❑ PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Service to the Profession:
National Organizations
Program Chair of the 26th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, “Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment,” at UNM 2011.
Elected Vice President of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, 2010-
Elected Vice President of The Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages (TEAMS), 2009-
Program Chair of the Annual Medieval Association of the Pacific Meeting at UNM 2009.
Delegate for Women’s Issues to the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly 2007-9.
Council Member of the Medieval Association of the Pacific 2007-2009.
Member of the Board of Directors of The Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages (TEAMS), 2003-.
Service to the Profession: Conferences
Organizer of two sessions on “New Interpretations of the Virgin Mary in Medieval France” and “New Rhetorical and Artistic Interpretations of the Virgin Mary” for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2011.
Co-Organizer of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages: “Teaching Medieval Drama,” “Socialization and Gender in Medieval Texts,” “Teaching Medieval Narrative and Performance,” and “Teaching Medieval Studies in the Increasingly Secular Classroom: A Roundtable” for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2011.
Chair, “Women in/and Literature – II” for the 64th Annual RMMLA Convention, Albuquerque, October 2010.
Co-Organizer of two sessions on “Unfinished Texts I: Sacrae and Leges” and “Unfinished Texts II: Romances and Chaucer” for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2010.
Organizer of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages: “Teaching the Crusades,” “Teaching with Second Life: A Virtual Reality,” “Teaching King Arthur and Ethnicity/Race: A Roundtable,” and “Teaching with TEAMS Texts” for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2010.
Organizer and Chair of three TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages: “Teaching Dante: Literary Perspectives.” “Teaching Dante: Historical Perspectives,” “Teaching the Middle Ages with Film” for the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2009.
Chair, “Anonymous Was a Woman? Gender in Medieval Anonymous Texts” for the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 2008.
Co-organizer of five TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages: “The Middle Ages and Writing Across the Curriculum,” “Teaching the Middle Ages in Elementary/Secondary School,” “Excavating The Middle Ages: Using Archaeology and/or Anthropology in the Classroom,” “Medieval Texts and Modern Critical Theory: Pedagogical Strategies,” and chair, “Teaching with TEAMS Texts” for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008.
Organizer and chair, “In Honor of Dhira B. Mahoney II: Women and Rhetoric” and chair, “Teaching with TEAMS Texts” for the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007.
Organizer and chair, “Medieval Femininities and Masculinities: A Session in Honor of Dhira B. Mahoney” at Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California, Los Angeles, March 2007.
Organizer, “Fundamentals in Chaucer” for the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2006.
Organizer, “Glitzy Banquets in Literature and Politics” for the Eleventh Annual ACMRS Conference on “Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture,” Tempe, Arizona, February 2005.
Chair, “Middle English Fabliaux” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2004.
Chair, “Gender, Film, and Medievalism” at the Annual Conference on Medievalism, St. Louis University, October 2003.
Organizer and chair, “Sanctified Bodies: Medieval Concepts of Conception, Childbirth, and Healing” for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003.
Chair, “Holiness, Heresy, Incest, and Revenge” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, Portland State University, March 2003.
Chair, “Chaucer’s Sources” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2002.
Chair of sessions at the Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU 1996, 1998-2001 (in 2001 joint with the Medieval Academy and MAP), 2003.
Chair, “Medieval Literature and Modern Critical Theory” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific at University of California, Davis, in March 1991.
Service to the Profession: Evaluator
External Reviewer for promotion/tenure application, Oregon State University (2009).
Specialist Reader for a Middle English edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Broadview Press, 2009.
External Reviewer of promotion/tenure application, Hobart and Smith Colleges (2008).
Specialist reader for Chaucer’s Monk’s Tale and Nun’s Priest’s Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-2000, University of Toronto Press in 2006.
Specialist reader, Bedford Anthology of World Literature, 2002.
Specialist reader, An Introduction to Literature: Textbook for the New Century for Longman, 2001.
Specialist reader, Peter Baker's new OE grammar for Blackwell, 2001.
Specialist reader, Kennedy/Gioia manuscript of a literature anthology for Longman, 2001.
Reviewer for Mystics Quarterly in 1999.
Specialist reader, Literature: a Longman Pocket Anthology for Longman, 1998.
Specialist reader, Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, 2nd ed., for Prentice Hall, 1998.
Specialist reader, Thinking Through Literature: A Guide to Critical Writing for Longman, 1997.
Specialist reader, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature for HarperCollins, 1994.
Service to the University
Vice President of the UNM Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 2010-
Secretary of the UNM Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 2003-2010.
Evaluation Committee for NEH Summer Stipend (Limited Competition), UNM, 2009.
TOYA and PTF Evaluation Committee, UNM, 2006-
Provost’s University Diversity Committee, UNM, 2006-09.
Judge for Profound Undergraduate Research Competition, UNM, 2006.
Faculty Senate Operations Committee, UNM, 2004-05.
Faculty Senator, UNM, 2002-06.
Secretary of the UNM Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 2003-2010
Service to the College
Chair, Search Committee for Director of Religious Studies Program, UNM, 2008.
Religious Studies Committee, UNM, 2007-10.
Dean’s Chairs and Directors Council, UNM, 2005-
Co-organizer of the IMS Outreach Seminar on “Chaucer in Context: Society, Politics, and Gender” for Secondary School Teachers, UNM, October 2003.
Women Studies Executive Council, UNM, 2002-
Search Committee for Director for the Institute for Medieval Studies, UNM, 2001-2002.
Institute for Medieval Studies Steering Committee, UNM, 2001-
Faculty Advisor to the Medieval Studies Student Association, UNM, 2001-
Service to the English Department
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies August, UNM, 2009-
Mentor to Scarlett Higgins, Assistant Professor, UNM, 2009-
Ad Hoc Respectful Department Climate Committee, UNM, 2009-10
Elected Member of the Executive Committee, UNM, 2008-10.
Member of the Native Americanist Search Committee, UNM, 2007-08.
Member of the Shakespeare Search Committee, UNM, 2005-06.
Gender Equity Committee, Dept. of English, UNM, 2005-07.
Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, UNM, 2005-09.
MA Exam Committee, Dept. of English, UNM, 2004-06.
Undergraduate Committee, Dept. of English, UNM, 2001-04.
Medieval Studies Committee, Dept. of English, UNM, 2001-05.
Organizer of English Department Faculty Colloquium Series, UNM, 2001-05.
ACMRS Committee deciding Graduate Student Travel Award for International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, ASU, 1998-1999.
Curriculum Committee & Literature Committee, Dept. of English, ASU, 1995-2001.
❑ CONSULTING
Provided translation and language consultant
services from 1983 to 1999 to private individuals and the following
companies: State of Bavaria, Eastern Illinois University, Prudential
Bache, Ping/Karsten Manufacturing Co., Brooker and Wake Inc., PC Globe
Inc., Gräbert Systems Inc., Guiseley Trading Ltd., Broderbund,
Canyonlands Publications, and Camelback Design Group.
❑ PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AAUP
International Arthurian Society-NAB
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association
Medieval Association of the Pacific
National Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi
New Chaucer Society
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
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