A member of the OWU faculty since 1989.

• Recipient of the Bishop Herbert Welch Meritorious Teaching Award
• Director of the Adolescent to Young Adult and Multi-age Teacher Education Programs

Education

• B.S. Wittenberg University
• M.A. The Ohio State University (1982)
• Ph.D. The Ohio State University (1986)

Courses

• EDUC 369/370: Secondary Teaching: Knowledge and Practice and Secondary Field Practicum
• EDUC 353: Developmental Reading and Young Adult Literature
• EDUC 471, 472, 473: Secondary and Multi-Age Student Teaching
• EDUC 377: Secondary School Curriculum
• EDUC 346: Middle School Methods: Language Arts
• EDUC 366: Secondary Methods: English/Language
• EDUC 253: Children's Literature and Language Arts in the Elementary School

Professional Memberships

• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE);
• NCTE Conference on English Education;
• English Journal - Column Editor;
• Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) - Past President;
• Ohio Council of Teachers of English (OCTELA) - Past President;
• National Council on Research in Language and Literacy (Membership by Invitation);
• International Reading Association and special interest group in Adolescent Literature;
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
   

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding English Language Arts Educator, 1998;
• National Council of Teachers of English Promising Researcher Award Finalist, 1987;
• Outstanding Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, 1985.
• Robert K. Marshall Award (Outstanding Campus Service by Faculty)

Professional Interests

• Young Adult Literature - Its literacy merit  and use in the classroom;
• Adolescent literacy;
• Reading, writing, and representing to learn in all content areas;
• Research in Teacher Thinking

Personal Interests

• Reading,
• Music: choral and symphonic,
• Gardening