- Phone:
- 765-455-9235
- Email:
- cmtaff@iuk.edu
- Campus:
- IU Kokomo
Main Building (KO), Room 229
Main Building (KO), Room 229
Biography
While I am originally from suburban Chicago, I have lived in Indiana since 1990 when I came to attend graduate school at Purdue University. I earned my BA in Spanish from the University of Tulsa, with a year at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain, and my MA in Spanish with a focus in literature from Purdue University. I completed my course work and exams for the Ph.D. program in Spanish at Purdue as well. Between college and graduate school, I worked in an adult literacy program as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and have been teaching at IU Kokomo since the fall 2006. I teach both online and face-to-face sections of beginning and intermediate Spanish. I also teach Introduction to Hispanic Literature in the collaborative online BS in Spanish program. Additionally, I have taught a travel course for many years and have led 10 student trips to Guatemala through this course. I also had the good fortune to help lead an IU Kokomo School of Business trip to Poland. Currently I am working with IU South Bend faculty on a language immersion trip to Costa Rica for the summer of 2023.
I am passionate about the Spanish language and the cultures of Spain and Latin America (especially Central America!).
Professional Works
Publications
- “Who’s Irish?: Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities” Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Ed. Pilar Villar-Argáiz. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. 95-107. Print.
- “Identity as Conformity: Identity Migration in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.'' A critical edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Ed. Suman Chakraborty. Kolkata: Roman Books, 2012. Print.
- “In Search of Identity: Inner Diaspora and Psychic Healing in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children" South Asian Review 31. 2 (2010): 9-26. Print.
- “From Emigration to Immigration: Irishness in The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” The Wake of the Tiger. Eds. David Clark and Rubén Jarazo Álvarez. La Coruña, Spain: Netbiblo Publishers, 2010. 103-110. Print. Irish Studies Series.
- “The Four Mothers of the Dispossessed: Motherhood in Irish Melodies and Cantares
Galegos ,” (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting Regional and National Allegories Through the Maternal Body. Ed. Lisa Bernstein. New Castle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: 23-35. Print.
After Ireland: A review of ACIS-CAIS 2014 Breac June 30, 2014
Forthcoming: “Roddy Doyle’s Short Fiction: An Interview” Roddy Doyle” Short Fiction: Theory and Practice (February 2015)
Under Consideration: “ An Interview with Roddy Doyle” Breac
In Progress: New book on Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.
- “The Hill.” The Common, November 2014. Web.
- “Eating Apples.” The Common, November 2014. Web.
- “The Accident.” Buhito Press, October 2014. Web.
- “Home.” The Common, October 2014. Web.
- “The Wedding Picture.” Marco Polo, April 2013. Web.
- "The Merry Go Round." Natural Bridge 27 (Spring 2012): 102-109. Print.
- “A Galician Summer.” Transnational Literature 3. 2 (May 2011). Web.
- “Mia.” Read Short Stories Online: Page 47 Online Anthology
April, 2010. Web. - “Back to Galicia.” disClosure, Issue 17 (April 2008): 6-12. Print.
- “Forest Park” Miracle
- “My Walk” Charlottesville Winter
- “The Rescue” The Common
- Voyeurism in CSI: Las Vegas” Popmatters.com (February 2011)
- Roddy Doyle’s Characters in The Deportees” Dictionary of World Literary Characters Facts on File, Inc. (Summer 2009)
- “Double Voyeurism in CSI Las Vegas: The Scientist under the Microscope.” In Media Res (August 2007). Web.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (co-authored)
- Heath, Sarah
and Eva Roa White. "Walking the Line: Lessons in Online Interdisciplinary Instruction" Currents in Teaching and Learning 6.1 (Fall 2013). - White, Eva Roa et al. "Turning a Plague into a Posy: Team Teaching Graduate Courses at a Small Campus
”Currents in Teaching and Learning 3.1 (Fall 2010). - McLean, Donna
and Eva White. "Two Approaches to Podcasting Use in the Classroom” MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 5.2 (June 2009) - Reviewer for CPLT -- Creative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching since 2013
William Penn University
- A Case Study of Ireland and Galicia’s Parallel Paths to Nationhood Irish Studies Series. Wales, U.K.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
- "Emigration as Emancipation: Portrayals of the Immigrant Irish Girl in NineteenthCentury Fiction." New Hibernia Review 9.1 (Spring 2005): 95-108
- "Ramón del Valle-Inclán” in the Compendium of 20th century World Novelists ( December 2007)
Conference Papers Presented
- “Brown Bag: Research on Roddy Doyle” - IUK (December 2014)
- “From The Deportees to Two pints: Roddy Doyle’s Glocal Irish Identity” ACIS/CAIS international meeting, Dublin, Ireland (June 2014)
- “From the Global in The Deportees to the Personal in Bullfighting: Roddy Doyle’s Continued Search for Irish Identity” ACIS Midwest, Iowa City (October 13)
- “Who is Irish? Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.” EFACIS, Galway, Ireland (June 2013)
- “Who is Irish? Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.”ACIS New Orleans international meeting, (March 2012)
- “From the Political to the Personal: Roddy Doyle’s Bullfighting.” ACIS West, San Jose, CA. (October 2011)
- “Is Podcasting the New Star in the Galaxy of Learning?” (Poster session with Donna Mclean and Cherie Dodd) 3rd IU Kokomo Faculty Conference, Kokomo Indiana, (November 2010)
- “Hybrid Ireland: Roddy Doyle’s Nigerian Irish Identity” ACIS - West, Boise State University, Idaho (October 2010)
- “Hybridity through Immigration” Arts and Sciences Speakers Series, IU Kokomo (February 2010)
- “Nigeria in Ireland: Roddy Doyle's Nigerian Irish Identity” ACIS international/ Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies, Galway, Ireland (June 2009)
- “From Emigration to Immigration: The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” AEDEI International conference, A Coruña, Spain (May 2008)
- “From Emigration to Immigration: The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and 7 Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” at the national ACIS Irish Studies conference, Davenport, Iowa, (April 2008).
- “The Four Mothers of the Dispossessed: Motherhood in Thomas Moore and Rosalia de Castro” ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) Midwest conference Kansas City (October 2007).