Teaching Experience:
        LSA Summer Institute Professor, Summer 2003
    Eastern Michigan University
Professor, 1991-present.
    Universitet i Tromsø , Norway
Fulbright Professor, 1989-90.
    University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Assoc. Professor, 1989
    University of Texas at San Antonio
Associate Professor, 1983-91 Assistant Professor, 1977-83
    Auburn University
Assistant Professor, 1975-77
    Southeastern Louisiana University
Instructor, 1968-70

Courses 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, Intro. 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