EDUCATION

Ph.D. Student, Dept. of English, Texas A&M University (degree expected December. 2007).
M.A., Creative Thesis, Dept. of English, Sonoma State University (May 1996).
B.A., Creative Writing, Dept. of Creative Writing, San Francisco State University (January 1994).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christ, Department of English

Freshman Composition part I: Spring 2004

Freshman Composition part II Spring: 2002 (2 sections)
Literature of the Western World part I: Fall 2002 (2 sections), Fall 2001
Literature of the Western World part II: Spring 2006 (2 sections), Fall 2005 (2 sections), Spring 2005, Fall 2004 (2 sections), Fall 2003, Spring 2003 (2 sections), Fall 2001

Principles of Professional and Report Writing: Spring 2005 (online), Summer 2004 (2 sections, 1 online), Spring 2004 (online), Fall 2003, Summer 2003 (2 sections)

Desktop Publishing: Spring 2005

 

Texas A&M University, Department of English

Introduction to Literature: Spring 2001
Rhetoric and Composition Fall 2000 (2 sections)
Technical Writing Spring 2000, Summer 2000 (2 sections), Summer 2001

 

Tomball College, Tomball, TX

Rhetoric and Composition Fall 1996, Spring 1997 (2 sections)

ASSISTANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Texas A&M University, Department of English

Grader, Children's Literature Fall 1999

Sonoma State University, Department of English

Teacher's Reader/Grader, Fiction Writing Spring 1996
Teaching Assistant, Fiction Writing Spring 1995

WRITING CENTER/TUTORING EXPERIENCE

Texas A&M University Department of English Writing Center

Consultant Summer 2000

Sonoma State University Department of English Writing Programs

Tutor, Developmental Writing  Fall 1994 (2 sections)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

• Brazos River Review Literary Magazine  Editor & Chief Fall 2000-present
• Box of Words Literary Magazine, Issues 1 & 2  Editor Fall 1988-Fall 1989
• Transfer San Francisco State University Literary Magazine, Issue 52  Student Editor Fall 1986

PUBLICATIONS

• "Leaves of the Aquifer," a short story.The Windward Review. Corpus Christi, TX. July 2005.
• "Coins," a poem. The Windward Review. Corpus Christi, TX. May 2004.
• "Dear ma," a poem. The Windward Review. Corpus Christi, TX. May 2004.
• "First mother's day without ma," a poem. The Windward Review. Corpus Christi, TX. May 2004.
• "Old Man O'Man," a poem. can we have our ball back? v. 17. Online Poetry Journal. 25 July 2003.
• "R animals," a poem. can we have our ball back? v. 17. Online Poetry Journal. 25 July 2003.
• "The Chairman," a short story. The Windward Review, Corpus Christi, TX, June 2003.
• "Brazos River Review Examines Environmental Questions," an essay. Columns, v. 7. College Station, TX. Spring 2001.
• "Loop d Loo," fiction. Brazos River Review College Station, TX. April 2001.
• "Water," an essay. Brazos River Review. College Station, TX. April 2001.
• "Simonetta," a poem. Brazos River Review. College Station, TX. April 2001.
• "Depends," a poem. Brazos River Review. College Station, TX. April 2001.
• Revised Texas A&M University's Writing Center Technical Writing & Literature Handouts Summer 2000.
• Sonoma State University's "Postmodern Poetry Lecture Series: Video." An excerpt Even In November, May 7, 1996.
• Even In November an excerpt. M.A. Creative Thesis, Sonoma State University, May 1996.
• "Pops Olsen, tanka," a poem, Qasida, v. 5 n. 3 April 1995.
• "I watched you place flowers in your hair," a poem, Qasida, v. 5 n. 3 April 1995.
• "Rust," a poem, Qasida, v4 n4 December, 1994.
• "The Booksellers," a short story. Nine Items or Less: Short Fiction and Poetry. Berkeley Short Fiction Press, n. 3, spring 1990.
• "A Waltz With Death," a poem. Box of Words. n. 2, April/May 1990.
• "Birth, Death, Renaissance," an essay. Box of Words. n. 2, April/May 1990.
• "Someone Once Told Me As A Boy," a poem. Box of Words. n. 1, November/December 1989.
• "I Know The Day I'll Die," a poem. Box of Words. n. 1, November/December 1989.
• "Burnout Better Than Old," a poem. Box of Words. n. 1, November/December 1989.
• "Translucent Words," an essay. Box of Words. n. 1, November/December 1989.
• "Colma," a poem. Birth of Tragedy: The God Issue, n. 4/November '86-January '87.
• "Wake Up!" a poem. Birth of Tragedy: The God Issue, n. 4/November '86-January '87.
• "The Answers They Have," fiction. Stories & Poems from Close to Home: A San Francisco Bay Area Anthology. Floyd Salas, Ed. April 18, 1986.
• "Heather," a poem. Stories & Poems from Close to Home: A San Francisco Bay Area Anthology. Floyd Salas, Ed. April 18, 1986.
• "Fun With Sound," a poem. Stories & Poems from Close to Home: A San Francisco Bay Area Anthology. Floyd Salas, Ed. April 18, 1986.
• "April," a poem. Stories & Poems from Close to Home: A San Francisco Bay Area Anthology. Floyd Salas, Ed. April 18, 1986.

PRESENTATIONS/READINGS/EXHIBITIONS

• "The 'Optimized Lethality' of American Car Culture: Hybridity and the Postmodern Text." Popular Culture/American Culture Conference 2004, San Antonio, TX. April 7-10.
• "The Postmodern Soundscape as Textualized Praxis: The Meta-Music-Narrative in Less Than Zero." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference 2004, University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 26-28.
• "Clara Baber Murphy's Art: A Retrospective from 1922-1985," an exhibition. South Texas Institute for the Arts. Corpus Christi, TX. March 2003.
• "Telling The Bees," a poem. Author's Day Public Reading in Honor of Evelio Grillo. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christ. March 7, 2003.
• "Reading The Two-Headed Monster's Papyrus: Monstrous Cars as Cultural Space in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Centre for Social Theory & Technology "Automobility" Conference. Keele University, UK. September 8-10, 2002.
• "Clara B. Murphy's Miniature Paintings." Telling Our Grandmother's Stories (TOGS). Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. March 27, 2002.
• "The small Wheel-but the all" a poem. Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA. Corpus Christi, TX. March 9, 2002.
• "Kerouac's Women: The Masculinity Crisis In The Kitchen." Beat Attitudes 6. University of Massachusetts-Lowell. October 4-5, 2001.
• Brazos River Review Readings 2001: April & May, College Station, TX; May, Austin, TX; June, Oakland, CA.
• "Poems of Self, Selfish, and Selflessness." Performances of Identity: Voices of the Self. English Graduate Student Association of Texas A&M University's Interdisciplinary Conference On Language and Literature. College Station, TX. October 20-21, 2000.
• "I of the Needle," a short story. Conference of College Teachers of English: College Station, TX; March 2, 2000.
• "Savio's Rubric," a poem, plus a novel excerpt Even In November. Languaging: The Ninth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature. Denton, TX. February 7-8, 1997.
• A novel excerpt, Even In November. "Postmodern Poetry Lecture Series." Sonoma State University. May 7, 1996.
• "The Booksellers," a short story. Featured reader for Berkeley Short Fiction's Nine Items of Less, University of California, Berkeley, CA. May 1990.
• "Selected Poems." Featured reader: Chameleon Club, New York City, NY., August 1989.

SERVICE

• President of the School Board. Montessori School of Corpus Christi (MSCC) July 2003-Present.
• School Board Member. Montessori School of Corpus Christi (MSCC) Fall 2002-Present.
• Teaching Our Grandmother's Stories (TOGS). Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Fall 2002-Spring 2003.
• "Open Mic" Student, Staff & Faculty Poetry Reading in conjunction with Women's History month. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. March 2002.
• Technical and Professional Writing Committee. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Fall 2001-Spring 2003.
• Western Civilization Teaching Circle. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Fall 2001-Spring 2003.
• Performances of Identity: Voices of the Self. English Graduate Student Association of Texas A&M University's Interdisciplinary Conference On Language and Literature. Logistical liaison for conference coordinator. College Station, TX. October 20-21 2000.
• Literacies & Literary Representations Symposium: Posing Questions, Framing Conversations about Language & Hispanic Identities. College Station, TX. October 5-6, 2000. Videographer and sound manager.
• Rewriting Literacies: Changing communities, Shifting Discourses in the Twenty-first Century, College Station, TX. October 22, 1999. Videographer and sound manager.
• Sonoma State Literary Readings Fall 1995-Spring 1996. Co-organized, advertised and participated in distinguished guests and student readings.
• San Francisco State University Poetry Center Internship, Fall 1993. Created instructional manual for future interns.

AWARDS

• Charles Gordone Award Graduate Poetry; Texas A&M University, April 26, 2001.
• Charles Gordone Award Graduate Poetry runner up; Texas A&M University, April 27, 2000.
• Charles Gordone Award Graduate Fiction; Texas A&M University, April 27, 2000.
• Charles Gordone Award Graduate Fiction 1st runner up; Texas A&M University, April 27, 2000.
• Charles Gordone Award Graduate Fiction 2nd runner up; Texas A&M University, April 27, 2000.
• Recognized for Teaching Excellence, Tomball College, Tomball, TX, December 1996.
• Creative Writing Student of the year, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, June 19, 1985.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Modern Language Association Member, December 1994 - Spring 1996, 2003-present.
• English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University.
• English Student Association, Sonoma State University.
• Creative Organization of Writing Students, San Francisco State University, 1986-1988.