Broad experience in education, administration, and program development. Strong interpersonal and management skills coupled with the ability to articulate goals and to provide defined leadership.
Chair and Tenured Assistant Professor
Worcester State College 1989-Present
Worcester, MA
Department of Communications
Responsible for departmental administration for 6 full-time and 7
adjunct faculty. Duties include
producing the department's budget, course scheduling,
assigning faculty/student advising, and
supervising curriculum and program revisions. In addition to being chair,
serving on the college-wide curriculum committee and teaching the
following courses: Beginning and Advanced Video
Studio/Field Production, Film and Television Criticism and Theory,
Introduction to Mass
Communication, Mass Media Technology and Society
Faculty Instructor
Miami University 1985-1989
Oxford, OH
Department of Mass Communication
Beginning and Advanced Video Production, Sound Production,
Script Writing, Visual Learning
and Literacy honors course
Faculty Instructor
Western Carolina University 1985
Cullowhee, NC
Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts
Film as Art, Film History and Theory, Script Writing, Public Speaking
and Broadcasting
Faculty Instructor
Western State College 1983-1984
Gunnison, CO
Department of Mass Communication
Television Production, Film Arts, Oral Interpretation, Theater
Appreciation and Public Speaking
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Indiana State University 1982-1983
Terre Haute, IN
Department of Communication
Responsible for all phases of instruction, testing and grading
undergraduates in three sections of
Introduction to Speech Communications
Currently serving as an advisor for the student-run radio station, WSCU,
and to the student-run
television station. Duties include supervising radio executive board, and
supervising production
of radio documentaries/features, dramas, and television news.
Miami University 1987-1989
Oxford, OH
Served as faculty advisor for the university chapter of Women in
Communications. Responsible
for organizing and programming the chapter and its members.
Miami University 1987
Oxford, OH
Served as faculty advisor for a three week orientation program for first
year students. Advised
Humanities majors in course selection and schedules.
Director/Co-Producer, The First Annual Communications
Department Video Festival for Worcester
State College Students, 1995
Supervised and directed the student video club with 20 members
who were responsible for
selecting the 15 eligible videos, buying and distributing awards, and
publicizing the call for
videos and event screening.
Co-Producer, The 2nd Annual Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Film Festival 1993-1994 Worcester, MA
Responsible for selecting 10 films for a five day festival for the
Worcester area community. Along
with two other committee members also responsible for fund-raising,
budgeting, and publicity.
The festival drew an estimated 1000 viewers.
Producer/Video Directo,Intimate Relationships in
Four Lesbian Families
Living in American Society 1982-1983 University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OHr
Wrote and researched the four hour ethnographic video/written series
that explores and
describes alternative families in America Society.
Producer/Film Director, The Images 1982-1983 Indiana
State University, Terre Haute, IN
Wrote, directed, and publicized an avant-garde film.
The 80 minute film focused on current
feminist issues, and how they relate to a contemporary society. The film
creates an interpretation
of a poem by Adrienne Rich, and uses film as an authentic medium for
poetic language.
Producer/Theater Director/Public Relations,
Two Heads are Better than One, 1978 Elkhart, IN
Coordinated and produced a children's play for a new children's theater company. Supervised and maintained budgets for all production areas. Coordinated all production staff and casting.
Prepared program copy, news releases, posters and other public relations
materials. Directed a
children's theatrical production four nights, for an estimated audience of
200 people.
Radio Announcer 1976 Elkhart, IN
Disc Jockey for WVPE, a public broadcasting station. Responsible for
news gathering,
scriptwriting, and performing original weekly show that featured specific
artists on each show as well as current news reporting.
Intimate Relationships in Lesbian Families Living in American Society
Currently under consideration for publication by Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK
and Greenwood
Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT. This video ethnography is a written
and visual study addresses
how relationships within the families function, and how the relationships
affect different family members.
Currently serving on:
Academic Quality and Standards
All College Curriculum
Communication Curriculum Subcommittee
Previously served on:
Faculty Search Committees
Access Scholarship Committee
College Curriculum New Programs Subcommittee
Executive Board for the Faculty Union
Faculty Forum
Focus on the Arts
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Scholarship Committee
Women's Studies Program
Ed.D. University of Cincinnati 1994
Cincinnati, OH
Department of Educational Foundations
Dissertation Title: An Interrelated Film/Written Ethnographic Study of
Alternative Families Living
In American Society
M.S. Indiana State University Cincinnati, OH 1983
Terre Haute, IN
Department of Communication
Thesis Title: Film as an Authentic Medium of Poetic
Language
B.S. Indiana State University Cincinnati, OH 1981
Terre Haute, IN
Department of Theater