MA, Instructional Technologies, SFSU (2016), PhD, English, Emory University (2007); BA, Duke University (2002)
With Cabrillo College since 2012

I'm an English professor, and I'm the current English Department Chair and Honors Faculty Lead. I'm involved with the Honors Transfer Program, the Bay Honors Consortium, and the First Year Experience program. I teach a range of classes including English C1000 (Academic Writing), English C1001 (Critical Thinking and Writing), English 1B (Writing about Literature), English 30A and 30B (American Literature), and Honors 1H and 2H (Honors Colloquium).

My academic interests include instructional technologies, American poetry, psychoanalytic theory, and 20th century Irish literature.
I received a PhD in English from Emory University with a dissertation on the "Craft of Confession" in the autobiographical writings of poets Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, H.D., Robert Lowell, and Anne Sexton. I received my B.A. from Duke University, where I majored in English with a focus on the analysis of poetry. I received a Masters in Education with a focus on Instructional Technologies from San Francisco State University with a thesis on improving equity in online English composition courses.

My office hours are Mondays 11:00-12:30 (zoom), Tuesdays 10-12 (zoom), and Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 (428C).