Education                               

            Ph.D.,Emory University Department of English, 1998

            Certificate, Instituteof Women’s Studies, Emory University,1998                                   

            M.A. in English, with Distinction, Universityof New Mexico, 1992

            B.A. in English, summa cum laude, PhiBeta Kappa, University of New Mexico, 1989

Employment History

            2006-present                Associate Professor of English, Utah Valley University

            2000-2006                   Assistant Professor of English, Utah Valley State College

            1999-2004                   GMAT, GRE and TOEFL Reader, Educational TestingService

            1999-2000                   Marion L. Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute ofTechnology

            1998-1999                   Visiting Assistant Professor, Agnes Scott College

            1996-1997                   Dean’s Teaching Fellow, Emory University

Publications

Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England:Gender, Instruction, and Performance, ed. with Kathryn M. Moncrief.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2010.

PerformingMaternity in Early Modern England,ed. with Kathryn Moncrief.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press,2007.  244 pages.

“Dramatizing Deliveranceand Devotion: Churching in Early Modern England” in Performing Maternity in EarlyModern England,(eds. Kathryn Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2007),131-142.

“Sainted Sisterhood in Early Modern England,”in Sibling Relation and Gender in the Early Modern World,(eds. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh.  Aldershot, England:AshgatePress, 2006), 182-194.

“ ‘I thought my all was givenbefore’: Configuring Maternal Grief in Seventeenth-Century England.” The Ben Jonson Journal, Volume 7 (Winter 2000), 421-443.

The Countess of Lincolnes Nurserie: A Critical Edition,  Emory Women Writer’s ResourceProject, 1999.http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html.

The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women, ed., with AmyBenson Brown. Westport, CT:Bergin and Garvey, 1998. 233 pages.

Conference Presentations

 “Stand Up forShakespeare,” Workshop Contribution for “Presenting Shakespeare: Making Public Sessions Work, ” Shakespeare Association of America, April 2009.

 “Refiguring Pregnancy in Early Modern England,”Panelist, “The Female Renaissance: Women of Influence in EarlyModern England , Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, March 2009. Panel Organizer: Dr.Chris Laoutaris, University College London

“Performing Pedagogy:  Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England," Seminar Designer and Co-Leader, Shakespeare Association of America,March 2008

“HomeSchooling:  The English Gentlewoman,”seminar co-leader, Attending to EarlyModern Women (and Men), November2006

“The Absence of Eve in ElizabethHerbert’s Catechism,”Panelist, “Producing Girls in Early Modern England,” RenaissanceSociety of America, San Francisco, March 2006. Panel Organizer:  Dr, Caroline Bicks, Boston College

“ Deliverance and Devotion: Performing Femininity and the Chuchingof Women," Panelist and PanelOrganizer, Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England,April 2005

  “Sisterhoodand Motherhood in Early Modern England,”Invited Speaker, SophieKerr Lecture Series, WashingtonCollege, Maryland,April 2004

 “Performing Maternity in Early Modern England," SeminarDesigner and Co-Leader, Shakespeare Association of America, April 2003

Honors and Awards

            National Endowment for theHumanities Instititute, “Shakespeare’s Blackfriars,” 2008

            Presidential Scholarship Award,UVSC, 2009

            Presidential Scholarship Award,UVSC, 2006

            UNM Presidential Scholar, University of New Mexico, August 1986-December 1989

Grants Written and Received

            Community of Engaged Learners Grant, Utah Valley University,2008

            Direct Access to the Muslim World,Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program, 2005

            Programming Grant for “Shaping the American West,” Utah Humanities Council, 2005

            Merit Grant for “Shaping theAmerican West,” UVSC Foundation, 2004

            Instructional Development Grant, UVSC Faculty Development, 2002

            EnglishSpeaking Union Grant For British Study, Summer 1995

            Folger Institute Grant, FolgerShakespeare Library, Spring 1995        

Selected Academic Service

            LondonStudy Abroad Director, UVU, 2008,2004

            AmericanAssociation of University Women, Utah Valley Branch Vice-President, 2006-2008

            Assistant Vice-President forAcademic Affairs, UVSC, 2004-2006

            Strategic Directions Advisory CommitteeMember, UVSC, 2004-2006

            Honors Task Force Member, UVSC, 2004-present

            Global Engagement Taskforce Co-Chair,UVSC, 2004-2006

            Conference Chair, Shaping the American West, UVSC, 2003-2005      

            FacultySenator, Department of English/Literature, UVSC, 2003-2004

            LondonStudy Abroad Faculty, Department ofEnglish/Literature, UVSC, 2003

            National Conference on Undergraduate LiteratureAdvisor, UVSC, 2003-2008

            HASSCareer and Internship Council, UVSC, 2002-2004

            AssistantChair, Department of English/Literature, UVSC, 2001-2003

            CurriculumChair, Department of English/Literature, UVSC, 2001-2003

            English Club Advisor, UVSC, 2000-2003

Professional References

            Dean David P. Yells., Utah Valley University, (801) 863-7435,yellsda@uvu.edu

            Professor Robert Cousins, UtahValley University, (801) 863-8571, robert.cousins@uvu.edu

ProfessorNaomi J. Miller, Smith College, (413) 585-2141, njmiller@email.smith.edu

            ProfessorKathryn M. Moncrief, Washington College, (4100 778-7879; kmoncrief2@washcoll.edu

            Professor Caroline Bicks, Boston College,(617) 552-1959, bicks@bc.edu

            Professor Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University,(404) 727-7916; engstc@emory.edu