Academic administrator and professor of English, with a demonstrated record of working effectively in higher education. As LAS Dean, responsibilities included budget and personnel management; higher education and program advocacy; public speaking; partnership building; executing initiatives; promoting diversity, equity and inclusion; conflict resolution; curricular development; fostering community engagement,assessment and program review; and problem solving. Academic specialties include writing pedagogy, life writing/memoir/creative nonfiction, comic literature/theory, postcolonial literature/theory, Anglo-Indian studies, and intersections between psychology, religion and literature. Previous background in writing program administration. Highly skilled writer, speaker, copy editor and tutor; former freelance TV broadcast closed captioner.