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678-283-3183
EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
MA, English Literature
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, awarded five years of full funding
Certificate of teaching excellence
Princeton University , Princeton, NJ
Exchange Fellowship, fall 2012 and 2013
2011-2014
Emory University , Atlanta, GA
BA summa cum laude , Philosophy and English Literature
Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy honors society (president), 2009
Delta Sigma Rho-Tau Kappa Alpha Forensics honor society, 2008
Robert T. Jones Scholarship finalist, 2008
Delores P. Aldridge Minority Excellence Award finalist, 2007 and 2008
2006-2010
EXPERIENCE Adjunct Instructor,
Bryn Mawr College
expressions of desire, focusing on Renaissance lyric and drama.
Fall 2014
Emily Balch Seminars adjunct professor. I am teaching a seminar on form and
Critical Writing Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2013-2014
Two semesters teaching critical writing seminars for undergraduate students.
Teaching Assistantship , University of Pennsylvania
Assistant to Professor Jed Esty, The Twentieth Century (spring 2013)
Assistant to Dean Rebecca Bushnell, Literature to 1660 (fall 2012)
2012-2013
Editing and Research Assistant, Emory University 2010-2011
John Stuhr, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Chair of Philosophy,
Editing and proofreading for the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. I also assisted
with the editing of a collection of essays in preparation for an introductory
Philosophy textbook.
Emory Writing Center, Emory University
Writing tutor for undergraduate and graduate students
2008–2011
Editing, Research, and Office Assistant, Emory University
Dr. Robert N. McCauley, William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor
2007–2010
Assisted editing the monograph “Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not”
Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE), Emory University
Research Partner Program, 2007-2008; Summer Research Partner Fellowship, 2008;
Independent Research Grant, 2009
 Assistant to Dr. W. Ronald Schuchard, Ed. The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot 7 vol .
I contributed approximately twenty entries to the collection of volumes 1 and
2 and assisted with the processing of the series.
 The independent grant funded research at Cambridge, UK for my honors thesis.

Barkley Forum Debate Team, Emory University 2006 –2011
CEDA Academic All-American
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Nationally competitive, varsity policy debate. Heavily research oriented.
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As a part of the Urban Debate League, I taught critical thinking and public speaking skills to inner-city middle and high school students.
SKILLS Writing and Editing: I have held three positions as an editing assistant and have at least four years of experience prior to entering my PhD program in English.
Certificate of teaching excellence, University of Pennsylvania (2014); taught and graded undergraduate writing for two years; three years of work as a writing tutor.
Research: Extensive experience with archival and e-journal research including
Lexis-Nexis, Projectmuse, JSTOR, ProQuest, Questia, and various think-tanks.
Organizing and Planning : I have been the social chair and coordinator of the
University of Pennsylvania department of English graduate lounge (2013-2014). For
2012 and 2013 I spearheaded recruitment and served as the prospective students coordinator for the department, increasing yield significantly over previous years.
Languages: reading knowledge of Latin and German.
REFERENCES Rebecca Bushnell
School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
bushnell@sas.upenn.edu
215-898-9526
Jed Esty
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Literary
Theory, University of Pennsylvania
esty@sas.upenn.edu
215-746-3769
Robert McCauley
William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor, Emory University
philrnm@emory.edu
404-727-0103