Professor of English Education and American Literature
Department of English Language and Literature; Department of Women's and Gender Studies
603-B Pray Harrold
Office Hours
SUMMER 2025 Office Hours
I am not teaching this summer, and so I will have only occasional availability to meet for virtual and in-person appointments.
To schedule an appointment please email [email protected]
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I am Professor of English Education and American Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature as well as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. From 2020-2022, I served as Associate Dean of The Honors College at Eastern Michigan University. In January 2024, I began my term as Co-Editor of JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory.
I am the 2017 recipient of the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching at Eastern Michigan University, and I was the Institutional Winner for Eastern Michigan for the 2020 MAC Outstanding Faculty Award for Student Success.
My scholarly and teaching interests frequently overlap, focusing on English teacher education, literature pedagogy, local literature, American women writers, and multi-modalities in literacy education. In Fall 2025, I will be on sabbatical to pursued some of those intersections for the book project, Narrative Dis/appearing Acts and Interpretive Dis/closures in Kate Chopin’s Fiction.
A past co-director of the National Writing Project site at Eastern Michigan (EMWP), I have been involved with local and national teacher research networks for close to 20 years, most recently to support site-based teacher research and teacher inquiry groups in southeast Michigan.
I am author of Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of ‘English’ for 21st-century Schools (NCTE, 2008), co-editor of the book Teaching the Literature Survey Course, (WVU Press, 2018), and author of numerous articles and chapters on Teaching English Education, Kate Chopin, and American regionalism.
Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Courses
“Quick, Dead, and Widowed: Failed Reading of ‘Unwholesome Intellectual Sweets’ and the Importance of Knowing Whose Story You’re In.” In Heather Ostman, ed. The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's At Fault.(Baton Rouge: LSU Press, July 2022).
“White Women; Black Hair—Or, Some Problems in Representation and Refiguration in Teaching Kate Chopin.” American Literature Association Conference. Chicago, IL (May 26-29, 2022).
Roundtable Organizer & Panelist/Presenter. “The Essential Chopin: Stories that Continue to Shape the Genre.” Sponsored by The Kate Chopin International Society. American Literature Association Symposium: The American Short Story. New Orleans, LA (September 7-9, 2019).
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