Mark Canada
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Language means everything. Both
our key to the world outside and the most human part of ourselves, language empowers
and defines us. Our parents remember our first words, and our children
remember our last. To know our world and ourselves, then, we must know
our language. In my work as an English professor and
an administrator at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, I strive to
give students the guidance, the tools, and, above all, the practice to become
masters of their language. By reading and writing regularly, engaging
in discussions, and giving presentations, my students learn language by using
it. Along the way, they grow in other ways, as well, as they interpret
facts and opinions, collaborate in groups, conduct research, and explore
their rich literary heritage. An active reader and writer myself, I
also regularly engage in scholarship in my area of specialization, American
literature. My current and recent projects include Literature and Journalism in Antebellum
America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), “The Critique of Journalism in Sister
Carrie” (American
Literary Realism, 2010), Poe in His Right Mind (submitted to a university press), and
“Learning to Scribble with Benjamin Franklin” (in process). I also serve on the editorial board
of the Edgar
Allan Poe Review and the board of directors for the Thomas Wolfe Society. After chairing the Department of
English and Theatre over the past year and a half, I have recently begun
serving as associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. In both positions, I have worked to
create an atmosphere in which faculty can provide the best educational
experience to our students, produce valuable scholarship and creative work,
and serve the university and larger communities. Outside of these two positions, I have chaired UNCP’s
Student Success Steering Committee and worked extensively in the areas of
accreditation, student and faculty recruitment, and faculty development and
evaluation. |
Mark
Canada, Ph.D. Associate
Dean Professor
of English 910.521.6431 |
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Background Years ago, as I
watched my infant daughter trying to absorb the intricacies of the belt in
her car seat, I understood a personality trait that perhaps led me to become
a teacher: I like success. I don't favor any special kind, such as financial
success—thank goodness—but rather the general fulfillment of
potential, what the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called “the achieve
of; the mastery of the thing.” Like Benjamin Franklin, another favorite of
mine, I believe humans have tremendous potential, and I can think of no more
appropriate or fulfilling job for me than helping them to realize that
potential. Another guiding principle of my life and career has been a love for
language. Growing up in
Indianapolis, I wrote stories, worked for my high school newspaper, and
headed off to Indiana University, where I majored in journalism and
English. After my graduation in
1989, I went to work for the Johnson County Daily Journal, where I edited stories
on deadline, wrote articles and headlines, laid out pages, and managed the
weekly section on religion.
After two years at the Daily Journal, I joined the staff of the Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel. After earning my
Ph.D. in English in 1997, I accepted a position at the University of North
Carolina at Pembroke. There,
working among a group of talented and dedicated colleagues, I have realized
my calling. Drawing on my
interests in both self-realization and language, I strive to help students
achieve their potential as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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Education Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
May 1997, Major: American literature before 1900. Minor:
English language. M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
May 1994. B.A., English and journalism, Indiana University at
Bloomington, May 1989, graduation with highest distinction. Selected Positions
Chair, Department of English
and Theatre, UNC-Pembroke, 2009-present Assistant Chair,
Department of English and Theatre, UNC-Pembroke, 2008-2009 English Professor,
UNC-Pembroke, 1997-present Adjunct Instructor,
UNC-Chapel Hill, 2001-present Copy Editor, The News-Sentinel,
Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1991-1992. Selected Honors
Board of Governors’
Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of North Carolina,
2008. Outstanding Teacher Award,
UNC-Pembroke, 2000. Hobbies and Interests
Travel Triathlons Youth baseball |
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Teaching Since joining the faculty at UNCP, I
have taught more than a dozen undergraduate and graduate courses, including
an online grammar course for UNC-Chapel Hill. My efforts have been recognized with two teaching awards,
including the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors’ Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 2008. The cornerstone of my teaching
philosophy is personal engagement.
I seek to know my students as individual human beings—each with
his or her own set of values, strengths, and aspirations—and to provide
them with personalized learning experiences that inspire and engage
them. For starters, I make a
point of learning every one of my students’ names on the first day of class. I joke with them that now I can call
on them—and I do. Indeed,
conversation is one hallmark of my teaching. Whether they are critiquing a classmate’s argument during
peer review or studying symbolism in an online discussion, my students grow
accustomed to my questions: “Why do you think that?” “What evidence suggests that reading
to you?” “That’s a great
observation. What do you make of
that?” These conversations, which begin on
the first day of class, continue throughout the semester. In a typical week, my students might
read an argument or a novel, respond to it in a “Think Fast” quiz, discuss it
in groups, and reflect on their new knowledge in a “Think Again” post on the
Web. I also meet with students
in conferences, where our focus is always on their work, their skills, their
questions. Finally, I respond to
their work in progress reports, where I provide detailed guidance tailored to
their own abilities and performance. If we can help students to become
invested in their own learning—to see it as important, even
inspiring—they will do the bulk of the work. Outside the classroom, I provide online lessons featuring
objectives, links to relevant resources, and other material. In class, I supplement my comments
with photographs, paintings, maps, and other things to see and do. On several occasions, I have taken
education beyond the campus, leading trips to Philadelphia, Boston, and other
locations. Above all, I seize
opportunities to help students see the relevance of language and literature
in their lives. I wish I could say that every student
I have taught has gone away a changed person. I can’t. Like
all teachers, I have had my moments of frustration, but I also have had
moments of another cast. Once,
in a senior seminar, I asked a question about research, and a student came up
with the perfect answer; he was the same student I had taught in composition
years ago. He got it. I also have seen a student who did
not pass composition with me one semester return and, through hard work and
determination, pass the class.
She got it. Each is a
little closer to his or her potential.
I hope they found some satisfaction in those accomplishments. I know I have. |
Selected Courses ENG 1060: Composition 2 ENG 201: Southern Literature ENG 203: Introduction to Literature ENG
2230: American Literature Before 1865 ENGL 313: Grammar of
Current English ENG
3430: The American Novel ENG 3460: Aspects of the English Language ENGS 4290: Literature and Journalism ENGS 5060: Literature and Journalism ENG 507: Biblical Literature FRS 1000: Freshman Seminar Teaching Strategies and Assignments
“Think Fast” exercises “Think Again” reflections Live and online discussions Group activities Peer review Student-authored
Internet resources Portfolios Student presentations Multimedia lectures Online lessons and podcasts Field trips Personalized progress reports Selected Educational Travel
“Lewis,
Clark, and You!” Junior Enrichment Experience for North Carolina Teaching
Fellows, May 2004.
“A New
Orleans Feast,” Junior Enrichment Experience for North Carolina Teaching
Fellows, May 2003.
“Colonial
Williamsburg,” Junior Enrichment Experience for North Carolina Teaching
Fellows, June 2002.
“Beginning
in Boston,” Junior Enrichment Experience for North Carolina Teaching
Fellows, June 2001.
“Philadelphia
in the Life of America,” Junior Enrichment Experience for North Carolina Teaching
Fellows, 2000.
Internet Resources
All American,
literary and historical guide featuring student work Benjamin
Franklin, overview of his life and work Be Your Best, guide
to study strategies The
Lewis and Clark Expedition, overview of the expedition The
Grammar Hardware Store, resource on English grammar Guide to
Library Research, tutorial created with librarian Michael Alewine |
Scholarship My scholarly
interests center on early American literature, particularly the works of
Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and other writers
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I also have published articles and given presentations on
a variety of other subjects in the fields of literature, history, and
pedagogy. Much of my
current scholarship has focused on the intersections of literature and
journalism. Literature and Journalism in Antebellum
America, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, examines print culture in
the United States between 1833 and 1861, when the simultaneous rise of the
mainstream press and the advent of the American Renaissance combined to
create a sibling rivalry in American letters. As part of this competition, authors such as Poe and Henry
David Thoreau excoriated and ridiculed journalism, defended their own
versions of the truth, and crafted “news of their own” in “The Mystery of
Marie Roget,” Walden,
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, and other works. In
chapters such as “The Story and the Truth,” “Encounters with the News,”
“Literary Critiques of Journalism,” and “Dispatches from the Fringe,” this
book shows that authors and journalists, while sharing common aims and
methods, ultimately developed different conceptions and conventions of
truth-telling. In this
historical and interdisciplinary study, I draw on poems, short stories,
novels, essays, and news items by Poe, Thoreau, Stowe, James Fenimore Cooper,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Cullen
Bryant, James Gordon Bennett, and Samuel Bowles, as well as secondary sources
by David Reynolds,
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Thomas C. Leonard, Andie Tucher, Hazel Dicken-Garcia,
Dan Schiller, David Nord, and numerous other scholars of literature and
journalism history. While the
book focuses on the antebellum era, the introduction and epilogue suggest
connections between this period and our own, in which a new media revolution
again raises questions about stories and truths. Part of this book appeared as “News of Her Own: Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Investigative Fiction” in the Ignatius Critical Edition of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin (2009). I also have
examined Theodore Dreiser’s views on newspapers in “The Critique of
Journalism in Sister
Carrie,” published in a 2010 issue of American Literary Realism, and published an
essay on Thomas Wolfe’s relationship with journalism in a 2003 issue of The Thomas Wolfe
Review. I also have
worked extensively on the psychology of Edgar Allan Poe. Details of Poe's life and
work—including his fascination with music, dreams, and the “Imp of the
Perverse”—suggest that he possessed an extraordinary right cerebral hemisphere. By exploring these details in light
of both current and nineteenth-century models of the divided brain, I have
tried to expose the process by which Poe used his unusual brain and his
knowledge of phrenology to produce works unique in their visual imagery,
musicality, surreal details, emotional appeals, and potent effect on readers.
Poe in His Right Mind, my study of the
role of the right brain in Poe’s life and work, has been submitted to a
university press. Two essays on
this subject, “The Right Brain in Poe’s Creative Process” and “Flight into
Fancy: Poe’s Discovery of the Right Brain,” have appeared in The Southern
Quarterly and The Southern Literary Journal. Another American
author, Benjamin Franklin, has figured prominently in both my teaching and my
scholarship. I regularly teach a
themed section of first-year composition on Franklin’s life and work, and I
have drawn on this experience to write “Learning to Scribble with Benjamin
Franklin,” which is set to appear in the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching Franklin’s
Autobiography. I will
discuss this subject in a presentation at the ASECS meeting in Vancouver in
2011. I also have written an
essay on Franklin for the Encyclopedia of American Literature, forthcoming from Facts on
File, and an essay on the literature of the eighteenth century for a volume
of American
Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History,
forthcoming from MTM/Facts on File. My experience as
a researcher in the field of literature, along with my work as a composition
teacher, has shaped my interest in the related subject of information
literacy. Over the past decade,
I have collaborated with librarian Michael Alewine on an online tutorial, Guide to
Library Research, as well as dozens of class sessions for students in
first-year composition courses.
This past summer, we began working on a textbook, The Concise Guide to Information Literacy. In this information age, students and
professionals must be able to manage information effectively. This textbook, designed particularly
for students in upper-division courses in all disciplines, will provide an
accessible discussion of information literacy, review basic strategies for
finding and evaluating information in both print and electronic resources, and
offer practical tips for managing research projects, narrowing topics,
developing key words, navigating databases, evaluating a source’s
credibility, decoding a call number, discriminating among various types of
primary and secondary sources, ordering items through interlibrary loan,
using an index, incorporating source material into a report or argument,
avoiding plagiarism, compiling bibliographies, and transferring research
skills to the workplace. In
short, The
Concise Guide to Information Literacy will empower students to put
information to work for them. We
have drafted a prospectus, as well as a sample chapter, and plan to propose
the project to a leading textbook publisher this fall. Outside these
four areas, my scholarship has ranged over a number of topics in the fields
of literature, history, and pedagogy.
I have published essays and given presentations on the
twentieth-century writers Vardis Fisher and H.L. Mencken, for example, and I
have given presentations on Mencken and the Scopes Trial, the Lewis and Clark
expedition, and the use of technology in composition and literature
classes. Some of this work has
taken me outside academia to address general audiences. My presentations on Mencken and the
Lewis and Clark expedition, for instance, were part of the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Adventures in Ideas series, an enrichment
program that promotes lifelong learning. I also have addressed in-service teachers as part of a
seminar called “Darwin and the South,” sponsored by the Center for the Study
of the American South in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 2008, I gave the keynote address
at UNCP’s winter commencement. I
also have served as an expert on Gothic literature for a public radio program
called The
State of Things and as a source on Benjamin Franklin for an article on a
business Web site. Finally, I
contribute to literary scholarship in two indirect ways. As a member of the editorial board
for the Edgar
Allan Poe Review, I consider submissions and recommend appropriate ones
for publication. I also serve on
the board of directors for the Thomas Wolfe Society. |
Book Literature
and Journalism in Antebellum America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) Series Volume Developing
and Implementing Service-Learning Programs. New Directions for Higher Education
114 (Summer 2001). Co-editor with Bruce W. Speck. Articles in Periodicals “The Critique of Journalism in Sister Carrie.”
American Literary Realism 42.3 (Spring 2010): 227-242. “The Paperboy Turned Novelist:
Thomas Wolfe and Journalism.” The Thomas Wolfe Review 27.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 70-78. “Assessing E-folios in the Online
Class.” New Directions
for Teaching and Learning 91 (September 2002). “Flight into Fancy: Poe's Discovery
of the Right Brain.”
The Southern
Literary Journal 33.2 (Spring 2001): 62-79. “The Internet in Service-Learning.” New Directions for Higher Education
114 (Summer 2001): 45-50. “Students As Seekers in
On-line Courses.” New
Directions for Teaching and Learning 84 (Winter 2000): 35-40. “The Right Brain in Poe's Creative
Process.” The Southern
Quarterly 36.4 (Summer 1998): 96-105. Essays in Books “News of Her Own: Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s Investigative Fiction.” Ignatius critical edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ed. Mary R.
Reichardt. Fort Collins, Colorado: Ignatius, 2009. “Vardis Fisher: An Essay in
Bibliography.” Rediscovering
Vardis Fisher: Centennial Essays. Moscow: University of Idaho Press,
2000. Articles in Reference Volumes “Literature,” American Centuries, Vol. 3, ed. Brendan
McConville, forthcoming from MTM/Facts on File. “Benjamin Franklin.” Encyclopedia of American Literature.
New York: Facts on File, forthcoming. “Edgar Allan Poe.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical
Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. “Hodding Carter.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical
Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. “Thomas Holley Chivers.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical
Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. “Anne Moody.” Southern Writers: A New Biographical
Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. “The Short Story, Beginnings to
1900.” The Companion
to Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
2001. “Sheriff.” The Companion to Southern Literature.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. “Thomas Dunn English.” American National Biography. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999. “Frederick Kemper Freeman.” American National Biography. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999. Reviews Review of The Magical Campus: University of North
Carolina Writings, 1917-1920. The Thomas Wolfe Review 32.1-2 (2008): 136-138. Review of The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan
Poe. The Edgar Allan
Poe Review 10.1 (Spring 2009): 63-65. “How the Mind Turns Language into
Meaning.” Review of The Ascent of Babel. American Speech 76:2 (Summer 2001):
213-215. Selected Presentations “Truthful Hoaxes: Poe, Literature,
and the ‘dirty newspapers.’” Edgar Allan Poe Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October
2009. “Mencken’s Monkey: Whose Back Was
It Riding?” Darwin and the South. Chapel Hill, NC. June 2009. “Extra! Lethean Waters Threaten
Oracle!: The Critique of Journalism in Sister Carrie.” American Literature Association
Conference. Boston, MA. May 2009. “The Scholar’s Identity.” Alpha Chi Induction Ceremony. UNCP.
January 2009. “This Is Our Story.” Commencement Address. UNCP.
December 2008. “Turn East, Turn Complacent: Mark Twain’s
Journalistic Decline.” Western Literature Association Conference. Boulder, CO. October 2008. “H.L. Mencken: The Great
Iconoclast.”
“Political Satire from Mark Twain to The Daily Show.” Adventures in Ideas series. UNC-CH.
June 2008.
“The Portrait of a Journalist:
Henrietta Stackpole and the Failings of the Press.” Reading Henry James Colloquium.
Salem, MA. May 2007. “The Story and the Truth.” Joint Journalism Historians
Conference. New York, NY. March 2007. “Using Blackboard to Teach Freshman
Composition Students the Research Process.” With Michael Alewine. UNC Teaching and Learning
with Technology Conference. March 2006. “’Dear Fred’ . . . ‘Dear Vardis’: A
Friendship in Letters.” With Joseph Flora. Western Literature Association Conference. Los
Angeles, CA. October 2005. “Corps
of Discovery, Diplomacy, Science, and Survival.” Adventures in Ideas series.
UNC-CH. September 2004. “The Paperboy Turned Novelist:
Thomas Wolfe and Journalism.” Annual meeting of Thomas Wolfe Society. Burlington,
VT. June 2003. “Teaching Literature Online: A New
Twist on Student-centered Learning.” The Teaching Literature Conference. Rutgers University.
New Brunswick, NJ. March 2001. “Real Work, or How Students and I
Learned to Like Composition.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.
Birmingham, AL. November 2000. Works in Progress Poe in His Right Mind, submitted to a university press. “Learning to Scribble with Benjamin
Franklin,”
tentatively accepted for publication in Approaches to Teaching Franklin’s Autobiography,
eds. Jeffrey A. Weinstock and Carla Mulford, forthcoming from MLA. “Ultimate Thule,” tentatively accepted for
publication in Poe
in Context, ed. Kevin Hayes, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. The Concise Guide to Information
Literacy, with
Michael Alewine, to be proposed to a textbook publisher. “Learning to ‘scribble’ with
Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father in the Composition Classroom,” accepted for presentation at the
ASECS meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in 2011. Memberships Editorial Board, Edgar Allan Poe Review Board of Directors, Thomas Wolfe Society Poe Studies Association American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Service Like my
scholarship, my service ranges over a variety of areas, but focuses on a
few. I have been particularly
active in the areas of administration, retention and student success,
assessment and planning, faculty evaluation and hiring, professional
development, and recruitment. As chair of the
Department of English and Theatre, I strive to create an atmosphere in which
faculty can provide the best educational experience to our students, produce
useful scholarship and creative work, and serve the university and larger
communities. As part of my regular duties, I
manage faculty lines, recruit and hire faculty, observe and evaluate faculty,
create schedules of course offerings, respond to student needs and
grievances, make decisions concerning my department’s budget, run department
and committee meetings, oversee department communications via e-mail and
Blackboard posts, manage data and respond punctually to requests for
information from the university’s administration, and advise students and
colleagues in areas ranging from course selection to classroom management to
scholarly production to issues related to promotion and tenure. As assistant chair and chair, I also
have launched a number of initiatives, including a new Blackboard
communication system for sharing department news and reports, a new “A Brief
Guide to English and Theatre” for incoming faculty, faculty sessions on
library resources and careers for majors, and a position for a graduate
research assistant. During my
first year as chair, the department created its first three-year schedule of
upper-level classes in many years, increased its online literature course
offerings, secured funding from Academic Affairs to continue its successful
“Plus One” program for first-year composition, scheduled several composition
labs in computer classrooms for the first time, dramatically revised and
expanded its Web site, hired four new tenure-track faculty members, and
placed or published six books and more than two dozen essays and poems in
journals and other publications.
More information appears in the department’s 2010 annual report. Outside my department,
I have helped UNCP develop a plan for retaining students and helping them to
succeed in college. As chair of
the Student Success Steering Committee in 2009-2010, I collaborated with
nearly 20 colleagues from across the campus on an extensive, research-based
list of recommendations for improving student success at UNCP. This report calls for numerous
initiatives, including the creation of a campus advising mission statement
and online resources for advisers, expansions of the Academic Resource Mentor
and Supplemental Instruction programs, the addition of a second-semester
Freshman Seminar course for targeted students, and the establishment of a
“one-stop shop,” where students can receive help with financial aid,
registration, and other services. In the areas of
accreditation and planning, I have been an active member of the committee
developing UNCP’s Quality Enhancement Plan, a requirement for SACS
accreditation. After serving on
the committee that solicited input on the topic of the QEP, I went on to
serve on the QEP Steering Committee.
In addition to collaborating with my colleagues on the development of
the plan, which focuses on the improvement of student writing at UNCP, I
drafted a description of the selection process for the final report,
addressed the SACS team during its campus visit, and participated in
telephone interviews for candidates applying to serve as the QEP
director. The SACS team that
evaluated the QEP approved it with no recommendations, and the lead QEP
evaluator praised it as a potential model for universities across the
country. In my roles serving on
various other campus committees, I have had a hand in the development of
assessment plans for individual departments, the establishment of learning
communities, and the development of the university’s honors college. As a member of my department's
Graduate Committee on English Education, I helped to revise our graduate
program to make it even more rewarding and rigorous. In particular, I took a
leading role in the development of a new capstone experience, which involves
both a portfolio and a presentation. Over the years, I also
have been active in the evaluation and selection of faculty, including both
English instructors and librarians.
Recently, I have begun working with a UNCP task force to address issues
regarding the hiring, evaluation, and compensation of temporary faculty. Furthermore, as a member of dozens of
review and search committees, I have evaluated portfolios and applications,
scheduled campus visits, conducted interviews, and observed numerous
instructors in the classroom. My service in
the area of professional development has taken a variety of forms. As a longtime member of UNCP’s Task
Force for Teaching Excellence, I have helped to select recipients of faculty
grants and to plan the university’s annual Faculty Development Day. I also have planned or given a number
of presentations on pedagogy for my colleagues, served as a faculty mentor,
and chaired the committee charged with establishing UNCP’s Administrative
Fellows Program. Finally, as
chair of the Program Committee for the South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, I helped shape the program of the 2007 conference, which
introduced a poster session. When I am sold
on something, I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for it with others. For this reason, recruitment comes
naturally to me. As a member of
my department’s recruitment committee, I wrote the copy for our brochure on
the English major, and I regularly represent my department at the
university’s admission open houses.
I also manage the department’s Web site and contribute material to
it. On the university level, I
have accepted several invitations to appear in recruitment collateral
materials, including television advertisements and a video created for the
Internet site UniversityTV.com, and have represented UNCP in Italy, speaking
to a group of students from a Department of Defense school in Vicenza. Student
development has long been an interest of mine. In addition to teaching freshman seminar on several
occasions, I have served as an advisor on textbooks for this course and
recently became co-chair of a task force on the first-year experience for
UNCP students. As a faculty
athletic associate, I also serve as an advisor for the UNCP track team and
have joined one of my colleagues to give a workshop on time management and
study skills for the athletes. Outside of these
areas, I have served my department, my university, and the larger community
in a number of ways. As chair of
my department’s Instructional Resources Committee, I coordinated my
colleagues’ requests for books and other media and helped develop policy for
the use of computer labs and other resources. Within my department, I also have advised majors and
played active roles in several departmental initiatives, including a revision
of our English major. On the
campus level, I have served as a mentor to Teaching Fellows and helped select
the recipients of faculty awards.
In the local community, I have addressed both adult and juvenile book
clubs and have served as the president of the Central Carolinas Phi Beta
Kappa Association, which sponsors cultural programs and awards scholarships
to high school students. |
Assessment and Planning Quality
Enhancement Plan Steering Committee. University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
2007-present. Quality Enhancement Plan Selection
Committee. UNCP.
2007-2008. Assessment Committee. UNCP. 2004-2005. Learning Communities Committee. UNCP. 2004-2005. Honors Committee. UNCP. Fall 1999. Strategic Planning Task Force. UNCP. November 1998-April 1999. SACS Technology Committee. UNCP. April 1998-1999. Graduate Committee on English
Education.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. October 1997-December 2000. Faculty Evaluation First-Year Review Committee for Dr.
Melissa Schaub.
UNCP. English, Theatre, and Languages. Spring 2009. Review Committee for Mark Williams. Chair. UNCP. English, Theatre,
and Languages. Spring 2009. Tenure Review Committee for Dr.
Karen Helgeson.
Chair. English and Theatre. UNCP. Fall 2008. Post-tenure Review Committee for
Dr. Nancy Barrineau.
English and Theatre. UNCP. Fall 2008. First-Year Review Committee for Dr.
Youngsuk Chae.
UNCP. English, Theatre, and Languages. Spring 2008. First-Year Review Committee for
Librarian Robert Wolf. UNCP. Fall 2006. Tenure Review Committee for
Librarian Carl Danis.
UNCP. Fall 2006. Post-tenure Review Committee for
Dr. Patricia Valenti.
Chair. English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2005. Review Committee for Librarian
Robert Arndt.
UNCP. 2004-2005. Review Committee for Instructor
Frank Myers. UNCP.
Fall 2004. First-year Review Committee for
Librarian Carl Danis.
UNCP. 2003-2004. First-year Review Committee for
Librarian Robert Arndt. UNCP. 2003-2004. Post-tenure Review Committee for
Dr. Monika Brown.
Chair. English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2003. Tenure Review Committee for Dr. Kay
McClanahan. Chair.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2003. First-year Review Committee for Dr.
Roger Ladd. Chair.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2003. First-year Review Committee for Dr.
Jon Lewis.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2003. First-year Review Committee for Dr.
Melissa Schaub.
Chair. English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Fall 2003. Hiring Task Force on Temporary Faculty. UNCP. Spring 2009. Search Committee for Composition
Instructors.
English and Theatre. UNCP. Fall 2008. Search Committee for Linguistics
Professor. English
and Theatre. UNCP. Fall 2007-present. Search Committee for Composition
Professor. Chair.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. 2005-2006. Search Committee for Instructional
Designer. UNCP.
2004- 2005. Search Committee for Literature
Professors. Chair.
English, Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Spring 2003. Search Committee for ETL Librarian. UNCP. Spring 2001. Search Committee for Associate
Provost for Outreach.
Chair. UNCP. Fall 2000. Search Committee for Writing Center
Director. UNCP.
Summer 1999. Search Committee for Reference
Librarian. UNCP.
Fall 2000. Search Committee for Journalism
Professor. UNCP.
Spring 1999. Professional Development Faculty Mentor. English, Theatre, and Languages.
UNCP. 2007-2008. Program Committee. South Atlantic Modern Language
Association. Spring 2003-Fall 2007. (Chair: Fall 2006-Fall 2007.) Awards Committee. UNCP. Fall 2001-Spring 2003. Executive Steering Committee. Southern American Studies
Association. 2000-2002. Administrative Fellows Committee. Chair. UNCP. Fall 1999-present. Task Force for Teaching Excellence. UNCP. Fall 1999-present. “Pedagogical Possibilities of the
Internet.”
Presenter. Faculty development workshop. UNCP. April and August 1997. “The World Wide Classroom.” Presenter.
Faculty development workshop. UNCP. Fall 1997. Recruitment and Outreach
Scholars Council. UNCP.
Fall 2010. Recording of UNCP advertisement for Sky
Radio. October 2008. Interview of Scott Turow.
WNCP-TV. May 2008. Appearance in
recruitment video for UniversityTV.com. April 2008. Appearance on Academe Today. WNCP. September 2004. Recruitment Committee. English, Theatre, and Languages.
UNCP. Fall 2003-present. Student Development and Retention Student Success Steering Committee. Chair.
UNCP. Fall 2009-Spring 2010. Task Force on Freshman Seminar. UNCP.
Spring 2009. Workshop on study skills. UNCP.
February 2009. Faculty athletic associate for track team. UNCP.
Spring 2009. Other “A Brief Guide to English and Theatre.” English,
Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Summer 2009. Syllabus template. English,
Theatre, and Languages. UNCP. Spring 2008. President. Central Carolinas Phi Beta Kappa
Association. January 2007-present. UNC in Washington Committee. UNCP. Fall 2005-present. Appeals Committee. Chair. English, Theatre, and
Languages. UNCP. Spring 2005-present. Ad Hoc Committee on Continuing
Education Units.
UNCP. Fall 2003. Mentor. North Carolina Teaching Fellows.
UNCP. 2000-present. Faculty Conciliator. UNCP. 2000-2002. Instructional Resources Committee. Chair. English, Theatre, and
Languages. UNCP. Fall 1999-present. Web Site Administrator. English and Theatre. UNCP. 1998-present. Food Services Committee. UNCP. 1997-1998. |