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Education

1995–present          University of Southern Mississippi   Hattiesburg, MS
Ph.D. Candidate - American Literature to 1900

• Comprehensive exams completed in September 1998

• Work begun on Stealing Away From Society’s Conventions:  Discussions of voice in the Work of Ruby Pickens Tartt

• G.P.A. 4.0 (on 4.0 scale)

1991-1993              The University of West Alabama     Livingston, AL
Master of Arts in Teaching, English
G.P.A. 4.0 (on a 4.0 scale)

1987–1991              The University of West Alabama    Livingston, AL
Bachelor of Arts, English (Journalism Minor)
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
G..P.A. 3.85 (on 4.0 scale)  

Work Experience

1991-present           The University of West Alabama     Livingston, AL
Assistant Professor of English (1996-present)

• Freshmen composition, American Literature, African-American Literature,   
  speech and journalism courses

• Serve as faculty advisor for student newspaper, The Life (1997-present)

• Serve as Co-director of the Livingston Press (1995-present)

• Serve as faculty intern for UWA's Office of University Relations (1994-95)
   -wrote press releases and feature articles for faculty, developed relationships
  with area media

• English Instructor (1993-96)

• Adjunct English Instructor (1992-93)

• Graduate Assistant (Department of Languages and Literature Writing

• Center Assistant) (Sept. l 1991- March 1993)

• Upward Bound Instructor (1992-94) - federally funded program for high
  school students - taught French and English

• Student Support Service Instructor (1991-93) - tutor English

• Paragon Advisor (1991-92 - student operated yearbook for UWA   

• Weekly newspaper with readership between 17 - 20,000
• Beat assignment cities of Bessemer, Fairfield, and Midfield in Jefferson
  County, Alabama
• Asked  to edit special Christmas Business Edition, December 1991
• Served as Intern  in 1989 - Beat covered Bessemer, AL
• Awarded  internship after serving as editor of The Livingston Life (UWA's 
  Student newspaper) from Fall 1988 - Spring 1989, Assistant Editor from
  Winter- Spring 1988, and production manager for Fall 1988.
     

Publications, Papers

Naremore, Tina M. " Confidence Works Both Ways," paper presented at National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Birmingham, Alabama - November 12, 1994. 

Jones, Tina Naremore, "The Dressing of Samuel Richardson's Pamela," paper presented at annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Society, January 31, 1997 

-----. "Ruby Pickens Tartt: Alabama Folklorist."  Paper presented at an interdisciplinary conference on Property, Possession and Individualism on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi on April 17, 1999. 

------, general editor. Historical Points of Interest Brochure series, Sumter County Historical Society. (series titles, Maria Fearing, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Aduston Hall, Spence-Moon House, The Covered Bridge, Fort Tombecbe, driving tour of Sumter County .

        ·  I've received four Alabama Board of Tourism and Travel Matching Grants for these publications

        ·  The Maria Fearing brochure is used by The Alabama Department of Archives in their Black History Month lectures; I also submitted Maria as a 2000 candidate for the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. She willl be inducted on March 2, 2000. 

-----, co-editor. Belles' Letter: Contemporary Stories of Alabama Women. Livingston Press, 1999.

      ·  With this text I have spoken at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee (October, 1999), at the Birmingham Southern Writers' Conference (April, 2000), The Huntingdon College, Women's Writers Conference (April 2000), and  the Alabama Writers' Symposium in Monroeville, AL (May 2000).  I have also  spoken to local clubs in Livingston such as The Livingston Book Club, The Primrose Club, and Alpha Delta Kappa. 

------. "Ruby Pickens Tartt: The Evolution of an Artist." Paper  presented at the Women's Forum 2000 in Birmingham, Alabama on March 4, 2000.
 

Activities and Honors

• Sumter County Historical Society - chair, publications committee

• Friends of the Ruby Pickens Tartt Library - fundraising activities

• Alpha Delta Kappa - international teaching sorority - serve as vice president and publications chairman

• Serve as mentor in UWA 's Honors Program; currently directing Melissa Pugh in honors' thesis "The Layering of Submission in Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World"

• UWA Speaker's Bureau - give lectures on slave narratives, local history, journalism to clubs and organizations throughout UWA's 17-county service area

• Named as Who's Who Among America's Teachers,  January 2000
  NCTE state judge for  their annual High School Literary Magazine Contest - served as judge since 1995

• Alabama Penman Contest judge since 1995

• The Anchor - Alumnae editor - National magazine for Alpha Sigma Tau social sorority (1991-95) ; Annual Report editor and designer (1998 - present)

• Alabama Water Watch monitor - volunteer organization which sends monthly water samples to Auburn University for testing. (1998-99)

• UWA Lion’s Club, president

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

• Kappa Delta Pi - international teaching fraternity

• Sigma Tau Delta - national English honor society, served as vice-president while a student at UWA

• Omicron Delta Kappa honor society - served as president while a student at UWA

• Alpha Chi honor society

• Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

• Cardinal Key Honor Society

• 1993 Alumnus of the Year - Alpha Sigma Tau national social sorority, gamma gamma chapter

• 1992 Betty Jean Tucker Creative Writing Award winner

• 1992 Sybil B. King Graduate Scholarship Recipient - Alpha Sigma Tau National Sorority

• UWA Scholar in English (1991 highest GPA among graduating English majors)

• 1990 UWA  Journalism Award winner

• Alpha Sigma Tau - gamma gamma chapter president 1989-90; recording secretary 1989-90; housing chairman 1988-89

• UWA envoy - campus hosts

• UWA Journalism scholarships and UWA trustees' scholarship recipient - four years - full tuition
   

• Completed College of Liberal Arts Newsletter (Spring 1998, 99, 2000)
  Freshmen Textbook Committee
  

• Faculty Search Committee -  American Literature position, Communications
  position
  

• Web Page Committee
  

• GRE Preparation Committee
  

• Gilbert Writing Award Committee - EH 101 and Creative Writing  judge
  

• College Homecoming Committee (designed invitations and mailed them)
  

• Serve as member of the Academic Council for the College of Liberal Arts
  (through Summer 1999)

• University Homecoming Committee
  

• University Web Page Committee and subcommittees
  

• Scholarship and Student Assistance Committee
  

• Recruitment, Admissions, Retention Strategic Planning Committee
  

• The Public and University Awareness Committee (subcommittee of the Semester Conversion Committee)
  

• University Publications Committee
  

• University Academic Council (through Summer 1999)
  

• Named to Faculty Senate - Department of Languages and Literature
  

• SACS Steering Committee

• Inaugural Committee- Publicity subcommittee
  

• Grants Research Committee