Written in 2018, but this is sort of my Doll Resume!

 

Experience with writing and dolls:  Currently, I blog about dolls for Ruby Lane and am a guest columnist for the Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch newspapers.  Once a year I write an article on astronomy for The Moline Dispatch and Reflections the Popular Astronomy Club newsletter.  I also catalog antique dolls for ebay and pin dolls professionally on Pinterest for Ruby Lane Dolls. Since Age 3, I have collected dolls.

 

My chapbook, Sappho, I should have listened was published by 918studio.  I have won  honorable mentions in poetry contests sponsored by The Lawton Doll Company and The Bettendorf Public Library. I have also had poems published in small publications.

 

I was the expert doll collecting guide for About.com, owned by The New York Times, and maintain 12+ blogs of my own including Doll Museum and Dr. E’s Doll Museum Blog [translated into Greek, Spanish, and Japanese).

 

Besides these activities, I am the author of The Subversion of Romance in the Noels of Barbara Pym (The Popular Press, 1998). I also have chapters in The Gothic World of Anne Rice (Popular Press) and Emerging Perspectives; Virginia Woolf (Pace University Press, 1993).

 

I am a lecturer on dolls and have taught two courses on them for CommUniversity.org.  Two books I have written on dolls included A Bibliography of Dolls and Toys and With Love from Tin Lizzie: A History of Metal Heads, Metal Dolls, Mechanical Dolls and Automatons, Both published by American Doll and Toy Center.

 

The Greyden Press has awarded me a Silver Award for a memoir and two novels , and I have won awards for local poetry contests  sponsored by public radio station WVIK.  I was a guest twice on Art Talks with Bruce Carter and Scribble with Don Wooten and Roald Tweet.  Atlas Obscura interviewed me for a piece on Celebrity Dolls and I have been contacted by Inside Edition and The Today Show about dolls.  I was a guest on an Irish radio talk show, The Sean Moncrieff Show as well.  My Author’s pages are on Amazon.com, GoodReads, and 918studio.

 

Here is a summary of my other writing experience with dolls and other topics:

 

2014-2018: Director of Social Media for Antique Doll Collector Magazine, Puffin Publications.   Maintains Antique Doll Collector Magazine Blog and other social media sites including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, ISSUU, Stumble Upon, LinkedIn, Reddit, Flickr, and Pinterest.   Also contributes monthly column on collectibles.

 

Grant Evaluator for SAU’s Ubiquity of Work. 2010-2011, for Ballet Quad Cities 2004, for Bettendorf Library, 2002.

 

 

Concord Law School Law Day contributor of article, 2017. “Griswold v. Connecticut and the 14^th Amendment”, Concord Law School Website

 

 

November 2013 MMLA, paper presented “The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Automatons,” Theme of Convention: Art and Artifice.

 

November 2012 MMLA; three papers: Rumer Godden’s Adaptation of Iconic Themes in Adult and Children’s Literature; Sarah Crewe’s Financial and Emotional Obligations in A Little Princess; Debt in Popular Culture - Debt portrayed in 2 Broke Girls, Sex and the City, and American Pickers v.  The Grapes of Wrath, The Hunger Artist, and Bartleby the Scrivener.

 

A Creative Writing Primer. Midwest Writing Center 2012

 

Outloud Anthology. Midwest Writing Center 2012.

 

The Legend of Tugfest. Editor and Contributor. LeClaire, 918studio. April 2012

 

Sappho, I should Have Listened.  LeClaire, 918studio. April 2011.

 

Clara and the War: A little Girl’s Story of Fascist/Nazi Occupied Greece 1938-45. Along with 2 other novels, won Silver award from the Greyden Press 2014.

 

“Frank Yerby.” Encyclopedia of The Harlem Renaissance. Routledge, 2005.

 

 

 

Co-contributor to NCA Self Study for KU in pursuit of approval of AAS and BS programs in Criminal Justice and Paralegal Studies. 2001

 

"Every Picture Tells a Story" on Virginia Woolf and Diego Velasquez in Summer 2000 Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

 

"Teacher Preparedness" The MLA Newsletter, Spring 1999.

 

Student Guide and Course Development: Fundamentals of Legal Writing and Research I (Distance Learning Program), Black Hawk College, Fall 1998,      Spring 1999, [using PowerPoint].

 

Student Guide and Course Development: LA 200Administrative Law (Distance Learning Program), Black Hawk College, Spring 1999[using PowerPoint].

 

Review of I, Vampire, in Passing Glances, a Cyber Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 

 

"Victorian Christmas Dinners: Feasts and Festivities." Hope and Glory: A Journal Devoted to the Eclectic World of Queen Victoria. 1992.

 

Published more than 60 academic and creative articles in various popular magazines and periodicals including online, including Spring 1999 MLA Newsletter; Summer 2000 PMLA Millennium Edition; and “Sandi You Found Me”: Monthly  doll newsletter.

 

Multiple presentations at professional conferences in Law and English since 1985.

 

Guest Blogger for R. John Wright Design Blog.

 

 

Curriculum Development:  Under Bill Weston and Karen Evans, MS Legal Studies Courses in Intro to Law and Jurisprudence; with Robin Throne and Jeff Gettleman, various AAS and BS course for July 2000 and October 2001 HCL Visits.  Under Dr. Ed DeJaegher,  helped design MBA courses, Reviewed Masters Courses in Education, humanities, and Criminal Justice, developed DC 1-1 Diversity and Culture class, and a proposed program of study in Diversity and Culture.