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Edward A.

Private tutor in Chamblee, GA

Education

PhD in English, Georgia State University, 2017 (anticip.) Concentration: Critical Literary Theory GPA: 3.85 Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, Kennesaw State University, 2014 Johns Hopkins University Writing Craft Conference, 2009, 2010 Smithsonian faculty fellow, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, 2009 MA in Literature, University of Delaware, 2006 GPA: 3.73 BS in Secondary English Education, West Chester University, 2002 Minor: Special Education GPA: 3.55 Magna Cum Laude Dean’s List, six semesters

Experience

Accomplished composition and literature instructor and writing tutor, constantly developing and revising a practical, flexible, technologically-intensive pedagogy. Committed to serving students first, be it in the classroom, the tutoring setting, or elsewhere. Courses Taught: Freshman Composition I & II: Teaching critical thinking through composition to help students develop communicative and analytical skills that will serve them professionally, as consumers, and throughout their lives Developmental Writing I & II: Helping underprepared students gain writing proficiency at the sentence and paragraph levels, including the development of grammar, spelling, and mechanical skills Business Writing: Equipping experienced and aspiring professionals with the communication tools necessary to be effective in a modern, technology-intensive workplace Writing Tutoring: Working one-on-one with learners of various backgrounds and needs to best develop the product required in the moment, as well as cognitive and communicative practices that will be applicable in a wide range of settings American Literature II: Critically exploring diverse perspectives on social issues using the work of a broad range of modern, post-modern, and counter-cultural writers Film and Literature: Exploring theoretical and practical divisions and points of intersection between media forms, as well as the influence of cultural trends on the process of adaptation Professional Experience: Private Writing Tutor, 2006 –Present Instructor (Teaching Assistantship), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 2011 - 2015 Adjunct Instructor, Atlanta Metropolitan College, Atlanta, GA, 2014 Adjunct Instructor, Georgia Highlands College, Douglasville, GA, 2013 Assistant Professor, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, 2007 - 2011 Adjunct Instructor, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA, 2006 - 2007 Adjunct Instructor, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA, 2006 - 2007 Instructor (Teaching Assistantship), University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2004 - 2005 Language Arts Teacher, Perkiomen Valley High School, Collegeville, PA, 2003 - 2004 Per Diem Substitute Teacher, Tredyffrin-Easttown School District, Berwyn, PA, 2003

Availability

Weekdays at any time, Saturday at any time

Can Meet

Up to 25 minutes away for a flat fee

Hobbies

Film, painting, vinyl records, comic books, science-fiction/fantasy, travel, creative writing, literary theory, technology, media culture, electronic & desktop gaming, volunteering Service & Volunteering: Writing Tutor, Philips State Prison Writing Program, Buford, GA, 2014 - 2015 Writing Studio tutor, Georgia State University, 2013-2015 Fundraising assistant, New Voices 2012 Conference, 2012 Associate Editor, Potomac Review literary magazine, 2007 - 2011 Management assistant, F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Rockville, MD, 2008 - 2010 Management assistant, Conversations and Connections Conference, Johns Hopkins University, 2008 - 2010 Writing Center tutor, Montgomery College, 2008 - 2010 Information Technologies Graduate Assistant, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center, University of Delaware, 2005 - 2006 Writing Center tutor, University of Delaware, 2004 - 2005 Academic Publications and Presentations: ‘FPS & Identity’, PlayTest, Georgia State University Communications Dept., Spring 2015 ‘Pedagogy, Not Platforms’, Atlanta Connected Learning, Fall 2014 ‘The Quickening Ratchet: Racing Up to Meet New Media’, Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project Literary Conference, Kennesaw State University, Fall 2014 ‘“Time Keeps on Tickin’…”: Building Critical Information Literacy for an Unknowable Media Future’, Graduate English mentoring session, Georgia State University, Fall 2013 ‘The Brief and Bloody Resurrection of Mme. L'Espanaye: An exercise in structuralism within the context of short story-to-film adaptation’, New Voices 2012 Conference, Georgia State University ‘Anti-Gone -or- Every Little Girl Has Mommy Issues: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964)’, South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2012 Convention ‘A View from the Outside: Autobiography and the Negotiation of Systemic Power Structures in the Commentaries of Bayard Rustin’, Schuylkill, Spring 2012 ‘If You’re Seeing This, I’m Probably Dead: Discovering the Literary Heritage of Found Footage Horror’, South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2011 Convention ‘Underground America: Comics in Our Culture and in Our Classrooms’, 2011 Spring Seminar Series, Montgomery College ‘Survivor-Authors: Defining a Literary Identity of Holocaust Memoir and Memoirists in American Media’, College English Association: Middle Atlantic Group, Spring 2008 Conference, Montgomery College Prior Memberships and Certifications: Pennsylvania Teaching Certification in Secondary English Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honor Society Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society Pennsylvania State Education Association National Education Association Creative Publications: ‘Parade’, Johnny America, 2010 Epilogue (novel), 2004

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