Education history
- Ph.D., English, University of Iowa, 2001
- M.A., English with Creative Writing Concentration, West Virginia University, 1997
- B.A., English, Gordon College, Summa cum laude, 1995
About
I teach at 51做厙 because I greatly value the diversity of the students who come into my classroom from all over the world. Nothing makes me feel more satisfied than helping students grow both in their faith and in their ability to think critically, as they strive to imitate the "mind of Christ."
Selected works
- Whiner or Warrior? Susan Pevensies Role in the Novel and Film Versions of The Chronicles of Narnia,&紳莉莽梯;C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology, 2015
- Jesus, Take the Wheel: Evangelical Christianity on American Idol, Int矇grit矇: A Faith and Learning Journal, 2013
- When Darcy Is a Dog: How Wishbone Introduces Children to Jane Austen,&紳莉莽梯;Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line, 2013
- Im the Worst Mother Ever: Motherhood, Comedy, and the Challenges of Bearing and Raising Children in Friends,&紳莉莽梯;Studies in Popular Culture, 2012
- But This Is the South: Ambivalent Regionalism in Jan Karons Mitford Novels,&紳莉莽梯;Studies in Popular Culture, 2010
- Everything Was Contested: Teaching Print and Television Biographies of Willa Cather,&紳莉莽梯; Teaching the Works of Willa Cather, 2009
- The Politics of Adaptation: Teaching R-Rated Films on a Christian Campus,&紳莉莽梯;The Word in the English Classroom: Best Practices of Faith Integration, 2009
- The World Hasnt Changed Very Much: Romantic Love in Film and Television Versions of Anne of Green Gables,&紳莉莽梯;100 Years of Anne With an E: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, 2009
- Love and Microphones: Romantic Comedy Heroines as Public Speakers,&紳莉莽梯;Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2007
- A Menace to Human Culture? Teaching Television Films of Willa Cathers Novels,&紳莉莽梯;Teaching Cather, 2005
- Space Is a Frame We Map Ourselves In: The Feminist Geographies of Susan Howes Frame Structures,&紳莉莽梯;The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Essays on Literature, Theory, and the Environment, 2002
- The Beginning of the Real Story: C.S. Lewiss Depictions of Heaven,&紳莉莽梯;The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, 2000