Tenured since: 2018

Education:

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 2014
M.A., Eastern Illinois University, 2004
B.A., Eastern Illinois University, 2002

Courses Taught:

ENGL 1010-English Composition I
ENGL 1020-English Composition II
ENGL 2110-Early American Literature
ENGL 2120-Modern American Literature

Why did you become a teacher?

I took a class on American Character with an amazing professor at a little community college in Mt. Carmel, IL. She introduced me to Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, a book about a boy from a poor family who values education and works hard to help the world around him. It was during that class and that reading that I decided to become a college professor.