CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS
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PUBLICATIONS
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.
2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.
2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.
2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.
2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.
2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.
2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.
2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.
2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.
2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Effective Academic Communication (2022-ongoing), Center for Teaching and Learning. Colby College. Waterville, Maine.
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Affiliated faculty, Department of Educational Sciences. Lund University. Lund, Sweden. 2022.
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Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature (2019-2022), Division for Language and Communication, Department for Communication and Learning in Science. Chalmers University of Technology. Göteborg, Sweden.
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Lecturer (2016-19), Division for Language and Communication, Department for Communication and Learning in Science. Chalmers University of Technology. Göteborg, Sweden.
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Associate Professor (2015-16), English Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina.
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Assistant Professor (2009-15), English Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina.
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.
2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.
2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.
2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.
2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.
2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.
2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.
2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.
2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.
2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. in English literature. University of Southern California, 2009.
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MA in English literature. University of Southern California, 2001.
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MA in English language and literature. University of North Texas, 1999.
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BA in English language and literature. University of North Texas, minor in art history, 1993.
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TKELT (electrical engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2021-ongoing. Program coordinator, TIDAL (data engineering) program/Division for Language and Communication. Chalmers University of Technology.
2020-ongoing. Department of Communication and Learning in Science representative, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering joint program council.
2019-20. Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). Administered through Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology). Stockholm, Sweden.
2011-15. Associate director, Lowcountry Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina.
2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.
2014-15. Director, MA in Teaching program, English Department, The Citadel.
2014-15. Member, Professional Education Board. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Director, Fine Arts internship program. The Citadel.
2013‑15. Academic advisor, junior class (third-year) English majors. The Citadel.
2013, 2012. Tutor training workshop conductor, Academic Support Center. The Citadel.
2011‑15. Director, English department internship program. The Citadel.
2012. Member, ad-hoc adjunct instructor evaluation committee. The Citadel.
2003‑05, 2008. Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
2001-02. Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California.
SELECTED LITERARY ANALYSIS WORK
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
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2023. “On the Margins of Harry’s World: Paratext and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.” Children’s Literature, 51. Forthcoming.
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2021. “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina." ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 11.2 (December 2021). doi:10.5038/2157-7129.11.2.1275.
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2021. “The Fairy Race: Artemis Fowl and Hierarchies of Race and Gender.” Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction. Eds. Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and Miranda Green-Barteet. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 35-53. ISBN-13: 978-1496833822.
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2016. “Stunted Growth: Dwarfs and the Rejection of Sexuality in the Artemis Fowl Series.” Tracing the Footsteps of Dwarfs: Images, Concepts, and Representations in Popular Culture. Eds. Feryal Cubukcu and Sabine Planka. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann, 107-120. ISBN-13: 978-3826059285.
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2015. “The Metamorphosis of Katniss Everdeen: The Hunger Games, Myth, and Femininity.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 40.2 (Summer): 161-178. doi:10.1353/ chq.2015.0020.
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2012. “Pamela’s Investment in Virtue.” Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz and Tara Czechowski. New York: AMS Press, 231-48. ISBN-13: 978-0404648640.
Selected Book Reviews
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2016. Review of Webb, Caroline. Fantasy and the Real World in British Children's Literature: The Power of Story (Routledge). For Studies in the Novel. 48.1 (Spring): 141-2. doi:10.1353/sdn.2016.0009.
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2014. Review of Barchas, Janine. Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity (Johns Hopkins UP). For Studies in the Novel. 46.1 (Spring): 127-28. doi:10.1353/sdn.2014.0031.
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2008. Review of Staves, Susan. A Literary History of Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 (Cambridge UP). For Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 37.3: 320-2. doi: 10.1080/00497870801917366.
Recent Presentations
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2021. Interviewer for panel on Maja Lunde’s novel Blå/Klimakvartetten #2 (The End of the Ocean/Climate Quartet #2). Panelists: Maja Lunde, Andreas Lindhe, Emilia Sandolf. Act Sustainable’s annual Sustainability Week, a joint event between the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Technical University. Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2020. “Dress as Fairy Gold: Dress, Genre, and the Danger of Fairy Tale Tropes in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle.” Young Adult Studies Association first biennial conference. Online.
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2020. Roundtable speaker, “Fashion, Femininity, and Fairy Tales.” Young Adult Studies Association first biennial conference. Online.
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2013. “Nature Vs. Artifice: Katniss as New Philomela in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.” College English Association. Savannah, Georgia.
Recent Service
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2005-ongoing. Manuscript reviews: The ALAN Review, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Lifewriting Annual, The Lion and the Unicorn.
FELLOWSHIPS
& GRANTS
CONFERENCES & TALKS
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORK
Journal Articles
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2021. “Optimistic Fiction as a Tool for Ethical Reflection in STEM.” Journal of Academic Ethics 19.3 (March-September): 425-439.
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2018. “Literature for Specific Purposes: A Literary Approach to Teaching Ethics in Science and Technology.” Configurations 26 (Summer): 337-343.
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2013. “Inviting Twenty-First-Century Students to the Eighteenth-Century Party.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 3.1 (April).
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2012. “In Defense of Graphic Novels.” English Journal 102.2 (November): 57-63.
Recent Conference Presentations
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2021. “Fiction in STEM: The Case Study of ‘AI Ethics Through Fiction.’” American Comparative Literature Association. Online.
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2021. “AI Ethics Through Fiction.” Dealing with the Complexities of Teaching Ethics to Future Computer Science Professionals. ETHICS 4 EU Transnational meeting. Online.
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2020. "What Fiction Can Teach Us About AI Ethics." AI Ethics Seminar, AI Research Centre, Chalmers University of Technology. Online.
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2020. Co-presented with Emma Frisk. “One Book, One Chalmers: Extending Classroom Conversations.” Chalmers KUL (konferens om undervisning och lärande/Conference on Teaching and Learning). Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2018. “Literature-Generated Empathy to Teach 'Green' Engineering Ethics.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Europe. Copenhagen, Denmark. 2018.
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2014. Roundtable speaker, “Let’s Get Engaged!: Creative Strategies for Meeting Pedagogical Challenges in Practice.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Williamsburg, Virginia.
Media Coverage
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2022. Wood, Peggy Sue. “Recommended Reads for Using Comics in the Classroom.” The Anime Review (April 10).
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2020. “Are Graphic Novels – Novels?” “It’s Lit” web series. Storied YouTube channel, PBS.
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2019. Droge, Abigail. “Review: Droge on Hansen.” Journal of Literature and Science 12.1: 77-79.
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2013. Wickner, Amy. “Graphic-Novel Research Reveals Resistance, Lessons.” Education Week (March 22).
Recent Service
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2022-ongoing. Director, Schmaltz Family Effective Communication Initiative. Colby College.
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2022-ongoing. Consultant, Mid-Semester Course Analysis. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2022-ongoing. Convener, Pedagogical Partner Learning Assistant weekly meetings. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2022-ongoing. Convener, Pedagogical Community of Practice weekly meetings. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2022. Convener, “Developing Presentation Rubrics Workshop.” Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2022, 2023. Assistant, Course (re)Design Institute. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2022. Assistant, Course (re)Design Institute retreat. Allen Island, ME. Colby College Center for Teaching and Learning.
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2021. Invited speaker on “Inter- and Transdisciplinary Theory.” For Christian Stöhr and Raffaella Negretti’s “Theory and Research in Communication and Learning in Science” (doctoral seminar). Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2019. Invited panel chair, “Digital Genres in Academic Settings” and “Academic Writing and Identity.” European Association of Teaching Academic Writing. Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2019. Submission reviewer, European Association of Teaching Academic Writing. Chalmers University of Technology. Gothenburg, Sweden.
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2014. Member, Math/English Task Force (to review South Carolina state K-12 math and English curricula standards). South Carolina Department of Education.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
COMPETITIVE EXTRAMURAL FUNDING
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Chawton House Library/University of Southampton visiting fellowship. Chawton, England. 2013.
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Henry E. Huntington Library Michael J. Connell fellowship. San Marino, California. 2005.
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Getty Research Institute seminar fellowship. Los Angeles, California. 2002.
COMPETITIVE INTRAMURAL FUNDING
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The Citadel Foundation faculty development grants. 2014, 2010.
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The Citadel Foundation research presentation grants. 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.
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The Citadel Foundation research grant. Summer 2013.
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The Citadel Foundation new faculty research grant. Summer 2010.
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University of Southern California Collier-MacKellar-Giles grant. Summer 2007.
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University of Southern California graduate merit fellowship. 2006-07.
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University of Southern California-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute dissertation fellowship. 2005-06.
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University of Southern California graduate merit fellowship (declined). 2005-06.
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Dickens Project Graduate Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2005.
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University of North Texas Toulouse Graduate School graduate merit fellowship (declined). 1999-2000.
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING AWARDS
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Instructor, Sophomore Seminar (1 of 3 instructors chosen from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences). University of Southern California. Spring 2006.
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General Education Graduate Assistant Award (for excellence in teaching). University of Southern California. 2003-04.
SELECTED ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION COURSES
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Presenting Why Everyone Should(n't?) Read Young Adult Fiction (JP197Ej), Colby College.
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English for Electrical and Data Engineers (LSP580), Chalmers University of Technology.
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Professional Education in Engineering (TDA518), Chalmers University of Technology.
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Professional English for Data and IT (LSP127), Chalmers University of Technology.
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English for Engineers (FSP046), Chalmers University of Technology.
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Composition and Literature II (ENGL 102), The Citadel.
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Composition and Literature I for International Students (ENGL 111), The Citadel.
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Composition and Literature I (ENGL 101), The Citadel.
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Introduction to College Writing for International Students (GNRL 101), The Citadel.
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Writing and Critical Reasoning (WRIT 140), University of Southern California.
SELECTED LITERATURE COURSES
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Emerging Technology Ethics Through Fiction (TRA100 & TRA105), Chalmers University of Technology.
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AI Ethics Through Fiction (TRA100 & TRA105), Chalmers University of Technology.
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The Gothic Novel (ENGL 518). Directed master’s study, The Citadel.
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Young Adult Literature (ENGL 401). Directed baccalaureate study, The Citadel.
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Deception, Dress, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (ENGL 700), The Citadel.
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Eighteenth-Century Women in Literature (ENGL 699), The Citadel.
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Children’s Books (ENGL 551), The Citadel.
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Eighteenth-Century British Novels (ENGL 525), The Citadel.
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Graphic Novels: Art as Literature (ENGL 375; cross-listed as Fine Arts course), The Citadel.
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Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENGL 323),The Citadel.
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Major British Writers II (ENGL 202), The Citadel.
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Major British Writers I (ENGL 201), The Citadel.
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Children’s Literature and Children in Literature; honors seminar (CORE 112), University of Southern California.
SELECTED ADDITIONAL PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
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Invited class lecture, “Inter- and Transdisciplinary Theory.” For Christian Stöhr and Raffaella Negretti’s “Theory and Research in Communication and Learning in Science” (doctoral seminar). Chalmers University of Technology.
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Invited class lecture, “Popular Pride and Prejudice.” For Celeste McMaster’s “Jane Austen and Popular Culture” (ENGL 480). Charleston Southern University.
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Facilitator, Two2Tango (online pedagogical training for English Medium instructors within a consortium of European universities). 2020.
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Program coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 2003‑05, 2008.
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Course coordinator, Writing Program. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California. 2001‑02.