Drew University.  Madison, NJ.

	Ph. D.,  1998	English Literature (Dissertation: "Solitude, Alienation, and Exile: Mary Shelley In Context" (Abstract))
	M. Phil.,  1994	English Literature
	M. A.,  1992	English Literature (Thesis: "Alienation, Community, and the Search for Identity in African American Northern Migration Literature")

University of Delaware.  Newark, DE.

	B. A., cum laude, 1991	Major: English Education Minor: Psychology
	Honors:	Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Drew University.  Madison, NJ. 

Adjunct Lecturer

1998

Rutgers University.  New Brunswick, NJ.

Part-time Lecturer.

1995 to 1998

Middlesex County College.  Edison, NJ.

Adjunct Lecturer

1993 to 1996

County College of Morris.  Randolph, NJ.

Adjunct Instructor

1993

PUBLICATIONS

	Books
	Mekler, L. Adam, and Lucy Morrison, eds. Mary Shelley: Her Circle and Her Contemporaries. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.
	Book Chapters
	“Hideous Progenies:  Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and Incest in the Godwinian Novel.” Mary Shelley: Her Circle and Her Contemporaries. Ed. L. Adam Mekler and Lucy Morrison. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 45-61. “‘Altered by a thousand distortions’: Dream-Work in Mary Shelley’s Early Novels.” CEA-MAGazine. 16 (2003): 38-49. Rpt. in Modern Critical Views: Mary Shelley. Ed. Harold Bloom. NY: Facts on File, 2008. 67-74.
	Journal  Articles
	“Broken Mirrors and Multiplied Reflections in Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.” Studies in Romanticism. 46.4 (2007): 461-80. “Gender, Class, and Mental Health in Mary Lamb’s Mrs. Leicester’s School.”  Journal for the Advancement of Educational Research. 3.1 (2007): 142-47. “‘Altered by a thousand distortions’: Dream-Work in Mary Shelley’s Early Novels.” CEA-MAGazine. 16 (2003): 38-49. “‘This ain’t no slavery time talk’: The Evolution of African American Folklore in Hurston’s ‘Go Gator and Muddy the Water.’” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. 12 (2003): 25-35.  “Recovering the Absent Mother in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley” CEA-MAGazine. 15 (2002): 24-36.  “Placing Maurice Within the Shelley-Godwin Circle.” CEA-MAGazine. 14 (2001): 23-33.  “‘Freedom Found Me’: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form.” Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Review. 14.1 (1999). 24-30.  “Mules, Men, and Women: Zora Neale Hurston’s Use of Folklore.”  Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. 14 (1992-93): 36-44.
	Encyclopedia/Anthology Entries
	“John Polidori.” Facts on File Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. NY: Facts on File, 2010. 341-42.  “The Vampyre.” Facts on File Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Andrew Maunder. NY: Facts on File, 2010. 470-71.  “Annuals and Gift-Books.” Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. NY: Facts on File, 2007. 13-15.  “Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot.”  Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. NY: Facts on File, 2007. 279-80.  “Psychoanalytic Criticism.”  Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. NY: Facts on File, 2007. 496-97.  “Pre-Columbian Literature.”  Humanities in the Ancient and Pre-Modern Worlds: An African Emphasis.  Ed. Wendell Jackson, Frances Alston, Linda Carter, et. al..  Needham Heights: Simon & Schuster, 1999.  589-91.
	Reviews
	Review of Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife. By Charles Armstrong. Nordic Journal of English Studies. 7.1 (2008): 117-19. <http://hdl.handle.net/2077/10212>.  Review of Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions. Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller. Rocky Mountain Review. 58.2 (2004): 83-85.  Review of Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen.  By Patricia Howell Michaelson.  Rocky Mountain Review.  57.2 (2003): 68-70.  Review of Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out.  By Paul Elledge.  Rocky Mountain Review.  56.2 (2002):  96-97.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

	“Crossing Boundaries: Byron, Polidori, and the Summer of 1816” College English Association Annual Conference Richmond, VA. March 2012.
	“Fortune and Folly in William Godwin’s St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century” College English Association Annual Conference St. Petersburg, FL. March 2011.
	“ Male Penetration and the Silencing of the Female in Mary Shelley’s Valperga” College English Association Annual Conference San Antonio, TX. March 2010
	“Self-Creation and John Polidori’s Diary of 1816” College English Association Annual Conference Pittsburgh, PA. March 2009
	“‘Oneirodynia’ and Polidori’s The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Annual Conference Vancouver, BC. May 2008
	“‘Pollution in My Touch’: Byron, Polidori, and Forbidden Knowledge” International Conference on Romanticism Baltimore, MD. October 2007
	“Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and The Godwinian Novel” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention Baltimore, MD. March 2007
	“Defending the Criminal Justice System in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference Rockville, MD. March 2006
	“Broken Mirrors, Multiplied Reflections, and Political History in Lord Byron and Mary Shelley” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention Cambridge, MA. April 2005
	“‘So terrifically wicked’: The Question of Evil in Mary Shelley’s Valperga” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting Roanoke, VA. November 2004.
	“Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman and the Problems of Female Education” College English Association Annual Conference Richmond, VA.  April 2004
	“Personal and Political Exile in Mary Shelley’s Valperga” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention Pittsburgh, PA.  March 2004
	“‘Altered by a thousand distortions’:  Dream-Work in Mary Shelley's Early Works” Eleventh Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Fort Worth, TX.  March 2003
	“Well-manned Ships and Centers of Trade: Teaching The Last Man” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention Scottsdale, AZ.  October 2002
	“Recovering the Absent Mother in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley” College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference Washington, DC.  March 2002
	“Placing Maurice Within the Shelley-Godwin Circle” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention Vancouver, BC.  October 2001
	“Using the Internet for Research in a Basic Composition Class” Roundtable Discussion on Teaching Methodology Seventeenth Anniversary National Conference of the Zora Neale Hurston Society Baltimore, MD.  June 2001
	“Maternity and the Scene of Instruction in Mary Lamb and Mary Shelley” Ninth Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Lawrence, KS.  March 2001
	“Gender, Class, and Mental Health in Mary Lamb’s Mrs. Leicester’s School” Joint Conference of the AAER and NAER Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.  November 2000
	“The Evolution of African American Folklore in Hurston’s ‘Go Gator and Muddy the Water’” Sixteenth Anniversary National Conference of the Zora Neale Hurston Society.  Baltimore, MD.  June 2000
	“Incorporating the Internet into the Humanities Classroom” College Language Association Sixtieth Annual Convention Baltimore, MD.  April 2000
	“Incorporating the Internet into the Composition Classroom” College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Spring Conference Largo, MD.  March 2000
	“‘Freedom Found Me’:  Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form” Middle Atlantic Writers Association Annual Conference Dover, DE. October 1999
	“‘I enjoy what is’:  Mary Shelley's Final Three Novels” 8th Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Albuquerque, NM.  September 1999
	“‘Tomorrow he dies the death’: Mary Shelley and The Last Man” 7th Annual 18th & 19th Century British Women Writers Conference Chapel Hill, NC.  March 1998
	“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Use of the Short Story” 4th International Conference on the Short Story in English Cedar Falls and Iowa City, IA. June 1996
	“The African Other: Aspects of Slavery in the Poetic Consciousness of the Early Romantics” Multicultural Studies Conference Pittsburgh, PA.  November 1994
	“Zora Neale Hurston and African American Folklore” Women’s Studies Conference.  Newark, DE.  April 1994
	“Mules, Men, and Women: Zora Neale Hurston’s Use of Folklore.”  Journal of the Middle States Council Middle States Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference Lawrenceville, NJ. October 1992

COMMITTEES

Morgan State University Humanities Committee  Freshman English Committee, Co-Chair  Humanities and Technology Ad Hoc Committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

	College English Association             Member, Board of Directors, 2009-12 Modern Language Association Northeast Modern Language Association International Conference on Romanticism South Atlantic Modern Language Association Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group Member, Executive Council, 2001-8             Vice-President, 2004-2008 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Association

REFERENCES

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