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• American Literature
  • Modern/postmodern literature
  • DeLillo and Pynchon studies
  • war literature, specifically Vietnam to present
  • Westerns
  • Adaptation studies
• Film Studies
  • War films
  • Westerns
  • Adaptation studies
• Professional and technical writing
• Professional development:
  • Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), Portland, November 2021.
  • SDSU Jackrabbit Philanthropy Academy, 2019.
  • Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), Denver, November 2017.
  • SDSU Leadership Academy, 2013-14.
  • SDSU Department Head Retreat, 2013.
  • SDSU Educational Technology Center Active Learning Cloud Academy, July 2010.
  • Ohio State University Digital Media and Composition Conference, June 2006.
  • Michigan Technological University, Computers in the Writing Intensive Classroom Conference, July 2004.

• Department head of English, 2012-present.
• Acting associate dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2017-18.
• Coordinator of professional writing, 2004-10; 2011-present.
• Acting department head of English, 2010-12.
• English graduate advisor, 2009-10.
• Directed 10 M.A. students to degree completion by thesis or written examination and served on seventeen additional graduate student degree committees.

Committees

• Chair of the Ness School of Management and Economics Endowed Director search committee (2021-22)
• Chair of the School of Design Director search committee (2017-18)
• Imagine 2023 Strategic Planning Committee (2017-2018)
• SDSU College Realignment Task Force (2017-18)
• SDSU Quality Initiative for Assessment Steering Committee (2015-present)
• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography (2019-present): Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography, March 2019-2022 (three year term). By invitation from the MLA Executive Council. Appointed Chair for 2021-22., August 2012-present
• International EBSCO Literature Editorial Board (2017-present): Serve on twenty-person international advisory board
• South Dakota Humanities Council (SDHC) Speaker’s Bureau/Scholarly Speaker, 2010-present.  
• 2017 Project Consultant and Keynote Speaker, SDHC “Rapid City Area Big Read” (Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War novel, The Things They Carried).
• 2007-08 Project Consultant, SDHC “The Big Read” (Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451), (2008).
• South Dakota Humanities Council (SDHC) Board of Directors (2013-15; 2016-17): Nominated and subsequently elected (August 2013) to the SDHC Board of Directors (re-elected for second term in July 2016 and resigned in good standing in June 2017 due to appointment as Acting Associate Dean at SDSU). Served as Grants Committee Chair, 2013-15 and 2016-17.
• Literature and Medicine Group (2011-17): Coordinator, Literature and Medicine Group, Sioux Falls VA Health System, 2011-17. Led war literature and film discussions for VA hospital staff. Program Consultant, 2017-present.

Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association (MLA), 1998-present

• 2012-present, department head of English, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2017-2018, acting associate dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2004-2010, 2011-present, coordinator of professional writing, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2010-2012, acting department head of English, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2009-2010, English graduate advisor, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2014-present, professor, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2005-present, academic advisor, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2008-2014, associate professor, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2005-2008, assistant professor, ��«Ӱҵ
• January 2004-2005, assistant professor, Visiting, ��«Ӱҵ
• 2001-2007 (summers), lecturer, UK Robinson Scholars Writing Workshop
• 2001-2002, research assistant (for Dr. Gregory A. Waller), UK
• 1999-2000, mentor, UK Writing Program
• 1998-2003, UK graduate teaching assistant and writing center tutor
• 1996-1998, ��«Ӱҵ graduate teaching assistant and writing center tutor
• 1995-1996, Weiser (Idaho) high school English teacher