EDUCATION

Ph.D., Duke University. English. December 1991.

Dissertation: Principalities and Powers: Religion and Resistance in Contemporary Ethnic Women's Literature.

Director: Jane Tompkins. Committee: Thomas Ferraro, Susan Willis, Kenneth Surin, Victor Strandberg.

Preliminary Examinations: 20^th Century American Literature, 19^th Century American Fiction, Literary Theory, Religion and Culture. Director: Victor Strandberg. Committee: Louis Budd, Jane Tompkins, Kenneth Surin, Carl Anderson.

M.A., Duke University. English. 1987.

Master's Examination: Herman Melville. Director: Buford Jones. Committee: Edwin Cady, Carl Anderson.

M.F.A., University of Montana. Creative Writing. 1985.

Thesis: The Company You Keep and Other Stories. Director: William Kittredge. Committee: Earl Ganz.

B.A., magna cum laude, Wheaton College. English. 1982.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Messiah College. Chair, 2001-Present; Associate Professor, 2000-Present; Assistant Professor, 1997-2000. 4/4 course load.

George Mason University. Visiting Assistant Professor. 4/4 course load. 1993-97.

Hampden-Sydney College. Visiting Assistant Professor. 4/3 course load. 1992-93.

Duke University. Graduate Tutor. 2/1 course load. 1986-91.

University of Montana. Teaching Assistant. 1/1/1 course load. 1984-85.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Creative Teaching Grant, Messiah College, 2002-03

Fellowship in Arts Commentary, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. 2001.

Scholarship Grants, Messiah College, (4 grants, 1998-2002)

Coolidge Fellow, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, 2000.

Early Sabbatical, Messiah College. Fall 2000.

Presidential Scholar, Messiah College, 1998-99.

Travel Grants, Messiah College, 1997-2001.

University Award for Teaching Excellence. GMU, 1997.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Recalling Religions: Resistance, Memory and Cultural Revision in Ethnic Women=s Literature. University of Tennessee Press. August 2001.

Nominated: Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book.

Reviewed: Choice, Religious Studies Review, Christianity and Literature

Essays:

AGods of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing: Zora Neale Hurston, Christianity, and New Negro Masculinity.@ Religion and American Culture. 12.2 (Summer 2002):229-247 .

The Ghost in the Collaborative Machine: Expression, Authority and the White Male Teacher in the Multicultural Classroom." In Race In the Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. Bonnie TuSmith ed. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002: .

“Frederick A. Cullen.” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Robin Rone, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Forthcoming.

“Religion in Harlem.” Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Robin Rone, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Forthcoming.

“’As Old as Religion, as Delphi and Endor=: Masculinity, Feminization, and Silencing in W.E.B. Du Bois=s Souls of Black Folk.@ MELUS. Accepted pending revisions.

A>The Singing Man Who Must Be Reckoned With=: Private Desire and Public Responsibility in the Poetry of Countee Cullen.@ African American Review. 34.4 (Winter 2000): 661-678.

Reprinted in African-American Poets: Phillis Wheatley Through Countee Cullen. Harold Bloom, ed. NY: Chelsea House, 2002: 237-264.

"Disruptive Memories: Cynthia Ozick, Assimilation, and the Invented Past." MELUS. 20.3 (Fall 1995): 79-97.

"'Pa is Not Our Pa'; Sacred History and Political Imagination in The Color Purple." South Atlantic Review. 60.2 (1995): 69-92.

"Scribbling for a Life: Masculinity, Doctrine, and Style in John Updike." Christianity and Literature. 43.3-4 (1994): 329-346.

Academic Reviews:

Jonathan Halio ed. Daughters of Valor. MELUS. Spring 2000. 25. 1. 250-54.

Hazel Carby. Race Men. Men and Masculinities. January 2000. 354-56

Tracy Mishkin. The Harlem and Irish Renaissances. South Atlantic Review. Summer 1999. 143-44.

Jonathan Little. The Spiritual Imagination of Charles Johnson. American Literature. December 1998. 912-13.

Fran Leeper Buss. Forged Under the Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas. MELUS. Winter 1997. 202-204.

George Hutchinson. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. South Atlantic Review. Winter, 1997. 166-68.

Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture. The Texas Review. Spring/Summer, 1997. 128-131.

Bonnie Winsbro. Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference, and Power. MELUS 21.2 (Summer 1996). 173-75.

Angelyn Mitchell, ed. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Texas Review. 17.1-2 (Spring/Summer 1996): 122-125.

Amritjit Singh, Joseph Skerrett, Robert E. Hogan eds. Memory, Narrative and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Published electronically through H-PCAACA (electronic discussion list). April 11, 1996; Republished electronically through the Media History Project, http://www.mediahistory.com.

Carole S. Kessner. The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals. American Literature. 68.1 (March 1996). 252-53.

Jean Philippe Mathy, Extreme Occident: French Intellectuals and America. American Literature. December 1994. 870-871.

General Interest Publications:

Review. Anne Burlein. Lift High the Cross: Christian Century. 22 March 2003: 52-55.

Review. James S. Hirsch. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy. Christian Century. 22 May 2002: 38-40.

Review. Diane McWhorter. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama. Christian Century. 24 October 2001. 29.

Review. Kathleen Cambor. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden. Central PA. May 2001: 58-59.

Review. Scott Malcomson. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race. Christian Century. 7 March 2001. 23-24.

Review. Amitavi Kumar. Passport Photos. Central PA. March 2001, 66-67.

Review. Seasons of Central Pennsylvania. Central PA. January 2001.

Article. AHoliday wine from Mt. Hope Estate & Winery.@ Central PA. December 2000.

Review. J.R. Salamanca. That Summer=s Trance. Central PA. November 2000.

Review. Charles Baxter. The Feast of Love. Central PA. August 2000.

Editorial. AMillenium Certainties.@ Harrisburg Patriot News. 1 January 2000. A13.

Review. Frank Browning. Apples: The Story of the Fruit of Temptation. Central PA. January 2000. 108-09.

Review. Susan Parabo. Who I Was Supposed to Be. Central PA. August 1999.

Review. David Poyer. Thunder on the Mountain. Central PA. May 1999. 74-75.

Commentary. AHuckleberry Clinton, Thinking Aloud.@ Central PA. March 1999. 21-22.

Editorial. AAs I See It.@ Harrisburg Patriot News. Feb. 24,1999. A9.

Work in Progress:

That Godly Man: Race, Religion, and Masculinity, 1900-1940 (Book Manuscript, 220 pages.

“Goodbye Christ: Religion, Masculinity, and Black Nationalism.@

“Confession, Desire, and Community in James Baldwin.@ Submitted to American Literature, August 2002.

"T.S. Eliot's Quest for a Masculine Christianity." (30 manuscript pages).

"Being Multicultural is so hard to do." Essay on pedagogy. (20 manuscript pages).

Conference Essays and invited lectures:

“’A Man Who Helps Himself’: Langston Hughes, Christianity and Masculinity.” Mid Atlantic Popular Culture Assoc. Pittsburgh,. 2002 (To be presented at MELUS 2003, Boca Raton Florida)

"Preachers and Promiscuity: Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the 1920s." Popular Culture Assoc. Philadelphia. 2001. (Also presented at MELUS. Seattle, 2002).

AGod=s of Physical Violence, Stopping at Nothing: Zora Neale Hurston, Christianity, and New Negro Masculinity.@ MidAtlantic Popular Culture Association. Albany. 2000. (Also presented at MELUS. New Orleans, 2000; Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature. Shawnee, Oklahoma. 2000.)

AGoodbye Christ: Revolution, Religion, and Masculinity in Black Nationalist Discourse.@ Presidential Scholars lecture. Messiah College, 1999. (Also presented at Modern Language Association. San Francisco. 1998.)

ANarrative and Healing.@ Seminar leader. Episcopal Conference on Healing. St. Stephen=s Cathedral. Harrisburg, PA. 1998.

AConfession and the Closet: Contours of Masculinity in James Baldwin.@ Northeast MLA (NEMLA). Pittsburgh. 1999. (Also presented at Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA). Philadelphia. 1999.)

"Countee Cullen's Black Masculine Christianity." MLA. Toronto. 1997. (Also presented at MELUS. Howard University. 1998; PCEA. Du Bois, PA. 1998.)

"Being Multicultural is So Hard to Do." Midwest MLA (MMLA). Chicago. 1997.

"T.S. Eliot's Ambiguous Search for a Masculine Christianity." MMLA. Minneapolis. 1996.

AMad Sister in the Attic; Ethnic Literature, Imperialism, and the Philosophy of Religion.@ International Philosophy and Literature Association. Fairfax, Va. 1996. (Also presented at MELUS. Greensboro, NC. 1996.)

"Cross-dressing, Blackface, Fu Manchu, and Little Big Man: The Perils of Voicing the Other." MMLA. St. Louis. 1995.

"James Baldwin, Gender Identity, and the Gospel Tradition." Popular Culture Association of the South (PCAS). Richmond. 1995. (Also presented at Popular Culture Association. Philadelphia. 1995; American Literature Association (ALA). Baltimore. 1995.

"Cynthia Ozick and the Invention of Memory." PCAS. Charlotte, NC. 1994. (Also presented at PCA. Chicago. 1994.)

"The Gender of Writing and John Updike's Flight from Religion." PCA. New Orleans. 1993. (Also presented at College English Association (CEA). Charlotte. 1993; Faculty Colloquium. Hampden-Sydney College. 1993.)

"Gold Records for Jesus." American Cult. Assoc. Louisville, Kentucky. 1992.

"Religion and the Literature Classroom." So. Atl. MLA. Atlanta. 1991.

"Kingston as Author and Exorcist." CEA. San Antonio. 1991.

"Religion and Economic Transformation in The Color Purple." West Virginia U. Colloq. (WVUC). 1990.

"The Novel of Spirit." U. of Oklahoma, "Crossing the Disciplines Conf." 1990.

"Teaching What We Teach." Duke U. Graduate Colloquium. 1990.

"Alice Walker, Animism, and Christianity." SE Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR). Charlotte. 1990.

"Fiorenza, Foundationalism, and Reflective Equilibrium." SECSOR. March 1990.

"Leslie Marmon Silko and the Political History of Nature." WVUC. October 1989.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Multi-Ethnic American Literature; Gender Studies; Literary Criticism and Theory; Religion, Literature, and Culture; Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing; Music and Literature.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Upper Division Courses:

Brian Friel (Independent Study, Deborah Degeorge). 2002.

Latina Literature. (Independent Study, Tana Lui). 2002

Vietnam Film and Literature. (Independent Study, Melinda Arey). 2001.

African American Literature. MC 1998-2002. Three Sections.

Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. HSC, 1993. MC, 1999-2002. Four Sections.

Fiction Workshop. MC 1998-2002. Four sections.

Harlem on My Mind: Literature and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance. MC 1999-2001. Two Sections.

Ethnicity and American Literature. GMU, 1995-96. MC 1997. Four sections

Fiction Writing. (Independent Study, William Paul Gee). 1999.

Baldwin and Achebe. (Independent Study, Carmen McCain). 1998.

Contemporary American Fiction. GMU, 1996.

Human Search For Meaning. GMU, 1996.

T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. GMU, 1996.

American Novel from 1914. GMU, 1994-95. Two sections.

James Baldwin. GMU, 1995.

T.S. Eliot. GMU, 1994.

American Novel to 1914. GMU, 1993.

Raymond Carver, (Independent. Study). HSC, 1992-93.

Introductory And General Education Courses:

Multi-Ethnic American Literature. MC. 1997-2000. Six sections.

Short Story. MC. 1999.

Selected Works of American Literature. MC. 1999.

Literature and Society: GMU, 1995-97. Ten sections.

American Lit., 1877BPresent. GMU, 1994-95; HSC, 1993. Six sections.

American Lit. to 1877. GMU, 1994; HSC, 1992. Three sections.

American Nature Writing. HSC, 1992.

Religion and Resistance in Contemporary Women's Literature. Duke, 1991.

Christian Themes in American Literature. Duke, 1990.

British Christians in a Post-Christian Culture. Duke, 1989.

The Religionless World and American Literature. Duke, 1989.

The American Short Story. Duke, 1988.

Rhetoric and Composition:

First Year Seminar. MC, 1997-2002. nine sections. Titles: AMen in America@; AAll that Jazz@; “Race Matters”.

Advanced Expository Writing. GMU, 1995-96. Three sections.

Advanced Composition: Humanities. GMU, 1993-96; HSC, 1993. Five sections.

Freshman Comp. GMU, 1993-95; HSC, 1992; Duke, 1986-91. Sixteen sections.

Basic Composition. Montana, 1984-85 (three sections).

ACADEMIC SERVICE

activities as Chair of English

2001-02

Ran searches for two faculty members

Began review and revision of English Education Program

Began review and revision of English major.

Helped organize reading series.

2002-03

Completed review and revision of English Education Program

Completed review and revision of English major

Began review and revision of Journalism major

Began process of Departmental assessment.

Organized Reading Series and Arts Forum

Committees and institutional service:

Co-Chair. MICAH Project/ Racial Justice and Multicultural Education Committee. MC, 2000-03.

Secretary to the Ranked Faculty. MC, 1999-2000.

Scholarship and Development Committee. MC, 1998-99.

Scholarship selection committee. MC, 1998.

Facilitator. Faculty Discussion. Teaching Toni Morrison's Beloved. GMU, 1997.

Facilitator. Faculty Discussion on grading. GMU, 1996.

Twentieth Century Major Concentration Committee. GMU, 1993-96.

Judge. Dan Rudy Fiction Contest. GMU, 1995.

Guest Lecturer. Studying ethnic literature as comparative literature. English 514.001. John Foster, instructor. GMU, 1995.

Judge. Virginia Downs Poetry Contest. GMU, 1994.

Rhetoric 102 Review Committee. HSC, 1992.

Conferences and Associations

Area Chair. Religion and Culture Section. Mid Atlantic PCA. 1994-02.

Board Member. Mid Atlantic PCA. 1999-2001.

Book Award Committee. Conference on Christianity and Literature. 1999-2001. Committee Chair 2000-01.

.Advisory committee. Gender Studies: Male. Midwest MLA 1998-99.

Session Organizer and area chair. Gender Studies: Male. AMasculinity and Nation.@ Midwest MLA 1997-1998.

Session Organizer. "Masculinity, Christianity, and the African-American Experience." Toronto. 1997.

Area Secretary. Gender Studies: Male. Midwest MLA. 1996-97.

Membership Committee Chair. Conf. on Christianity and Literature. 1995-96.

Session Chair and Respondent. Religion and Culture Section. Mid-Atlantic PCA. Philadelphia, October 1996.

Manuscript referee. Center for American places. (1 book manuscript.)

Manuscript referee. MELUS. 1995-96 (3 manuscripts).

Session Chair. Eudora Welty. PCA of the South. Richmond, VA. Oct. 1995.

Session Chair. Representing the Holocaust. PCAS. Charlotte, NC. Oct. 1994.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

ARIL Colloquium, Union Theological Seminary/ Columbia University, 2000.

Scholarship Seminar. MC, 1999-2000.

African-American Traditions: The Harlem Renaissance. Penn State University. 1998.

Provost=s Seminar. Messiah College, 1997.

Powerpoint. (Faculty Workshop). Instructional Development Office (IDO). GMU, 1997

Making Video (Faculty Workshop). IDO. GMU, 1997.

Faculty Web Development Workshop. IDO. GMU, 1997.

Faculty Colloquium Participant. Teaching Toni Morrison's Beloved. GMU, 1996.

Faculty Colloquium Participant. Creating a Distanced Learning Course. GMU, 1996.

Seminar participant. Teaching English 200 (Gen. education literature). GMU, 1996.

Provost Seminar. Collaborative Learning. GMU, 1995.

Faculty Colloquium Participant. Teaching about Class. GMU, 1994.

Faculty Seminar. Ethnic Literature. Joseph Skerrett, facilitator. HSC, 1993.

ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

Modern Language Association; Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; MidAtlantic Popular Culture Assoc.; Popular Culture Assoc.; Conference on Christianity and Literature; Pennsylvania College English Assoc..

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Creative Writing Instructor. Duke U. Talent Identification Program. 1987-92.

Fiction Editor. Cutbank, University of Montana. 1984-85.

Fiction Editor. Kodon, Wheaton College. 1981-82.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Credential file available upon request:

Kim Phipps, Provost. Messiah College. 717-766-2511. Kphipps@messiah.edu.

Joseph Huffman, Dean of the School of the Humanities. Messiah College. 717-766-2511. jhuffman@messiah.edu

Jane Tompkins, English and Education, U. of Illinois, Chicago. 773-755-3236. tompkins@uic.edu.

Joseph Skerrett, English, U. of Massachusetts. 413-323-4077. skerrett@english.umass.edu

Julia Kasdorf. English. Pennsylvania State University. 814-865-0025. jmk28@psu.edu.

Rosemary Jann, English, George Mason. 703-993-1160. rjann@gmu.edu

Barbara Melosh, English, George Mason. 703-993-1160. bmelosh@gmu.edu

Kenneth Surin, Literature Program, Duke. 919-684-3598. ksurin@acpub.duke.edu