I’m a senior lecturer in the Writing Program WP) and an affiliate faculty member of the English Department’s graduate program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English RCTE) I currently coordinate the Foundations Writing Evaluation FWE) an online assessment tool designed to helincoming students determine which first-year writing courses to enroll in. Prior to taking this position I served as Assistant Director of the Business and Technical Writing BTW) curriculum. I currently represent the Writing Program on the University-Wide General Education Committee UWGEC) and am on the faculty of Community Classroom CC) a lifelong learning program sponsored by the College of Social and Behavior Sciences. Prior to coming to UArizona, I taught at the SUNY College of Technology at Alfred 2014-17) Michigan Technological University 2008-14) the University of New Mexico 2002-7) Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston 1999-2001) Northeastern University 1997-9, 1986-88) and the University of Maine at Fort Kent 1988-90) Internationally I worked as an English teacher at Amakusa Senior School in Hondo, Japan 1991-3) as a Peace Corps Teacher Trainer at the Fiji College of Advanced Education in Fiji 1994-6) as the Director of the I.B. Theater Arts Program at the Colegio Internacional de Caracas in Venezuela 2001-2) and as an ESL instructor at Inlingua International Language Center in San Jose, Costa Rica 2007-8)