Teaching CV

Education

Pennsylvania State University
PhD candidate in Comparative Literature (In progress)

• Half-Time Teaching Assistantship, ENGL 15 AY 2023-2024
• Half-Time Research Assistantship, Rose J. Jolly Fall 2024
• Half-Time Teaching Assistantship, GLIS 113 Spring 2025
• Half-Time Teaching Assistantship, “Foundations of Health Humanities”; the University Park Medical Program, AY 2025-2026
• Pedagogical Trainings:
  • CMLIT 511 Teaching Global Literatures (Fall 2023)
  • ENGL 602 Supervisory Experience in College Teaching (Fall 2023)

Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
Master of Philosophy in Comparative Literature with Distinction (Conferred April 2021)

• Dissertation with Distinction: Unknown Territories: Literary Blindness and Crip Spaces, 1990-2000

Davidson College
Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Global Literary Theory (Conferred May 2019)

• Honors Thesis: Literary Tuberculosis and Nation-Building: The influence of tuberculosis representations in European literature on the notions of the self & national identity, 1900-1950

Professional Experience

Community College of Baltimore County
Adjunct Professor, Department of Continuing Education (April 2022-May 2023)

• Codified curriculum and teaching guide for “Spanish for Educators”
• “Spanish for Educators” taught in BCPS system, Summer 2022 and Spring 2023
• “Getting Started with Spanish” teaching in Fall 2022

Gilman School, Inc.
French/Spanish Teacher (Fall 2021-Spring 2023)

• Alternated teaching loads: two sections of Spanish A and one brand new course of accelerated Spanish; and three sections of French C with the same accelerated Spanish course
• Created ten summative assessments for introductory Spanish and French aligned to IPA standards

Covid Long-Term Substitute (Fall 2020-Spring 2021)

• Planned and Taught three courses in Language Arts, Public Speaking, and Personal Finance
• Launched a Monthly Reading Spotlight to expand on the Language Arts curricula for grades 6–8

Davidson College
Davidson Research Grant Recipient (Summer 2017)

• Archived and analyzed colonial documents from French West Africa for rhetorical consistencies

Assistant Teacher (Fall 2016)

• Cooperated with another AT and a supervising professor to prepare lesson plans to enrich two FRE201 sections’ grasp of learning objectives

Publications & Presentations

• Necropolitics of French Colonial Violence: Malaria and Literary Form in Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s Nour, 1947.” Presented at the “Global Perspectives: Medical and Health Humanities 2025” Conference at Weill-Cornell in Doha Qatar, 7 February 2025.
• “The Paradox of Chivalric Madness: Ariosto’s and Cervantes’s Madness Representations’ Impact on Disability Representation.” Humanities, vol. 13, no. 3, “Discourses of Madness” Special Issue. 7 June 2024.
• “The Minotaur and the Self: Construction of a Flexible Bulgarian-ness through Disability in Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow.” The Bulgarian Studies Journal. (Revised and Resubmitted)