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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.
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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.
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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
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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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