I am a Florida native and proud to have the opportunity to work and live in the community of my growing up years. My family always says that we live in paradise, and I'm inclined to agree. I enjoy all the cultural and outdoor adventures this quirky state has to offer. In addition to enjoying my home state, I'm a bit of a globe trotter as the travel bug bit me long ago, and I'm always planning my next trip to some place wonderful!
True to my famly legacy, I attended The University of Florida (Go Gators!) as a graduate student where I studied British and Irish Literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century. My current scholarly interests have broadened, however, to include Anglo-Irish literature, women’s literature, and Florida studies. I had the great privilege to coauthor a light-hearted essay on Florida’s snowbirds with my English department colleague Steven Knapp. The essay is entitled “Snowbirds Seek Solar Solace” and was published in 2009 as a chapter of the book Florida in the Popular Imagination: Essays on the Cultural Landscape of the Sunshine State. And, more recently, I contributed a chapter examining the Southern Gothic trends in Janis Owens’s work for the collection Women of Florida Fiction published in 2015.
Students in my composition courses are encouraged to consider the social and historical value of texts and to explore themes common to our global society in their writings.
True to my famly legacy, I attended The University of Florida (Go Gators!) as a graduate student where I studied British and Irish Literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century. My current scholarly interests have broadened, however, to include Anglo-Irish literature, women’s literature, and Florida studies. I had the great privilege to coauthor a light-hearted essay on Florida’s snowbirds with my English department colleague Steven Knapp. The essay is entitled “Snowbirds Seek Solar Solace” and was published in 2009 as a chapter of the book Florida in the Popular Imagination: Essays on the Cultural Landscape of the Sunshine State. And, more recently, I contributed a chapter examining the Southern Gothic trends in Janis Owens’s work for the collection Women of Florida Fiction published in 2015.
Students in my composition courses are encouraged to consider the social and historical value of texts and to explore themes common to our global society in their writings.