Service


Elmhurst College

2008 - 2011 Academic Council
2007 - 2009 General Education Task Force
2005 - 2006 Chair, College Council
2004 - 2006
College Council
2004 - 2006
Teacher Education Committee
1997 - 2004 Chair, Adult Programs Committee
2003 - 2006
Graduate Education Committee
1999 - 2001 Humanities Editor, Investigations
1997 - 1998 Chair, Graduate Governance Task Force
1995 - 2001
President’s Task Force on Recycling
1995 - 1997 Governance Task Force
1990 - 1997 Admission, Retention, Financial Aid Committee
1993 - 1995 Admissions Board
1994 - 1995 January Term Task Force
1991 - 1992 Faculty Council


English Department

2009 - Editor, River Oak Review
2006 -
Associate Chair
2003 - 2009 Associate Poetry Editor, River Oak Review
1997 - 2001 Program Coordinator,  MA in Professional Writing
1996 - 2002 Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
1989 -  Judge, Karl H. Carlson Poetry Contest
1991 - 2000 Hiring committees for professors Melnick, Chambers, Evans, Wiginton, O'Rourke, Kazan, Mulvaney, and Behm


Elmhurst Theatre

May 2000 Performed role of The Professor in The Lesson at Mill Theatre; dir. by Melissa Niksic.
May 1998 Performed role of Leontes in A Winter’s Tale at Mill Theatre; dir. by Robin Bennet.
Spring 1998 Production of original drama Dostoyevsky’s Gamble
Spring 1997 Staged reading of Dostoyevsky's Gamble
Spring 1992 Production of original comedy Saving Nineveh
April 1993 Directed Ryan Klatt in his performance of The Grand Inquisitor
April 1991 Production of original script Women at Elmhurst College
Fall 1989 Performed role of Mr. Applegate in Mill Theatre production of Damn Yankees


Broader Academic Community

2003 President, Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
2002 Vice President, Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
1993 - 1995 Chair, Teaching Committee, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
1988 - 1989 Judge, Curriculum Design Competition, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies