Ph.D. in English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, England: Image and Word: The Stages of Arthur Miller’s Drama (dissertation)

B.A. in English and teaching credential in English, Speech, Drama, Drama, and French, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.; Magna cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Delta Phi, Mortar Board, Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, and Outstanding Credential Candidate in Secondary Education 

Editorial Services Specialist, Ginn Press, Lexington, MA: Managed editors, freelancers, inhouse temporary staff, and college interns; edited college textbooks

Temporary Assistant, Bedford Books, Boston, MA: Assisted editors with research, manuscripts, and office responsibilities

Editorial Assistant, St. Martin’s Press, New York, NY: Assisted Acquisitions Editor of College English Textbooks with manuscript corrections, author correspondence, permissions, and market research

Company Manager, Mt. Washington Valley Theatre Company, North Conway, NH: Managed thirty-member company; directed productions

Stage and House Manager, Nicholas Music Center, Concert Series, and Rutgers University Orchestra, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

English Professor, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA: Have taught fourteen courses in English, Drama, and Speech; Designed six new courses; Founded Delta Winds magazine; Initiated writer’s club; Directed two play and screenwriting showcases; Hosted English Majors reception, May 2005; Served on various campus committees, including Matriculation, Academic Research, and ad hoc committees; Co-edited Parenting Exchange newsletter; Offered workshops on writer’s block and various flex activity workshops; New Educator Award, 1993

Adjunct English Instructor, San Joaquin Delta College, Cosumnes River College, and Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA; substituted in elementary schools, Lincoln Unified School District, Stockton, CA; served as a reader for English at Lincoln High School, Stockton, CA

English, Drama, and Speech Teacher and Coach, Tabor Academy, Marion, MA; Grades 9-12; Drama Director, Speech Coach, Adviser, Dorm- parent; Designed three new courses

English Teacher, Lincoln High Summer School, Stockton, CA

Reader for Chair of English Department, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

Student Adviser, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA: Academic and personal counseling of freshman

English 1B

English 56 (Writers and Their Works)

President, The Arthur Miller Society

2004-06

Served on state board for ECCTYC and as Membership Coordinator

“Singing for Their Fathers: The Struggle for Connection and Catharsis in American Drama”: American Drama Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

2008

“Bending Time and Place: Structure in Wilder’s and Miller’s Drama”: First International Thornton Wilder Conference, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

“New Directions in Teaching and Scholarship in Arthur Miller Studies, A Roundtable: American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA

Twenty-three articles and reviews in The Arthur Miller Society Newsletter and The Arthur Miller Journal, including “Music in Miller’s Drama” (Vol. 1, No. 2: Fall 2006)

Scenes read and discussed from A View from the Bridge, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Broken Glass with Carlos Campo: American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA

“Changing Views of an Attic: Designing The Price”: Tenth International Arthur Miller Conference, St. Peters’ College, Jersey City, NJ

“Music in Miller’s Drama”: Ninth International Arthur Miller Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY and American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA

“Before and After the Fall”: Seventh International Arthur Miller Conference, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA

“Aging in Miller’s Drama”: Sixth International Arthur Miller Conference, Felician College, Lodi, NJ

“Sympathetic Objectification: Mistresses in Miller’s Plays”: American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA

Dramaturg for 25 drama productions; San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA

“A View through Death of a Salesman” in The Salesman Has a Birthday, edited by Stephen A. Marino, University Press of America

“Absent Characters in Arthur Miller’s Drama”: Fifth International Arthur Miller Conference, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

“Dramatic and Symbolic Uses of Settings and Properties in Arthur Miller’s Drama”: Fourth International Arthur Miller Conference Millersville University, Millersville, PA

“The Price: Miller’s Continuing Fraternal Tragedy”: American Literature Association, Baltimore, MD

“Inge’s and Simon’s Dramatic Portrayals of Young Married Life: Where’s Daddy? and Barefoot in the Park”: William Inge Festival, Independence, KS

“Who’s the Enemy Now?: The Relevance of An Enemy of the People a Century, and a Half Later”: American Literature Association, San Diego, CA

“A Specific ‘Common’ Man: Arthur Miller’s Tragedy of the American Working Class”: Third International Arthur Miller Conference, Ithaca College of Syracuse University, Ithaca, NY

“Making Connections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Composition and Literature Techniques for Non-Writers”; inside English

“Making Connections: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Composition and Literature Techniques for Non-Writers”: English Council of California Two-Year Colleges Conference

“Arthur Miller and Neil Simon: Tragic and Comic Viewpoints of the American Family”: Second International Arthur Miller Conference, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

“Validating and Encouraging Student Writing through Publishing: English Council of California Two-Year Colleges Conference

“The Returning Character: A Major Structural Device in Six of Ibsen’s Plays”; Ibsen Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Online course on etudes

Sabbatical on screenwriting (interning for five producers), writers’ markets, and writer’s block, Los Angeles

Sabbatical on comparative education, England

Print Technology Course, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Sports