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My interests include reading, writing fiction, birds, and languages, of which I read seven.

• ENGL 100 (College Reading and Writing)
• ENGL 110 (Accelerated Composition)
• ENGL 120 (Composition III)

I have taught composition courses at all levels, including ENGL 099 (the level below 100), Business Writing, and Advanced Composition; Literary Criticism; and literature courses at all levels, including Folk and Fairy Tales at Gallup in Spring 2017; surveys of British, world, and American literature; themed courses focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and Feminist Science Fiction; Major Authors: Jane Austen; and team-taught courses on Major Twentieth-Century American Woman Authors and English Senior Capstone.

• "Across So Wide a Sea: Humans, Seabirds, and the Kinship of Mortality." Chapter in Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination, eds. Danette Dimarco and Timothy L. Ruppert, Lexington Books, Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, April 2022.
• "The Bird and Eye: Kinship With Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith's The Egoist." Chapter in Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals, ed. Krishanu Maiti, Springer Nature, September 2021.
• "Teaching Sy Montgomery's Spell of the Tiger." Part of Teaching Echohorror III: Beyond Genre, ed. Christy Tidwell, ASLE, July 2021, .
• "The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion." Chapter in Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene, eds. Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles, Pennsylvania State University Press AnthropoScene series, June 2021.
• "How Wide the Sky: Birds as Conduits of Kinship in George Meredith's Writing." 2018 Conference Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, January 2019, .
• "The First Gift: Owls as Paragons of the Non-Human." Chapter in Inside the World of Harry Potter, ed. Christopher Bell, McFarland & Company, Inc., November 2018.
• "Numbers for an Alternative Anthropocene: Population Counting and Humanity's Place Among Other Species in Daniel Keys Moran's Tales of the Continuing Time." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment, Spring 2018: Population, Ecology and the Malthusian Imagination. Available online at .
• "Partnership, Not Dominion: Resistance to Decay in the Falconry Memoir." ASSAY: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2018. Available online at .

• "Romances of Recovery and Rehabilitation: Two Hummingbird Memoirs as "Other-Wonder" Narratives." Northeast Popular Culture Association 2022 Virtual Conference, October 20th-22nd, 2022.
• "Panther(Femin)ine: Woman as Cat and Not-Cat in Victoria Helen Stone's Jane Doe Thrillers." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2022.
• "The Inconvenience of Love: Half-Wildness in Avian Memoirs." Northeast Popular Culture Association 2021 Virtual Conference, October 21st-23rd, 2021.
• "The Emergence of Winged Things: Avian-Centered Memoirs as Arenas for the New Ethology." EmergencE/Y: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference, Virtual, July 26th-August 6th, 2021.
• "Listening in Human: Talking Rodents Creating Community in Children's Fantasy." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, OpenWater (Virtual), February 2021.
• "Evolution Saves the World: Stories of Kinship as Trouble-Staying in Terry Pratchett's Discworld." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2020.
• Birds of (Burning) Paradise: Bird Voices as Contestation of Anthropocentrism." Paradise on Fire: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference, Davis, California, June 2019.
• "Starting (Your Hatred) With Starlings: Invasive Bird Species as Locus of Human Misanthropy." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2019.
• "Wrecked and Ficced: Ecological Impoverishment and Resistance in Science Fiction and Fantasy Fanfic." ALECC (Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada) Biennial Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 2018.
• "Talking Dogs and Elven Wasps: Terry Pratchett's Atheistic, Animalistic Humor." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2018.
• "How Wide the Sky: Birds As Conduits of Kinship in George Meredith's Writing." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2018.
• "Partnered to Raptors: Resistance to Decay in the Falconry Memoir." Rust/Resistance: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference, Detroit, Michigan, June 2017.
• "'Would You Call the Present Age a Good One For Unicorns?": Unicorns As the Environmental Triumphant in Peter S. Beagle's Fantasy." Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2017.
• "'His Reason Ought to Conquer His Imagination': The Explanatory Power of Darwin's Language in The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man." Darwin's Reach Conference: Celebrating Darwin's Legacy Across the Disciplines, Hofstra University, New York, March 2009.