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Dr. Davis鈥檚 teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century British Literature, Narrative Theory, Queer and Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, , and Composition and Rhetoric. She brings innovative teaching to the classroom through the integration of technology and experiential learning opportunities. Her goals are to use diverse and inclusive curricula to foster her students鈥� abilities to think critically, communicate effectively, and engage actively in the world around them. She teaches classes in English Composition (Eng 101), Introduction to Literature (Eng 120), British Literature (Eng 234), Romantic Literature (Eng 335), Victorian Literature (Eng 336), Rhetoric (Eng 308), and specialized courses. Dr. Davis was pleased to join the 杏吧直播appfaculty because of the university鈥檚 commitment to mentoring. She enjoys getting to know her students and working with them individually as well as in the classroom. She was awarded the Faculty Advisor Award for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in 2018. She was awarded the inaugural President鈥檚 Award for Diversity in 2016. She was awarded the Multicultural Teaching Award for the 2011-2012 academic year, which 鈥渃elebrates outstanding, creative guidance of students in support of multicultural education.鈥� She also received the 鈥淒iversity Leader Faculty Award鈥� from the Wilkes Center for Global Education and Diversity in 2011. Dr. Davis is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion at 杏吧直播app.

Dr. Davis is an active member of the 杏吧直播appcommunity. She is the faculty advisor for the , co-founded and serves as a coordinator for the campus LGBTQ+ Awareness and program, facilitates a . She is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (CODIE). She has served on numerous committees, and currently serves on the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Committee and on the Student Life and Media Committee (SLAM)

Dr. Davis is also active in the community, serving as Vice-Chair of the board of the NEPA Rainbow Alliance and as a regular volunteer for Crestwood Schools. She provides public and institutional sessions on LGBTQ+ issues at libraries, churches, and other locations.

Dr. Davis also coordinates LGBTQ+ Awareness and Safe Space sessions for Misericordia University and King鈥檚 College, and is working with the Susquehanna school system to build an education and support structure for LGBTQ+ students.

Dr. Davis also serves on a statewide Diversity taskforce for the Greater PA Alzheimer鈥檚 Association.

Dr. Davis was on the taskforce that created the structure for the 杏吧直播app Honors Program, serves as the CAHSS representative on the Honors Program Advisory Council, and served as Interim Co-Director of the Program for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Publications

• 鈥溾�業 seemed to hold two lives鈥�: Disclosing Circumnarration in Villette and The Picture of Dorian Gray.鈥� Narrative 21.2 (2013).
• 鈥淚 seemed to possess two wives鈥�: The Professor鈥檚 Implied Narrative. JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory. 45.2 (2015).
• 鈥淚 am my own mistress鈥�: Narrating Autonomy and Love in Charlotte Bront毛鈥檚 Novels. In progress.

Professional Presentations

• 鈥淨ueer Performative Narrativity and Rethinking Community.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative. Montreal, Canada. April 2018.
• 鈥淨ueering Performative Narrativity.鈥� Panel organizer and Presenter. International Conference on Narrative. Lexington, KY, March 2017.
• 鈥淒ecoding the Unnarratable.鈥� Panel organizer, Moderator, and Presenter. International Conference on Narrative. Chicago, IL, March 2015.
• 鈥淎mbiguous Authorial Self Narration.鈥� Panel organizer, Presenter, and Moderator. International Conference on Narrative. Cambridge, MA, March 2014.
• 鈥淔irst-Person Focalization in Jane Eyre.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative. Manchester, England. June 2013.
• 鈥溾�橵ive l鈥橝ngleterre鈥�: How Villette constructs a British Implied Reader via Belgium.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative.. Las Vegas, NV, March 2012
• 鈥溾�楻uled by espionage鈥�: Repetition of the Directress character in Bront毛鈥檚 The Professor and Villette鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative. St. Louis, MO, April 2011.
• 鈥溾�楺uite a woman and something more鈥�: Focalization Patterns, Gender Performativity, and Transgressive Women.鈥� Panel organizer, Presenter, and Moderator. International Conference on Narrative. Cleveland, OH, April 2010.
• 鈥淗ow Technology Can Redesign the College Composition Classroom.鈥� Presentation. College English Association Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.
• 鈥溾�業 seemed to hold two lives鈥�: Disclosing the Unnarratable in Villette.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative, Austin, TX, May 2008.
• 鈥淒ouble Vision: Split First Person Focalization in Jane Eyre.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative, Austin, TX, May 2008.
• 鈥淚nstructing Technology Pedagogy.鈥� Presentation. CUNY鈥檚 6^th Annual IT Conference, New York, NY, November 2007.
• 鈥淏i-gendered and Doubled: The Dual Focalizers of Shirley.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative, Washington, D.C., March 2007.
• 鈥淟ove鈥檚 Madness: Male Recuperation versus Female Sublimation in The Woman in White.鈥� Presentation. NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Baltimore, MD, March 2007.
• 鈥溾�業 Seemed to Possess Two Wives鈥�: The Professor鈥檚 Implied Narrative.鈥� Presentation. International Conference on Narrative, Ottawa, Ontario, April 2006.
• 鈥溾�楽peak I Must鈥�: Self v. Communion in Jane Eyre.鈥� The Bront毛s and Their World, Bront毛 Society of North America Conference, Pleasantville, NY, April 2004.
• 鈥淔inding Her Voice: Jane Eyre鈥檚 Self Narration.鈥� National Women鈥檚 Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2003.

Professional Consulting

• LGBTQ+ Awareness and Safe Space Program development and delivery, Misericordia University 2016-Present
• LGBTQ+ Awareness and Safe Space Program development and delivery, King鈥檚 College, 2018
• LGBTQ+ Awareness and Safe Space Program development and delivery, Lackawanna and Susquehanna County School Systems, 2017-2018

Invited Talks

• 鈥淟GBTQ 101,鈥� Osterhout Public Library, June 2017, June 2018
• 鈥淟GBT and Me.鈥� Hazelton Public Library, June 2018.
• 鈥淎mbitious Women Then and Now: Charlotte Bront毛 to Hillary Clinton.鈥� O鈥橦op Final Word Keynote. Scholars Symposium, 杏吧直播app, April 2018
• 鈥淐reating Safe Spaces for Youth.鈥� Family Service Association Conference, 2013
• 鈥淣ew Feminist Narratologies.鈥� Invited Roundatble Presentation. International Conference on Narrative, Birmingham, England, June 2009.

• Outstanding Advisor Award, 杏吧直播app, 2018.
• Outstanding designation, 杏吧直播app, 2011-2012, 2017-2018.
• Inaugural President鈥檚 Award for Diversity, 杏吧直播app, 2016.
• Type I Research Grant. 杏吧直播app, 2009-2010, 2012-2013.
• Multicultural Teaching award. 杏吧直播app, 2011-2012.
• Diversity Leader Faculty Award, 杏吧直播app, 2011.
• Type II Research Grant. 杏吧直播app, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018.
• CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Student Research Grant, 2008.
• The Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Award, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-2007.
• Instructional Technology Fellowship, CUNY Honors College, Queens Campus, 2005-2008.
• Program Representative, Dickens Universe, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2005.
• Writing Fellowship, LaGuardia Community College, 2003-2005.
• Presidential Teaching Award Nominee, Baruch College, Fall 2001.
• English Department Fellowship, Wake Forest University, 2000-2001.
• Information Systems Assistantship, Wake Forest University, 2000-2001.
• Graduation with high distinction in the English Major, Duke University, 1999.
• Benjamin N. Duke Scholar, Duke University, 1995-1999.

• Council of Independent Colleges Diversity Institute. Atlanta, GA, June 2018.
• Northeast LGBT Conference. Rochester, NY, March 2013.
• Northeast LGBT Conference. Albany, NY, March 2012.
• Pennsylvania Conference for Women. Philadelphia, PA, October 2012, 2013.
• 鈥淨ueer and Feminist Narrative Theories.鈥� Project Narrative Symposium. Columbus, OH, May 2011.
• 鈥淐reativity, Inquiry, and Discovery: Undergraduate Research.鈥� Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR). Durham, NC, November 2010.