CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

  • Master of Liberal Arts, Dean’s List, Creative Writing and Literature, Harvard Extension School, May 2023

  • Master of Arts in Teaching, English, Boston University, May 2003

  • Master’s +30 credit hours of Professional Development from Benedictine, Argosy, and Adams State Universities as well as from Harvard University and University of California, Riverside

  • Bachelor of Liberal Science, English, summa cum laude, Boston University, May 2002

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Seminar for School Teachers, “Poetry as a Form of Life, Life as a Form of Poetry” with Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Twentieth Century American Fiction, Poetry, and Criticism

  • Twentieth Century British Fiction, Poetry, and Criticism

  • Shakespeare

  • Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Visiting Lecturer in English, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2019-2024

  • English 161: Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research – “Problems of the American Revolution and Young Republic, 1765-1814”

  • English 160: Academic Writing I: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts – “What Is (the Good) Life?”

English Teacher, Elk Grove High School (IL), 2003-2018

  • AP English Literature and Composition (senior year course)

  • AP English Language and Composition (junior year course)

  • Humanities/Literature (senior year course)

  • Shakespeare (senior year course)

  • Honors World Literature and Composition (sophomore year course)

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Presenter, 2009 AP Annual Conference, “The Problem of ‘Meaning’ in Literature”

 

OTHER ACADEMIC AND NONACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Member, AP Oxford Workshop at Worcester College, Oxford University, sponsored by the University of California, Riverside

  • Reader, The College Board’s Advanced Placement Reading for “English Literature & Composition Exam”