In This Section

Degree Major Emphasis Institution Year
Ph.D. Mythological Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 2025
M.A. Literature in English Claremont Graduate School 1995
M.A. Mythological Studies Pacifica Graduate Institute 2009
B.A. English California Baptist College 1994

ENG 103/113/123: Composition (all levels)
ENG 201: Introduction to Literature
ENG 213/223: Survey of British Literature I & II
ENG 233 /243: Survey of American Literature I & II
ENG 273: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 303: Topics in World Literature
ENG 313: Multicultural Literature
ENG 323: Classical Literature
ENG 333: 17th Century British Literature
ENG 345: 19th Century American Literature
ENG 353: Introduction to Children's Literature
ENG 355: Folklore and Fairy Tales
ENG 363: Introduction to Young Adult Literature
ENG 385: Writing Poetry
ENG 413: Studies in Shakespeare
ENG 454: Writing in Context
ENG 499: Senior Project in English
**FLM 350: Film & Literature
**HUM 213/223: Integrated Humanities I & II

British, American, and World Literature in English
Theories in Literature, Film, and Ritual
Dream Narratives
Tears (and weeping) in myth, literature, and creative practice
Mythology & Folklore
Poetry
Creative Writing

1996-1998: California Baptist University
Student Publications Advisor (yearbook)
1997-1999: California Baptist University
Adjunct Instructor in English; Reader/Grader for Integrate Humanities Seminar
2000-Present: California Baptist University
Assistant Professor of English
Adjunct experience at local junior colleges:
Riverside Community College & San Bernardino Valley College

Selection of Recent Conference Presentations:
"Four Ways of Looking at 'Prometheus': Envisioning Franz Kafka's Story as Modernist Poetry and Theopoiesis" (2017, PAMLA)
"In the Liminal Here and Now: Ritual Transformations of Time, Space, and Memory in Richard McGuire's Graphic Text" (2017, Western Regional CCL)
"Archiving Textual Experience: Transformative Intersections in Victor Erices's The Spirit of the Beehive" (2016, PAMLA)
"Lyrical Liminality: A Ritual Approach to J. R. R. Tolkien's Poetry" (2016, Western Regional CCL)



The Rock Church and World Outreach Center

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NKJV): "Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary . . . But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." [--Amen! :-)]