AUBURN UNIVERSITY - AUBURN, ALABAMA
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - ENGLISH (in progress - expected graduation: Summer 2010)
Focus: Rhetoric & Composition
Exam Areas: Composition (Major Area), Visual & Multimedia Rhetoric (Minor Area), Writing Centers (Minor Area)
Dissertation: Rhetoric & The Composition of Film
Committee Members: Michelle Ann Sidler (Chair), Isabelle Thompson, Keith Gibson, Kevin Roozen
Awards & Nominations: Nominee - Outstanding Graduate Student Award - 2005

MASTER OF ARTS - ENGLISH (May 2004)
Focus: Literature
Exam Areas: British Literature 1800-1900, World Literature 1900-1945, World Literature 1945-Present, Rhetoric & Composition
Awards & Nominations: Runner-Up - Masters Level GTA Teaching Award - 2004

LAGRANGE COLLEGE - LAGRANGE, GEORGIA
BACHELOR OF ARTS - ENGLISH (May 2001)
Awards, Nominations & Honors: Magna Cum Laude Graduate
Murial B. Williams Award for Excellence in Literary Studies, 2001
Walter D. Jones Award for Excellence in Composition and Scholarship, 2001
First Place - Fiction, LaGrange College Writing Contest, 2000
Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society), 2000