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Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Designed and taught introductory course in academic writing aimed at fostering media literacy and critical thinking, developing composition skills, mastering a range of formatting and citation styles, and conducting.
• Guided students through multiple rounds of drafts, emphasizing idea development and line-by-line execution, coached students in grammar and style, and provided detailed developmental and copy edits to drafts.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Designed and taught three writing-intensive courses: English Composition, “Memory and Consciousness in the Novel,” and “Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: A Survey of the Gothic Imaginary;” developed course syllabi to.
• Guided students through multiple drafts of critical analysis papers and research essays; provided detailed feedback at the conceptual level as well as line-by-line edits, encouraging students to view writing as an.

Gallatin, Tennessee, United States

• Taught Introduction to Composition, Modern American Literature, and Introduction to Literature courses, emphasizing the importance of media literacy, the rudiments of textual analysis, research methodologies and.
• Designed and modified syllabi, constructed assignments aimed at challenging students to become critical thinkers and savvy readers and researchers, and to improve their composition, grammar, and interpretive skills.

Greater New York City Area

- Teach fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writing to undergraduates- Lead craft-based discussion of texts in three genres- Support development of writing skills, effective communication, and advanced interpretation of literary texts- Lead student workshops, foster open and supportive communications among students- Assess student performance, provide detailed.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Arranged, described, and made available for research archival collections pertaining to the history of women and gender in the Gulf South
• Initiated a digital archiving program which involved, establishing an Islandora digital repository, setting up a born-digital records processing workstation, management and long-term storage of digital records, and.
• Managed student workers, interns, and service learning volunteers
• Advised Tulane University’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, a Newcomb College Institute sponsored student organization
• Served on various committees, such as the Transgender Inclusivity Task Force, the Newcomb Inclusivity and Diversity Excellence Committee, and the ArchivesSpace Committee.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Processing archival collections- Managing Archon digital finding aid portal - Reference - Supervising student workers- Curating digital exhibits

Austin, Texas Area

- Performed digital preservation on a collection of floppy disks from the Terrence Kaufmann Collection, extracted metadata using Perl, generated archival copies of the materials using forensic imaging procedures, migrated files to more sustainable formats.

Austin, Texas

- Administered the Benson Newspaper Project, aimed at preparing over 40 newspaper series from South and Central America ranging from the late 19th century to the 1990s for long-term storage by re-housing the materials, providing preservation care, adding metadata and updating their MARC records. - Collaborated with multiple UT Libraries departments to.

College Station, TX

- Conducted a complete Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, which included receiving the patron request, structuring a database query to discover relevant materials, searching and pulling the materials, carrying out preservation safeguards, removing restricted materials, rehousing the documents and compiling a finding aid. - Processed the Susan.

Austin, Texas

- Assisted researchers with their research needs, including locating books and other sources relevant to their project. Aided in database and catalog searches using the UT Libraries web resources. - Circulated library materials comprised of over 970,000 books, periodicals, pamphlets, and microforms using Sierra software. Processed and distributed new.

Austin, Texas

- Arranged, described and created a finding aid for the Presbyterian Parents of Gays and Lesbians Records. Collection included three inches of manuscript material and two zip disks documenting the organization's administrative practices, outreach efforts and publications. - Encoded the Finding Aid in XML according to DACS standards, using EditiX.

Shimotsuma, Japan

- Instructed English at the elementary school level in Japan. Stationed at five schools in a rural town, and worked with between 800-900 students each week. - Prepared interactive lesson plans for grades 1-6, which included instruction in new vocabulary and grammar structures, pronunciation practice, and games designed to increase speed and fluency..

New Orleans, Louisana

- Arranged and described three archival collections: the Don Marquis Collection, the Dominic James “Nick” LaRocca Papers, and the Don Ewell Collection. The collections totaled forty boxes including a range of materials such as correspondence, LPs, cassettes, photographs, posters, scrapbook materials, legal records and publicity materials. - Created digital.

New Orleans, Louisiana

- Managed student workers at the circulation desk. Created monthly work schedules and trained new student employees on circulation procedures and library policies. - Assisted the cataloging librarian with inventorying the collection, which contains over 500,000 volumes. Generated lists of missing or damaged materials. Shelved library materials and.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing - Fiction

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Archives/Archival Administration

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Language And Literature, General, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General, Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature, General