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Education

• Ph.D, State University of new York at Buffalo, 1985
• M.A., St. Bonaventure University, 1982
• B.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 1972

Professional Employment

• Gallaudet University 1990-2010, Professor 1997-2010.
• National Technical Institute of the Deaf, Visiting Professor 1989-1990.
• Middle Tennessee State University, Assistant Professor 1985-1989.

Courses Developed & Taught

• Composition (MTSU, NTID, Gallaudet)
• Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing (Gallaudet online course)
• Practical Writing and Research (Gallaudet online course)
• Introduction to Literature (MTSU, Gallaudet)
• Surveys of English Literature (MTSU)
• Surveys of Medieval Literature (MTSU, Gallaudet)
• Methods of Literary Study (Gallaudet)
• Chaucer (Gallaudet, Catholic University of America)
• Thomas Malory (Gallaudet)
• James Fenimore Cooper (Gallaudet)
• History of the English Language (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, MTSU, Gallaudet)
• Old English (MTSU)
• Beowulf (MTSU)
• World Literature to 1600 (Gallaudet)
• World Literature from 1600 (Gallaudet)
• Masterpieces of English Literature (Gallaudet)
• Women Writers (Gallaudet)
• The Deaf in Literature (Gallaudet)
• Deaf Characters in Literature (Gallaudet online course)
• Deaf Authors (Gallaudet online course)
• Deaf Women Authors (Gallaudet online course)
• Book Forum New titles in Deaf studies (Gallaudet online course)
• Mythology (Gallaudet)
• Disability and Literature (Gallaudet)
• German Identities through Literature and Film (Gallaudet GSR curriculum)

Selected Service Positions

• Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Gallaudet co-chair,2007-2009.
• Secretary/Treasurer, Deaf History International, 2006-2012.
• Vice-Chair, Gallaudet University Faculty Senate, 2004-07.
• Editor, Deaf History International Newsletter, 2000-05.
• MLA ad hoc committee on Disability in the Profession, 1994-96.
• Gallaudet University Press Editorial Board, 1990-98.