Professional Responsibilities

Overseeing the Library’s rare and literary collections, as well as book history and fine press subjects

Managing the exhibition and publication programs at Cushing Library

Leading instructional sessions, including acting as Director of the Library’s Book History Workshop

Education

Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing, May 13, 2005, University of Houston. 

M. A. in English, May 24, 1999, Boston College. 

B. A. Cum Laude in English, April 24, 1997, Brigham Young University.

Professional Experience

Houghton Library, Harvard University.  End-Processor, Bibliographical Assistant, and Exhibition Assistant, September 1997-August 2000.

Woodson Research Center (for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives), Rice University.  Bibliographical Assistant, summer 2001.

Detering Book Gallery ABAA/ILAB, Houston.  Bibliographical Assistant and Cataloguer, August 2002 - June 2005.

Museum of Printing History, Houston.  Curator, June 2005 - September 2007.

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

“A Qualitative Assessment of the Kindle e-book Reader: Results from Initial Focus Groups,” with Dennis T. Clark, Susan P. Goodwin, and Catherine Coker, in Performance Measurement and Metrics 9.2 (2008): 118-29. 

“Creating the Incommensurate God: Art and Belief in O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back’ and Harold Bloom’s The Book of J.” Flannery O’Connor and the Christian Mystery, Literature and Belief 17 (1997): 47-59.

 Reference Essays:

“W. G. Sebald: The Emigrants,” in Masterplots: Third Revised Edition. (Pasadena: Salem, projected November, 2010).  2000 word essay.

 "StanisBaw BaraDczak,” in Critical Survey of Poetry, Third Revised Edition. (Pasadena: Salem, projected February, 2011).  2000 word essay.

 “Henri Cole,” in Critical Survey of Poetry, Third Revised Edition.  (Pasadena: Salem, projected February, 2011).  2000 word essay.

 “Anna Swir,” in Critical Survey of Poetry, Third Revised Edition.  (Pasadena: Salem, projected February, 2011).  2000 word essay.

 “WisBawa Szymborska,” in Critical Survey of Poetry, Third Revised Edition. (Pasadena: Salem, projected February, 2011).  1000 word update.

 “Tomas Tranströmer,” in Critical Survey of Poetry, Third Revised Edition. (Pasadena: Salem, projected February, 2011).  500 word update.

 “CzesBaw MiBosz: Unattainable Earth,” in Masterplots II: Christian Literature. (Pasadena: Salem, 2008).  1837-40. 

Poems 

“Ars Poetica” in Southwest Review 91.2(2006).

“February 26: Heathrow” and “March 1: Wales” (from the poetic sequence “Correspondences”) in Center 5 (2006).

“Agon” and “Amanuensis” in Lyric Poetry Review 7 (Winter/Spring 2005).

“Case Study,” “Polyphonic Nocturne,” and “Self-Portrait as Saint Victor” in Prairie Schooner 76.2 (Summer 2002).