Education
PhD in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY Sept. 2024 exp.
- Dissertation: “‘If You See Me in 10 Years, You Won’t Recognize Me’: Speculative Literacy, Coloniality, and the Socialization of the Global Internet User”
- Committee: Amy Wan (chair), Matthew K. Gold, Luke Walzer, Carmen Kynard
MFA in Creative Writing, The New School
- Poetry; Mark Bibbins, MFA supervisor
- Thesis: “Perspectives on the ‘Modality’ of Documentary Poetics”
MA and BA, Missouri School of Journalism
- History of Journalism (MA) and Magazine Publishing (BA); Berkley Hudson, MA supervisor
- Thesis: “A Life of Process and Progress: On the Influence of Donald Murray”
Administrative Experience
Digital Pedagogy Manager, Center for Teaching and Learning 2019–Current
Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY
- Oversees college-wide guidance regarding educational technology in curriculum
- Currently developing adult undergraduate degree programs
- Advocates for open-source and open pedagogy practices
- DEI and antiracist across-the-curriculum programming; campus accessibility specialist
- Trains new and veteran instructors in teaching across modalities
- Manager and co-founder of the CUNY 1969 Project, with partnerships and funding across CUNY (e.g. Teaching and Learning in the Humanities) and beyond (e.g. Mellon Foundation)
Writing and Great Works Programs Manager, English Department 2017–21
Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY
- Coordinated professional development for 120+ English department faculty who taught writing courses
- Managed curricula, course schedules, and course assignments
- Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Baruch and Lehman Colleges CUNY, 2018-20
- Middle States Commission Program Assessment Coordinator, 2016–19
- Ad-hoc Committee Chair, Composition Curriculum Development, 2017–18
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Coordinator, 2017–18
Faculty Academic Advisor, Writing and Democracy Honors Program 2018–20
The New School, New York, NY
- Advised ~50 undergrad students majoring in writing or otherwise enrolled in the Writing & Democracy Honors Program, formerly titled the “Riggio Program in Writing and Democracy”
- Coordinated program newsletter and events
Co-Founder, Tutoring Program, KIPP Through College 2012–14
Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), New York, NY
- Experimental advising program serving students who graduated from KIPP K-12 schools
- Additionally, delivered summer programming on college preparation
- High-yielding, longitudinal, positive results in student performance and retention
Assistant Coordinator, Pace University Writing Center NYC 2011–13
Pace University, New York, NY
- Trained the Writing Center staff of about 25, students and faculty
- Managed tutoring services and coordinated the offices’ program assessments
Teaching Experience
(Synchronous, Fully Asynchronous, and Hybrid Courses; approximately 1,500 students taught across 60-70 individual course sections)
The New School
- MFA Masterclass: Composition and Rhetoric Theory and Pedagogy
- Writing 3895: Literary Journal Editing Seminar, Writing and Democracy Honors Program
- Writing 3906: Writer’s Life Colloquium
- Writing 2401: Intro to Creative Nonfiction
- University (ULEC) 2690: They, the People: Political Journalism, Past and Present
Baruch College
- English 2100: Writing I
- English 2150: Writing II
City College of New York, CUNY
- English 36900: Rhetoric and Reality, Senior Capstone
John Jay College, CUNY
- English 101: Exploration and Authorship: An Inquiry-based Writing Course
- English 201: Disciplinary Investigations: Exploring Writing across the Disciplines
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
- English 1101: English Composition I (pathways course)
- English 1121: English Composition II (pathways course)
- College Now! Program: Research Methods (high school)
Pace University (New York City)
- English 110: Composition
- English 120: Critical Writing
- English 210: Writing in the Disciplines
- Other/elective courses: Writing and Photography, Nicomachean Ethics, Feminist Science Fiction Studies, Masculinity Studies
Grants and Awards
52nd Annual Percy E. Sutton SEEK Awards, Friend of SEEK Award Spring 2024
Carnegie Foundation Educational Technology Fellow 2021
Alumni & Faculty Dissertation Fellow 2019–20
Linguistics Research Award, Baruch College Fund, P.I. Dr. Brooke Schreiber 2017–18
Teaching Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center 2015–18
Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow, U. California Berkeley 2016–17
Research Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center 2014–15
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Riggio Honors Writing Program, The New School 2010-11
Graduate Research Fellow, Journalism, University of Missouri–Columbia 2008–09
Editorial Experience
Production Editor, The Journal of Basic Writing 2018–Present
Peer-reviewed journal founded in 1975 by Mina Shaugnessey
Guest Judge, Best Overall Literary Magazine, U.S. 2019–22
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Awards
Editor, Join the Conversation Vols. 1, 2, & 3 2018–21
Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan Books NYC
Associate Editor, Coldfront 2012–18
Popular online arts, literature, and lifestyle magazine focused on poetry with 15K+ subscribers; articles republished in the Harriet Blog (Poetry Foundation)
Copyeditor, various, including
- National Geographic
- Meredith National Media
- Persea Books Press
- Associated Press
- NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
- The New School Office of Communication
Other Skills
- Written and spoken Spanish (LATAM)
- Web design skills including HTML and CSS programming languages
- Digital and print publishing software: InDesign, Photoshop, WordPress design
- Open Educational Resource (OER) specialist
- Digital and print accessibility specialist
- Environmental activism and community mutual aid (neighborhood chapter leader, Extinction Rebellion)
