Teaching

Full Time TEACHING POSITIONS

Kent State University: Department of English

Non-tenure Track: Professor: 2015-present,
Non-tenure Track: Associate Professor: 2013-2015,
Non-tenure Track: Assistant Professor: 2011-2013
Non-tenure-Track: Lecturer: 2004-2011
Non-tenure-Track: Instructor: 2001-2004

Graduate Faculty Status in Department of English: 2019-present
Member of Honors College Faculty: 2018-present

COURSES DEVELOPED: Kent State University

Note: These are courses that I developed individually. For courses to which I contributed in developing as part of a committee, please see "Service."

Graduate-level Courses:

ENG 6/76895: Special Topics: Narratives at Work--2015; Use of narrative in workplace writing contexts
ENG 6/76895: Special Topics: AI and the Writing Process--2026: Reconsideration of the writing process integrating generative AI tools

COURSES TAUGHT: Kent State University

Upper Division Professional Writing/Communication Courses:

ENG 30061: Writing in Business: taught in computer classroom and Web-based sections
BUS 30123: Professional Business Practices: taught in computer classroom
Eng 30063: Business/Professional Writing: Taught in computer classroom, and taught Web-based sections
Eng 30062: Principles of Technical Writing: Taught in computer classroom.
Eng 20002/20004: Introduction to Technical Writing: Taught in computer classroom and Web-based sections.
Initiated Honors College "mixed" section

Freshman Composition Sequence:

Eng 11011; College Writing I: Taught in computer classroom
Eng 21011: College Writing II: Taught in computer classroom; Taught Web-based section

Eng 10001: English Composition I: Taught in computer classroom. (removed from curriculum in 2006)
Eng 10002: Literature and Writing: Taught in computer classroom. (removed from curriculum in 2006)

Liberal Education Required and Other English courses

Honr 10197/10297: Freshman Honors Colloquium (2-semester course): Section Theme--Leadership Characters and Characteristics.

Eng 22071: Great Books I: Literature period of ancient Greeks to Age of Enlightenment: concentrated on texts of Renaissance period--1300-1600. Taught in Distributed/Distance Learning classroom.

Teaching Honors

NTT Performance-based bonus award (available from 2001-2009): 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Last updated: March. 2026