Education

D.Litt., Drew University

M.A.T., Brown University

B.A., Georgetown University

Research Interests

Research interests include: Developmental Writing, Community Writing, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, and ELL.

Books

Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators Test Preparation. Co-authored with Sandra Rush, M.A. Reading and Writing sections. Research and Education Association, 2014. 2nd Edition, 2018. 

Praxis PPST. Research and Education Association, 2010.

Praxis II Elementary Education Content Area Exercises (Test Code 0012). Research and Education Association, 2009.

Scholarly Articles

“The Body Organic: Identity and the Natural World in Selected Poems from Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda”, Visionary Pedagogy Series: Facilitating the Transformation of the 21st Century Leader, Volume Two.

“Scaffolding Close Reading in the Developmental English Classroom,” in Transforming Students into Leaders through the Literary Arts and the Social Sciences Eds. Mary Alice Trent, Don Pardlow, Meaghan Peggy Stevenson Ratliff. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Mar 24, 2020. Link.  

“The Power of a Slave Narrative.” “Connecting” section of JAEPL: Journal of the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning. Joonna Smitherman Trapp and Brad Peters, editors. Vol. 21 : Issue. 1, Article 1. http://trace.tennessee.edu/jaepl/vol21/iss1/1 

Presentations/Invited Talks

Atlas University, Istanbul, Turkey.  Lecturer: “East Meets West: Huzun in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night.”  

George Washington University, Washington, DC.  Conference on Community Writing.  “Prism Paterson: A Counter-Narrative.” My portion of the panel: “Community Writing: The Great Falls.” October 21-23, 2021. Virtual.  

“A Theme-Based Humanities Course on Climate Change.” Faculty Resource Network Virtual National Symposium, New York University, New York, NY. November 19-20, 2020. https://facultyresourcenetwork.org/virtual-national-symposium-2020/ 

“Therapeutic Creative Writing for Young Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome,” International Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) Conference on Creating Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education, University of Western Scotland, Paisley, Scotland, UK, June 2017. 

“Ten Years After Katrina: The Flooded Physical and Rhetorical Ecosystems of New Orleans,” Second Conference of Community Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Co-presented with Professor Melissa McAlpin, Associate Professor of Art, Felician University. October 2017.

Additional Information

Currently teaches English to Haitian refugees in Neptune, NJ.

Professor Emerita, Felician University.

Participant, Faith and Politics Institute 2018 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, Montgomery and Selma, AL. March 20118.

Pilgrim, Leadership Pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi, Felician College, October 18-28, 2012.