CURRENT POSITION
Professor, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, English Department (2011 to present.)
Associate Professor, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, English Department (2007-2011.
Associate Professor, Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, English Department (2007-2011.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, NY, English Department (2002-2002).
Assistant Professor, Goldey-Beacom College, Wilmington, DE , Humanities Department (2001-2002).
Instructora, LaGuardia Comm. Coll., L.I. City, NY. Department of Reading (1997-2001).
Teacher, No. 3 Middle School, Changzhou, China, English (1998-1999).
Instructor, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, Department of English (1998)
Fordham University, Bronx, NY, Teaching Fellow, Department of English (1992-1994).
PUBLICATIONS
“Love and Death Reconsidered: The Union of Lovers in Another Country.” 1995. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Jonathan Vereecke. Vol. 377. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2019, 20-24.
(Book) How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe. Rpt. As Bloom’s How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe, 2007. Chelsea House online, 2017.
“Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” 1992. Rpt. In Invention and Craft. Rhonda Leathers Dively. McGraw Hill, 2016.
“‘I Believe, I Believe”: The Miracle of Christ in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood.” Wise Blood: A Reconsideration, edited by John Han, Rodopi Press, 2011, pp. 43-58.
“Introduction to Poe Criticism.” Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steven Frye, Salem Press, 2010, pp. 55-62.
“Dexter’s Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero.” Serial Killers–Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing, edited by Sara Waller. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 102-114.
“Using Web Posts to Jump Start Class Discussion.” The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices, 2010.
“Wise Blood.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature. Ed., Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Facts on File, 2010.
(Book) How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe, Chelsea House Publications, 2007.
“Broken Silence: Teaching Deborah’s Untold Story in Life in the iron Mills.” Teaching American Literature. Fall, 2007.
“‘I Do Not Know the Man’”: The Lawyer’s Willful Blindness in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener.’” Christianity and Literature Conference Proceedings, 2006.
“International Poe Bibliography: 1994-1997; 2001-2003,” Compiler and Annotator. Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2004.
“Essays on Poe, Epistemology, and Modern Thought,” Guest Editor and Introduction. Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2003.
“The Biographer as Assassin: The Hidden Murders in ‘The Assignation.’” Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2002.
“Male Fears and Fantasies in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Black Bess.’” West Virginia University Philological Papers 48 (2002): 29-37.
“Lolita and Her Movies: The Unmaking of Humbert.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 41 (1996): 82-88.
“Love and Death Reconsidered: The Union of Lovers in Another Country.” Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1 (1995): 103-111.
“Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” Studies in Short Fiction 29 (1992): 475-485.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected)
“Fortunato’s Offense: A Mystery No More.” Fifth Annual International Poe Conference. Boston, MA. 2022.
“Wi-Finding Poe for Millenials and Beyond.” American Literature Association Conference (ALA) Boston, MA, 2021
“Six Secret Murder Mysteries by Edgar A. Poe.” American Literature Association Conference, (ALA) San Francisco, CA, 2018.
“The Duplicitous Design of Five Supposed Tales of Terror.” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), New York, 2018.
“Crisis: Writing Instruction at Community Colleges.” Two-Year College Association Conference Northeast, Wilmington, DE, 2017.
“Poe, Van Dine, and the Crypto-mystery.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, 2017.
“Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum through Writing-Intensive Courses.” Two-Year College English Association Conference Northeast, Hartford, CT, 2016.
“Poe’s Tales Morphologically Considered.” Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, New York, 2015.
“Open Access Textbooks and Educational Materials.” CUNY Open Access Double Feature, New York, 2012.
“Poe as Mash-up”—Session organizer and chair. American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. 2011.
“Faith, the Movies, and Wise Blood.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. 2011.
“Open Textbooks: The Common Property of Mankind.” CUNY Ninth Annual IT Conference, John Jay College, New York, 2010.
“The Web as Textbook: Teaching Composition Using Topical Texts and Video.” Two-Year College English Association Conference, Boston, 2009.
“Designed for Deceit: An Inventory of Devices in Poe’s Tales.” The Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, Philadelphia, 2009.
“Teaching Poe”—Session organizer and chair. ALA, Boston, 2009.
“Write All About It: Teaching Non-fiction with Propaganda.” MLA, San Francisco, 2008.
“Let’s Talk Silence: How 19th Century American Women Writers Communicated.” ALA, San Francisco, 2008.
“Where Do We Go? How Do We Get There? How to Help Students Transition between Two- and Four-Year Colleges.” The Third Annual CUNY General Education Conference, Queens College, Flushing, NY, 2007.
“Into the Future: Propaganda as 21st Century Writing Tool.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, 2007.
“Propagandistically Learning to Write.” MLA, Philadelphia, 2006.
“Plagiarism and Identity in ‘William Wilson.’” Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne and Poe Conference, Oxford, 2006.
“Cultural Literacy Through Propaganda.” North East MLA, Philadelphia, 2006.
“Violence and Virtue in the Industrial Revolution.” North East MLA, Philadelphia, 2006.
“Why Will You Say That He is Mad? Re-examining ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’” MLA, Washington, D.C., 2005.
PRESENTATIONS
Poe Room at NYU: “Fibs, Frauds, and Fakeouts: Secrets of Poe’s Most Famous ‘Tales of Terror.’” New York City, New York University, 2018
BCC English Department: Faculty Lecture Series: “The Poe Nobody Knows: Poe’s Hidden Mysteries.” Bronx Community College, NY, 2017
Poe Room at NYU: “Know about Poe.” New York City, New York University, 2016
TED-X Conference: “Poe’s Darkest Secret: He Was Kidding.” New Jersey, Bergen Community College, 2013
New York City Council: “Open Textbooks at CUNY.” Invited Speaker at Higher Education Committee, NYC, 2010
BLOG POSTS (selected): Macmillan Publishers, Criminalelement.com: Mysteries, Thrillers & All Things Killer, 2011-Present
“Sleuthing out a Solution: Edgar A. Poe and His Crypto-Mysteries. Criminal Element, Macmillan, October, 2020.
“‘The Purloined Letter’: Mystery Solved.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, January, 2019, www.criminalelement.com/.
“The Real Poe Still Buried: Reviewing PBS’s Buried Alive.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, November, 2017, www.criminalelement.com/.
“Behind Poe’s Mask: Tricks That Are Treats.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, October, 2017, www.criminaleleent.com/.
“Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart: Why are These Men Laughing?” Criminal Element, Macmillan, January, 2017, www.criminalelement.com/.
“The World’s First Murder Mystery: A Birthday Present from Edgar A. Poe.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, January, 2016, www.criminalelement.com/.
“166 Years after his Death: Test Your Poe IQ.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, October, 2015, www.criminalelement.com/.
“Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe: Dominated by Humor, Not Terror.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, January, 2014, www.criminalelement.com/.
“Evelyn Nesbit, the Benevolent Vampire, and the Crime of the Century.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, March, 2013, www.criminalelement.com/.
“Death of a Dream: The Black Dahlia.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, August, 2012, www.criminalelement.com/.
“Did She or Didn’t She: The Case of Alice Crimmins 47 years later.” Criminal Element, Macmillan, June, 2012, www.criminalelement.com/.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
PSC-CUNY Research Award: Book: Poe’s Secret Mysteries. 2019 -2020
CUNY Chancellor’s Research Fellowship: Book: Poe’s Secret Mysteries. 2017-2018
BCC: Technology Award: 2015-2016
BCC Presidential Grant: Online English Resources for Students. 2014-2015
National Endowment for the Humanities: Landmarks of American Culture, 2012
Summer seminar: “Along the Shore: Changing and Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront.”
National Endowments for the Humanities Grant, 2012
Summer seminar: “Thomas Jefferson: Legacies and Landmarks.”
National Endowment for the Humanities: “Landmarks of American Culture,” 2010
Summer seminar: “Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901.”
College Open Textbooks.org. Outstanding Open Textbook Advocate/Trainer, 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities and Comm. Coll. Humanities Assn. 2009
Summer seminar: “Transcendentalism and Social Action in Antebellum America.”
National Endowment for the Humanities: “We the People” Grant, 2006-2007
“The Hall of Fame for Great Americans.” Develop and lead summer seminar.
BCC Presidential Grant, 2011
“Mapping the Past—Writing the Future: Creating an Inventory of the Hall of Fame Archives.”
Modern Language Association Fellowship, MLA International Bibliography. 2007-2010
PSC-CUNY Research Award, “Broken Silence: Teaching Deborah’s Untold Story in Life in the Iron Mills.” 2007
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Book: How to Write About Edgar Allan Poe, 2006
BCC Teaching with Technology Grant, Faculty workshop series, 2006
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
CUNY: Chancellor’s Research Fellowship Proposal Review Committee, 2018 and 2020
BCC: Proposal Review Committee on Community College Excellence, 2017-Present
BCC: OER Course Development, Created two courses: “U.S. Literature and Thought” and “Written Composition & Prose Fiction.” 2017-2019
BCC: ENG 111/112 Assessment Committee, 2016-Present
BCC: Digital Humanities Faculty Interest Group, 2016-Present
BCC: Faculty Mentor: Faculty Publication Program, 2016-2017
BCC: Leadership Council on Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2015-Present
BCC: Online Course Development: Team Leader, Faculty Mentor, 2015-Present
BCC: Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable, 2015-Present
U. S. Department of Labor: Grant Reviewer, 2011-Present
BCC: English Department Personnel and Budget Committee, 2010-2019
BCC: English 11 Committee, 2006-Present
Poe Studies Association Executive Committee: Member-at-Large, 2005-2011
BCC: Department Representative, Committee on Academic Standing, 2006-2010
MLA: Delegate for Community Colleges, 2006-2008
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Fordham University, Bronx, NY, 2001
M. A. Queens College, Queens, NY
B. A. New York University, New York, NY
A. A. Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association, 1991-Present
Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1992-Present
National Council of Teachers of English, 1994-Present
Northeast Modern Language Association, 1995-Present
American Literature Association, 2003-Present
Two-Year College Association, 2004-Present
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