Teaching CV

Education

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

Half-Time Teaching Assistantship, ENGL 15 AY 2023-2024
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

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

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

“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)