Education

  • Ph.D. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Dept. (2022)

    • Dissertation: “(Re)Historicizing the Teaching Practicum: The Impact of Teacher Education on Writing Studies”

    • Committee:  Jessica Yood, chair; Amy Wan; Duncan Faherty

    • Research areas: composition-rhetoric, critical pedagogy, literacy studies, autobiography studies

  • M.A. Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature (2014)

  • B.A. (cum laude) Kenyon College, Philosophy (2011)

Publications

  • “Living History and the CUNY Digital History Archive: A Teaching Artifact .” Covid-19 Impact Project, Spring 2021. (forthcoming)

  • “Diving into the Wreck: (Re)Creating the Archive in the First Year Writing Classroom,” with Daisy Atterbury. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Issue 14, 2018.

  •  “A Dialogue on Teaching (Failure) (Love) (Performance),” with Daisy Atterbury. Center for the Humanities, 2018.  

  • “Teaching Theories of Gender, Race, and Literary and Expressive Culture,” with Chy Sprauve and Anna Zeemont. HASTAC, 2017. 

Fellowships & Appointments

  • 2020-2021——Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship, Bronx Community College

  • 2019-2020——Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship, Baruch College

  • 2016-2019——Graduate Teaching Fellow, Brooklyn College

  • 2015-2016——Research Assistant to David Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center

  • 2015-2020——CUNY Graduate Student Fellowship 

 Grants & Awards

  • 2020———English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Center

  • 2020———Connect NYC Research Grant, Graduate Center

  • 2020———Open Education Resource Grant, Baruch College

  • 2019———Center for Teaching Travel Grant, Brooklyn College

  • 2011———Distinction Award for Senior Exam, Kenyon College

Presentations

  • “The Social Life of Reading: Situating Literacy in a Living Archive. ”

    • Panel Co-organizer and Presenter. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs) Online. April 2021. (Cancelled due to COVID)

  • “Reconsidering the Practicum: The Role of Educator Positionality, Institutional

    History, and Movements for Social Justice in Teacher Training Pedagogy.”

    • Presenter. CCCCs. Milwaukee, WI. April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID)

  • “‘Are You the Teacher?': Constructing and Reimagining Teacher Identities in the Teaching Practicum."

    • Presenter. NeMLA. Boston, MA. March 2020.

  • “Diving into the Wreck: Locating Performance in Anti-Racist Writing Assessment, a Case Study in Intra-classroom Collaboration at CUNY.”

    • Presenter with Daisy Atterbury. CCCCs. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019. 

  • “’Beyond the Scope of the Possible’: Desire and Containment in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.” 

    • Presenter. University of Massachusetts English Conference. Amherst, MA. March 2018. 

Workshops & Roundtables

  • “Teaching in an Emergency Roundtable.”

    • Panelist. English Department, Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. October, 2020. 

  • “Preparing for Orals Workshop.” 

    • Panelist. English Department, Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. October, 2020. 

  • “Connecting CUNY Students Through Adrienne Rich’s Pedagogy and Activism: Using Multimodal Assignments in the Writing Classroom Workshop.”

    • Presenter with Daisy Atterbury. Queens College. Queens, NY. March 2018. 

  • “Cracked Heirlooms: How We Read Archives of Fragmentation and Healing.”

    • Presenter. “Post-Colonial Archives Roundtable.” Graduate Center, CUNY. New York, NY. April 2016.

  • “Restorative Justice, Education, & Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”

    • Workshop leader. Institute for Community Justice. Philadelphia, PA. Fall 2012. 

Teaching

BARUCH COLLEGE 

  • First Year Writing II (English 2150)
    Second semester writing course with a focus on developing research skills. Students learn how to perform original archival research as well as work on collaborative research projects.

  • First Year Writing I (English 2100)

    First semester writing course for undergraduates. Students write for different publics and in different rhetorical genres. Emphasis on topics such as critical pedagogy, meritocracy and education, literacy and power, and history of open admissions at CUNY.

BROOKLYN COLLEGE (2016-2019)

  • First Year Writing I & II (ENG 1010 & 1012)

    • First year writing sequence with an emphasis on expository and then research writing skills that translate across disciplines. 

  • The Quest for Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities in Literature (ENG 2800)

    • A literature course for majors and non-majors that explores the theme of identity from a global perspective. Emphasis on transnational histories of colonialism and counter-narratives in literature. Fall and Spring 2018/2019.

AMERICAN LANGUAGE ACADEMY 

  • Intermediate Writing and Grammar

    • Intensive writing and grammar course for students seeking to improve English language skills. Summer & Fall 2018. 

Administrative & Community Service

  • Co-chair of Composition-Rhetoric Community, Graduate Center (2019-21)

  • Recruitment Committee, Graduate Center (2018-2020)

  • Editorial Committee of Sharing our Stories, Telling Our Lives, Brooklyn College (2017)

  • Volunteer at Books Through Bars, Brooklyn, 2016-present  

Professional Memberships

  • CCCCs             

  • NeMLA

  • NCTE

    Download my CV here.