Teaching

I began teaching in 1992 as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. During my first year, I taught one-on-one in the Writing Center, and in my subsequent two years, I taught English 101 and 102 (College Composition). During one semester, I also assisted a full-time professor in English 205, American Literature I. During my final year in the program, I also taught, independently of VCU, a class titled "Behind the Scenes at the Valentine Museum" for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.

In the year following graduation, I continued to teach 101 and 102 at VCU, and I also taught English 103 (Freshman Composition) at the University of Richmond and English 111 and 112 (both freshman composition courses, though 112 contained a substantial literature component) at John Tyler Community College in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

In 1996, I took a staff position as Graduate Programs Coordinator for VCU's Department of English, but I continued to teach three or four courses a year as an adjunct instructor. Those courses included first- and second-year composition, advanced composition, introductory and advanced fiction writing, literary editing and publishing, and American literature.

Here at VCUQ, I teach first- and second-year writing, sophomore literature, and junior-level writing in the workplace.