My Office Hours on Mondays and Wednesdays are held online from 2:00-4:00 p.m. and on Fridaysfrom 11:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. by appointment. I will be in my office in S265 (the second floor of the Saguaro Building on the MCC--Red Mountain campus) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. and available by appointment from 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Additional meeting times are available upon request, if none of those listed work with your schedule. Appointments should be made and confirmed at least 48 hours in advance, if at all possible.

Written Works Completed and in Progress

• When the Rent Comes Due, novella, unpublished manuscript, M.F.A. thesis, 1989
• Nomadic and State Ideologies: Oppositional Discourses in the Construction of Identity, UMI, Proquest Information and Learning, Ann Arbor, unpublished manuscript, Dissertation, 2002
• The Year of Smoke and Magic, unpublished novel, work in progress, September 2012 to present
• Cold Case: The Don Bolles Assassination, 1976, a place-based game based on actual people and events, work in progress, September 2019 to present
• Una Vida Ejemplar / An Exemplary Life. Dr. Felix Ulloa, hijo, Vice Presidente of El Salvador. Translation. 2021.

Courses Taught

• Mesa Community College: EDU/GST245: Games for Teaching and Learning. ENG101: First-Year Composition I; ENG102: First-Year Composition II; ENG210: Creative Writing; ENH251: Mythology. ENH254: World Literature and Film. ENH255: U.S. Literature and Film. ENH275: Modern Fiction. ENH277AE: Tour of Duty: War Narrative. GST202: Games, Culture and Aesthetics. HUM107: Humanities through the Arts. HUM201: Humanities: Universal Themes. HUM205: Introduction to Cinema. HUM210: Contemporary Cinema. HUM211: Classics: Foreign Film. HUM225: Introduction to Popular Culture. HUM245: Disability Studies. HUM251: Ideas and Values in the Humanities. HUM255: The Art of Translation. EDU/HUM/STO292: The Art of Storytelling.  June 2005 to Present.
• Rio Salado College: ENG101: Freshman Composition I; ENG102: Freshman Composition II; ENG210: Creative Writing; ENH259: American Indian Literature; ENH275: Modern Fiction.  August 2000 to May 2005.
• Dine College (formerly known as Navajo Community College), a tribally owned and affiliated college: ENG 100A: Communications Workshop I; ENG 100B: Communications Workshop II; ENG 101: Freshman English I; ENG 102: Freshman English II; ENG 213: Creative Writing: Short Fiction; ENG 231: Introduction to Fiction; ENG 233: Introduction to Native American Literature; ENG 234: Literature of the Southwest; FST 129: Foundations of Reading I; FST 130: Foundations of Reading II; FST 131: Advanced Reading; FST 133: Applied Communications I; HUM 151: Perspectives on the Southwest; HUM 152: Film Appreciation. August 1992 to May 1999.
• University of Arizona: ENG 101: Freshman Composition; ENG102: Introduction to Literature; CPLT 200: The Problem of Evil; CPLT 200: War; SPAN 101: Introduction to Spanish.  August 1989 to August 1992 and August 1999 to May 2000.
• University of Alabama: EH 101: Freshman Composition; EH 102: Introduction to Literature; EH 250: Survey of American Literature.  August 1985 to May 1989.
• Curriculum Development: GST201: Game Studies; GST202: Games, Culture, and Aesthetics; EDU/GST245: Games for Teaching and Learning; HUM235: Disability Studies; HUM255: The Art of Translation.

Graduate Coursework Related to MCCCD Courses

• University of Arizona: ENGL517A, ENGL517B: Topics in Teaching English; ENGL577A: Introduction to North American Indian Literature; SPAN 543: Survey of Mexican-American Narrative; SPAN 544: Mexican-American Narrative; SPAN 599: Independent Study in Mexican Literature; SPAN 575C: Spanish-American Novel: 1945 to Present; SPAN 696C: Spanish American Novel: Women Novelists of Latin America; ENGL 599: Independent Study in Native American Literature; CPLT 920: Dissertation chapter on Faulkner; LRC 535: Teaching Literature in a Multicultural Classroom; LRC 524: Methods and Materials in Bilingual Education; EDUC 502: Variations in Learning Methods.
• University of Alabama: EN 633: Teaching College English: Issues and Methods; EN 634: Teaching College English: Writing about Literature; EH 601, 602: Fiction Workshops (four semesters); EH 610: Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language; EH 630: Directed Studies: Early American Literature; EH 506: Forms of Poetry: Afro-American Literature; EH 64; EH 500: Special Topics: Asian American Literature; EH 643: Seminar in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Sixties; EH 642: Seminar in American Literature, 1850-1900: Mark Twain; EH 544: The American Novel since 1945; and EH 504: Advanced Poetry Writing.
• The University of New Mexico: CIMTE 593: Multicultural Curriculum Planning and Development.
• Arizona State University: DCI691: (Development of Curriculum and Instruction) Language, Learning, and Literacy: Situated and Sociocultural Approaches; and EDT790 (Educational Technology): Reading and Individualized Conference.

Degrees and Certificates

• Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, the University of Arizona (2003)
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction), the University of Alabama (1989)
• B.A. with a double major in Government and Creative Writing, Oberlin College (1983)

Certifications and Qualifications

• Life-time certification from the State Board of Directors for Community Colleges of Arizona to teach English and Literature, 1996
• Life-time qualification by the District Office of Maricopa County Community College District to teach Creative Writing, 2000
• Life-time certification by the District Office of Maricopa County Community College District to teach Humanities (18 + graduate-level hours in the discipline), 2005
• Life-time qualification by the District Office of Maricopa County Community College District to teach Storytelling (coursework, workshop training, and personal/professional experiential credit), 2013
• Life-time qualification by the District Office of Maricopa County Community College District to teach in Education (18 + graduate-level hours in the discipline), 2013

Awards and Recognitions

• 2018-2019 eVenture Stipend Recipient to Develop Low-Cost, Online Educational Resources for HUM107: Humanities through the Arts
• 2018, Associate Editor, Climate Fiction, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University
• 2017-2018 Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction Learning Grant: TED Talk Speaker Series on Disability/Diversability
• 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: Veterans in Society, July 2016
• 2015, One Book Arizona, Competition Judge, Consultant, and Editor, Arizona State Library.  
• 2013-2014 Maricopa Institute for Learning Fellowship, Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. Project: The Well-Researched Game: Designing and Developing Tabletop Games Based on Research in First-Year Composition  
• 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: India’s Past and the Making of the Present, Delhi/Agra/Varanasi.
• 2012-2013 Sabbatical Project: Curriculum Development for Games Studies Program for the Maricopa County Community College District and Enrollment in Related Graduate-Level Courses at Arizona State University
• 2011-2012 Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction Learning Grant: Games as a Force and Art Form: Teaching, Learning, and the Creative Economy. Speaker Series: Chris Crawford, Tracy Fullerton, Ken Rolston, and Richard Rouse III.
• 2011, 2012, and 2017, Reader for Mesa Community College Creative Writing Contest
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshops for Community College Faculty: Landmarks of American History and Culture: Along the Shore: Changing and Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront, June 2010

• Kaleidoscope, Curriculum Development Project 2007-2008
• Maricopa Global Engagement program in Prague, 2006
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers: Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands, 2003
• Diversity Awards, Rio Salado College, 2003 and 2002
• Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction International and Intercultural Education Curriculum Project: Internationalizing the Curriculum, 2002
• Teamwork Award, Rio Salado College, 2002
• Graduate Fellowship, University of Arizona 1989-1990
• Haskell Award for Overseas Travel and Research, Oberlin College Alumni Office, Spring 1988
• Emory University Creativity Award (short story entry) 1979