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For the past 13 years, I have been an Instructor of English in the Languages and Literature Department of Gaston College, a community college located in Dallas, NC. Between 1985 and 1990, I taught African American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and from 1976 to 1985, I taught English at North Carolina Central University. I have been teaching a total of 33 years.
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hampton University and Master of Arts in Education, with a concentration in English, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I have done further study in curriculum and development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research and teaching fields include expository, argument-based, and technical writing, African American literature and African American history.
In 2005, I was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) for a faculty research/study project entitled "African Americans and the Mills and Mill Villages of Gaston County." As Project Director, between October, 2005 and April, 2006, I involved 13 Gaston College faculty and three Gaston County Public School teachers in four focused workshops conducted by nationally renowned scholars and three field trips to explore and research our topic. The project has yielded oral histories from African Americans with knowledge of and/or experience working in the county textile mills and several curriculum projects that will pass on to students the ideas and knowledge learned during the yearlong project.
Also at Gaston College, I am the Chair of the Minority Affairs Committee which does programming for the college community, but especially for students, to highlight the diversity of cultures which inform our community and particularly our campus. I was also honored as the 2006 Instructor of the Year for Arts and Sciences division here at the college.
I frequently do workshops and presentations in my teaching and research fields. Most recently, I have done several business writing workshops for local companies. Reflecting my interest in African American literature and history, I did a presentation for the Love of Learning Program at Davidson College entitled "The Importance of Gullah Culture as Reflected in God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man (an autobiography by Cornelia Walker Bailey with Christine Bledsoe)."
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