Thanks for stopping by my professional Web site. While providing a space to post my credentials and publications, and so on, I also intend this site to be used by students, and, I hope, colleagues, as a space within which to share ideas, build resources, and provide research support.
In fact, most scholarly work is profoundly collaborative, and I think we’d be better off celebrating this fact than denying it, making amends for it, or attempting to circumvent it.
One of the big perks of academic work is the opportunity to learn with and from other scholars and students – those right down the hall, in the building next door, and across campus. The same is true when I do work with the theatre, or other artists, or community groups outside the university: I am learning at least as much as I’m contributing, and this seems to me one of the beauties of the scholarly endeavor.
In addition, my students' own interests are wide, varied, and outreaching, and I encourage them not merely to find and incorporate “outside research,” but to discover those folks in the field who are actively researching similar questions and to begin their own research with the bibliographies others have already assembled. I encourage students to visit the Web sites of other professionals in language studies and check out the institutional and programmatic Web pages that support their work as well. In fact, one of the main purposes of my site is to provide a space where students can build continually expanding bibliographies in our areas of interest.
I’d also like this to be a place where students can learn about the work of the university, whether by way of thinking about our three primary responsibilities as scholars (teaching, research, and service), exploring departmental concerns, articulating research agendas, and tapping into ongoing disciplinary conversations, students will be tapping into the history of ideas and the potentials for cross-fertilization of knowledge. The working Bibliographies page and the Resources page should help start and sustain some of these conversations.
Each of the sections of this site (even, I hope, the Gallery pages) should help to demonstrate the richness, depth, and scope of language studies. I’d like the site to provide a place where students can investigate the various types of programs that support language research, browse various scholarly tools and venues, and take advantage of course support, scholarly collaboration, and opportunities for student publication.
his is, of course, my academic resume. Scholars must highlight and list aspects of their professional lives that mirror and develop the three main categories of academic responsibility: scholarship, teaching, and service.
Accomplishment in these areas are then further parsed according to types and venues of scholarship (for instance, books, articles, chapters, talks,
grants); types, categories, and numbers of courses taught and in development, as well as directed individual study with students; and service inside and outside the university. If you're preparing your first C.V., you're welcome to use this as one example, but be sure to consider other examples as well. 
