Curriculum Vitae

Writing Samples

Academic Writing Sample (British Romanticism):
"The Mariner in the Mirror:
The Irony of Death in Coleridge's Rime,"

Presented at Georgia State University's "Doctoral Colloquium," April, 2000, and DeVry University's "Faculty Forum," June 2000. Accepted to Coleridge Summer Conference, Somerset, England, July 2000.




Academic Writing Sample (Modern American):
"T. S. Eliot's 'East Coker' Dance"

Presented at Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature: “Intersections of the Sacred and Profane,” Chicago, March 2001.




Academic Writing Sample (Contemporary American):
Dissertation Excerpt: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer

Dissertation Excerpt: My dissertation, The Semiotic Fabric of Life: A Study of Walker Peryc's Essays and Novels, discusses a major shift halfway through Percy's writing career towards semiotic symbolism. In this chapter, I examine Percy's first book, The Moviegoer, as a contrast to show the marked change between the symbolism he uses in his first three novels and that of his latter three. The symbols used here are not Percy's unique semiotic symbols of his later writings.




Professional Writing Sample (Public Policy):
"Georgia's Aging Population"

Published in Georgia County Government Magazine, October 2007.