I earned my B.A., in Humanities and M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Binghamton University.  I have been a mentor/faculty member in Arts and Humanities at SUNY Empire State College since 1994.  Currently, I am based in northern New York near Fort Drum, Watertown, and St. Lawrence County (where I live).  My interests include poetry, especially from the Romantic era to the present, American literature, adult learning, and disability studies. I also study how people learn writing, and I enjoy fantasy literature, especially the ways in which it is reinterpreted by different cultures and generations to tell their significant stories and reflect their values. 

 

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in English from SUNY

Publications

  • Major Changes on Adult Students; Lives: Educaitonal Planning as an Ongoing Process. All About Mentoring, 51 (Winter 2018), 31-34.
  • "'As at a Theatre': Wallace Stevens' Dramatistic Poetry." The Wallace Stevens Journal. 20.1 (Spring 1996): 27-46.
  • "Stevens' 'Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.'" The Explicator. Spring 1995.
  • "Stevens' 'The Snow Man.'" The Explicator 50.2 (Winter 1992): 86-87.
  • "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick: Sweeping the Stage of Souvenirs." Twentieth Century Literature 37 (Fall 1991): 309-21.
  • Thinking About Military and Veteran Students." Susan McConnaughy, Penny Coleman, Marina Privman, Maureen Kravec, John Beckem, Desiree Drindak. All About Mentoring 47 (Summer 2015), 62+.
  • Short Stories: "Three Old Dog Stories." Blueline 12 (1991): 88-89.