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GRANTS
Research grant from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Academic
Staff Development Program to fund research in Oxford, England, July 1, 1997.
Travel grant from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater College of Letters
and Sciences to cover expenses incurred at the Aphra Behn Society Conference, October, 1996.
Travel grant from the University of Georgia Department of English to cover expenses incurred at the Newberry Library, Summer 1996.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship to the Newberry Library at the University of Chicago, Summer 1996.
Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, 1988-1995.
Dana Teaching Fellowship, 1987.
SERVICE
College Assessment Committee member, 1998.
Departmental Budget and Planning Committee Member 1997-present.
Departmental Curriculum Committee member, 1997-present.
Student Advisor, 1997-present.
Served search committee for five lecturer positions, 1998.
Judge for the Fred Sederholm Theatre Writing Award, 1997 and 1998.
Faculty Friend in First Year Program in the dorms, beginning Fall 1997.
Seminar leader and performer, UW-W High School Creative Writing Festival.
Lead two seminars on essay writing, and performed in an original music composition, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, Fall 1996.
Founder, The American Society of Jane Austen Scholars.
Founder and editor, J. A. NEws, the society's newsletter
, and The Austen Quarterly, its on-line journal. Website:
http://www.uww.edu/facstaff/langlit/JAusten.
Member, Local Activities Committee, Aphra Behn Conference, University of Georgia, Department of English, 1996.
Volunteer Reader and Monitor, Recording for the Blind, Florida Street, Athens, Georgia 1995.
Moderator, Thomas Hardy Conference, University of Georgia, Department of English, 1995.
Book reviewer and journalist, The Pendletonian, Department of English, Clemson University, 1994.
Speaker, Seminar for essay exam writers, Department of English, University of Georgia, 1993.
Member, Freshman Exam Committee, Department of English, University of Georgia, 1991.
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