EXPERIENCE
Dean of Liberal Arts, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA. 2025-present
Chair, Center for Integrated Humanities, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2025
Editor, The Hemingway Review, 2014-present
Professor of English, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, 2020-2025
Associate Professor of English, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, 2012-2020
Assistant Professor of English, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, 2005-2012
Lecturer, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2002-2005
Lecturer and Faculty Coordinator, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2000-2005
Graduate Assistant Instructor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1997-2000
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English Literature, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, May 2003
Dissertation Title: “Negotiating the Self: Recreation, Identity, and Hemingway”
Dissertation Committee: Donald Pizer, Ph.D. (Director), Benjamin Reiss, Ph.D., and Felipe Smith, Ph.D.
M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 1994
Thesis Title: “Meta-geographies in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence”
Thesis Director: Bill Brown, Ph.D.
B.A., English Literature and Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY, Highest Honors, May 1993
SCHOLARSHIP
Edited Volumes
The New Hemingway Studies. Eds. Suzanne del Gizzo and Kirk Curnutt. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 2020. This collection of fifteen original essays identifies and consolidates trends and areas of inquiry in Hemingway scholarship over the last twenty years.
Ernest Hemingway in Context. Eds. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
This collection of forty-three original essays situates Hemingway—as a writer and icon—and the field of Hemingway scholarship within the cultural and historical contexts of his day and ours.
Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: 25 Years of Criticism. Eds. Suzanne del Gizzo and Frederic Svoboda. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2012.
This collection compiles the most significant essays on Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication; it also includes one original essay by editor Tom Jenks (breaking his nearly twenty-three-year silence on the project). The Garden of Eden is a posthumously published novel that changed the direction of Hemingway scholarship.
Book Chapters
Teaching The Garden of Eden film Adaptation. Teaching Hemingway and Film. Eds. Cam Cobb and Marc K. Dudley. Kent State UP. Forthcoming 2024. This essay examines approaches to teaching the 2008 film adaptation of Hemingway’s posthumously published novel, The Garden of Eden. The film, which was poorly reviewed, is considered an example of how Hemingway’s novels are un-filmable.
“Annotation of ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.” Reading Winner Take Nothing. Eds. Mark Cirino and Susan Vandagriff. Kent State UP. June 2021. This essay/annotation provides historical, social, and cultural contexts for one of Hemingway’s most troubling and bizarre short stories. The narrative introduction is followed by an extensive line-by-line explanation of some of the more arcane or significant passages in the story.
"The Old Author and the Young Bullfighter: What's so Dangerous about The Dangerous Summer." Hemingway's Spain: Imagining the Spanish World. Eds. Carl Eby and Mark Cirino. Kent State UP. December 2015.
This essay, based on a presentation given at the 2006 Hemingway Society conference in Ronda Spain, examines Hemingway’s attitude toward aging and the status of artistry in old age through his posthumously published The Dangerous Summer, which recounts the mano a mano between matadors Antonio Ordóñez and Luis Miguel Dominguín.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ethnographic Stereotyping.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013.
This essay situates Fitzgerald’s use of racial and ethnic stereotypes in his writing within the cultural perceptions of and attitudes toward race and ethnicity in the first half of the twentieth century.
“The Cult and Afterlife of Ernest Hemingway.” Ernest Hemingway in Context. Eds. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013.
This essay explores the perception and use of the iconic author in popular culture since his death in 1961 in order to consider Hemingway’s lasting impact in our popular consciousness.
“Tracking the Elephant: David’s African Childhood in The Garden of Eden.” Hemingway and Africa. Ed. Miriam Mandel. New Jersey: Camden House, 2011.
This essay, based on a presentation given at the 2008 Hemingway Society conference in Kansas City, explores the significance of David Bourne’s childhood in Africa, particularly his experience of a brutal elephant hunt, for his development as a compassionate writer in The Garden of Eden.
"Within and Without: F. Scott Fitzgerald and American Consumer Culture.” Critical Insights: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Dan Noble. New Jersey: Salem Press, 2010.
This essay explores Fitzgerald’s ambivalent relationship to consumer culture and capitalism.
Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
“Introduction.” Transcript of Robert Frost/Ernest Hemingway Roundtable from 2007 MLA. The Hemingway Review. 30.2 (Spring 2011): 99-101.
Introduction to a transcript of a roundtable on Robert Frost and Ernest Hemingway that I co-organized for the 2007 Modern Language Association conference.
“Introduction.” Special Section on Teaching Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden. The Hemingway Review. 30.1 (Fall 2010): 103-106.
Introduction to a Special Section on teaching The Garden of Eden, featuring essays based on papers given at a session that I organized at the 2009 American Literature Association Conference.
“Glow-in-the-Dark Authors: Hemingway’s Critique of Literary Celebrity in Under Kilimanjaro.” The Hemingway Review. 29.2 (Spring 2010): 7-27.
This article explores Hemingway’s use of Africa as a recuperative and re-creational space that is integrally linked to his struggle with literary celebrity.
"‘Can't Repeat the Past?’ Of course, You Can't and Shouldn't: Filming The Great Gatsby for the 21st Century." Bright Lights Film Journal. 66 (Fall 2009): https://brightlightsfilm.com/cant-repeat-the-past-of-course-you-cant-and-shouldnt-great-gatsby/#.XTchZC3Mzow
This essay examines the difficulty of adapting Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby for the screen and suggests the time is right to try again.
"Redefining Remate: Hemingway's Approach to Writing in A Moveable Feast." The Hemingway Review. 28.2 (Spring 2009): 121-26.
This brief article tracks the mistranslation and subsequent misuse of the Spanish term remate in Hemingway scholarship.
“The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in The Great Gatsby and Fight Club.” The Fitzgerald Review. 6 (2008): 69-94.
This article examines Chuck Palahniuk’s claim that Fight Club is a re-writing of The Great Gatsby by examining textual similarities and the novels’ critique of American consumer culture.
“Going Home: Hemingway, Primitivism, and Identity.” Modern Fiction Studies. 49 (Fall 2003): 496-523.
This essay explores Hemingway’s relationship to primitivism, particularly his use of Africa and racial and ethnic others, to distance himself from and ultimately critique his mainstream public persona.
“Across the Quad: Building an Interdisciplinary Community.” Inventio. 3.1 (Spring 2001): http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/inventio/.
“‘Peephole to the Jungle’: A Study of Safari from Imperial Preservation to Global Conservation.” Proteus. 15 (Fall 1998): 37-42.
Other Scholarly Publications
"Ernest Hemingway, Woody Allen, y los Limites de la Nostalgia." CubaNow. July 2013.
This short essay, based on a presentation given at the Hemingway Colloquio in Havana, Cuba in June 2013, explores Woody Allen's use of Hemingway in Midnight in Paris and compares Allen's and Hemingway's use of nostalgia in their work.
Biographical Headnote and Supplementary teaching materials on Ernest Hemingway for the Heath Anthology of American Literature 7th ed. Cengage. 2013.
A brief biographical headnote on Ernest Hemingway’s life and cultural context and supplementary teaching materials and strategies for Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.”
"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual – 2008. Eds. David J. Nordloh and Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2010: 185-210.
Review of significant scholarship on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway published in 2008.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual – 2007. Eds. David J. Nordloh and Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2009: 211-32.
Review of significant scholarship on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway published in 2007.
“F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual – 2006. Eds. David J. Nordloh and Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2008: 179-98.
Review of significant scholarship on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway published in 2006.
“Going Home: Hemingway, Primitivism, and Identity.” Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Michigan: Michigan State UP, 2008: 479-512. (Republication of an essay originally published in Modern Fiction Studies in 2005).
This essay explores Hemingway’s relationship to primitivism, particularly his use of Africa and racial and ethnic others, to distance himself from and ultimately critique his mainstream public persona.
“Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.” Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Eds. Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen Silber. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Reviews
Rev. of Hemingway, Style, and the Art of Emotion by David Wyatt. American Literary History. November 2017. https://academic.oup.com/DocumentLibrary/ALH/Online%20Review%20Series%2013/XIIISuzanne%20del%20Gizzo%20Final.pdf
Rev. of Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction by Amy L. Strong. Modern Fiction Studies. 55 (Winter 2009): 842-45.
"Fitzgerald in Black(Irish)face." Rev. of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness by Michael Nowlin. The Fitzgerald Review. 6 (Fall 2008): 168-74.
Rev. of Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism by Richard Fantina. Journal of the History of Sexuality. 17.2 (Spring 2008): 290-95.
Rev. of Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari by Michael Ondaatje. The Hemingway Review. 26.1 (Fall 2006): 124-27.
Rev. of Hemingway’s Theaters of Masculinity by Thomas Strychacz. Modern Fiction Studies. 51 (Fall 2005): 679-83.
Rev. of The Oxford Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Kirk Curnutt. The Fitzgerald Review. 3 (2004): 155-59.
Rev. of Authors Inc: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 by Loren Glass. The Hemingway Review (Fall 2004): 117-21.
“A Lie by Noon.” Rev. of True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway edited by Patrick Hemingway. The Hemingway Review. 19.1 (Fall 1999): 35-38.
Rev. of Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong. International Review of Modernism (Spring 1999): 4-6.
Invited Public Lectures & Media Appearances
“A North of Italy Christmas.” Interview on One True Podcast with Mark Cirino, produced by Michael Von Cannon. December 2023.
”Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic: Teaching and Technology,” ACSSJ online Faculty Development Event. January 2023.
“The Christmas Gift.” Interview on One True Podcast with Mark Cirino, produced by Michael Von Cannon. December 2022.
“Is The Garden of Eden Inaccrochable?: Intimacy, Sex, Elephants, and Icebergs.” The Hemingway Society Biennial Conference. Wyoming/Montana. July 2022.
“Christmas on the Roof of the World.” Interview on One True Podcast with Mark Cirino, produced by Michael Von Cannon. December 2021.
“MindFull: Transformative, Holistic Education at Chestnut Hill College.” Chestnut Hill College Mission Series. Philadelphia, PA. November 17, 2021.
“‘What is Africa to Me?’: Hemingway’s Lifelong Fascination with the Dark Continent.” Sun Valley Public Library Hemingway Festival, Sun Valley, ID. September 9-11, 2021.
“Humanities on the Brink… of Greatness.” Chestnut Hill College Alumni Weekend. Online. June 5, 2021.
Moderator, Discussion of Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for New Mexico PBS, March 23, 2021.
“God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.” Interview on One True Podcast with Mark Cirino, produced by Michael Von Cannon. December 2020.
Hemingway Society Webinar. July 2020.
“Hemingway and the Spanish Flu of 1918.” Interview with Chris Dougherty, VPAA of Chestnut Hill College. March 2020.
Panelist, “Dehumanizing Language in the Classroom.” Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA. May 2019.
“A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway’s Greatest Love Story” Sun Valley Public Library Hemingway Festival, Sun Valley, ID. September 2018.
Interview with David Wyatt, author of Hemingway, Style, and the Art of Emotion. Hemingway Society Conference, Paris, France. July 2018.
"The Strange Case of Henry James's Testicles." Interviewed as Hemingway expert. BBC Radio 4. August 2017. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zc0r3
"'His Father Came to Him': Hemingway's Troubled Relationship with HIs Father." Hemingway Festival. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. March 2017.
"The Hemingway Review and Hemingway's Image." Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. October 2016.
"Dangerous Love: Hemingway, Vulnerability, and Loss in Islands in the Stream." Faculty Colloquium, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA February 2016. / Hemingway Festival. University of Idaho. Moscow, ID. March 2016.
"Good Academic Writing: One Editor's Thoughts" University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. March 2015.
"All About Hemingway." Chestnut Hill Book Festival, Philadelphia, PA. June, 2014.
“Gatsby, Once Again.” Chestnut Hill College Alumni Reunion, Philadelphia, PA. June, 2013.
“What Makes The Great Gatsby so Great.” Interview on National Public Radio’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Cohane. Philadelphia, PA. May 2013.
“Hybrid Courses at CHC.” Faculty Colloquium with Susan Magee. Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA. December 2010.
“Hemingway on the Big Screen.” Chestnut Hill College Alumni Reunion, Philadelphia, PA. 2008-2012 and 2015.
Panelist, Discussion of Tobias Wolff's Old School. Representative of Ernest Hemingway. The Big Read Project. Mid-Continent Public Library System, Kansas City, MO. April 2009.
Ernest Hemingway's “The End of Something.” Radio Interview with Rosie Gavin. Chestnut Hill College’s Scholar Gypsy Radio. Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA. May, 2008.
“Hemingway’s Early Years and The Nick Adams Stories.” The Big Read Project. Spring Lake Library District, Spring Lake, MI. March 2008.
Peer-Reviewed Presentations
“Is The Garden of Eden Inaccrochable?: Intimacy, Sex, Elephants, and Icebergs.” The Hemingway Society Biennial Conference. Wyoming/Montana. July 2022.
“Love and Violence in Islands in the Stream.” American Literature Association. Online. June 2021.
“His Father Came Back. to Him: Hemingway, Clarence, and the Problem of Fathering.” Hemingway Society Conference. Paris, France. July 2018.
"Dangerous Love: Hemingway, Vulnerability, and Loss in Islands in the Stream." Hemingway Society Conference. Oak Park, IL. July 2016.
"Lost Youth: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Perceptions of Aging." Fitzgerald Society Conference. Waterford, Ireland. July, 2015.
“Passion and Strategy: Hemingway Studies in the 21st Century and The Hemingway Review.” Hemingway Society Conference. Venice, Italy. June 2014.
“Woody Allen and Ernest Hemingway: The Limits of Nostalgia,” American Literature Association. Boston, MA. May 2013. Also presented at the Hemingway Colloquio, Havana, Cuba. June 2013.
Woody Allen, Ernest Hemingway, and Modernist Nostalgia,” Hemingway Society Conference. Petoskey, MI. June 2012.
“Tracking the Elephant in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden." Hemingway Society Conference, Kansas City, MO. June 2008.
“The Old Author and the Young Bullfighter: What’s so Dangerous about The Dangerous Summer.” Hemingway Society Conference. Ronda Spain. June 2006.
“Larger than Life: The Uses of Biography in Hemingway Studies.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2004.
“A ‘liturary careerah’: Hemingway and the Academy.” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. October 2004.
“‘It [is] strange to have no self’: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the Hazards of Celebrity.” Hemingway Society Conference. Key West, FL. June 2004.
"’You cannot have everything’: Literature, Popular Culture, and Hemingway’s Sleepless African Nights.” American Literature Association Conference. Cambridge, MA. May 2003.
“Destructible Bodies/Indestructible Texts: Ernest Hemingway's Fictional Memoirs.” New York University Modernisms Conference. New York, NY. March 2002.
"Tribal Secrets: Hemingway’s Primitivism in True at First Light.” Modern Language Association, New Orleans. LA. December 2001.
“Reassessing the Norm: Strategies for Reading Race and Gender in Hemingway.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. November 2000.
“A Right to Know: The Africanization of Ernest Hemingway,. Modernist Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA. October 2000.
“Re-creation: Hemingway and the Economics of Masculinity.” American Literature Association. Long Beach, CA. May 2000.
“Having A Heart: The Role of the Sentimental in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. November 1998.
“Authentic Contradictions: Performing Racial Authenticity Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk.” “Borders” Conference. Atlanta, GA. October 1997.
Professional activities
Consultant and Writer, Educational Materials and Reading Guides for Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Spring 2021
Organizer, Virtual Events for the Hemingway Society
Pack Your Bags with the HemingwaysA Dangerous Summer with the Hemingway Society, December,2023
Summer Webinar Series, July 2021
“Post-Watch Party” for Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, April 13, 2021
Holidays with Hemingway Party, December 2020, 2021,2022, and 2023
Houseguest Hemingway Webinar Series, July 2020
TEACHING/COURSES OFFERED
· Introduction to the Liberal Arts (Topic: Consuming Culture)
· Interdisciplinary Honors Program Introductory Seminar (Writing Sequence)
· College Writing
· Foundations in the Liberal Arts
· Introduction to Literature
· Short Story
· Literature into Film
· Approaches to Literature
· Medicine & Literature: The Body in American Literature
· American Poetry
· Gender and Literature
· Women Writers
· American Writers of the 1920s
· American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
· Modern American Literature
· Contemporary American Literature
· American Novel
· American Literature Seminar (Topics: Hemingway and Fitzgerald; Aging and Artistry)
· Special Topics: Modernism and Primitivism
· Editorial and Social Media internships for The Hemingway Review
SERVICE
Service to College
Chair, Middle States Sub-committee on Design and Delivery of the Student Learning Experience, Spring 2021-2023
Promotion and Tenure Committee, Fall 2021-present (Chair Fall 2022-present)
Led the committee 7 faculty in review of and response to third-year and promotion and tenure portfolios. The committee works to re-establish best practices, including development of a communication plan and master calendar for all levels of review (annual to post-tenure), organize and run workshop on the promotion and tenure process and criteria, re-establish a mentorship program, and develop new 360-degree teaching evaluation model.
Co-Chair, Core Review Committee, Fall 2020-2022
Led a major review and redesign of the core curriculum to enhance student engagement and retention by creating relevant learning experiences, tracking fundamental and twenty-first century skill development, fostering cross-cultural awareness, providing opportunities for interdisciplinary and project-based course experiences, and reflecting more fully the college’s mission and core values.
Assessment Support Committee, Fall 2020-2022
Worked with the Director of Assessment and Vice President of Academic Affairs to create an institutional program of assessment that is predictable and comprehensive and that uses of assessment information to prioritize academic resources.
Covid-19 Task Force, Academic Programs and Planning Sub-Committee, Summer 2020
Faculty Senate Executive Board 2017-2020 and 2011-2015: President, Fall 2018-Spring 2019; Fall 2014. Vice President, Fall 2017-Spring 2018; Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Worked with the Executive Board of the Faculty Senate to review and revise committee structures and responsibilities, advocate for increased financial transparency and education, and general representation of faculty issues and concerns.
Project Manager, Exploratory Committee for Health Humanities, 2018-2020
Assembled team of interested faculty to define Health Humanities and its possible benefit to the CHC community, including identifying existing courses and developing new courses for a possible minor, meeting with a consultant, James Phelan from Ohio State University and organizing two lectures: (1) Catherine Rogers from Columbia University’s School of Narrative Medicine and (2) John Cacciamani, CEO of Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Organizer, visit by Randy Bass from Designing the Futures at Georgetown University, Faculty Development Initiative, Spring 2019
Organize visit by Randy Bass, Vice Provost for Education and Director of the Designing the Futures initiative at Georgetown University to discuss ideas for curriculum—both content and delivery—in the wake of the College’s restructuring.
Faculty Development Committee. Fall 2021-present; Fall 2016-Spring 2019; 2013-2015: Secretary 2013-2014
Worked with colleagues and Vice President of Academic Affairs on issues related to faculty development, including but not limited to development programming, faculty mentoring, and assistance with allocation of faculty travel grants. Created Teaching and Learning workshops across all departments, sample topics: creating inclusive teaching environments, teaching first-generation students, embedding career readiness into coursework, designing project-based learning experiences, experimenting with ungrading, implementing Universal Design for Learning, and using Design Thinking in the classroom.
Search Committee for the Vice President of Financial Affairs, Spring 2017
Work with colleagues to screen, select, and interview candidates and summarize the candidates' qualifications for the President.
Steering Committee for the Baker Tilly Program Review, Spring 2017
Interact with the Baker Tilly Program Review team to represent faculty positions and concerns.
Academic Assessment Support Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2018
Facilitate and advance educational assessment projects across campus.
Academic Technology Committee, Spring 2014- Spring 2016
Advocate for meaningful use of technology by faculty and in classrooms.
Strategic Planning Committee, Fall 2012-Spring 2014
Work with representatives from all areas of the College to collate and prioritize information for the College’s Strategic Plan.
Departmental Honors Program, Director, 2008-2013
Work with departments to oversee and guide students’ progress through the program by identifying potential participants, issuing invitations, organizing information sessions for participants, planning Departmental Honors Progress Day, and creating and revising a variety of support services including a Blackboard site, handouts, and instructional videos.
Middle States Working Group for Planning, Resource Allocation, & Institutional Renewal and Resources, Spring 2011-Spring 2013
Work to articulate compliance to Middle State standards, draft narrative, and make recommendations.
Lecture Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2012
Make recommendations for speakers at major college events and review requests from departments to fund guest lecturers.
Co-Author, Draft of Guidelines for Hybrid Courses at CHC, Summer 2009
Draft guidelines for hybrid courses with sensitivity to the College’s mission and standards established by Quality Matters, a leader in online and hybrid course certification.
Participant, Pilot Program for Hybrid Courses, Spring 2010
Design and teach a hybrid version of American Poetry.
Honors Committee, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
Review applications and select students for various national honor societies, the St. Catherine Medal, and S. Matthew Anita MacDonald Award.
Undergraduate Studies Academic Standards Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2010: Secretary, Fall 2006-Spring 2008; Chair, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Review, revise, and draft the College’s academic policies as issues arise and oversee the annual revision of the policies section of the undergraduate catalog.
Student Life Appeals Committee, Spring 2006-Spring 2008
Review appeals from students who have been found guilty of a violation of Student Life policies.
Chestnut Hill College Ad hoc Website Committee, Spring 2006-Spring 2007
Review and revise the Chestnut Hill College website policy and make recommendations for improvements to the website.
Organizer, Lecture by Maureen Corrigan, NPR Book Critic, Fall 2006
Organize campus visit by NPR Book Critic, Maureen Corrigan, including a public lecture and meeting with students.
service to the Center and department
Center Chair, Center for Integrated Humanities, 2019-present
Oversee initiatives to increase the profit of the Humanities at Chestnut Hill college and attract students to the majors, minors, and courses in our six departments. Advocate for Center faculty and programs. Oversee program integrity, including review of faculty, course schedules, assessment efforts and budgets.
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society), Spring 2006-present
Oversee activities for the English Honors Society including annual invitation and induction of new members and literary-themed social and service events.
Director, Departmental Honors Theses, 2005-2013
Advise students (conceptualization of topic, research, drafting, and revising) working on Departmental Honors theses.
Advisor, English and English and Communication Majors (class of 2009; class of 2013; class of 2017; class of 2021), Fall 2005-present
Advise students on schedule of courses and co-curricular activities to prepare for an on-time graduation and successful transition to the workforce or graduate study.
Participant, College Writing Assessment for First-year students, Summer 2005-2013
Review writing samples with other instructors in the program to place first-year students in appropriate writing course.
Service to Profession
Ex officio Board member, The Hemingway Foundation and Society, 2014-present
Assist in the running of the Hemingway Foundation and Society on issues such as investments, revenue, permission requests from scholars, and promotion of the Society.
Chair, Media Committee of The Hemingway Foundation and Society, 2014-present
Oversee the production of the Society’s publications including The Hemingway Review, the Hemingway Newsletter, and the Hemingway Society website. Manage media budget for the Society. Managed a complete redevelopment of the Hemingway Society website in the Summer 2014.
Chair, External Review Team, November 2020.
Oversee the writing of a report based on a “virtual” external review of Delaware Valley University’s English Department.
Trustee, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society Board, 2007-2014
Assist in the running of the Hemingway Foundation and Society on issues such as investments, revenue, permission requests from scholars, and promotion of the Society.
Publications Committee, The Hemingway Foundation and Society, Chair 2014-present
Oversee all publications and media features for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, including The Hemingway Review, the website, the newsletter, the THR Blog, the Society’s social media presence, and the podcast, One True Podcast. Manage media budget for the Hemingway Society.. Oversaw a major re-development of the Society website in 2015.
Conference Co-Director for the 14th International Hemingway Conference, “Hemingway’s Extreme Geographies” in Lausanne Switzerland, 2008-2010
Organize and run all aspects of the International Hemingway conference with over 200 attendees, including development and promotion of the conference theme, organization of the academic and social programs, tracking of revenue and conference budget, and creation and maintenance of the conference website.
ALA/MLA Program Director, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, 2007-2011
Organize Hemingway Society panels at two major literary conferences: the American Literature Association conference and the Modern Language Association conference, and lead review of the Society’s Modern Language Association Allied status.
JFK Library Committee for the Hemingway Grant, 2004-present: Chair 2009-2012 Member, 2004-present
Review applications and make recommendations for Library-funded Hemingway Grant, an award of up to $1000 to visit the Hemingway Collection at the library in Boston, MA.
Referee for various journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of English Studies, and Cambridge University PressReview and make recommendations for articles and books submitted to literary journals and presses.
certifications
Project Management Professional Certification Training (in progress)
Certified External Review for Association of Departments of English (2024)
Learning Design and Technologies – Micro-Masters, University of Maryland, Global Campus (May 2023)
Leading Online Programs – Magna (2022)
Teaching Practice: Practices in Digital Pedagogy – Course Hero (2023)
AWARDS AND HONORS
S. Carol Jean Vale 25thAnniversary Fund Award, 2018-2019
A grant of $2500 to explore the possibility of a minor or certificate in the Health/Medical Humanities at Chestnut Hill College.
Sabbatical, Spring 2015
Sabbatical granted by Chestnut Hill College Board of Directors to begin work on new project on aging and literature.
Faculty Development Summer Stipend, 2013
Grant to develop a conference paper and article for presentation in Cuba.
Faculty Development Travel Grants, 2006 and 2008 and 2012 and 2015
Grants to help defray costs of travel to conferences (2006 Ronda, Spain; 2008 Kansas City, MO; 2012 Petoskey, MI; 2015 Waterford, Ireland).
Faculty Development Grant, 2010
Grant for one course release and a summer stipend to work on Hemingway Society Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Humanities and Writing Fellow, Georgetown University, 2004-2005
Appointment granted to instructors who participated in workshops designed to create and refine resources for the first-year writing seminars.
The Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowship, The Hemingway Society, Summer 2002
Award of $1000 to support research on Ernest Hemingway.
Dissertation Fellowship, Tulane University, Spring 2000
A semester release from teaching responsibilities to work on my dissertation.
Hemingway Grant, John F. Kennedy Library, Summer 1999
Award of $1000 to support a research trip to the Hemingway Collection at the JFK Library in Boston, MA.
Passed Orals with distinction, Spring 1999
Marian Gargan Alchon Grant, Forum on Environmental Racism with Robert Kennedy, Jr., Fall 1998
Grant of $500 to research Environmental Racism and participate in a public discussion.
Solomonowitz Prize for excellence in Philosophy, New York University, 1993
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
The Ernest Hemingway Society
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Tau Delta