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Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
Sept 2019-June 2020 Contract Assistant Archivist, Bywaters Special Collections, Southern Methodist University
Archivist for the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Collection held in the Bywaters Special Collections in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU Libraries. Duties include processing the collection, updating database records, and writing a finding aid for the collection.
Oct 2018-Aug 2019 Metadata Technician, University of North Texas Library Special Collections
Involved in several stages of the digitization of the NBC 5/KXAS (WBAP) Television News Collection photographs, including creating box scanning record forms (BSRFs), writing description of the digitized photographs to make them available to the public through The Portal to Texas History, and doing quality control of published metadata. Tasks also include creating BSRFs for collections within The Dallas Way Collection, writing the Photography Study Collection finding aid, and other duties as needed.
Jan-May 2018 Intern, Dallas Holocaust Museum
As archival intern, tasks included researching and establishing provenance for objects selected for the core collection of the new museum, updating donor records for these objects, and writing training materials for provenance research. Also processed new collections, included digitizing images of the collection.
Feb-June 2017 Volunteer, Texas Fashion Collection, University of North Texas
General tasks include updating digital catalog records and helping process items.
Aug 2014-Dec 2018 Instructor for Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Taught a range of writing and literature university courses, including: First-Year Writing I and II, British Literature to 1760 and British Literature 1760 to Present, Literature by Women, World Myth, and Advanced Grammar and Composition.
Aug 2011-Feb 2014 Senior Visitor Services Facilitator, Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA)
As part of the Front of House team, general tasks include managing the museum on weekends and interpreting museum collection items for visitors. Responsibilities also extend to coordinating public events and overseeing bank staff and volunteers.
June-Sep 2010 Manuscripts assistant, Special Collections, University of St Andrews
Summer position assisting manuscripts librarian in St Andrews University Library Special Collections. Tasks included taking inventories, cataloguing, and preparing to move Special Collections off-site during refurbishment of the main library.
Oct 2009-Nov 2010 Volunteer, Special Collections, University of St Andrews
General tasks included taking inventories, cataloguing, organizing, and entering into the library’s database the details of various archives.
July 2007-June 2008 Collections Assistant, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK, USA
General duties included setting up and taking down exhibits, researching pieces for the Curator of Collections, and managing the museum on weekends. Helped curate the exhibit titled, ‘From the Seat of Wisdom: Medieval Art from the MGMoA Collection.’
Aug 2007-May 2008 Department Secretary, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma Baptist University
Performed general administrative duties for the Division of Language & Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences and supervised student workers. Also included planning for the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature (held Oct 2008).
Archivist for the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Collection held in the Bywaters Special Collections in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU Libraries. Duties include processing the collection, updating database records, and writing a finding aid for the collection.
Oct 2018-Aug 2019 Metadata Technician, University of North Texas Library Special Collections
Involved in several stages of the digitization of the NBC 5/KXAS (WBAP) Television News Collection photographs, including creating box scanning record forms (BSRFs), writing description of the digitized photographs to make them available to the public through The Portal to Texas History, and doing quality control of published metadata. Tasks also include creating BSRFs for collections within The Dallas Way Collection, writing the Photography Study Collection finding aid, and other duties as needed.
Jan-May 2018 Intern, Dallas Holocaust Museum
As archival intern, tasks included researching and establishing provenance for objects selected for the core collection of the new museum, updating donor records for these objects, and writing training materials for provenance research. Also processed new collections, included digitizing images of the collection.
Feb-June 2017 Volunteer, Texas Fashion Collection, University of North Texas
General tasks include updating digital catalog records and helping process items.
Aug 2014-Dec 2018 Instructor for Department of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
Taught a range of writing and literature university courses, including: First-Year Writing I and II, British Literature to 1760 and British Literature 1760 to Present, Literature by Women, World Myth, and Advanced Grammar and Composition.
Aug 2011-Feb 2014 Senior Visitor Services Facilitator, Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA)
As part of the Front of House team, general tasks include managing the museum on weekends and interpreting museum collection items for visitors. Responsibilities also extend to coordinating public events and overseeing bank staff and volunteers.
June-Sep 2010 Manuscripts assistant, Special Collections, University of St Andrews
Summer position assisting manuscripts librarian in St Andrews University Library Special Collections. Tasks included taking inventories, cataloguing, and preparing to move Special Collections off-site during refurbishment of the main library.
Oct 2009-Nov 2010 Volunteer, Special Collections, University of St Andrews
General tasks included taking inventories, cataloguing, organizing, and entering into the library’s database the details of various archives.
July 2007-June 2008 Collections Assistant, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK, USA
General duties included setting up and taking down exhibits, researching pieces for the Curator of Collections, and managing the museum on weekends. Helped curate the exhibit titled, ‘From the Seat of Wisdom: Medieval Art from the MGMoA Collection.’
Aug 2007-May 2008 Department Secretary, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma Baptist University
Performed general administrative duties for the Division of Language & Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences and supervised student workers. Also included planning for the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature (held Oct 2008).
Education
University of North Texas. MS in Library Science, Archival Studies and Imaging Technology
Practicum Internship: Dallas Holocaust Museum
University of St Andrews: PhD in English Literature
Supervisor: Dr Rhiannon Purdie
Examiners: Professor Corinne Saunders (Durham) and Dr Christine Rauer (St Andrews)
Thesis: ‘Fairy’ in Middle English romance (80,000 words)
University of St Andrews: MLitt in Mediaeval English
Distinction on both taught and research sections of the M.Litt
Dissertation supervisor: Dr Ian Johnson
Dissertation examiner: Professor Vincent Gillespie (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Dissertation: Medieval Cycle Drama and the Nature of Sin (15,000 words)
Oklahoma Baptist University: BA (Hons) English; BA (Hons) History; minor: Cultural Anthropology
Magna cum laude
Dissertation supervisor: Dr Karen Youmans
Dissertation examiner: Dr Santha Bhattacharji (St Benet's, Oxford)
Dissertation: Consent, Marriage, and the Ideal Wife in the Clerk’s and Franklin’s Tales (16,000 words)
Professional Development
2018 Graduate Academic Certificate in Archival Management. University of North Texas.
2017 Book History Workshop. Texas A&M University.
2016 Online Faculty Development Program at Texas Woman’s University.
Practicum Internship: Dallas Holocaust Museum
University of St Andrews: PhD in English Literature
Supervisor: Dr Rhiannon Purdie
Examiners: Professor Corinne Saunders (Durham) and Dr Christine Rauer (St Andrews)
Thesis: ‘Fairy’ in Middle English romance (80,000 words)
University of St Andrews: MLitt in Mediaeval English
Distinction on both taught and research sections of the M.Litt
Dissertation supervisor: Dr Ian Johnson
Dissertation examiner: Professor Vincent Gillespie (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Dissertation: Medieval Cycle Drama and the Nature of Sin (15,000 words)
Oklahoma Baptist University: BA (Hons) English; BA (Hons) History; minor: Cultural Anthropology
Magna cum laude
Dissertation supervisor: Dr Karen Youmans
Dissertation examiner: Dr Santha Bhattacharji (St Benet's, Oxford)
Dissertation: Consent, Marriage, and the Ideal Wife in the Clerk’s and Franklin’s Tales (16,000 words)
Professional Development
2018 Graduate Academic Certificate in Archival Management. University of North Texas.
2017 Book History Workshop. Texas A&M University.
2016 Online Faculty Development Program at Texas Woman’s University.
Teaching Experience
AP English Literature Essay Reader. College Board. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
Assessed high school student essays written for the AP English Literature exam. Readers assess student essays according to established criteria and apply the rubric consistently and accurately, reading hundreds of essays over the course of one week.
British Literature 1760 to Present. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2018.
This course provides an overview of significant works of British literature from the Romantic period up to the present day. The course situates these highlighted texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as identifies and observes themes and motifs important to British literature as they develop over time. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes close readings, literary criticism reviews, and exams for each unit and weekly journals.
Literature by Women. Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2017.
This upper-level course provides an advanced examination of literature by women by situating four novels in their historical and cultural contexts. In this course, students engage in literary criticism of these texts and are introduced to literary theory. The authors studied in this course are: Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes literary criticism reviews, a literary theory presentation, a research paper that included an annotated bibliography and literature review, and a project involving the papers of Claire Myers Owens, an author whose archives are in the Texas Woman’s University special collections.
Introduction to Literature by Women (Honors). Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2016, Fall 2018.
This honors-level course introduces students to different genres of writing and some of the women who wrote in those genres. The writing assignments encourage students to both write in and about the genres studied in the course. Some of the authors studied in this course are: Octavia E. Butler, Rachel Carson, Edwidge Dandicat, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Jhumpa Lahiri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. This is a hybrid course that meets once a week and includes an online component. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes four writing assignments, online discussions, and weekly journal reflections.
British Literature to 1760. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2016.
This course provides an overview of significant works of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period up to 1760. The course situates these highlighted texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as identifies and observes themes and motifs important to British literature as they develop over time. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes three essays, critical review papers, and two exams.
World Myth. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2016.
This course examines a variety of world myths as literary text and investigates the ways myth shapes, creates, and perpetuates culture. This course is taught entirely online: involvement includes weekly journal entries and replies to discussion posts. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes six essays, weekly quizzes, and three exams.
Advanced Grammar and Composition. Texas Woman's University. Fall 2015.
This course concentrates on the basic terminology and procedures of English grammar, rhetoric, and composition, with intensive practice. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes four essays, in-class assignments, homework, and a final portfolio.
Composition I. Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2017.
Theory and practice of written and oral exposition and research in traditional and electronic environments; rhetorical principles and organization in practice. Class size approx. 20 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes three major essays, in-class assignments, and homework.
Composition II. Texas Woman's University. Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017.
Theory and practice of critical exposition and rhetorical analysis in traditional and electronic environments; composing persuasive and investigative texts based on research. Class size approx. 20 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes three major essays, in-class assignments, and homework. Includes both Honors and non-Honors sections.
College Writing I. University of North Texas. Fall 2015.
College Writing I introduces students to rhetorical strategies as a language for developing new insights about the historical, material, and theoretical processes of writing. Class size approx. 25 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes four essays, in-class assignments, homework, and a final portfolio.
SAT Verbal Lessons. Karen Dillard’s College Prep. Oct. 2014-Oct. 2018.
Instructor for the verbal and essay sections of the SAT at a center dedicated to preparing high school students for the standardized tests required to attend U.S. universities and colleges. Class sizes ranged from 5-12 students and larger for workshops. 7 verbal lessons in each 14-lesson course. Two-hour lessons with one-hour weekly workshops.
Medieval and Renaissance Texts. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Oct-Nov 2010
Taught the medieval half of the sophomore-level course on medieval and early modern literature, including The Dream of the Rood and Chaucer’s The Miller’s and The Franklin’s Tales. Weekly tutorials of 6-8 students and assessment.
University of St Andrews Tutoring and Assessment Course. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Sept 2010.
Assessed high school student essays written for the AP English Literature exam. Readers assess student essays according to established criteria and apply the rubric consistently and accurately, reading hundreds of essays over the course of one week.
British Literature 1760 to Present. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2018.
This course provides an overview of significant works of British literature from the Romantic period up to the present day. The course situates these highlighted texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as identifies and observes themes and motifs important to British literature as they develop over time. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes close readings, literary criticism reviews, and exams for each unit and weekly journals.
Literature by Women. Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2017.
This upper-level course provides an advanced examination of literature by women by situating four novels in their historical and cultural contexts. In this course, students engage in literary criticism of these texts and are introduced to literary theory. The authors studied in this course are: Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes literary criticism reviews, a literary theory presentation, a research paper that included an annotated bibliography and literature review, and a project involving the papers of Claire Myers Owens, an author whose archives are in the Texas Woman’s University special collections.
Introduction to Literature by Women (Honors). Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2016, Fall 2018.
This honors-level course introduces students to different genres of writing and some of the women who wrote in those genres. The writing assignments encourage students to both write in and about the genres studied in the course. Some of the authors studied in this course are: Octavia E. Butler, Rachel Carson, Edwidge Dandicat, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Jhumpa Lahiri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. This is a hybrid course that meets once a week and includes an online component. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes four writing assignments, online discussions, and weekly journal reflections.
British Literature to 1760. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2016.
This course provides an overview of significant works of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period up to 1760. The course situates these highlighted texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as identifies and observes themes and motifs important to British literature as they develop over time. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes three essays, critical review papers, and two exams.
World Myth. Texas Woman’s University. Spring 2016.
This course examines a variety of world myths as literary text and investigates the ways myth shapes, creates, and perpetuates culture. This course is taught entirely online: involvement includes weekly journal entries and replies to discussion posts. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes six essays, weekly quizzes, and three exams.
Advanced Grammar and Composition. Texas Woman's University. Fall 2015.
This course concentrates on the basic terminology and procedures of English grammar, rhetoric, and composition, with intensive practice. Prerequisites: Six hours of English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. Instructor of record: assessment includes four essays, in-class assignments, homework, and a final portfolio.
Composition I. Texas Woman’s University. Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2017.
Theory and practice of written and oral exposition and research in traditional and electronic environments; rhetorical principles and organization in practice. Class size approx. 20 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes three major essays, in-class assignments, and homework.
Composition II. Texas Woman's University. Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017.
Theory and practice of critical exposition and rhetorical analysis in traditional and electronic environments; composing persuasive and investigative texts based on research. Class size approx. 20 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes three major essays, in-class assignments, and homework. Includes both Honors and non-Honors sections.
College Writing I. University of North Texas. Fall 2015.
College Writing I introduces students to rhetorical strategies as a language for developing new insights about the historical, material, and theoretical processes of writing. Class size approx. 25 students. Three lecture hours a week. Instructor of record: assessment includes four essays, in-class assignments, homework, and a final portfolio.
SAT Verbal Lessons. Karen Dillard’s College Prep. Oct. 2014-Oct. 2018.
Instructor for the verbal and essay sections of the SAT at a center dedicated to preparing high school students for the standardized tests required to attend U.S. universities and colleges. Class sizes ranged from 5-12 students and larger for workshops. 7 verbal lessons in each 14-lesson course. Two-hour lessons with one-hour weekly workshops.
Medieval and Renaissance Texts. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Oct-Nov 2010
Taught the medieval half of the sophomore-level course on medieval and early modern literature, including The Dream of the Rood and Chaucer’s The Miller’s and The Franklin’s Tales. Weekly tutorials of 6-8 students and assessment.
University of St Andrews Tutoring and Assessment Course. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Sept 2010.
Skills
Languages
Speaking: English (native speaker), Spanish (basic conversational)
Reading: Spanish, French, German, Latin, Middle English, Old English
IT Skills
Apple and PC, Microsoft Office, Adobe, PastPerfect, Archon, Aeon, FileMaker Pro 18, various social media, HTML. 75wpm typing speed.
Metadata Standards Known
Dublin Core, DACS, EAD, MARC21, LCSH, LC classification schedules
Society Memberships
Society of American Archivists, Society of Southwest Archivists, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries
Speaking: English (native speaker), Spanish (basic conversational)
Reading: Spanish, French, German, Latin, Middle English, Old English
IT Skills
Apple and PC, Microsoft Office, Adobe, PastPerfect, Archon, Aeon, FileMaker Pro 18, various social media, HTML. 75wpm typing speed.
Metadata Standards Known
Dublin Core, DACS, EAD, MARC21, LCSH, LC classification schedules
Society Memberships
Society of American Archivists, Society of Southwest Archivists, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries
Public Engagement
Publications
'Passing as a "humayn woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine,' in Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, Eds. Misty Urban, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Deva Kemmis. Brill: Explorations in Medieval Culture series, 2017.
Book reviews:
Tyler, Margaret. Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood. Ed. Joyce Boro London: MHRA (Tudor & Stuart Translations, 11, 2014). Forum of Modern Language Studies 51.2: 237.
Presentations
Community Engagement
'Passing as a "humayn woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine,' in Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, Eds. Misty Urban, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Deva Kemmis. Brill: Explorations in Medieval Culture series, 2017.
Book reviews:
Tyler, Margaret. Mirror of Princely Deeds and Knighthood. Ed. Joyce Boro London: MHRA (Tudor & Stuart Translations, 11, 2014). Forum of Modern Language Studies 51.2: 237.
Presentations
- 'Taking the Fifth Road: Fairyland in Middle English romances'. International Medieval Congress, 2018, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2018).
- 'Race and the Reconciliation of the Other in Middle English Arthurian Romance'. International Medieval Congress 2017, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2017).
- 'Are there fairies in Avalon?: Fairyland and the English Avalon’. Texas Medieval Association Conference 2014, University of North Texas (October 2014).
- ‘Are there fairies in Avalon? Fairyland and Avalon in Middle English romance’. International Arthurian Congress, British Branch, University of Bangor (September 2013).
- ‘A harsh mistress? An examination of fairy dominance and control in medieval romance’. Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages 2012, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews (May 2012).
- ‘Fairy wealth and fairy mistresses’. International Medieval Congress 2011, Leeds (July 2011).
- ‘An etymological survey of fairy and elf’. Myths, Legends, and Folklore, Cardiff University (May 2011).
- ‘The Influence of Medieval Christianity on the Evolution of Fairy’. Sirens 2010, Vail, Colorado, USA (October 2010).
Community Engagement
- 'Finding Fairies in Greek Myths’, part of the 'Professor’s Corner' public lecture series provided by Texas Woman’s University and the Denton Public Library (10 December 2014).
- ‘Medieval Meander’, a historical walking tour of St Andrews, one of the educational walks provided by the Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA) (6 May 2013).
- ‘Inspired by… the Medieval Mazer Carrier’, part of the ‘Inspired by…’ lecture series at Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA) (7 March 2013).
- ‘From the Seat of Wisdom: Medieval Art from the MGMoA Collection’, an exhibition curated at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (MGMoA) (11 July-21 August 2008).
Academic Service
2015-2016 Vice-Chair of First-Year Composition Assessment Committee, Texas Woman’s University.
May 2015 Peer-reviewer for Durham University’s Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) publication of conference proceedings, “Outsiders and Otherness,” 2014.
2014-2015 Assessment of First-Year Diagnostic Learning Experience and Capstone essays, Texas Woman’s University.
April 2015 Teaching demonstrator at the First-Year Composition Faculty Meeting, Texas Woman's University: “Using ‘Houses’ to improve student interaction in the classroom.”
Sept 2014 Member of Fulbright Interview Committee, Texas Woman’s University
2011-2013 Founder/Co-coordinator of the Medieval Reading Group, University of St Andrews
2011-2013 Founder/Treasurer of the Postgraduate Christian Forum (PGCF), University of St Andrews
2009-2011 House Committee Member, School of English Research Centre for Postgraduates
Aug 2012 Conference assistant: Emblems of Nationhood: Britishness 1707–1901, University of St Andrews
July 2011 Co-organizer of sessions: ‘Wealth in Medieval Romance and Ballads: Sources and Circulation, I and II’ at Leeds International Medieval Congress 2011.
Miscellaneous
2014-20 Member of the Denton Bach Society Choir, Denton, TX
2008-14 Member of the St Andrews Renaissance Singers, St Andrews, UK
2015-2016 Vice-Chair of First-Year Composition Assessment Committee, Texas Woman’s University.
May 2015 Peer-reviewer for Durham University’s Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) publication of conference proceedings, “Outsiders and Otherness,” 2014.
2014-2015 Assessment of First-Year Diagnostic Learning Experience and Capstone essays, Texas Woman’s University.
April 2015 Teaching demonstrator at the First-Year Composition Faculty Meeting, Texas Woman's University: “Using ‘Houses’ to improve student interaction in the classroom.”
Sept 2014 Member of Fulbright Interview Committee, Texas Woman’s University
2011-2013 Founder/Co-coordinator of the Medieval Reading Group, University of St Andrews
2011-2013 Founder/Treasurer of the Postgraduate Christian Forum (PGCF), University of St Andrews
2009-2011 House Committee Member, School of English Research Centre for Postgraduates
Aug 2012 Conference assistant: Emblems of Nationhood: Britishness 1707–1901, University of St Andrews
July 2011 Co-organizer of sessions: ‘Wealth in Medieval Romance and Ballads: Sources and Circulation, I and II’ at Leeds International Medieval Congress 2011.
Miscellaneous
2014-20 Member of the Denton Bach Society Choir, Denton, TX
2008-14 Member of the St Andrews Renaissance Singers, St Andrews, UK