Research:
PCA/ACA Conference Presentation, April 2009
Co-author: Kevin Van Winkle, CSU-Pueblo
From "Out of the Coffin and Into the Kitchen: Foucault, Family, and Sexual Subversion in Alan Ball’s True Blood"
...this paper will prove that by creating a parallel between homosexuals and vampires, Alan Ball does not simply exploit an obvious and long lasting cultural metaphor, but he actually perpetuates harmful stereotypes of homosexuals and women as possessing, what Michel Foucault, in History of Sexuality, referred to as a “mysterious physiology” (43). ...Moreover, Alan Ball’s manipulation of these negative sexual stereotypes speaks to and, we suggest, has shaped the on-going debate between secular progressives and those proponents of “traditional” family values.
From "Transforming the Academy: Spiritual Activism, Multicultural Pedagogies, and Women’s Studies Programs on the Verge," In Progress, 2010
This Bridge We Call Home provided proof that critical discourse can occur in academia -- when these liminal spaces are afforded the attention and allotted the transformative potential they deserve. In this article, I will build on these very questions, and the myriad of answers offered from a variety of disparate sources; I will suggest that Women’s Studies (WS) programs – as the academic channel for feminist epistemologies Anzaldúa and Keating espouse in the Bridge texts – provide a tested and potentially transformational model for the twenty-first century pursuit of multiculturalism, diversity, and social change in the college or university classroom.
Study Abroad Class at Piazza Novona. Rome, Italy. May 2009
Doctoral Regalia, May 2008
