EDUCATION

  • Purdue University
    • 2005-Present
    • Ph.D Student
    • Primary: English Language and Linguistics
    • Secondary: English Language History
  • Andrews University
    • 2002-2005
    • Master of Arts in Literature
        • Major Papers:
      • Woolf
      • Chaucer
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    • 1991-1996
    • Bachelor of Arts in Literature
    • Certification in Secondary English
    • Certification in Secondary Psychology-minor

    TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    Tertiary Level

    • ENGL106: Introductory Composition, 4 terms – Purdue
    • ENGL115: Introductory Composition, 2 terms – Andrews
    • ENGL215: Composition/Research Methods 2 terms – Andrews
    • ENGLxxx: Drama - Andrews

    Secondary Level

    • Dakota Adventist Academy , Bismarck , North Dakota
    • Taught 9-12 English, Psychology.
    • Student Teaching, Greenhills Academy , Ann Arbor , MI , 1994

    Tutor, Reading and Learning Skills Center , Univ. of Mich. , Jan-May 1995 •Developed a program and worked with a junior high student diagnosed with dyslexia.

    PRESENTATIONS

    Adventist English Association Conf. - Union College : Lincoln, NE. July, 2004

    Communality between Navajo and English: The Deliberate Bridging of Cultural Rifts by Shared Language and Military Ethos.

    Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, & Letters Annual Conf. - Eastern Michigan University: Ypsilanti , MI, June 2005

    "For she had triumphed again. She had not said it; yet he knew": Woolf's Assessment and Transcendence of Barriers to Understanding

    AWARDS

  • Quintillian Award - Fall 2005

Contact Information

Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

mcovarru@purdue.edu