MOIRA MARQUIS
Formerly Moira Bradford
Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow, English
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/moira-bradford
Teaching portfolio: http://moirabradford.web.unc.edu/
mbradfor@live.unc.edu
2051 Davis Rd.
Graham, NC 27253
828.216.0243
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
M.L.A.
B.A.
English, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College
Humanities, University of North Carolina Asheville
History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2013 to present
2011, 2012
2010
2001
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
National Board Teaching Certification
Adolescent/ Young Adult English Language Arts
North Carolina Professional Educator Licensure
Grades 6-12, English and History
2012
2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
2013-present ENG 105: Rhetoric and Composition
ENGL 105i: Writing in the Social Sciences
LIT 145: British Travel Literature, Graduate Research Consultant
LIT 338: 19th Century British Novel, Teaching Assistant and Recitation Instructor
Editor, Carolina Quarterly Literary Magazine
2015-present Co-Editor in Chief: Joint project with UNC Press research and coordination for
book which will feature a short biography of the CQ along with reprints of
stories by some of our most distinguished contributors. Also, managing timeline
and genre editors, coordinating publishing, managing finances, maintaining
website, overseeing final content for print journal and website
2013-2015
Fiction Editor: selected and edited fiction for publication in the magazine as well
as recruited and managed readers, maintained connections with authors, hired
and supervised interns, created and secured contracts and interviewed authors
about their work
Instructor, High Point University
2015-present ENG 1103: College Writing and Public Life
Instructor, Alamance Community College
2014-2015
ENG 114: Professional Research and Reporting
Lecturer, Western Carolina University
2012-2013
ENG 202: Writing and Critical Inquiry
Education Program Director, SEE Innovation
2012-2014
Wrote curriculum for secondary teachers and students and course work for
Higher Education
Wrote grants and made contacts with other foundations
Curriculum Writer, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
2009-2012
Wrote new essential standards for American and World Humanities Courses,
used in high schools throughout North Carolina, and developed resources for
teachers
Writing Center Tutor, Bread Loaf School of English
Summer 2011 Worked in establishing and running the first writing center for Bread Loaf
students at the Asheville campus under the direction of Dr. Beverly Moss
English and History teacher, Asheville Middle School
2008-2012
8th grade
History teacher, Enka High School
2007-2008
World History
English and History teacher, Rainbow Mountain Children’s School
2006-2007
American, World History and English
History teacher, The Asheville School
2005-2006
World History
OP-ED & REVIEWS
“Love Between the Lines” Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts and Humanities, Feb. 2015
"The Storyteller" Review of This Is Not Your City. Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts and
Humanities, 2 Dec. 2014. Forum: Cultural Interventions.
“The School-to-Prison Pipeline: School Reform as a Civil Rights Issue” Truthout. Mon. 14 Jan.
2013.
“On the Merits of Reading Fahrenheit 451” Truthout. Tues. 8 Jan. 2013.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“When History Repeats: Metempsychosis in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks”
SAMLA (2015)
“This Future Sucks: The Cruel Optimism of the Continuing Appeal of Liberal Political
Philosophy in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas” Thinking Serially: An Interdisciplinary
conference, Graduate Center CUNY (2015)
“The Savage and Personhood: Freud's Archeology Metaphor, Heart of Darkness and the Prehistoric Psyche of the Modern Person” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Conference, University of Houston (2014)
“Injunction Not to Touch: Incest and Miscegenation in Absalom, Absalom!,” Southern Studies
Conference, Auburn University (2013) and Graduate Liberal Studies Conference, East
Tennessee State University (2012)
“I Love You: Implicit Assumptions in Language and Meaning,” Graduate Liberal Studies
Conference, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC (2011)
“What’s So Hard About Reading?” North Carolina English Teachers’ Association Conference,
Winston Salem State University, Winston, NC (2010)
“I Seem to Speak: Samuel Beckett and Jacques Derrida in Conversation,” Georgetown
University’s Liberal Studies Conference, Washington, D.C. (2010) and UNC Wilmington
Conference on Liberal Studies, Wilmington, NC (2010)
GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013-2016
2011, 2012
2011
2011
2009
Future Faculty Fellowship, Center for Faculty Excellence, UNCCH
Professional Development Award, English Department, UNCCH
Presidential Scholars Program Distinguished Teacher Award
INCS Travel Grant, GPSF Travel Award
UNC Chapel Hill Teaching Fellowship
Middlebury College Graduate scholarship
ACS Foundation Innovation Grant: Local Writer in residence in my
classroom for sixteen weeks helping students create original short stories
and poems
TAPAS Grants for Teaching Artists in my Classroom
ACS Foundation Fellowship: Bringing Our History to Our Schools
2009, 2010, 2011
2008, 2009
2007
ACS Mini-Grant for books
Asheville City Schools Teacher Scholarship
Buyers Scholarship, UNC Asheville
RESEARCH
2015
2013
2012
2010
2008
Philosophy and Literature Reading Group at Duke University on Hannah Arendt’s
writings led by Toril Moi
Marxism and Philosophy Reading Group at UNC Asheville led by Duane Davis
Co-Author of DH Ramsey Library Special Collections site for Teachers and presented
research to regional educators
Taking Our History to Our Schools Fellowship, researched primary source documents in
the history of Western North Carolina and wrote lesson plans relating these documents
to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Lead Researcher and head note writer for Individual in the Contemporary World, the
University of North Carolina at Asheville’s self-published humanities textbook on the
contemporary world for HUM 414
SERVICE
2015-present
2007-2013
2012-2013
2005-2007
Literacy Instructor, Orange County Correctional Center
Lead Organizer, Asheville Prison Books Program
Fundraising and promotions, applied for 501©3 status, public speaking
and educational events
Women’s Reading Group Leader at Swannanoa Correctional Facility for
Women
Asheville Global Report copy editor and progressive media liaison
PRESS
Mightier Than the Sword
March 20, 2012
Article detailing my students reading their original writing at Malaprops
Never Stop Learning: Writers Workshop
January 19, 2012
Local News Channel WLOS story on writer in residence in my classroom
Asheville City Schools Invites Artists to Jazz Up Classrooms
May 14, 2011
Asheville Citizen Times covers artist residency in classroom with interview
Asheville City Schools TAPAS Grant article
April 2011
Creative Solutions For Asheville Schools
August 24, 2010
Interview by the Asheville Citizen Times of work in my classroom with
struggling students
Asheville grass-roots group aids prisoners, one book at a time
Interview by the Asheville Citizen Times about non-profit
Most Requested? Dictionaries
October 22, 2010
June 17, 2009