Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Kansas
  Dissertation: World War I and the Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh
  
  
• M.A., English, Iowa State University
  Thesis: "The Anti-Modernism of C. S. Lewis"
  
  
• 1984 Summer Institute in Great Britain (graduate study at the Universities of London, Exeter,
  Edinburgh, and Cambridge in British literature, art, architecture, and history)
  
  
• B.A., English, Covenant College
  Senior Thesis: "Five Novels of George MacDonald"

Iowa State University
Senior Lecturer in English (May 2004-Present)
Lecturer in English (August 2002-May 2004)
Member of ISU's Graduate Faculty (February 2004 - Present)

Grand View College
Assistant Professor of English (Jan. 2001-May 2002)
Director of College Writing Lab (Aug. 2001-May 2002)
(Resigned in good standing)

Iowa State University
Instructor of English (Aug. 1999-Dec. 2000)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English (1996-1999)
Instructor of English (1995-96)

University of Kansas
Teaching Assistant in English (1989-95)

Simpson College
Temporary Instructor of English (1988)

Des Moines Area Community College
Temporary Instructor of English (1988-89)

Iowa State University
Temporary Instructor of English (1985-87)
Teaching Assistant in English (1984-85)

Books and book contributions

A Morning After War: C. S. Lewis and WWI. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

"Essays: What is Writing, Anyway?" in Meltdown: Language and Life Skills for Business and Science by
     Barbara Fraser. Quebec: Nelson, 1998.

Articles

"Continuing Research on 2nd Lieutenant Lewis."  SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review
     (Volume 18, December 2001): 47-50.

"2nd Lieutenant Lewis." SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review (Volume 17, December 2000): 61-78.

"Approximations: Iago as a Plautine Leno" in SRASP (The Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of
     West Virginia: Selected Papers). Spring (April), 1997. Available at SRASP, as well as referenced in
     other on-line sites: University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and at University of Basel, Germany.

Encyclopedic entries

"Ypres (1914-1918)." McGill's Guide to Military History. Pasadena: Salem, 2000.

"Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood (1918)." McGill's Guide to Military History. Pasadena: Salem, 2000.

"A. J. Cronin." Beacham's Guide to Popular Fiction. Ed. Walter Beacham. Washington, DC: Beacham, 1987.

Reviews

"Disembodied Constructs." Rev. of Male Friendship and the First World War, by Sarah Cole. Evelyn Waugh
     Newsletter and Studies. Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 2009).

"The View from Here." Rev. of The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction, by Richard Bradford. Evelyn
     Waugh Newsletter and Studies. Vol. 39, No. 3 (Winter 2008).

"To Say or Not To Say." Rev. of British Modernism and Censorship, by Celia Marshik. Evelyn Waugh
     Newsletter and Studies. Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring 2007).

"Generally Speaking." Rev. of The Essentials of Literature in English Post-1914. Ed. Ian Mackean. Evelyn Waugh
      Newsletter and Studies. Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring 2006).

"In New Dress." Rev. of On Modern Fiction. Ed. Zachary Leader. Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies. Vol.
      35, No. 3 (Spring 2005).

"A Plaintive Traveler." Rev. of Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing. Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies. Vol.
      34, No. 2 (Autumn 2003).

"A Little Life." Rev. of Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life, by David Wykes. Evelyn Waugh Newsletter
     and Studies. Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2003).

"Escaping Fundagelicalism." Rev. of This Dark World, by Carolyn S. Briggs.  Mars Hill Review.
     No. 20 (Spring 2002): 137-140.

Work in progress

"Singing Papillon: Kurt Streit and the Confines of an Artistic Profession." Article on Streit's career in opera with analysis of the
     isolation within artistic professions.

Field of Nightmares: Traumatic Spaces within Modern Literature. Study of human spaces used within selected
     literary works from WWI and within Modernism.

Composition

Grand View College
Composition, computer lab                                        1 Section

Iowa State University
Composition I, computer lab                                     4 Sections
Composition II, computer lab                                  21 Sections
Composition II, Honors, computer lab                     10 Sections

Simpson College
Composition                                                              2 Sections

Des Moines Area Community College
Composition                                                               6 Sections

Literature

Iowa State University
Introduction to Literature (for non-majors)                2 Sections
Intro to Literature (for English majors)                      7 Sections
World Literature                                                      1 Section
Shakespeare                                                            5 Sections
Modern-Contemporary British Literature                  6 Sections
20th-Century and Contemporary Fiction                   2 Sections
Independent Studies:
(C. S. Lewis; The Bloomsbury Group)                      2 Sections
WWI and Modern Culture                                        2 Sections

University of Kansas
Composition and Literature                                     16 Sections
Introduction to Fiction                                               8 Sections

Grand View College
Themes in Western Literature                                    2 Sections
Selected British Writers II                                         1 Section

Business Communication

Iowa State University
Business and Administrative Communication            30 Sections
(Computer-intensive/assisted; includes Honors sections)

Technical Communication

Grand View College
English 303 Technical Writing: Computer Lab            5 Sections

Study Abroad

Iowa State University
"World War I and Modern Culture." London, France, Belgium, summer 1998; summer 2000. Direct/arrange course and
  associated travel, and teach Modernist literature in context of WWI.

M. A. Thesis Committee

Iowa State University

Thesis Committee Co-chair with Susan Yeager for Michelle Lecuyer. "Dante's Literary Influence in Dubliners: James Joyce's
Modernist Allegory of Paralysis." Spring 2009.

Thesis committee member for Jeffrey Alan Arp. "Urban Trenches: War Poetry and the Unreal City of the Great
War in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land." Summer 2005.

Iowa State University
1997/98 academic year -- Mentor Graduate Teaching Assistants in their early teaching; examine papers/grades, observe teaching, discuss strategies/approaches.

The Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies. Associate Editor (March 2008 - present).

Iowa State University
"Reasons for Rubrics." Presentation for Advanced Communications Workshop. (August 2009)

"Brewing Good Online Research." Presentation for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching's "Teach Grant Series," Seminar 2: Integrating Online Assignments into Your Syllabus without Creating a Webpage. (21 February 2007)

"Fish! in the Workplace" with Dr. Katherine Miles: presentation for Advanced Communication Orientation. (August 2005)

Advancement Committee for Lecturers' promotion to Senior Lecture status. (Spring 2005)

3-on-1: Shakespeare's Othello: one member of a 3-member panel discussing approaches to Shakespeare's play (Spring 2004) Available online: http://lectures.eserver.org/1025/Othello_iMovie.wmv

Literature Area Group -- Iowa State University, Department of English. Committee work on the future of undergraduate literary studies and course offerings in English for English and Education majors.

Grand View College
English Department, GVC Faculty, and Humanities Division committees: participated in administrating department and division curricular, budgetary, operational issues.  Participated in grant writing, proposals for Writing Lab updates.

Trained English Department faculty in casting course materials in basic HTML and posting online.

Director: Grand View College Writing Lab.  Screen, hire tutors; train tutors in scheduled sessions for tutoring all GVC students in writing across the curriculum; re-write tutor training manual and edit tutors' journals for inclusion in experience-oriented booklet for future tutors; calculate tutor's hours and coordinate tutor pay with Business Office; maintain computers and printer; advertise Lab to college faculty and students; maintain Lab records and issue annual report to upper administration on its operation and use.

Director: "World War I and Modern Culture" in London, France, and Belgium. May-June, 1998; May-June 2000. Inter-disciplinary and collaborative teaching (English and history); co-taught with Dr. Phil Zaring, emeritus, history, Iowa State University. Course developed by Gilchrist, 1997.

The Study of 20th-Century English Literature and Literary Theory. English 199 (for prospective English majors), Iowa State University. February 1997; October 1996.

Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief and Modernism. English 560 under Professor Chester Sullivan, University of Kansas. April, 1995.

The First World War and Popular Culture. Presentation of paper: "Shattered Innocence: Popular Images of the Traumatized Veteran." April 2006. University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference. Presentation of paper: "The Persistence of Waste Lands in Evelyn Waugh's Fiction." September, 2003. Hertford College, Oxford University, Oxford, England.

CCL, Northwest Regional Conference. Presentation of paper: "Shattered Assumptions: C. S. Lewis at War." April, 2003. SeattleUniversity, Seattle, Washington.

The Space Between: Precursors and Aftermaths, 1920-1945. Presentation of paper: "'London, This Moment:' WWI and Evelyn Waugh's Early Novels." October, 1997. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.

CCL, Northwest Regional Conference. Presentation of paper: "Predispositions in Postmodernism." May, 1997. Seattle University, Seattle, Washington.

The Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia, 23rd annual conference. Presentation of paper: "Approximations: Iago as a Plautine Leno." April, 1996. West Virginia Institute of Technology, Montgomery, West Virginia.

• 20th-century literature in English, with focus on Modernism as trauamatic experience and human spaces as/in traumatic experience
• Literature of WWI and Modernism
• Interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education

C. S. Lewis's childhood, juvenalia, and children's stories. Waukee Elementary, 3rd Grade. April 1999; April 2000; January 2001; December 2004.

"Teaching Science through Aviation." Waukee Elementary, 3rd Grade. April, 1999; May, 2000; May 2001; May, 2002.

"Teaching Science Through Aviation." Co-taught with Dr. Jack Gerlovich. Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. May and October 1997.

"Means of Invention: Airplanes." Fourth and Fifth Grade "Bonus Days." Moulton Elementary School, Des Moines, Iowa. April 1997.