Membership in Professional Organizations:

Selected Publications: 

• "Questioning Ethics: Incorporating the Novel into Ethics Courses" - in the book Teaching the Novel across the Curriculum, Edited by Colin Irvine, published by Greenwood Press
• "Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian" - in a book on Anti-Americanism in British Literature edited by Dr. Diana Archibald
• "Creating American Literature" - in the journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice . Spring 2007, Vol. 2, Issue 2. 
• "Existential Endurance: Resolution from Accepting the 'Other' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace"  - in the journal The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University
• "Leaning on the North" - in the June/July 2007 issue of SIRR Magazine
• "Being Actively Revised by the Other: Opposition and Incorporation" - in the book Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course , Vol. 10. Ed. Barbara Hugenberg and Lawrence Hugenberg.  Dubuque , IA :  Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company for the National Communication Association, 2006. Co-authored by McCoppin, Rachel, and Mark E. Huglen
• "Existentialism in the Classroom: Practical Application to Nietzsche" -  in the journal InterCulture, Issue 3
• "Transcendental Legacies: Transcendental and Existential Tenets in Modernism and Postmodernism" in the journal Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
• M.A. in English from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
• B.A. in English from the University of Michigan - Flint, Flint, MI

Joined UMC in August 2003