Since leaving full-time academic work in 1997, I have been invited to guest lecture numerous times at local colleges including Southern Methodist University and Texas Woman's University, and have taught a number of corporate training classes in basic editing, online writing and employee communications. Listed below are descriptions of the fully developed classes I taught when I was "officially" a teacher.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

LLC 43-4120: Technical and Professional Communication (Fall 1996, Spring 1997)
Designed and taught the first RPI "Tech/Pro" class, a junior/senior elective, to incorporate Web and e-mail into the curriculum, the first to use interactive writing environments for long-distance class communications and the first to host all syllabus and reading material entirely online. Original Spring 1997 and Fall 1996 syllabi. [External links will open new browser window.]

LLC 42-4962: Science Fiction and Virtual Reality (TA, Fall 1996)
Helped teach (assisting David Porush) and evaluate in this course. The goals of this course were not only to explore the technical aspects challenges of implementing "virtual reality," but to ask the question "What does it mean to be human?" Original syllabus. [External link will open new browser window.]

LLC 43-2961: Writing to the World Wide Web (Spring 1996, Summer 1996)
Proposed, designed and taught this first class of its kind at RPI, and one of the first 10 taught at the undergraduate level in the United States. The class was adopted formally as an elective in the RPI curriculum and is a requirement for students in the Electronic Media, Arts and Commmunications major. Original Spring 1996 and Summer 1996 syllabi. [External links will open new browser window.]

LLC 43-1110: Expository Writing: Language and Culture (Fall 1995)
The objectives of this required course are to teach college-level writing skills in composing sentences, paragraphs, and short essays. This section met once a week in a traditional classroom and once a week in a networked classroom. Archive of original Fall 1995 syllabus [Will open new browser window.]

English 531: Computer-Mediated Instruction (Summer 1994)
Co-designed and team taught (with Deepika Petraglia-Bahri) a seminar intended to help writing teachers introduce computer and internet technologies into their professional repertoire. Class ran concurrently and interacted with similar classes at Texas Tech University and the University of Houston. Original syllabus. [Opens new browser window.]

English 110: Basic Writing (Summer 1994)
Taught university's most introductory writing course; summer section designed specifically to address "early start" first-year students, immediate high school graduates identified as high-risk admissions.

English 602: Writing Instructor's Workshop (TA, Fall 1993)
As one of three second-year graduate students selected to supervise and advise first-year teaching assistants, served as teaching assistant (to Donna Nelson-Beene) in this intensive in-service training in the classroom teaching of writing.

English H112: Cyberpunk Fiction (Fall 1993)
Proposed, designed and taught this special honors section of the required university writing class, which utilized cyberpunk fiction and virtual reality-themed movies as response texts. Also the first writing course at Bowling Green to rely primarily on internet technologies.

English H301: Science Fiction (TA, Spring 1993)
Helped design and teach (assisting Tom Wymer) this course, a dual offering to mainstream and honors students, which examined science fiction literature throughout the 20th century. Oversaw and evaluated the honors students' special project, a collaborative fiction-writing effort.

English 112: Varieties of Writing (Spring 1993)
English 111: Introductory Writing (Fall 1992)
As a first-year graduate student, taught one section of English 111 and two sections of English 112, which focused on expository writing and research paper writing, respectively. The English 111 class was one of the first offered in a local-area networked computer classroom.

Educational Testing Service: GMAT essay evaluator, 1994-1996
MIT Press: pre-print manuscript evaluator, 1995
Bowling Green State University: University Honors Program placement evaluator, 1994
Bowling Green High School: senior portfolio evaluator, 1993-1994
Ohio State-Lima: Early English Composition Assessment Program, 1993

St. Aloysius School
High school girls' basketball head coach, 1993-1994
St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School
High school religious education coordinator, 1988-1992
High school girls' basketball head coach, 1991-1992
High school girls' basketball assistant coach, 1989-1991
Adult co-ed softball coach, 1990-1992
Substitute teacher: 7th and 8th grade English, History and Religion, 1990-1992
Guest Lecturer, 1988-1992
Toledo St. John's Jesuit High School; Toledo Central Catholic High School; Oregon (OH) Cardinal Stritch High School; Sandusky St. Mary's High School; various other northwest Ohio high schools and grade schools.