About Me

I am a  proud alumna of both Beaver College and  Arcadia University.  My official title is  Professor,  Access Services and Outreach librarian.  A doctorate in Educational Leadership as well as  three Master's degrees in English (MA), Library Science (MSLS)and Creative Writing (poetry) (MFA) respectively.  I am the author of six books in my field of Librarianship and working on my seventh.   I am an authoethnographer and  ethnographer  who is interested in reflective practice, communities of practice, narrative inheritance, information literacy, Italian-American culture and many other topics that I do scholarly work in , around and on. I am the editor of two literary magazines OVUNQUE SIAMO: New Italian-American Writing and Red Fern Review.   As well, I am the author of several collections of poetry and collaborative collections.   I am fully to committed to student learning and collaboration with my colleagues both in the library and campus at large.

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"I know how to write forever. I don't think I could have happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me. It's control. Nobody tells me what to do. It's mine, it''s free, and it's a way of thinking. It's pure knowledge." Toni Morrison

" You have to practice your art, as does any artist, which in m view, means you dedicate at least part of each day of your entire life to nothing else."---Bud Goodall, The New Ethnography