EDUCATION:

1973-76 University of Detroit, Ph.D., English
Areas of specialization: 19th-20th C. American Literature, Modern Drama

1967-68 Harvard University, M.A.T., English

1963-67 University of Missouri, B.A., English

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society 2007
Listed in Who's Who in America, 2007
University Outstanding Research Award, 2006
Arlington Star-Telegram Service Learning Award, 2006
Provost's Professional Development Award, 2005, 2006, & 2007
Listed in Contemporary Authors, Gale Publications, 2004+
Fulbright Award, Charles University, Prague C.R., 2003
Phi Beta Delta, International Honor Society, 2001
University of Texas at Arlington Faculty Development Leave, Fall 1998
University of Texas at Arlington Research Enhancement Program Grant, 1997
University of Texas at Arlington College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Stipend, 1996
University of Texas at Arlington Research Enhancement Program Seed Grant, 1994
University of Detroit: Teaching Fellowship, 1973-76
Harvard University: Harvard Fellowship, 1967-68
University of Missouri: Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, summa cum laude

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington (2002-present)

Associate Professor (1994-2002)

Assistant Professor (1990-94)

Adjunct Assistant Professor (1988-90)

Visiting Associate Professor (1986-88)

Visiting Assistant Professor and Lecturer, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas (1979-1982 and 1984-1986)

Assistant Professor, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas (1976-78)

BOOKS:

Orphan's Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

The Banished Prince: Time, Memory, and Ritual in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1988.

Reprinted in:

"The Iceman Cometh and Hughie: Tomorrow is Yesterday" (Chapter 5) in Eugene O'Neill,
Edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views Series, ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase
Publishing, 2007. 13-30.

"Self-Deception in O'Neill's Last Plays" (Chapter 1, 11 abridged) in Readings on Eugene O'Neill, ed. Tom Siebold. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1997. 67-72.

"A Touch of the Poet: Memory and the Creative Imagination" (Chapter 5) in The Critical Response to Eugene O'Neill, ed. John H. Houchin, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. 238-50.

 

"Contemporary Playwrights/ Traditional Forms," Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights, ed. Brenda Murphy, Cambridge UP, 1999.

"Subtext as Text: Language and Culture in Horton Foote's Texas Cycle," Horton Foote Casebook, ed. Gerald C. Wood. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. 109-29.

"Hughie: Pipe Dream for Two." Critical Essays on Eugene O'Neill, ed. James J. Martine. Boston: G.K. Hall Co., 1984. 178-88.

ARTICLES:

"'Why do I feel so lonely?': Literary Allusions and Gendered Space in Long Day's Journey Into Night,"
The Eugene O'Neill Review, forthcoming 2007.

"Musical and Literary Allusions in O'Neill's Final Plays," The Eugene O'Neill Review, 28 (2006): 131-45.

"Memory and the Re-Construction of the Past: Horton Foote's Carpetbagger's Children." The Horton Foote Review 1 (2005): 35-42.

"Time and Redemption in the Works of William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, and Texas Playwright Horton Foote," Litterarial Pragensia [Prague Literature]: Studies in Literature and Culture, 14.27 (2004): 16-33.

"O'Neill in the Czech Republic: Marco Millions and the Velvet Revolution," The Eugene O'Neill Review, 26 (2004): 155-65.

"Teaching Long Day's Journey and Shepard's Buried Child, The Eugene O'Neill Review, 25. 1& 2 (Spring/Fall 2001): 80-84.

"The Horton Foote Collection at the DeGolyer Library," Resources for American Literary Study 26.1 (2000): 65-75.

"The Banished Prince Revisited: A Feminist Reading of More Stately Mansions." The Eugene O'Neill Review, 19 (Spring/Fall 1995): 7-27.

Reprinted in: Twentieth Century American Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Brenda Murphy, Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2006.

"Shakespeare's 'Sisters': Desdemona, Juliet, and Constance Ledbelly in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) " Modern Drama, 38 (1995): 362-77.

"Self and Other: The Problem of Possession in O'Neill's Historical Cycle." The Eugene O'Neill Review, 18 (Spring/Fall 1994): 109-5.

"Modern and Postmodern Wastelands: Long Day's Journey and Shepard's Buried Child." The Eugene O'Neill Review, 17. 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 1993): 106-9.

"An Interview with Horton Foote," Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present, 6.2 (1991): 177-94.

"Bakhtin's Chronotope in Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions," Modern Drama, 34.3 (1991): 369-82.

"Women Re-Conceived: Changing Perceptions of Women in Contemporary American Drama," CCTE, 54 (September 1989): 53-59.

"The Iceman Cometh as Crossroad in O'Neill's Long Journey." Modern Drama 31.1 (1988): 52-62.

"Claudel's L'annonce Faiteci Marie: A Study in Suffering." Claudel Studies 12.1-2 (1985): 76-84.

REVIEWS:

Review: Eugene O'Neill: A Playwrigiht's Theatre, by Egil Tornqvist. The Eugene O'Neill
Review, 28 (2006): 174-76.

Review: Sam Shepard and the American Theatre, by Leslie A. Wade. Theatre Research International, 24.1 (Spring 1999): 119-20.

Review: The History of Southern Drama, by Charles Watson. Modern Drama, 41.3 (Fall 1998): 488-90.

"Ah, Wilderness! at the Dallas Theater Center," The Eugene O'Neill Review, 13.I (June 1989): 72-74.

"A Touch of the Poet in London." The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, 12.1 (1988): 62-64.

SELECTED PAPERS:

"the Cottage & the Garden: Mothers and Sons in Long Day's Journey Into Night and More Stately
Mansions," Eugene O'Neill: Visions of Home, 8th annual Eugene O'Neill Celebration, Waterford,CT,
2007.

"Empty Promises: Houses Divided in Convicts, The Last of the Thorntons, and The Carpetbagger's Children,"The Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, Waco, TX, 2007.

"teaching O'Neill in Context: Re-Presentations of Women in 20th C. American Drama," American
Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2007.

"texas 'Translations': Influences and Intersections in the Plays of Horton Foote," (organizer and
chair), SCMLA, Dallas, TX, 2006; paper: "The Young Man from Atlanta: Death of a Salesman
Re-Visited."

"Cultural Translations: Brian Friel and A Moon for the Misbegotten," Eugene O'Neill Festival,
Tao House, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

"The Young Man from Atlanta: The Death of a Salesman's Son," The Horton Foote American
Playwrights Festival, Waco, TX, 2005.

"'Why do I feel so lonely?': Literary Allusions and Gendered Space in Long Day's Journey Into
Night," Eugene O'Neill Society Internaional Conference, Provincetown, MA, 2005.

"Subtext as Counterpoint: Musical and Literary Allusions in The Iceman Cometh, Long
Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten," American Literature Association
Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2004.

"The State of Horton Foote Scholarship, Past, Present, and Future" (invited speaker on panel of
Foote scholars); "Memory and the re-Construction of the Past: Horton Foote's Carpetbagger's Children"
(paper); The Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival, Waxo, TX, 2004.

"Dangerous Fathers: Trauma and Incest in American Women's Narratives," (organizer and chair), Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2nd International Conference, Ft. Worth, TX; paper: "Dangerous Fathers in Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water."

"From the Heart of Europe: Eugene O'Neill in the Czech Republic," 5th International Eugene O'Neill Conference, Tours, France, 2003; panel moderator, "Comparative O'Neill."

"Time and Redemption in the works of William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, and Texas Playwright Horton Foote" (invited speaker), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003.

"The 'Other' Dramatic Canon: Teaching American Women Playwrights" (invited speaker), American Studies Seminar (organized by the Office of Public Affairs, the U.S. Embassy, and the Fulbright
Commission of the Czech Republic), Pruhonice, Czech Republic, 2003.

"'Lest Ye Forget': Going Home in The Trip to Bountiful and The Last of the Thorntons" (invited
speaker), Art and Soul (annual conference on literature and creative writing hosted by Baylor University), Waco, TX, 2002.

"Teaching Long Day's Journey into Night and Buried Child: Modernism and Postmodernism," American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA, 2001.

"The Status and Future of American Women's Drama: A Roundtable Discussion" (moderator and panelist), Society for the Study of American Women Writers, San Antonio, TX, 2001.

"Peace and the Abdication of Identity in O'Neill's Late Plays," International Eugene O'Neill Conference, Bermuda, 1999.

"Eugene O'Neill and Horton Foote: Two American Cycles," American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1998.

"Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Designing a Core Course for Women's Studies," SCMLA, Austin, TX, Nov. 1996.

"The Owner and the Other in O'Neill's Cycle Plays," International Eugene O'Neill Conference, Boston, MA, May 1995.

"Women and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction," American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 1995, panel organizer and chair.

"Teaching Long Day's Journey Into Night," American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1994.

"The Town as Family in Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle," SC, Austin, TX, Oct. 1993.

"Horton Foote: Playwright for the Nineties," American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 1993.

"Reverse Image: Stuctural Doubling in Horton Foote's Texas Cycle," South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, October 1992.

"Modern and Postmodem Wastelands: The Family in Long Day's Journey into Night and Buried Child," American Literature Conference, San Diego, CA, May 1992.

"The Banished Prince Revisited: A Feminist Reading of More Stately Mansions," American Literature Conference, Washington, D.C., May 1991.

"History as Biography/Biography as History in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill, " North East Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, April 1991.

"Bakhtin's Chronotope in Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions," North East Modern Language Association, Toronto, April 1990.

"Horton Foote's Long Journey: The Orphan's Home Cycle," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1990.

"Woman Re-Conceived: Changing Perceptions of Women in Contemporary American Drama," College Conference of Teachers of English, Austin, March 3, 1989; South Central Women's Studies Association Convention, Houston, March 31, 1989.

"Calendar, Memory, and the Function of Ritual in O'Neill's Late Plays." Eugene O'Neill: The Late Years, Boston, 1986.

"Sylvia Plath as Feminist Poet." New Horizons for Women Conference, San Antonio, 1978.

"Concrete Poetry: The Word as Image." Michigan College English Association, Detroit, 1976.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES and PRESENTATIONS:

"Establishing a Shared Reading Experience Program," Mountain View College, Dallas County Community College, Dallas, TX, 2007.

"OneBook: A Shared Reading Experience Program," Tarrant County Community College, NW Campus, Ft. Worth, TX, 2007.

"Teaching Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale," UTA Faculty, Staff, and GTA Workshops, 2007.

"Quiet Power: The Plays and Films of Horton Foote," Focus on Faculty lecture series, UTA, 2006.

"Twentieth Century American Women Playwrights," Iowa State Women's Studies Program, Ames,

Iowa, 2006"Teaching Hosseini's The Kite Runner,"UTA Faculty, Staff, and GTA Workshops, 2006.

"Horton Foote: American Playwright," Festival of Independent Theatres, Dallas, TX, 2005.

"Master Class: Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Circle Theatre," The Ft. Wort Club, Ft. Worth TX, 2004.

"Community Service Learning: Classrooms Without Walls," UTA Faculty Workshop, 2004.

"Dangerous Fathers in Joyce Carol Oates' Black Water," Brown Bag Lecture Series, UTA English
Department 2003.

Incorporating Community Service Learning into Classroom Teaching," CSL Workshop for UTA Faculty, 2002.

"How to Teach Poetry," Arlington Independent School District Workshop, 2000.

"Gender in the Classroom," "Teaching Poetry," and "Teaching Gender through Drama," AISD Language Arts Faculty Development Workshop, 1999.

"Education for Girls: Language and Cultural Barriers," North Texas United Nations Conference on Women, Dallas, TX, 1998.

Panelist, Rediscovering Katherine Anne Porter, "Arts & Letters Live Series," Dallas Museum of Arts, April 2, 1998.

"Gender and Learning," Expanding Your Horizons: A Career Conference for Young Women & Their Parents & Teachers, UTA, March 1998.

Panelist/Respondent, Old Wicked Songs, Theatre Three, Jan. 25, 1998.

"Teaching Gender through Drama: A Raisin in the Sun and The Glass Menagerie," AISD Language Arts Faculty Workshop, August 1997.

"Gender Issues in Advising," LJTA Academic Foundations Program Advising Workshop, May 1997.

"Contemporary Women Playwrights," LJTA Women's Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, May 1997.

"Gender and Self-Esteem," Staff Development Workshop, Ft. Worth ISD, March 1997.

"Gender and the Adolescent: The Impact of Gender on Teaching and Learning," Staff Development Workshop, Shackelford Jr. High, Aug. 1996.

"Gender and the Classroom" and "Gender and Language Arts," AISD Language Arts Faculty, Aug. 1996.

"Gender and Self-Esteem in Adolescent Girls," AAUW, Arlington Branch, Nov. 1995.

"Gender and Language in the Classroom," UTA Women's Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, Oct. 1995.

"Gender, Language, and Self-Esteem in the Classroom," Expanding Your Horizons: A Career Conference for Young Women & Their Parents & Teachers, University of Texas at Arlington, Feb. 1995 and Jan. 1996.

"Re-Envisioning Women: Contemporary Women Playwrights," University Lecture Series, The University of Texas at Arlington, April 1993.

"Belonging and Becoming in The Orphans' Home Cycle, Horton Foote Seminar, Institute for the Humanities, Salado, TX, March 1993 (invited speaker).

"A Feminist Reading of As You Like It," Shakespeare Women's Club, Ft. Worth, TX, March 1993 (invited speaker).

"Feminist Theatre -- From Canada to Texas: Goodnight, Desdemona (Goodmorning, Juliet)," Circle Theatre Symposium, Ft. Worth, TX, March 1992 (invited speaker).

"The Other O'Neill: Ah, Wilderness!" Dallas Theater Center Lecture Series, October 1988 (invited speaker).

"CAC71P (Composition, Analysis of Texts, and Critical Thinking Integrated Program) and the Teaching of American Studies," National Collegiate Honors Council, Dallas, 1987.

"Motherless Child: The Family in Contemporary American Drama," Women's History Month Lecture Series, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1987.

"The Free Lance Writer: Defining the Audience," San Antonio Writers' Fiesta, 1978.

"Sylvia Plath as Feminist Poet," New Horizons for Women Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1978.

"Concrete Poetry: The Word as Image," Michigan College English Association, Detroit, MI, 1976.

DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (1992-98):

Department (major committees):

Senior Lecturers Committee (2006 - present)
Faculty Senate Advisory Council (2004-2006)
Faculty Senate Representative (1990-96 and 1998 - 2006)
Executive Committee &Parliamentarian (1994-96)
Search Committee, Director of Freshman English (1992-93)
Advisory Committee (1993-94, 2001-2002 and 2004-2005.)
Search Committee, Multi-Ethnic Literature (1993-94)
Tenure and Promotion (1994-96, 1999-2000 and 2004-2006)
Recruitment & Retention Committee, chair (1999-2005)

College and University:

Dean of the Honors College Search Committee, 2008
Vice-President for Community Relations Search Committee, 2007
Community Service Learning Director Search Committee, 2006
Co-Chair, OneBook and UT Arlington Conversations (university-wide programs), 2006 - present
Provost's Mentoring Program, 2005
Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) Director Search Committee, 2005
Faculty Co-Chair for FIGS (Freshmen Interest Groups and
Residential Learning Community Committee, (2004 - present)
Status of Women and Minorities Committee (1997 - 2001)
Women's Studies Advisory Board (1990 - 1998)
Women's History Month Lecture Series, Chair (1991 & 1996)
International Scholarship Committee (1991-93)
New Student Orientation Advisor (summers 1991-93)
McNair Mentor (summers 1993, 1994, and 2006)
UTA Admissions & Continuation Standards Committee (1992-93)
UTA HOSTS! Advisory Board (1993-95)
Provost's Registration Task Force (1993-94)
Provost's Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force (1994-95)
UTA Open House Planning Committee & Speaker (1994)
Search Committee, Vice President for Student Services (1995-96)
Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium Committee (I 996 & 1997)
UTA Scholarship Walk Committee (1996-97)
Undergraduate Assembly (1996-98- Parliamentarian 1996-1997)
University Program Review Committee (1996 - 1998)
Honors Faculty Council (1996 - 2000)
UTA London Summer Study Abroad Program Co-ordinator (1997)

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Advisory Board, Circle Theatre, Ft. Worth (1995 - present)
Recruiter, Harvard University (1991 - 2005)
Consultant for AISD faculty designing Women in Literature course (1996 & 1997)
Guest speaker, Arlington High School, Women in Literature class, Fall 1997

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Modern Language Association/American Literature
South Central Modern Language Association
Eugene O'Neill Society
Horton Foote Society (founding member)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Fulbright Association

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