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University address:
Louisiana Folklife Center
Northwestern State University
NSU Box 3663
Natchitoches, LA 71497
318.357.4332
abney@nsula.edu
May 1999-Present: Director, Louisiana Folklife Center (LFC). Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.
Plan and direct the activities of the Natchitoches/NSU Folk FestivalJuly 2002 to present: Associate Professor of English. Department of Language and Communication, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.
August 1998-May 1999: Acting Director, Louisiana Folklife Center. Northwestern State Unversity, Natchitoches, LA.
August 1997-Present: Full-time, Tenure Track Position, Assistant Professor of English, Department of Language and Communication, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.
Conduct research in linguistics, folklife, and regional literatureAugust 1996 to August 1997: Full-time Position. Lecturer in English and Coordinator of Academic Advising: College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown.
Taught two English Courses
Coordinated academic advising for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Performed administrative duties regarding the advisement of declared majors and advised students
Maintained degree plans and curriculum planning activities
Served on articulation agreement committees
September 1994 to August 1996. Full-time position. Lecturer in English and Academic Advisor: College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown.
Taught two English courses per semester
Advised declared majors about courses, reviewed files of graduating seniors, and approved graduation applications.
December 1991 to September 1994: Full-time position: Lecturer in English and Academic Advisor: University College. University of Houston-Downtown.
Advised undeclared majors regarding their academic courses and majors
Taught two English courses per semester.
Advisor and Project Director: Library of Congress, Local Legacies Program 1999
Material Culture Coordinator: Louisiana State Folklife Festival 1999, 2000
Field Presenter: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 1999
Project Director and Fieldworker: Linguistic Survey of North Louisiana 1999, 2000,2001
Fieldworker: Folklife Survey of Houston, Spring 1993
Fieldworker: Phonological Survey of Texas, Spring 1989-Fall 1989December 1997 Ph.D. English, University of Houston. Dissertation title: Textual Suppression in George Sessions Perry's Hold Autumn in Your Hand and Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Director: Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Ph.D.
May 1988 M.A. in English, Texas A&M UniversityThesis: "Preterites in Early Southern English." Director: Guy H. Bailey, Ph.D.
August 1986 B.A. in Modern Languages (Spanish), Texas A&M University
Principal Investigator: National Endowment for the Humanities. Preservation and Digitization of Sound Recordings. Requested amount: $93,975.25. Written and will be submitted in July, 2003.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Division of Arts. Contemporary Folk Traditions and the Legacy of the Louisiana Purchase. Funded amount: $8860.00. Effective date: July 1, 2002 - August 31, 2003.
Collaborating faculty. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Teacher Institute, June 2003-July 2003. "Louisiana Writers."
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Funded Amount: $26,000.00.
Principal Investigator: Lousiana Endowment for the Humanities. Folk Culture and the Louisiana Purchase. Funded amount: $8533.00. Effective date: December 14, 2002-July 31, 2003.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Division of Arts. Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival. Louisiana's Military and Folk Traditions. Funded amount: $8,400.00. Effective date: July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. "Louisiana's Military and Folk Traditions: Narrative Sessions." Funded amount: $7180.00. Effective date: December 14, 2001-July 30, 2002.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Division of Arts. Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival, The Influence of African-American Culture on Louisiana's Folk Traditions. Funded amount: $11,071.00. Effective date: July 1, 2001-June 30, 2001.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Division of Arts. Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Foodways, Music and Narrative Stages. Funded amount: $6,750.00. Effective date: July 1, 2000 to November 20, 2000.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival: Narrative Stages. Funded amount: $6396.00. Effective date: December 6, 1999-July 31, 2000.
Principal Investigator: Louisiana Board of Regents: Enhancement Grant. Funded amount: $6386.00. Effective date: July 1, 2000-June 30, 2001.
Co-Investigator with Dr. Suzanne D. Green : CURIA. Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Funded amount: $2000.00. Effective date: July 1, 1999-June 30, 2000.
Principal Investigator. Louisiana Division of Arts: Archiving Assistance. Funded amount: $10,000.00. Effective date: April 15, 1999.
Principal Investigator. Louisiana Division of Arts: Project Assistance. Funded amount: $11,770.00. Effective date: July 1, 1999.
Principal Investigator. CURIA. Linguistic Survey of North Louisiana. Funded amount: $1,500.00. Effective date: November 30, 1998.
Principal Investigator. Board of Regents Graduate Fellows Grant-- Funded amount: $22,000.00. Co-investigators: Dr. Suzanne Green and Dr. B. Ray Wallace. Effective date: August 30, 1998.
Principal Investigator. Louisiana Division of Arts, Regional Folklorist Grant--Funded amount: $84,000.00 first year, $70,000.00 for the next six years. Effective date: March 15, 1999 to Present.
Louisiana Folklife. General editor of volumes 19-to the present
The Fifth Annual Kate Chopin International Conference Proceedings. Special Issue.
Southern Studies, 30.1 (2001). Guest editor with Suzanne Disheroon-Green, David J. Caudle, and Susie Scifres Kuilan.
Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Spring 2001.
Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
The Last Respects:Grave Digging by Hand in Northern and Central Louisiana. Proposal solicited by U Tennessee P. Manuscript has been solicited for review.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists. Eds. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, forthcoming 2003.
Voices of the American South. Associate Editor: Lisa Abney. Ed. Suzanne Disheroon-Green. New York: Longman P., forthcoming 2003.
"The Sportin' Life: The Use of Recreational and Occupational Folk Traditions in Arna Bontemps's God Sends Sunday." Sports and Literature. Eds. Michael Cocchiarale and Scott Emmert. Westport: CT, 2004 (forthcoming).
"Folklore, Myth, and Motif in Confederacy of Dunces" New Perspectives on John Kennedy Toole and His Works. Eds. Susie Scifres Kuilan and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Proposal accepted. Book under review at LSU Press.
Book Review of Natchitoches and Louisiana's Timeless Cane River. Philip Gould. Arkansas Review. 2003 (in-press). Invited publication.
"Rebecca Wells." Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Joseph Flora. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2003 (in-press). Invited publication
"Introduction to 21st Century American Literature." With Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists. Eds. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, 2003 (in-press).
"Connie May Fowler." Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists. Eds. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, 2003 (in-press).
"Andre Dubus, III." Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists. Eds. Lisa Abney Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, 2003 (in-press).
"Michael Lee West." Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st Century American Novelists. Eds. Lisa Abney and Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Detroit: Gale, 2003 (in-press).
"Grave Digging in Central Louisiana." Louisiana Folklife. With Douglas Hollingsworth, In Press.
"Clyde Edgerton." A Literary Atlas of North American Regional Fiction. Ed. Andrew MacDonald and Gina MacDonald. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2003.
"Michael Lee West." A Literary Atlas of North American Regional Fiction. Ed. Andrew MacDonald and Gina MacDonald. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming, 2003.
"Mardi Gras: Its Traditions and Evolution." CenLa Focus, 6.1 (2003).
"Natchitoches, Music, and the Louisiana Purchase." CenLa Focus, 5.6 (2002).
"The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial and Natchitoches's American Cemetery." CenLa Focus, 5.5 (2002).
"Natchitoches's July Activities." CenLa Focus, 5.4 (2002).
"Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival to Celebrate Louisiana's Military and Folk Traditions in 2002." CenLa Focus, 5.3 (2002).
"March and April Arts in Natchitoches." CenLa Focus, 5.2 (2002).
"Alice Walker." Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood P., 2002.
"Barbara Kingsolver." Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
"Creoles." The Louisiana Purchase: An Encyclopedia. With Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
"Introduction." With Suzanne Disheroon-Green. Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
"Cakewalks, Cauls, and Conjure: Folk Practices in Arna Bontemps's God Sends Sunday and 'A Summer Tragedy.'" Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945. Eds. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, In Press.
"The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Needs You." CenLa Focus, 4.7 (2002).
"Natchitoches's Treasure: Olivier's Cypress Furniture." CenLa Focus, 4.6 (2001).
"Rushing House Concerts" CenLa Focus, 4.5 (2001).
"The Milieu of the Louisiana Timber Industry and Kate Chopin's At Fault." At Fault by Kate Chopin. Ed. Suzanne Disheroon-Green and David J. Caudle. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P., 2001.
"Introduction." Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Foodways and Folk Traditions in Michael Lee West's She Flew the Coop." Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Clyde Edgerton." Contemporary Novelists. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001.
"Mardi Gras Indians." Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Program. Natchitoches, LA: Folklife Festival Publications, 2001.
"Easter: Louisiana Style." Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Program. Natchitoches, LA: Folklife Festival Publications, 2000.
"Family Reunions." Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Program. Natchitoches, LA: Folklife Festival Publications, 2000.
"The Louisiana Folklife Center." Public Programs Newsletter, 18.1 (2000).
"The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival." Local Legacies Program. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Multimedia submission including written text, audio, photographs, and video. January,2000.
"Business and Technical Writing: Importance, Accessibility, and Contextualization in the Liberal Arts Curriculum." Lousiana English Journal 6.2 (1999).
"Egg KnockingTraditions: Marksville, LA." Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Program. Natchitoches, LA: Folklife Festival Publications, 1999.
"Folklife Society of Louisiana." American Folklore Society News 27.6 (1998).
"The Louisiana Folklife Center." Public Programs Newsletter 17.2.
"Mabel Dodge Luhan." Sourcebook of Twentieth Century Women Writers. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
"Gertrude Stein." Sourcebook of Twentieth Century Women Writers. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
"Georg Lukacs." Dictionary of Literary Biography: European Critical Theorists. Ed. Paul Hansom. Detroit: Gale Research, 2001.
"Selling the Truth: What English Majors Need to Hear." CEA Critic: The Official Journal of the College English Association 61.1. With Dr. Rocky Colavito and Dr. Suzanne Green.
"Textual Suppression in George Sessions Perry's Hold Autumn in Your Hand and Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland." Humanities in the South 81 (1998).
"Pronoun Shift in Oral Folklore, Personal Experience and Literary Narratives, or 'What's
up with you?'" SECOL Review, 20.2."Gender Differences in Oral Folklore Narratives." SECOL Review,Vol. 18.
"Preterites in Early Southern English." SECOL Review, Vol. 13.3.
Recipient of Favorite Professor in the Liberal Arts College by Northwestern State University Students and Yearbook Staff, Spring 1999.
Recipient of Reza Ordoubadian Award (SECOL) for best student paper, Spring 1989.
Louisiana Festival of the Book. November 2, 2002. Baton Rouge, LA. "Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana." With Suzanne Disheroon-Green.
Louisiana Festival of the Book. November 2, 2002. Baton Rouge, LA. "The New Generation of Louisiana Writers." Panel discussion with Tim Gautreaux, Ken Wells, John Biguenet, Moira Crone, Suzanne Disheroon-Green, and Lisa Abney.
Louisiana Council of Teachers of English. October 25, 2002. Natchitoches, LA. "Folkore, History, and Internet Sources in the Writing Course."
Natchitoches Lions Club. July 2002. Natchitoches, Louisiana."The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival."
The Martin Homeplace Museum. July 3, 2002. Columbia, LA. "Preservation and Presentation of Traditional Cultural Activities."
Kiwanis Club. July 2002. Natchitoches, LA. "The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival."
Lesche Club. January 7, 2002. "Songs of the New South." Natchitoches, LA. With Suzanne Disheroon-Green.
Natchitoches Lions Club. July 2001. Natchitoches, LA. "The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival."
Natchitoches Rotary Club. July 2001. Natchitoches, LA. "The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival."
LaSalle Museum Association. May 2001. "Funding Opportunities and Traditional Folk Activities."
Winnfield Kiwanis Club. June 2000. Winnfield, LA. "The Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival."
Lousiana Council of Teachers of English. October 25-26, 2002. Natchitoches, LA. "A Home-Grown Approach: Using Louisiana Sources in Teaching Writing."
Conference Coordinator. Louisiana Folklore Society, April 13, 2002. Natchitoches, LA
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, April 18-20, 2002. Memphis, TN. "'You know they were desperate if they hired me': Gender and Discourse in North Louisiana World War II Era Speakers." Proposal accepted. Conference attendance cancelled due to illness.
Louisiana Council of Teachers of English, October 19-20, 2001. Lafayette, LA.Presented: "Folk Traditions, Literature, and the Second-Semester First Year Writing Course."
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, April 5-7, 2001. Knoxville, TN. With Kristoffer Hailey. Presented: "Phonological and Lexical Features of Speakers from Marthaville, Louisiana."
South Central Modern Language Association, November 9-11, 2000. San Antonio, TX. Presented: "The Milieu of the Timber Industry in Kate Chopin's At Fault."
South Central Modern Language Association, November 9-11, 2000. San Antonio, TX. Chair: Southwestern American Literature Session.
South Central American Dialect Association, November 9-11, 2000. San Antonio, TX. Co-author with Kristoffer Hailey: "Southern Dialect in Marthaville, LA Natives."
Louisiana Council of Teachers of English. October 27, 2000. Alexandria, LA. Presented: "Using Folk Traditions as Writing Prompts."
South Central Modern Language Association, October 28-30, 1999. Memphis, TN. Presented: "Sarah Jane, a Southeast Texas La Llorona."
American Folklore Society, October 21-22, 1999. Memphis, TN. Presented: "Grave Digging by Hand in Central Louisiana."
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, April 8-10, 1999. Norfolk, VA. Presented: "A Report on the Linguistic Survey of North Louisiana."
Popular Culture in America. April 3-5, 1999. San Diego, CA. Presented: "Managed Care and the Language of Business Medicine Today."
American Dialect Society, November 13-15, 1998. New Orleans, LA. Presented: "Narrative Stance Markers and Pronoun Shift in the Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires."
South Central Modern Language Association, November 13-15, 1998. New Orleans, LA. Presented: "Narrative Voice in George Sessions Perry's Hold Autumn in Your Hand."
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 5-7, 1998. Atlanta, GA. Presented: "Sarah Jane: A Southeast Texas La Llorona."
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, November 5-7, 1998. Atlanta, GA. Presented with Rebecca Farabough: "Pronoun Shift and Narrative Stance Indicators in the Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires."
Louisiana Council of Teachers of English, October 14-17, 1998. New Orleans, LA. Presented with Dr. William Gorski: "Supplementing the Word: Using Non-Verbal Media as Writing Prompt."
Popular Culture of America Meeting, April 10-12, 1998. Orlando, FL. Presented: "Narrative Stance Indicators in the Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires"
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, March 26-28, 1998, Lafayette, LA. Presented: "The Language of Business Medicine in the Managed Care Era"
Philological Association of Louisiana, March 13-14, 1998, Shreveport, LA. Presented: "Narrative Structure in George Sessions Perry's Hold Autumn in Your Hand"
Writing the Rural Conference, October 23-25, 1997, Mt. Vernon, GA. Presented:"Narrative Structure and Pronoun Shift in George Sessions Perry's Hold Autumn in Your Hand and Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland"
Popular Culture Association, March 26-29, 1997, San Antonio, Texas. Presented "Distancing Techniques in Oral Folklore, Personal Experience, and Oral History Narratives"
Popular Culture Association, Chair, Telling Lives Session: Non-fiction area. March 26-29, 1997.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting, Secretary, Linguistics Section, November 8-10 1996. Savannah, Georgia
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Spring meeting, March 13-15, 1996, College Station, Texas. Presented: "What's up with you?: Pronoun Shift in Oral Folklore, Personal Experience, and Literary Narratives"
NACADA: 18th National Conference on Academic Advising, October 9-12, 1994. Las Vegas, Nevada
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Spring meeting, April 3-7, 1994. Memphis, Tennessee. Presented: "Pronoun Shift in Oral Folklore and Personal Experience Narratives"
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Fall meeting, November 4-8, 1993. Atlanta, Georgia. Presented "Evidentials in Oral Folklore Narratives"
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics/ Language Variation in the South. Spring meeting, April 1-3, 1993. Auburn, Alabama. Presented "Gender Differences in Oral Folklore Narratives"
University of Houston-Downtown, English Department. October 31, 1990. Co- presenters: Dr. Mary Parham and Dr. Judith Kaough. "Working With ESL Students: Ways of Improving Classroom Communication"
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Spring meeting, April 5-7, 1989. Norfolk, Virginia. Chair of ESL Session
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Spring meeting, April 1-4, 1988. Memphis, Tennessee. Presented "Preterits in Early Southern English"
Louisiana Division of Arts: Grant Review Panel for Challenge America Grants, 2002
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Evaluator: "From Boeuf to Beaucoup: Vintage
Tales from Caldwell Parish" Martin Homeplace Museum 2002
Louisiana Division of Arts: Grant Review Panel for Folklife Apprenticeships, 1998.
Library of Congress Bicentennial Celebration: Local Legacies Program, 2000.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Nominating Committee, Linguistics Section 1994-1999.
American Folklore Society
South Central Modern Language Association
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics: Nominations Committee, 1999-2001
National Academic Advising Association
Popular Culture Association
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Human Subjects Internal Review Board
Technology Projects Committee, Deparmental
Standards and Policies, Departmental, Chair
Instructor Evaluation Committee, Departmental
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Human Subjects Internal Review Board
Technology Projects, Departmental
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Search Committee: Department of Language and Communication, Medievalist Faculty Member.
Search Committee: Office of Grants and Contracts, University Research and Sponsored Programs Director and Assistants' Positions. Human Subjects Internal Review Board Literary Rally
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Department of Language and Communication Publicity Committee
Search Committee: Department of Language and Communication, Medievalist Faculty Member.
Search Committee: Office of Grants and Contracts, University Research and Sponsored Programs Director and Assistants' Positions.
Human Subjects Internal Review Board
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Department of Language and Communications Publicity Committee
Literary Rally
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Faculty Institute Committee
International Committee
Liberal Arts Advising Committee
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Language and Communication Assessment Committee
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Faculty Institute Committee
International Committee
Liberal Arts Advising Committee
Graduate Council: Associate Member
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Language and Communication Assessment Committee
Literary Rally
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Faculty Institute Committee
International Committee
Liberal Arts Advising Committee
Graduate Council: Associate Member
Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival Steering Committee Chair
Language and Communication Assessment Committee
Search Committee: Department of Language and Communication, Rhetoric/Composition Faculty Position.
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Technology Committee
Instructor Evaluation Committee
Writing Committee
WWW Committee
Faculty Institute Committee
Language and Communication Assessment Committee
Liberal Arts Advising Committee
Literary Rally
Faculty Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta
Technology Committee
Instructor Evaluation Committee
Writing Committee
WWW Committee
Faculty Institute Committee
Argus Poetry Reader
Volunteer: Natchitoches/NSU Folklife Festival
Writing Committee
Argus Fiction Reader
Technology Committee
College of Liberal Arts Academic Advising Committee
University Faculty Institute Committee
Literary Rally
Writing Committee
Argus Fiction Reader
Technology Committee
College of Liberal Arts Academic Advising Committee
University Faculty Institute Committee
Senior Graduation Marshal
Student Awards Committee, English Department, University of Houston-Downtown
Graduation Marshal, University of Houston-Downtown
Department of Urban Education, Scholarship judge
Graduation Marshal, University of Houston-Downtown
Freshman English Committee, University of Houston-Downtown
Freshman English Committee, University of Houston-Downtown
Natchitoches Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Celebration Committee, 2002-2003.
Fundraising campaign guest announcer, Red River Radio, Shreveport NPR Affiliate,Pledge Drive, Fall 2001.
Director, Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival. July 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Volunteer, Statewide Francofete Closing Ceremony. December 11, 1999. Natchitoches, LA.
Attendee, Czech Heritage Day, March 11, 2000, 2001
"You Make a Difference." Award recipient for activities relating to the Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival. July 16, 1999.
Attendee, Creole Heritage Day Festival 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Attendee, Creole Conference, May 1999.
Attendee, Bastille Day Activities in Natchitoches, July 1999.
Instructor, Freshman/Sophomore Computer Writing Lab, University of Houston- University Park (Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Fall 1990, Spring 1991, Fall 1991).
Instructor, Foundations Writing Lab, University of Houston, University Park (Fall 1990, Fall 1991)
Instructor, English 130A,1301,1302, 2312, 2313, 3302 at University of Houston-Downtown Campus (continually employed at UHD since Fall 1988).
Academic Advisor, University of Houston-Downtown ( Summer 1989-1991).
Instructor, English 1340, at Houston Community College, Waltrip Campus, (Spring 1989).
Instructor, English 131, 132, and 231 at North Harris County College, Tomball and Spring Campuses.
Instructor, English 1304 and 2310 at University of Houston, University Park (Spring 1989, Spring 1990).
Graduate Assistant (Teaching): Texas A&M University (Spring 1987)
Substitute Teacher: Conroe Independent School District (Fall 1986)
Developmental Composition for non-native English Speakers
Freshman Composition I and II
Sophomore Survey: American Literature II for non-native English Speakers
Sophomore Surveys: British Literature I and II
Sophomore Surveys: American Literature I and II
Sophomore Survey: Western World Literature I
Business and Technical Writing
History of English
Introduction to Linguistics
Language in Society
Advanced Grammar
Folklore
Southern Folklore
Use of Folk Materials in Teaching
Language and Gender