PhD Candidate, English, Literature Concentration (British), Department of English, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Tempe, AZ.

ENG 328: The Novel to Jane Austen: The Early Gothic (two online sections)

ENG 241: Survey of American Literature to 1860 (one online section)

Graduate Teaching Associate/Assistant, Department of English, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Tempe, AZ.

ENG 241: Survey of American Literature to 1860 (two face-to-face sections; one discussion section)

ENG 301: Writing for the Professions (one face-to-face, one computer mediated, and one online section)

ENG 105: Advanced First-Year Composition (one computer-mediated section and one online section)

ENG 102: First-Year Composition II

Traditional version (six sections: face-to-face, computer-mediated, and online instruction)

"Body Image" Themed Course (one hybrid [half online, half computer-mediated] section)

ENG 101: First-Year Composition I

Traditional Version (two face-to-face sections)

Multicultural America Learning Community (one section of grading and office hours as part of an interdisciplinary team)

Stretch Version (ENG 101 "stretched" over two semesters) (two face-to-face sections)

Learning Group Facilitator for the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Program, Mesa Public Schools, Mesa, AZ.

Assisted high school and jr. high students of underrepresented groups in the transition to college preparatory classes by facilitating discussion in learning groups

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Reception Theory

“Using Peer Review for Improving Writing without Increasing Teachers' Workloads.” Co-authored with Lauren Yena, Duane Roen, Ellen Johnson, Ebru Erdem, Rita Al-Abdullah. Ed. Jeffrey N. Golub. More Ways to Handle the Paper Load. Urbana: NCTE, 2005. 74-80.

"Data on Data: An Ethnographic Study of Viewer Response to Star Trek: The Next Generation." Particip@tions 4.1 May 2007 <http://www.participations.org/Volume%204/Issue%201/4_01_santos.htm>.

"Consciousness from Contraries: The Assimilation of William Blake’s Psychology within Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Data." Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations (SW/TEX PCA/ACA) Years 2000-2003. Ed. Leslie Fife. CD-ROM. 2003.

"(R)evolving Texts, (R)evolving Readers: The (R)evolution of Reception Studies."

"'I Say We Change the Rule': Mergings of Male and Female Gothic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

"Kehl Looks to the Future." Accents: Newsletter of the Department of English at Arizona State University. 9 (2005):10.

"'I Say We Change the Rule': Mergings of Male and Female Gothic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Engaging Gothic Literature I: In Honor of Eugenia DeLamotte. The 2006 International Conference on Romanticism: Engaged Romanticism (ICR). Tempe, AZ. 9 Nov. 2006.

"A Reflection on Thomas Traherne's Scientific Influences." New Sciences Panel. 2006 Annual Conference on the Western Society of Eighteenth Century Studies: "The Eighteenth Century: Past, Present, Future" (WSECS). Tempe, AZ. 18 Feb. 2006.

"Technology-Supported Games for Learning," with Rita Al-Abdullah and Laura Bush. Microcomputers in Education Conference (MEC). Tempe, AZ. 15 and 17 Mar. 2004.

"The Re-Emergence of Blake's Psychological Prophecy in Star Trek: The Next Generation: from Borg to Enterprise's 'Emergence.'" Beyond Space Panel. 8th Annual International Cultural Studies Symposium. Izmir, Turkey. 23 May 2003.

"Northanger Abbey's Gothic Conversations." Bella Vista Book Club, Bella Vista, AR. 19 June 2007.

"Game Assignments for Online/Hybrid Classes." Intensive Online/Hybrid Course Development Workshop for First-Year Composition Teachers in the Department of English. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 12 Aug. 2004.

Gothic Genderings

Reception and Appropriation

Graduate Student Representative to ASU's Department of English's Graduate Committee, Graduate Scholars of English Association (GSEA), Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 2005-2008.

Workshop Presenter, with Rita Al-Abdullah and Laura Bush. “Technology-Supported Games for Learning,” Arizona State University Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence (CLTE). Tempe, AZ . Feb. 2004.

Reader, "Evaluating Learner-Centered Education Through Outcomes Assessment of Student Writing,” Arizona Board of Regents, Tempe, AZ. June 2003. (grant-funded)

Reader, Printer's Devil Contest, ASU, Tempe, AZ. Apr. 2002.

"Athena Project: Active Learning with Technology and Learner-Centered Education," Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Aug. 2003- May 2004. (grant-funded)

Other Experience: Editing

Technical Editor and Research Consultant, Intelligent Trading Systems, Inc., Chicago, IL . 1997-2004.

Division of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship Award, Arizona State University.

Awardee (Declined to pursue Dissertation Fellowship), Special Topics Class Competition, Department of English, Arizona State University .

Language Proficiencies

Blackboard Use and Maintenance

Reception Study Society (RSS)

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)