UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE

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Princess Anne, MD 21853 - 1299
(410) 651-6101
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Board of Visitors, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 2002-. Member, University System of Maryland Financial Aid Task Force, 2004.

Professor (English), Bowie State University, 1974-1976. Assistant Chair, English Department, 1979-88, Associate Dean and Professor, 1988-90, University of the District of Columbia. Dean, School of Arts and Letters, 1990-98, and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, 1998-2002, Norfolk State University.

Teacher's diploma, Bethlehem Teachers College, Jamaica. Education certificate, London University. Howard University, B.A. (English), 1970, M.A. (English), 1972, Ph.D. (English), 1978. Member, Modern Language Association; National Council of Teachers of English; African-American Writers' Guild; Phi Beta Kappa. Former President, College Language Association; National Association of College Professions of Language and Literature. Co-founder, Caribbean Studies Association. Author, The Seventeenth Century English Hymn: A Mode for Sacred and Secular Concerns (1988). Outstanding Graduate and Alumnus, New York Alumni, Bethlehem Teachers College, 2000. Administrator of the Year, Association of Educational Office Professionals, Norfolk State University, 2002. Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2004. Four children.

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