Advising

Dissertation and Thesis Committees
MA Thesis Committee: Laura Finn, "Vietnam War Narratives through Women's Eyes" (completed 2004).

PhD Dissertation Committee: Daniel Bullen, Bearing the Nation’s Child: America’s Childless Cult of the Child (completed 2003), New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, Dept of English.

PhD Dissertation Committee: Mark Peters, "Freewriting and Unfreewriting: Using Twentieth-Century Procedural Writing to make New Meanings in Composition" (completed 2002), Graduate School of the Sate University at New York of Buffalo, 2002.

DA Dissertation Committee: Michelle Liptak, "Rewriting the Scripts: Marriage, Motherhood, and Family in the Novels of Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, and Toni Morrison" (in progress), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Carla Caglioti, “Modernism, the Profession, and Technology” (in progress), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Judy Phagan, "Triple Threat: Blues Women Challenge Patriarchy" (completed 2003), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Director: Joseph Sora, "Revaluing the Master’s in English: An Answer to the Ph.D. Employment Crisis," (completed 2002), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Sister Barbara Sudol, CSFN, "Elements of Mysticism in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot" (completed 2001), St. John's University, Department of English.

MA Thesis Director: Nicolette Porochnia, "What to take Home: A Collection on the Poetics of Place," (completed 2001), St. John's University, Department of English.

McNair Fellowship Mentor: Patricia Lespinasse (2000-2002)

DA Dissertation Committee: Richard Vogel, “Avenues to Faith: Encountering God in the Novels of Graham Greene and Walker Percy," (completed 1996), St. John's University, Department of English.

MA Thesis Committee: Paul Reifenheiser, “Grokking Utopia: The Pedagogical Vision of Robert Heinlein’s A Stranger in a Strange Land” (completed 1996), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Grant, “A Guide to Teaching American Indian Fiction” (completed1996), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: John Holland, “The Transformation of the Gothic in the Novels of Toni Morrison” (in progress), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Linda Reesman, “ Romantic Suicide: Crossing Sentimental Borders” (completed 1997), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Juliet Emanuel-George, “The Quieted Voice in Multiculturalism: A Study in the Shifted Self of the Post-Colonial Writers Rhys, Riley, Emecheta, and Cliff” (completed 1997), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Director: Rochelle Almeida, “The Politics of Mourning: Variation in Grief-Management in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Fiction” (completed 1999), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Committee: Rebecca Neuhedel, “‘Going Home’: Journeys of Self-Exploration in Baseball Literature” (completed 1997), St. John's University, Department of English.

DA Dissertation Director: Julie Katz, “Private Lives and Public Relevance: Reconceptualizing Pedagogical Space(s) in Composition” (in progress), St. John's University, Department of English.