MA, 1975, English, University of Virginia
AB, with Distinction, 1973, English,
Stanford University
| American Nature & Landscape Writing | Nineteenth Century American Literature |
| Western American Writing | Native American Literature |
| English, American, World Poetry | English, American, European Fiction |
| Creative Nonfiction | Creative Writing--Poetry & Creative Nonfiction |
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1988-89
Senior Technical Writer, Corporate Payment Systems, Bank of America, San Francisco, California, 1980-81
Technical Writer and Editor, Manuals Publication Services, Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, San Francisco, California, 1980
Reader and Section Leader, Department
of
English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1974-75
Instructional Improvement Project Grant, Portland Community College, 1998.
Staff Excellence Award, Portland Community College, 1988
Award of Recognition, Oregon and Washington Community College Councils, 1988
Philip Francis duPont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1974-75
James Southall Wilson Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1974-75
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University,
1973
"Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp." In Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Ed. Michael Branch, Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1998. 19-28.
"Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Ed. by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown." Book review. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 5.1 (Winter 1998) 130-31.
"The Bakhtinian Road to Ecological Insight." In The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996. 371-91.
"Entering Importance Again: Dialogical Voices at the Death of Old Martial in 'Cawdor.'" Robinson Jeffers Newsletter 82 (April 1992): 5-7.
"Since Earth is Earth: An Ecological Approach to Robert Frost's Poetry." South Carolina Review 24 (1991): 92-100.
"The Invisible Man and 'The Ideology of Modernism.'" Glosses [Stanford, CA] 1 (1973): 21-25.
Plus a number of poems, a short story,
and several investigative articles in various periodicals and
newspapers.
"Faculty Fellows: A Training Model to Reach Faculty at a Deeper Level." Co-presenter. League for Innovation in the Community College Conference on Information Technology," Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 14-17, 2001.
"From Dead Man's Cove to Klipsan Beach: Place Names and Perceptions at the Mouth of the Great River of the West." Joint Annual Meeting of the Western Literature Association and the Canadian Association for American Studies, Banff, Alberta, October 14-17, 1998.
"Edge Effects: Exploring Natural and Discursive 'Places' Through Computer-Assisted Ecocomposition." Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. April 1-4, 1998.
"Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp." First Bi-Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Fort Collins, CO, June 9-11, 1995.
"American Margins: Toward an Application of Ecological Literary Criticism." Keynote Presentation. Western Literature Association 26th Annual Meeting. Estes Park, CO, Oct. 3-5, 1991.
"Alchemy, The Process: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Student-Produced Literary Magazine." Co-presenter. Community College Humanities Association Conference. Costa Mesa, CA, Nov. 12-14, 1987.
Western Literature Association
Lower Division Transfer Courses Taught (mostly at Portland Community College)
ENG 102, Survey of English Literature, 17th and 18th centuries
ENG 103, Survey of English Literature, 19th and 20th centuries
ENG 104, Introduction to Literature--Fiction
ENG 104, Landscape and Nature Writing
ENG 105, Introduction to Literature--Drama
ENG 106, Introduction to Literature--Poetry
ENG 197, Film as Literature
ENG 201, 202, 203, Shakespeare
ENG 212, Biography and Autobiography
ENG 214, Literature of the Northwest
ENG 240, Introduction to Native American Literatures
ENG 244, Introduction to Asian American Literatures
ENG 250, Introduction to Mythology and Folklore
ENG 253, Survey of American Literature, to early 19th century
ENG 254, Survey of American Literature, mid-19th to early 20th centuries
ENG 255, Survey of American Literature,
20th century
WR 120, Composition Review
WR 121, English Composition--Exposition
WR 122, English Composition--Argumentation and Style
WR 123, English Composition--Research Paper
WR 185, English Grammar
WR 216, Advanced Composition
WR 241, Creative Writing--Fiction
WR 242, Creative Writing--Poetry
WR 243, Creative Writing--Scriptwriting
WR 244, Advanced Creative Writing--Fiction
WR 245, Advanced Creative Writing--Poetry
WR 246, Advanced Creative
Writing--Editing
and Publishing
WR 214, Business Communications II