Education
- American University, 2023, Doctorate in Education Policy and Leadership
- Howard University, 1996, Master of Arts, Literature
- Temple University, 1992, Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts (psychology, sociology, and English)
Academic Capstones
Doctoral Dissertation of Practice, Decoloniz[er]ing the Mind: A Critical Rhetoric and Composition Framework and Decolonial Curriculum for Professors of First-Year Students, Dir. by Samantha Cohen (chair)
Master’s thesis: Black Existentialism in Brown Girl, Brownstone, by Paule Marshall and Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin, Dir. by Eleanor Traylor (chair) and John Tim Reilly (Advisor)
Undergraduate senior independent study: Black Women Writers as Healers, Dir. by Sonia Sanchez
Employment
- American University, 2014-present
- Marymount University, 2012-2016
- Esperanza College of Eastern University, 2008-2012
- Secondary Ed. in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and Maryland, 1998-2007
- Academic Editorial Work, full-time at the American Psychological Association 1993-1996; freelance, 1993-2007
Classes Taught
- Summer Transition Enrichment Program
- College Writing 100
- College Writing 101, research seminar, critical reading
- CORE 105 Complex Problems, critical reading in college
- College Writing 106, honors writing intensive
- LIT 121 Creative Aesthetic Inquiry, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
- LIT 225 African Literature
- LIT 235 African American Literature
- LIT 311 Orwell Colloquium, co-director
- LIT 335 Topics in African American Lit.
- LIT 381/AMST 330, Storytelling
- LIT 490 Independent Study, various topics on criticality and decoloniality
- Lit 731, Teaching Composition, mentor
- Intro to College Reading
- Intro to College Writing
- Freshman Composition I and II
- American Literature Survey I and II
- Short Fiction
- Great Women Writers
- Freshman English 101 and 102
- Freshman English 102 (on-line/in-class hybrid)
- Faith, Reason, and Justice
- Public Speaking
