Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia, August, 1995.

Dissertation title: “ Theological Imagination of Unamuno”

M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia, May, 1991. 

Thesis title: “Functions of Dialogue in Cortázar's Short Stories”

B.A. in Spanish, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, May, 1989.

Intensive Spanish Course, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, August to September, 1986.

 "Differentiated Instruction to Support and Challenge our 21st-century Learners," REFLECTIONS 2009 Foreign Language Teachers' Workshop, USC Upstate, March 20, 2009.

 SCFLTA Conference, Columbia, February 21, 2009.

"Podcasting Projects in the Language Classroom," a SCFLTA pre-conference workshop, University of South Carolina, February 20, 2009.

"Foreign Language Program Evaluation," workshop sponsored by National Capital Language Resource Center, May 29-30, 2008.

"Developing Listening Comprehension Skills," workshop sponsored by National Capital Language Resource Center, May 22-23, 2008.

SCFLTA/SCOLT Conference, Myrtle Beach, April 3-5, 2008.

"Reclaim precious time - Use free technology for oral assessment," workshop prior to SCFLTA/SCOLT Conference, Myrtle Beach, April 3, 2008.

South Carolina Hispanic Latino Issues Conference, Columbia, SC, August 2007.

Completed Interpreter Qualification Training sponsored by South Carolina Department of Social Services and the Department of Health, and Environmental Control. Now qualified to do interpreting, sight translation and small text translation for those agencies. September 2006.

Sabbatical research: History, literature and culture of U.S. Latinos, Spring 2005.

"Testing and Assessment in the Second Language Classroom," McGraw-Hill Satellite Teleconference, October 27, 2004.

"Risking Growth, Risking Joy: Spiritual Writing in the Garden" (poetry writing workshop), Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden, October 23, 2004.

"Developing Successful Grants" (grant-writing workshop), Research Associates, Columbia, SC, October 27, 2003.

NEH Seminar "Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA, June/July 2003.

Language study, Comunidad Educativa Cemanahuac, Cuernavaca, México, June 11 -25, 2003.

S.C. Chamber of Commerce Seminar “Hispanics in the Carolinas: Hiring, Managing and Retaining Hispanic Employees,” Greenville, South Carolina, November 20, 2002.

Center for Language Education and Research Summer Workshop “Promoting Motivation and Interest in Foreign Languages Inside and Outside of the Classroom,”Michigan State University, June 2002.    

South Carolina Conference on Trusteeship, Clemson University, September 6, 2000.

Spanish Faculty Development in International Business Program, University of South Carolina, July 2000.

NEH Institute "Authority, Text, and Context in Spanish Realism," Duke University, June/July 1999.

Programa de Maestros Norteamericanos, Fundación Ortega y Gasset (Madrid), July 1996.

Associate Professor, Coker College, August 2003 to present.

Assistant Professor, Coker College, August 1998 to May 2003.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University, July 1995 to June 1998.

Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1994-95.

Visiting Instructor, Wheaton College, 1993-94.

Spanish Instructor, University of Virginia, Summer Foreign Language Institute, Summer, 1993 and 1992.

Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, 1989-93.

Basic Reviewer, Foreign Language Annals, Spring 2009 to present.

Selection Board Member, South Carolina Teacher of the Year Award (Sigma Delta Pi), 2004 to present.

Grant-writing team member for grant proposal submitted to the Kresge Foundation on November 10, 2003.

Co-author of Coker College's capital campaign brochure, Summer 2002. The brochure was selected as a Special Merit recipient in the CASE District III Advancement Awards Program in the Fund Raising Category 19 from a pool of 39 entries.

Selection Committee Member, Ignacio M. Galbis Literary Award, El Cid (graduate/undergraduate literary journal), The Citadel, 2002 to present.. 

Member of the Board of Trustees, Coker College, Fall 2000 to Spring 2002.

Chair/Organizer for sessions on the Spanish novel, La Regenta, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference: April 2000.

Director of Spring Term in Spain, Washington and Lee University, 1996-97.

Conference Consultant and Administrative Director, National Symposium on Theatre in Academe, Washington and Lee University, 1996-97.

Selection Committee Member, Minaya Alvar Fañez Award, El Cid (graduate/undergraduate literary journal), The Citadel, 1997 and 1998.

Spanish House Advisor, Wheaton College, 1993-94.

Preceptor, University of Virginia, 1990-93

Conference Assistant, University of Virginia, Center for the Liberal Arts, Conference on Latin American Literature and Culture, July, 1991.

Student Supervisor, Wheaton College, Language Learning Center, April, 1988 to May, 1989.

Editorial Assistant, Wheaton College, video series on crosscultural adaptation, November, 1988 to May, 1989.

“Christ the Wife-Mother in El Cristo de Velázquez.” Romance Notes XL.2 (2000): 187-196.

“La salvación en Abel Sánchez a través del Diario íntimo de Miguel de Unamuno.” Romance Notes, Fall 1993.

"Un vuelo con Iberia: Living the Language Through a Classroom `Flight'".  Hispania 73 (1990): 1134-1136.

"Bringing Social Services to Hispanic/Latino Clients." Coker College Conference on Social Work, October 2008.

"Digging In: Christina Rossetti and Miguel de Unamuno." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 2006.

"U.S. Latinos." Hartsville Kiwanis Club. February 23, 2006.

"Mary Magdalene and the Walnut Tree:  San Manuel Bueno, mártir's 19th-century Roots." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky: April 2005.

“A Bite-sized La Regenta: Text and Techniques for Undergraduates.” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Boston: November 2000.

“Unamuno: The Redemption of the Sphinx.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky: April 1999.

“Christ as the Wife-Mother in El Cristo de Velázquez”: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky: April 1998.

“Violence and Sexuality in La tía Tula.” XXIII Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference. Indiana University of Pennsylvania: October 1997.

“`Apuntes para un tratado de cocotología’: Unamuno and Aesthetic Modernity.” Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference. East Carolina University: March 1997.

"El deseo mimético y la crisis sacrificial en Abel Sánchez."  North American Association of Christian Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, April 1994.

"The Barrier Between Conscious and Unconscious Awareness in Cortazar's `Pesadillas'.  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April, 1991.

Invited to join Omicron Delta Kappa, November 2004.

The 2003-2004 Coker College yearbook was dedicated to me.

Selected to appear in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.

Co-winner of a SPECIAL MERIT AWARD from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the Gateway to the New Century Campaign brochure or "case statement".

Stipend from CLEAR to attend summer workshop, June 2002.

CIBER Scholarship, July 2000.

King Juan Carlos Fellowship, Summer 1996.

Spain ‘92 Foundation Grant, Summer 1996.

Glenn Grant (Washington and Lee University), Summer 1996.

Editor's Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, National Library of Poetry, 1995.

Charles G. Reid Scholarship, University of Virginia, 1991.

Reviewer of  Sol y viento for Mc-Graw Hill, November 2004.

Reviewer of a chapter of Dicho y hecho (7th edition) for Wiley and Sons, April 2004.

Reviewer of book proposal entitled Con brío for Wiley and Sons, January 2004.

Reviewer of book proposal entitled Lazos humanos y gramaticales: Gramática y vocabulario a través de la literatura for McGraw-Hill, January 2003.

Reviewer of book proposal entitled Español avanzado for McGraw-Hill: June 2002.

Reviewer of Spanish for Business and Finance. 5^th edition, for Houghton Mifflin Company.

Reviewer of book proposal entitled Espejos for Houghton Mifflin Company: April 2000.

Reviewer of book proposal entitled Intermediate Spanish Grammar Review for McGraw-Hill: October 1999.    

Reviewer of manuscript version of  Literatura española ‘fin de siglo’: Texto, contexto y crítica. By Mark P. Del Mastro and Linda Bartlett. McGraw-Hill: September 1997.

"Get Involved" (words/lyrics for children's musical) to be performed at First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, December 2009.

"The Message" (words/lyrics for children's musical), First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, December 2008.

"Send It In a Shoebox" (words/lyrics for children's musical), First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, December 2007.

"Whiteout" (words/lyrics for children's musical),  First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, December 2006.

"Welcome to Planet Chrismon" (words/lyrics for children's musical), First Presbyterian, Hartsville, December 2005.

"Operation Christmas Box" (words/lyrics for children's musical). Presented at the First Presbyterian Church,  Hartsville, December 2004.

"Let there be light," "the death moon blinds the sun," "in the text," "call me Bitter," "Boaz doesn't know why," and "in his future." Poems written to accompany selected works of Marc Chagall displayed at the Black Creek Arts Council Gallery, Hartsville, South Carolina, June 5-23, 2003.

“Communion: it’s better than a hog call” (poem). The Presbyterian Outlook 181.37 (November 8, 1999): 11.

“Communion” (poem). The Bread of Life. Hamilton, Ontario: 1997.

"Seaside: Santa Monica" (poem). The Voice Within. Owings Mills: National Library of Poetry, 1996.

"`it's because of the cracks... " (poem). Best Poems of 1996.  Owings Mills: National Library of Poetry, 1996.

"`I'm out... " (poem).  Echoes from the silence.  Harlingen:  Quill Books, 1995.

"Terpsichore" (poem).  East of the Sunrise.  Owings Mills:  National Library of Poetry, 1995.

"El juicio final" (short story).  Tropos (Michigan State University) XVII (1991): 83-90.

"Corazón en agonía...” (poem). Textos (University of Pennsylvania) 1990.

“The TWINkle TWINkle...” (poem). The Art of Poetry. Santa Cruz: American Poetry Association, 1985.

“Untitled 13" (poem). Hearts on Fire. Santa Cruz: American Poetry Association, 1985.

“The ROCK-based Blocks...” (poem). American Poetry Anthology. Santa Cruz: American Poetry Association, 1984.

“Insomniac” (poem).  Our Twentieth Century’s Greatest Poems.  Sacramento: World of Poetry Press, 1982.

"Blessed are you who feed the hungry" (text). Written to honor the Alabama Presbyterian Church in Choudrant, Louisiana. Performed at First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville on October 19, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4yDLfFQkTs

"Ballad of the Turtledove" (text). Written for the wedding of Lindsay Davis. Performed at First Baptist Church Hartsville. November 2007.

"To the Desert Fled Elijah" (text). Written for 15th Anniversary Service for Ronda McElveen. First Presbyterian Hartsville. August 2006.

"Jubilate Deo" (text). Written for 25th Anniversary Service for Anna White Hill, First Presbyterian Church Hartsville, February 5, 2006. Published in To Sing the Artist's Praise , a collection of hymn tunes by Sally Ann Morris, by GIA Publications, 2009.

“With Hearts of Jubilation” (text). Written for the Hanging of the Greens Service, First Presbyterian Church Hartsville, December 1, 2002.

“Agnus Dei" (text). Originally titled "Pie Jesu." Set to music by James Beaumier and performed at Wesley United Methodist Church, Hartsville, on September 9, 2002.

“We Celebrate the Feast of Christ” (text). Written at the Montreat Conference on Music and Worship, July 2001. Performed at First Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, on February 5, 2002.

“The Love of Christ” (text). Submitted to the hymn competition of the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Selected as one of 7 finalists.

            Works in Progress, Literary Reading and Art Show, Coker College, Hartsville, SC 2001.

Writers Harvest, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina, October 1998 , 1999 and 2000.

Lexington Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Virginia, Spring 1998.

Writers Harvest, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, October 1997.

Elementary Spanish

Intermediate Grammar

Oral Communication

Written Communication

Introduction to Literature

U.S. Latinos: Culture and Civilization

Spain: Culture and Civilization

Latin America: Culture and Civilization

Spanish for Professions (Business, Social Services, Education)

Senior Seminar (variety of topics)

Slave Narrative of the Americas

Spanish Teaching Methods

Faculty Trustee, Fall 2000 to Spring 2002.            

Presidential Search Committee, Fall 2001 to Spring 2002.

Faculty Budget Liaison Committee (ex oficio), Fall 2001 to Spring 2002; Fall 2006 to Spring 2008.

Academic Subcommittee of Presidential Planning Committee , Fall 2001 to Spring 2002.

Faculty Advisor, Commissioners, Fall 2001 to Spring 2006.

General Education Exploratory Committee, 1999.

Faculty Advocacy Committee, Fall 2001 to Spring 2003.

Faculty Athletics Committee, Fall 1999 to Spring 2002.

Student Development Committee, Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.

Faculty Advisor, HOWL (Student community service organization), Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.

Susan Coker Watson Fellowship Committee, Spring 1999 to Spring 2002.

Spanish-American Studies Committee, 1998-1999.

Humanitarian Service Trip to Nicaragua, Washington and Lee University, 1996.   

El Teatro Español, University of Virginia, 1990 and 1991.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers Association

Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society)

Phi Sigma Iota (Lifetime Member).

            Spoke to Spanish classes at GSSM on studying a foreign language, May 2008.

            Volunteer translator for Public Information Officer of Darlington County Emergency Services during biannual emergency simulation with Robinson Nuclear Plant. Fall 2008.

            Service Trip to Mexico with First Presbyterian Church, Summer 2001, 2005-2008.

Service Trip to West Virginia with First Presbyterian Church, 2000 and 2001.

Hartsville Civic Chorale Member, 1998 to 2004.

First Presbyterian Church Choir Member, 1998 to present.

Enterprise Development Volunteer Translator,  1996-97.

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer, 1996 to 1998.