About Me: Over the last 27 years, I have taught a wide variety of Composition, Rhetoric, and Literature courses at two and four year colleges and universities. Presently I teach at Evergreen Valley College where I chair the English Department, serve on the EVC Staff Development Committee, work on department curriculum, and coordinate the annual Creative Writing/Poetry Festival, and organize and promote the Evergreen Valley College Authors’ Series which I initiated in 1996. Above all else, I enjoy teaching and working with students. Thus, in addition to instructing all levels of composition, working in the Writing Center, and teaching Introduction to World Mythology, Creative Writing, Survey of English Literature, Shakespeare, and World Literature, I further serve as the faculty co-advisor for English Majors at Evergreen Valley College and the students’ faculty advisor for The Authors’ Guild.

Professional Biography: Selected from more than 43,000 full-time and part-time community college instructors by a panel representing the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, I had the honor of receiving the 2000 Hayward Award for Excellence In Education, conferred by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors in Sacramento, March 13, 2000. A frequent panelist and presenter at local, state, and national conferences,  currently, I am the first Vice President of the English Council for California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC),  and have been the  Co-chair / Program director of the National YRC (Young Rhetoricians’ Conference) in composition and rhetoric for two and four year colleges and universities since the early 1990s.

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