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EDUCATION

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 2016

* Ph.D English. American Literature.

Dissertation: "Infected Regions": Marriage Metaphors and Illness Plots in Antebellum Cross-Regional Fiction.

* Certification in Online Teaching Pedagogy

Texas Woman’s University, Denton, 2007

* Masters of Arts in English; Minor in History

Texas Woman’s University, Denton, 2005

* Bachelors of Arts in English; Minor in History

Tarrant County College, Hurst, 2003

* Associate of Arts

Executive Secretarial School, Dallas, 1985

* Executive Secretarial Degree

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

08/07-Current: Instructor. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

* Instructor

~ Composition

~ American Literature Survey

~ The American West

~ American Women Regionalist Writers

~ American Gothic

~ Women in Literature and Culture

~ Writing Associate. William L. Adams Center for Writing

~ Writing Specialist. TCU Athletic Academic Services

01/11- Current: Instructor of Composition. Columbia College, Missouri, NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX

08/10-06/11: Instructor of Composition. University of Texas, Arlington, TX

08/05-05/07: Instructor of Composition and Writing Associate. Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Business Owner [with my husband]. Davis Model A Modifications. Colleyville, TX. 10/88-Present.

* Using MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) software, I record sales and expense records, pay sales taxes, and keep inventory records. Through the program, I access and print balance sheets and Profit and Loss statements. I also maintain the company website Kendavismodela.com, design advertising flyers and business cards, and interface with customers regionally, nationally, and internationally. Davis Model A Modifications is a small mail order business we run out of our home. My husband designs and fabricates air conditioners, 6 and 12 volt alternators, and modern shock kits for Model A Fords. Initially, our business entailed a 35-page catalog; however, as I began my academic studies, we sold off our catalog business and scaled down our inventory.

Associate Editor. Descant, a Publication of Texas Christian University. 2012 / 2013.

* Using Microsoft Publisher, I designed the journal’s publication and transcribed poems, short stories, and authors’ biographies.

Using Microsoft Excel, I maintained billing, receivables, and communication records, mailing databases, journal submissions, and general office record keeping. Using Microsoft Word, I corresponded with all submitters and notified authors when their submissions were rejected or accepted. I worked with the printer and the TCU mailroom in getting journals printed and mailed.

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Cross-Regional Marriage and the Illness Plot in The Planter’s Northern Bride.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). Philadelphia, PA. November 4-8, 2015.

“Dead Man Talking: Conflicting Discourses in Pirate Charles Gibbs’s Criminal Narratives.” Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review 58 (2012).

“Repressing the Woodland Goddess: Symbolism in Mary Noailles Murfree’s ‘The “Harnt” That Walks Chilhowee.’” Western Literature Association. Lubbock, TX. November 7-10, 2012.

“‘A Mitigation of Sectional and Most UnChristian Prejudices’: A Discourse Analysis of Caroline Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). Denver, CO. October 10-13, 2012.

“‘Puppyism and Kindred Spirits’: Regionalist Readings and Allegorical Marriages in William Caruthers’s Kentuckian in New York.” Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language, & Culture. LaFayette, LA. March 31 – April 2, 2011.

“‘To Make a Lady of’: Allegorical Marriages and Transnational Studies in Martha Meredith Read’s Margaretta.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW). Philadelphia, PA. October 22-24, 2009.

“Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Public’s Struggle to De-Romanticize the Pirate Charles Gibbs.” Society for Early Americanists (SEA). Hamilton, Bermuda. March 4-7, 2009. (See More)

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Teaching Fellow. Texas Christian University. 2011-2012.

A competitive award with a salary of $36,000, a 3/3 teaching load, and the opportunity for recipient to teach a course in his/her area of specialty area. The Graduate Program Committee with the support of the WPA and the TCU Department Chair awards the doctoral fellowship annually in hopes to help boost the fellow’s progress toward completing his/her dissertation, aid in further strengthening his/her teaching credentials, and build a strong portfolio for the job market. The Director of Graduate Studies and the department work closely with the fellow to advise & ensure that his/her teaching goes well, for example, through syllabus building support and classroom observations. I used my fellowship opportunity to create original syllabi and teach two literature courses on regionalism—American Women Regionalist Writers and Western Literature.

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Graduate Travel Grant 2011, 2013, and 2015.

TCU English Department Travel Grant. 2012 and 2016.

TCU Graduate Student Senate Travel Grant. 2008, 2009, & 2010.

Former Students Association Scholarship. TWU, Denton Texas. August 2005.

Edith and Edgar Deen Literary Scholarship. April 2005.

Texas Woman’s Graduate Student Scholarship. April 2005.

Francis Matsler Gordon Scholarship. May 2004.

Ada Cade McCurry and Martha Faye McCurry Savage Endowed Scholarship.

Paper submitted: “The Ethos of Wal-Mart, An American Bully.” March 2004.

Golden Key Network International Honor Society. Spring 2004.

National Society for Collegiate Scholars. Spring 2004.

TWU Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Transfer Scholarship. April 2003.

Outstanding Student Leader. Tarrant County College Northeast. April 2003.

Distinguished Chapter Officer. One of twenty-five officers elected by International Committee. Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. Anaheim, CA. April 2003.(See More)