SPECIAL TEACHING FIELDS (GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS):

New Literatures in English; Twentieth-Century British Literature; Modern Drama; The Short Story; Women Writers; Postcolonial Literature; Contemporary World Literature; Victorian Literature; Interdisciplinary Courses in Women's Studies (Women in a Changing World, Women and Power, Women's Spiritual Quest, Mothers and Daughters); Seminars on Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard, Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf.

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS:

Selected as the only faculty member on the search committee for the next president of Old Dominion University. 1999-2000.

Nancy Topping Bazin Graduate Scholarship in Women's Studies created in my honor. Fundraising began Spring 1999. Scholarships awarded 2001 on.

Nominated for the university's Thirteenth Annual Faculty Research Award. March 1997.

Nominated for Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year by Old Dominion University - An award funded by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and administered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education - 1996.

Winner of The 2nd Annual Charles O. and Elisabeth C. Burgess Faculty Research and Creativity Award - May 1996

Nominated by the College of Arts and Letters to be the one senior professor to apply for the 1996 and the 1997 NEH Summer Stipends.

Old Dominion University Faculty Recognition Award - May 1, 1995 For "commitment you have shown to the pursuit of knowledge and achievement of success."

Awarded a Spring 1995 Resident Fellowship for the Center for the Humanities of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA (one of the two fully funded for $12,000 in international competition).

Winner of 1994 Outstanding Faculty Award (Eleven awarded in the Commonwealth of Virginia in competition with all faculty in both private and public institutions of higher education of Virginia. $5,000 given by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia.) (For teaching, research, and service with a special emphasis upon teaching).

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University-Bloomington. Summer 1994.

1994 Ball Brothers Research Foundation Fellowship for research on the Gordimer papers at the Lilly Library.

Awarded Old Dominion University Outstanding Faculty Certificate of Appreciation (for teaching). March 1993.

Semi-finalist at state level for 1993 State Council of Higher Education of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.

Nominated by English Department Chair for 1992 Phi Kappa Phi National Scholar Award and both 1993 and 1994 SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education of Virginia) Outstanding Faculty Awards.

As faculty, selected for initiation into Phi Kappa Phi - national honorary (1988).

As faculty, selected for Sigma Tau Delta - national English honorary (1988).

Phi Beta Kappa (1955); Mortar Board (1955); Kappa Delta Pi (national education honorary) (1956); Author's citation, New Jersey Writer's Conference (1973).

One of ten faculty selected to participate in two-year Third World Studies project (1980 82) and faculty development trip to Tanzania and the Ivory Coast (1983). Chosen for NEH Faculty Development Institute in Post-Colonial Literature (1985). Selected to give five lectures at the Universite Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco (1988). Selected for East Asian Studies seminar (1988-90) and trip (1989).

Rated excellent by all committees in all three areas of research, teaching, and service during the process of being promoted to full professor.

Listed in International Directory of Distinguished Leadership; 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century; Dictionary of International Biography, Two Thousand Notable American Women; Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Education, Who's Who in the Humanities, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, The World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who in American Education, International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Directory of American Scholars.

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