Q: What is your area of specialty?
A: My area of specialty is first-year composition.
Q: What was the title of your master’s thesis or dissertation?
A: My MFA thesis is titled Auto Fem. It’s a collection of essays on being an active female participant in male-dominated spaces.
Q: What is your current scholarly project? OR What is your most recent publication/conference presentation?
A: My most recent conference presentations surround my experience teaching first-year composition. The presentations range from lessons, formal assignments, and homework using popular culture and social media to speaking about how to establish authority in the classroom as a younger (female) instructor.
Q: What and where was your previous position?
A: My previous position was Lecturer of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Q: What is your favorite assignment to assign?
A: My favorite assignment is argumentative essays. I love seeing students not only form strong opinions and beliefs, but share with me how they approach the world.
Q: What was the last book you read?
A: I just finished David Sedaris’ most recent collection of essays, Happy Go Lucky.
Q: What do you enjoy most about CCU so far?
A: I love the community feeling that Coastal has in general, but especially in this department. I feel like Coastal is a nice blend of my teaching experience thus far: it’s a smaller campus with tight-knit students and faculty but also has the larger “sports’ school” feel. Coastal to me is home, and who doesn’t love being home?
