Education:
2011 M.F.A. Creative Writing, Georgia College & State University
Thesis: Dead Letters, a full length book of poems
2009 M.A. English (Creative Writing emphasis), Northern Arizona University
Thesis: Diagnostics, a full length book of poems
2007 B.A., University of North Carolina at Asheville
Major: Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing
Senior Project: The Canvas of Skin, a series of 25 poems focused on body modification
Teaching:
Part Time Instructor of English Composition, Georgia College & State University, Fall 2011
Engl. 1101 (instructor, 1 semester). English 1101 is a 3-credit hour composition course that introduces students to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Students construct personal narratives, analysis essays, comparison/contrast essays, and research papers.
Teaching Fellow, Georgia College & State University, 2009-2011
Engl. 2208 (instructor, 1 semester). English 2208 is an introduction to creative writing course. The course emphasizes understanding the elements and techniques of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama.
Engl. 1101 (instructor, 2 semesters). English 1101 is a 3-credit hour composition course that introduces students to critical reading and writing in the academic community. Students construct personal narratives, analysis essays, comparison/contrast essays, and research papers.
Engl. 1102 (instructor, 2 semesters). English 1102 is a 3-credit hour composition through literature course. As the second half of the composition requirement at GCSU, English 1102 continues to expand upon the ideas introduced in English 1101. Students write close reading essays, thematic analyses, research papers, and reflections, in addition to completing a presentation unit.
Graduate Assistant, Northern Arizona University, 2007-2009
Eng. 105 (instructor, 4 semesters). English 105 is a 4-credit-hour survey course that introduces students to critical reading and writing in the academic community. The specific target skills for English 105 are narrative writing, synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and application through argument writing.
Eng. 271 (instructor, 1 semester). English 271 is a beginning course in poetry writing that emphasizes the composition and revision of poems.
Eng. 205 (instructor, 1 semester). The Advanced Writer’s Workshop is a course for students who wish to improve and increase their writing abilities in response to the academic tasks they encounter. Students will review principles of rhetoric, and they will evaluate, research, and practice writing techniques.
Eng.100 (instructor, 2 semesters). English 100 is an individualized course for students seeking one-on-one instruction for improving proficiency in writing. Instructor and student meet 12 times during the course of the semester and work on any writing assignments that the student has been assigned in other classes, covering a range of material within the liberal arts curriculum.
Writing Center (tutor, 2 semesters) providing one-on-one sessions intended to help students improve their writing skills at all stages of the writing process.
Teaching Honors:
Fall 2011: MAP-Works – Named as a person on campus who has helped students the most in
their college success, Georgia College & State University
Spring 2011: MAP-Works – Significant and Positive Impact, Georgia College & State University
Publications:
Review of She Walks into the Sea, Patricia Clark. Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary
Culture. Issue 23 (Spring 2010): 158-159.
Presentations:
“Needing Silas Marner,” 2009 PEAKS Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, February 2009
“Animals and Isolation in The Thing and Phantoms,” Film & History 2008 Biennial
Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2008
“Unhappy Housewives: Marriage and the Bloomsbury Urge in Mrs. Dalloway and
A Home at the End of the World,” 18th Annual International Conference on
Virginia Woolf, Denver, CO, June 2008
“Planet Terror: Dystopia and the Female Machine,” 2008 PEAKS Conference, Flagstaff,
AZ, March 2008
“Dressing the Part: Clothing and Sexuality in The Passion,” 2007 GLBTQ Studies Conference,
Asheville, NC, March 2007
Academic Service:
Flannery O’Connor Conference Volunteer, Spring 2011
Arts & Letters Editorial Staff, 2009-2011
Textbook Adoption Committee, 2009-2010
PEAKS Conference Planning Committee, Spring 2009
English 205 Working Committee, Spring 2009
Organization of Graduate Students of English, 2007-2009
Academic Honors:
2009: Graduated with Distinction, Northern Arizona University
2007: University Scholar, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2007: Distinction in Literature, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2007: Chancellor’s List, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2003-2006: Dean’s List, University of North Carolina at Asheville
I am a poet, Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2011 graduate of Georgia College & State University’s MFA program. I am looking for a teaching position where I can help foster students’ creativity and critical thinking skills.