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Education

CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Ph.D. in English, May 2009

 Pratt Institute

M.L.S., May 2000

Pratt Library School Distinguished Achievement Award

CUNY Baccalaureate Program

B.A. in English (cum laude), September 1997.

Teaching Experience

St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY. 

            Assistant Professor -- Department of English, September 2010 to present.. 

            Lecturer -- Department of English, September 2007 to August 2010

Teach literature and composition courses.  Developed syllabi for new course offerings: Freshman Honors Seminar: Aesthetics, Upper-Division Seminar: Translation and Adaptation, Contemporary American Women’s Poetry, and the team-taught Philosophy and Science Fiction. Revised syllabi for course offerings: The Emerging Female Voice, War and Writing in American Letters, From the Detective Story to Romance Novels: Genre and Theory, Readings in American Literature: 1950-2001, Writing in the Public Sphere, Basic Writing. Developed master syllabi for future course offerings: Crime, Justice and American Literature (team-taught); Honors Seminar: Metaphors of Motion in Contemporary Women’s Poetry; Seminar: A Poetics of Brooklyn; and America in the 1940s (an interdisciplinary course in the American Studies Program).

Adjunct Instructor - Department of English, January 2004 to May 2007

Adjunct Instructor – Department of Philosophy, January 2003 to May 2007

          Co-developed and team-taught the course Philosophy and the Moving Image.

 

Professional Experience

St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York

   Member, Student Recognition Committee, February 2010 to present

   Advisor, The Walk (student fashion and design club), October 2009 to present

   Member, Academic Enhancement Center Advisory Council, March 2009 to present

   Organizer and Workshop Leader, Faculty Writing Workshop, March 2009 to present

   Organizer, “Journey, Memory and the Collaborative Interplay Between Light and Breath” a presentation by poet Kim Bridgford
   and visual artist Jo Yarrington, March 2009


Citizendium.org

   Editor. Selected as a Humanities and Literature editor for the online wiki encyclopedia, March 2009 to present


St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York

    Editor, Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters, April 2008 to present

    Organizer and Chair, “Why Study Women’s Poetry?” on April 5, 2008

    Member, Liberal Arts Colloquium, Spring 2000 to Spring 2005

    Director, Teacher and Workshop Leader, Seniors’ Writing Project, November 1998 to December 2003

    Editor, St. Francis College Review, May 1998 to June 2000

    Organizer, Favorite Poem Project, April 1998 to present

    Artistic Director, Live Poets Society, January 1997 to May 2000


Fellowships, Awards and Honors

St. Francis College's Xi Rho Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Education Honor Society, Faculty Honoree for Outstanding Teaching, November 2009

Twin Cranes Press, Moon Poem Contest for moonlit magazine, Semi-finalist for the poem "Time and Tide," July 2009

Key West Heritage House's 15th Annual Robert Frost Poetry Festival Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention for the poem "Banishing the Muse," April 2009

St. Francis College Education Society, Faculty Honoree, March 2009

The Seacoast Writer's Association's 19th Annual Poetry Contest, 1st Prize for the poem "You Are Trapped in That Bright Moment Where You Learned Your Doom" and 3rd Prize for the poem "Nondum Cognita," March 2009

California State Poetry Society, 22nd Annual Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention for the poem "Cabinet de Travail," September 2008

CUNY Writing Fellowship, Kingsborough Community College, September 2005 to May 2007

Pratt Library School Merit Scholarship, 1998-2000

Pratt Library School Graduate Association Scholarship, 1998-2000

Semi-Finalist, “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Contest 1996 and 1998

Smith Academic Fellowship, CUNY B. A. Program, Spring 1996 to graduation

Baruch College Outstanding Scholar May 1996
 


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