Position:
Faculty Advisor at Cengage Learning, Department Chair, Liberal Arts and Sciences at Art Institute of New York City, Contributing Writer/Editor at Pearson/Prentice Hall
Location:
Greater New York City Area
Work:
Cengage Learning
since 2009
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Faculty Advisor
Art Institute of New York City
- New York, New York since Jan 2006
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Department Chair, Liberal Arts and Sciences
Pearson/Prentice Hall
- New York, New York since Jan 2004
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Contributing Writer/Editor
Church of the Ascension
2004 - 2013
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Director of the Welcome Table
Art Institute of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia, PA Jan 2000 - Dec 2005
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Instructor of English
WGBH
1988 - 1996
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Fundraising Projects Coordinator
Education:
Primary Stages 2009 - 2011
The University of Texas at Austin 1996 - 1998
MA, English, Fiction Writing
Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English 1992 - 1996
MA, English
Emerson College 1986 - 1988
BS, Mass Communications
Awards:
Presentations and Awards-Academic and Creative
Presenter, Navigating the Vast Frontier: Research in 2012, Changing Landscapes of Composition, Albuquerque, NM, Cengage Learning, 2012
Presenter, Research in the Age of Too Much Information, Portland, Maine, Teaching in a Tidal Space: Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Student Learning, Two Year College Association (NCTE), 2011
Presenter, Evaluating Electronic Sources in the Age of Too Much Information, Connecting Through Composition, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Cengage Learning, 2011
Pushcart Prize nomination, “Psychic Rosemary,” 2002
Richard Hall Memorial Short Story Contest, winner, Lambda Literary Society/Lambda Book Report, Washington, DC, 2001
Excellence in Teaching Faculty Award, Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2004
Staff, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Middlebury, VT, 1997-1999
Other Awards
2010 Faculty Advisor, Viva Composition, Las Vegas, NV, Cengage Learning
2007 Academic Affairs Leadership Institute, Educational Management Corporation, Atlanta, GA
2005 Reader, 215 Festival, sponsored by McSweeny’s, Philadelphia, PA
2001 2000 Outstanding Instructor, Fall Quarter, General Education department, Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Outstanding Play from Shout Productions (in Association with The New York Performance Alliance), La Mamma E.T.C., New York, NY
1996 Two-year, Merit-based Teaching Assistantship, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1996 James M. Kirk, Jr. Scholarship, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1996 Commencement speaker, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT