Dr. Gina Zupsich Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Founded luxury tea brand. Responsible for flavor design, product development, copywriting.

Author of creative non-fiction, essays, and stories on scent and memory. https://medium.com/@ginazup

Founded the Olfactive blog and institute offering periodic lectures and interactive demonstrations about the sense of smell. Olfactive's aim is to decommercialize scent experience and promote its cultural and artistic importance. My responsibilities include developing event content and structure, location scouting, speaker recruitment, and publicizing.

Claremont, CA

Teaching French language and literature

Responsibilities include project leadership, research planning, client communication, field research, synthesis of insights and authorship of presentations for clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Reckitt Benckiser, and Motorola.

Taught undergraduate courses in college research and writing in English with a focus on gender, race, sexuality and history. Won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor and Teaching Effectiveness Awards. Portfolio: http://ginazupsich.wordpress.com

University Of California, Berkeley

Planned and conducted international research projects utilizing specialized research institutions in both English and French. Gave presentations at academic conferences and seminars.

Wrote and edited grant proposals, masters thesis and doctoral dissertation in French and English. Edited numerous undergraduate and graduate student research papers, dissertations, and proposals. Published in academic journal.

Taught undergraduate courses in French language, culture and literature. Designed curriculum and multimedia activities in French. Established a French-only speaking and learning environment for beginner, intermediate and advanced students of French.

Undertook original research on science fiction, women’s rights, utopianism, racial evolution and eugenics. Synthesized research data for a 300-page doctoral dissertation written in English. Established and complied with all work time lines and wrote periodic progress reports.

Taught undergraduate courses in French language and culture. Designed curriculum and multimedia activities in French. Established a French-only speaking and learning environment for beginner students of French.

Privately tutored students of international studies in French. Responsibilities include curriculum design for proficiency in French. Established a French-only speaking and learning environment for intermediate and advanced students of French.

Was responsible for all content and format editing, fact-checking and proofreading in English and French.

Phd, French Language & Literature

Research interests: nationalism in literature, connections between literature and medicine, science fiction and fantasy, utopia and.

Ma, French Cultural Studies

Activities and Societies: Association for Academic Women. Attended colloquium on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Simone de.

Ba, French & Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: First chair viola in orchestra, President of French Club, member Golden Key Club, member Pi Delta Phi - National.