Bryant’s Illinois Travels.”  ALA, May 2017.

“Performing More than the Role of Assistant/Associate Dean.”  Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, 2016.

“Frontiers and Borders in American Travel Writing,” ALA Symposium on Frontiers and Borders in American Literature, 2016

“Summers on the Lakes,” MLA, January 2016

“Imagined Geographies:  Situating Sedgwick’s ‘The Great Excursion’ Among Antebellum Travel Narratives,” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society 2014 Symposium, June 2014

“The Peabody Sisters’ Cuba Narratives.”  American Literature Association, 2013.

“Travel, Slavery, and Empire,” Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts, July 2012

“Travel, Slavery, and Empire:  Antebellum New Englanders and the Caribbean,” Conversazioni in Italia:  Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe, 2012

“American Mobilities.” Constance Fenimore Woolson Conference, 2011.         

“English Traits and the Paradox of Empire.”  American Literature Association, 2010.

“Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller:  The Politics of Mobility—Manifest Destiny and Revolution.”  American Literature Association, 2008.

“Jane Cazneau:  The Politics of Mobility and Manifest Destiny.”  American Literature Association, 2007

“Traveling in the Comfort Zone:  Antebellum Women Sightseers Abroad.”  American Literature Association, 2005.

“Domestic Spatialities:  The Wide World of Antebellum Women’s Writing.”  American Literature Association American Fiction Symposium, 2004.

“Circulations of Body and Word:  African American Women’s Slave Narratives.”  American Literature Association, 2004.

“Geographies of the Self in 19th-Century Women’s Travel Writing.” American Studies Association, 2003.

“Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliance: The Example of the Sermons.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentennial Conference, 2003.

“’A Higher Call’:  Mobility and Social Uplift in the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women.”  British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature Conference, 2002.

“’Their lot is certainly lower’:  Margaret Fuller’s Indians in Summer on the Lakes”  SwTx/PCA/ACA, 2002.

“The Politics of Mobility: Self and Nation In-(Between) Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes.”  In Transit: the Third Biennial North American Conference on Travel Writing and Travel Writers, 2002.

“Engaging Political Awareness in an Introduction to Literature Class.”  British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature Conference, 2001.

“Testing the Borders: Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2000.

“‘For all the lineaments become fluent’:  Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes.”  Writing the Journey: A Conference on American, British, and Anglophone Travel Writers and Writing, 1999.

“Teaching the Politics of Relocation: Travel in American Women’s Literature.”  American Literature Association, 1999.

“Travel’s Travails: An Ordinary Woman’s Adventures on the River Road.”  SCSECS, 1999.

“Women’s Border Crossings: Mapping the Politics of [Re]Location.” M/MLA, 1998.

“The ‘Unspoken’ in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World.”  SAMLA, 1998.

“’With the Wind Rocking the Wagon’: Women’s Narratives of the Way West.”  Philological Association of Louisiana, 1998.

“Barbed Wire and Academic Aliens.”  Justice Conference, 1998.

“Reform and the Interior Landscape: Mapping Emerson’s Political Sermons.” MLA, 1995.

“The Student Thinking: A Cavellian Methodology for Teaching Emerson.” American Literature Association, 1993.

“What Emerson Knew About Sex and Death.”  International Association of Philosophy and Literature, 1992.

“Young Emerson and the Mantle of Biography.”  American Literature Association, 1991.

“A Quest for Identity: The Self-Made Man in Ante-Bellum Nineteenth-Century America.” American Studies Association of Texas, 1990.

“To Be a Self-Made Man in America: Thoreau and the Cult of Success.”  Thoreau Festival, 1990.

“New Historicism and Freshman Composition: A Perspective in Relevance.”  The James Woodall Prize at The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama, 1990.

“Beauty and the Soul: The Beginnings of Emerson’s Aesthetics.”  American Studies Association of Texas, 1987.

“The ‘bosom sin’: Retribution and Compensation in the Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  College Conference of Teachers of English (Texas), 1987.

“The Private Voice Behind the Public Text: Ambivalence in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Sermons.”  South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1986.

“The Greening of ‘Summer’: A Reading of Emerson’s Sermon.”  Southeast Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1986.

“Emerson’s ‘Trust Yourself’: Certainty and Search.”  Southwest Region Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1985.

“Sexism in Present-Day English: Is It Diminishing?” with Garland Cannon, MLA, 1984.

“T. S. Eliot’s Symbolical Woman: From Temptress to Priestess.”  SCMLA, 1983.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED:

“Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women’s Writings: Negotiating Dichotomies,” Texas Conference of College Teachers of English, February 2019

“Teaching Travel Writing,” ALA, 2017.

“Bad Trips and the Ethics of Travel Writing,” American Literature Association, 2016

“Where I Went and What I Ate,” American Literature Association, 2015

“Thanatourism,” American Literature Association, 2014

“Travel Writing.”  American Literature Association American Fiction Symposium, 2004.

“Travel in Eighteenth-Century America.” SCSECS, 1999.

“Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Early Years.” MLA, 1997.\

“Discourses of Sentimentality in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” American Literature Assoc., 1994.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

“Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists,” October 2018

“Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts,” July 2012     

Literacy Summit II, September 2010

Literacy Summit I, September 2009

INTRA-UNIVERSITY PRESENTATIONS:

“Maria Stewart: An Early Abolitionist’s Persistence against Racism and Sexism,”

Women’s History Month Symposium, 2018

Keynote Address for the TAMUK Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi 2017 Initiation

“American Mobilities:  An Introduction.”  Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2009.

“Jane Cazneau:  The Politics of Mobility and Manifest Destiny.”  Texas A&M University Kingsville, 2007

“Alexander Hamilton:  The Rhetoric of Nation and Nation Building.”  Texas A&M University Kingsville

“Traveling in the Comfort Zone:  Antebellum Women Sightseers Abroad.”  Texas A&M University Kingsville, 2005.

“Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliance:  The Example of the Sermons.”  Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2003.

“Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers.”  Alabama State University, 2001.

“The ‘Unspoken’ in Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World.”  Alabama State University, 2000.

“The Politics of Relocation: Travel in American Women’s Literature.”  Alabama State University, 2000.

“Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation.”  Auburn University, 1999.

“’With the Wind Rocking the Wagon’: Narratives of Relocation.”  Auburn University, 1993.

“Nineteenth-Century Marriage Manuals.”  Auburn University, 1993.

“New Historicism and Freshman Composition.”  Auburn University, 1989.

“The ‘bosom sin’: Retribution and Compensation in the Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  Lamar University, 1986.

“The Greening of ‘Summer.’”  Texas A&M University, 1985.

“Grading Freshman Essays.”  Texas A&M University, 1984.

“Mont Blanc and the Metaphor of Sexuality.”  Texas A&M University, 1984.

“Reading the Reader.”  Texas A&M University, 1982, 1983.

“T. S. Eliot’s Symbolical Woman: From Temptress to Priestess.”  Texas A&M University, 1983.

GRANTS AND SEMINARS:

NEH Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, “Toward an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists,” 2017 ($99,755)   

Humanities Texas Mini-grant to support Literacy Summit II, 2010

NEH Humanities Initiatives at Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment, “Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts,” 2009 ($99,484)

Technology Institute, Alabama State University, 2001

The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture Summer Research Grant, 2000

NCTE Summer Institute, “African-American Autobiography: Reading/Writing Sites and I Construction,” 2000

NEH Summer Seminar, “The Road in American Literature,” 1996

NEH Summer Study Grant, “Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers,” 1994

NEH Summer Seminar, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ante-bellum America,” 1992

Great Books Faculty Development Seminar, Auburn University, 1992

American Antiquarian Society’s Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture, 1990

Grant for Graduate Research, Texas A&M University, 1985

OUTREACH: 

Conceived and organized first Parent College, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2012

AWARDS:

TAMUK Nominee for the Minnie Piper Award, 2015   

The Javelina Alumni Association Distinguished Researcher Award, 2006

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Secretary, Texas Association of Deans of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2014-2017

Member, Standing Committee of Associate/Assistant Deans, CCAS, 2014-2017

Secretary, President-Elect, Kingsville chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 2015-   

President, Society for American Travel Writing, 2015-2017

Vice President, Society for American Travel Writing, 2013--2015

Member, Advisory Board, American Travel Literature Society, 2005     

Member, Advisory Board of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, 2003-06

Outside reader of book manuscripts for Baylor UP, U of Missouri P, Susquehanna UP, U

of Edinburgh P, U of South Carolina P, Oxford UP; of essay manuscripts for ESQ: Journal of the American Renaissance, MELUS and Religions; of book proposals for Broadview Press.

Evaluator of 1995 NEH Study Grant Proposals and 2011 Humanities Initiatives Proposals.

Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, to Jerome Loving and Harrison Meserole.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

MLA

American Literature Association—Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Margaret Fuller

Society, American Travel Literature Society, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society

CCAS, Assistant/Associate Deans Standing Committee, 2013 to 2017

TADLAS, 2013-2017

Phi Kappa Phi

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