Teaching Experience:
| InField Workshop at University of California, Santa Barbara | Professor, Summer 2008 |
| LSA Summer Institute at Michigan State University | Professor, Summer 2003 |
| Eastern Michigan University | Professor, 1991-present |
| Universitet i Tromsø, Norway | Fulbright Professor, 1989-1990 |
| University of Texas at Austin | Visiting Assoc. Professor, 1989 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio |
Associate Professor, 1983-1991
Assistant Professor, 1977-1983 |
| Auburn University | Assistant Professor, 1975-1977 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University | Instructor, 1968-1970 |
Course Taught:
Linguistics:
| Pragmatics and Written Texts, Textlinguistics (graduate), Linguistic Stylistics (graduate), Language and Gender, Discourse Analysis (graduate), The Linguistic Analysis of Literature (graduate), The Language of Fiction: Pragmatics and Narrative (graduate), The Structure of American English (graduate), Principles of English Linguistics (graduate), History of the English Language (graduate), Grammatical Models (graduate), Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, The Structure of Modern English, Language and Culture, Introduction to Phonetics, Transformational Syntax |
Narrative:
| Narratology (Senior Seminar), Austen and Eliot (graduate, senior seminar), Eliot and Hardy (senior seminar), The British Novel (honors seminar), Detective Fiction |
Other:
| Survey of British Literature, Perception and Expectation (interdisciplinary honors seminar), The American Experience (interdisciplinary freshman seminar), Medical Terminology |