Heather Bonikowski Email & Phone Number

As a member of the lexicography team for Dictionary.com I was responsible for researching and drafting new definitions, revising and editing existing definitions, and contributing to and reviewing editorial content for the website. Timely lexicographical updates to our core dictionary, from doomscrolling and the Rona to enby, latine, unhoused, sex work.

I worked as a lexicographer, editor, and writer in the field of academic and instructional publishing, completing projects for Dictionary.com, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Nuance Publishing, Sterling Publishing, and Berlitz Books.

I taught lower division French courses to a diverse student population. In 2013 I developed, wrote, and implemented an online first-year French program for ACC.

Austin, Texas, United States

I taught second-year French courses at this private university.

Austin, Texas, United States

I worked as an online course reviewer for the Texas Virtual School Network to verify state and national standards alignment of online courses as part of the course approval process required by the State.

Austin, Texas, United States

My responsibilities included content creation and management, communication with students and school liaisons, and web-based teaching of foreign languages.

Austin, Texas, United States

My responsibilities included the development and implementation of curriculum for six levels of Spanish instruction and one level of English instruction at this private college preparatory school.

Austin, Texas, United States

I taught four levels of French and one level of Spanish at this Title I school, and I participated in district and campus initiatives aimed at improving test scores among low-performing populations.

Through my funding in the Department of French and Italian I was responsible for teaching the first four semesters of undergraduate French and the first two semesters of undergraduate Italian. Unlike teaching assistants (TAs), assistant instructors (AIs) are the teachers of record and solely responsible for the instruction and grading of their sections.

My responsibilities included copyediting, proofreading, and making editorial decisions for projects in the Random House Reference pipeline. I was also responsible for web administration and some layout for reference titles.