Courses Taught

• APS 140 Appalachian Literature
• APS 229 Contemporary Issues in Appalachia: Mountain Top Removal
• EDU 305 Young Adult Literature
• ENG 130 American Texts
• ENG 201 Exposition
• ENG 237 Women in Literature
• ENG 275 Writing for Science and Technology
• ENG 344 Modern Novel
• GSTR 100 Stories
• GSTR 203 U.S. Traditions

Books and Articles

• Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2005.
• Piping Up: A History of Women and Bees.  Lexington, KY: UP of KY. Under preliminary contract.  Submission date: 2009.
• “A Choice of Weapons: Graphic Novels and Social Justice.”  Approaches to Teaching Graphic Comics. Ed. Stephen Taubenick.  New York: MLA, 2008.
• “Politics and Pollen: Mountain Top Removal’s Potential Effects Upon Honey Bees.” Mountain Promise 18.1 (2006): 9-10.
• Rev. of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future. By Goodell, Jeff.  Pub. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.  Mountain Promise 18.3 (2007): 14-15.
• “Honey Bees: A History,” Tammy Horn, New York Times, April 11, 2008.
• “Researchers focus on bringing missing bees back,” Genaro Armas, Associated Press, Jan. 5, 2009.

Special Interests

• www.booksforsoldiers.com: provides books to military services stationed overseas; you need a notarized application to access soldiers’ booklists, but it only takes a week or two for your application to be accepted.
• The Hive and Honeybee Collection provides digital versions of bee books at the following URL: bees.library.cornell.edu.  
• www.beesfordevelopment.org: The website for Bees for Rural Development, based in England, but pairs up beekeepers with projects in developing countries