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Objective:                  Writer/Editor/Teacher

Experience:                Co-Editor, RHINO Poetry                                                                                                                                                                           2008-Present 
                                     Responsibilities: editing an award-winning, nationally recognized literary journal; leadership and planning; recruitment and training of                                              associate editors and interns; facilitation of editorial meetings; serving as a liaison with other literary organizations, e.g. as a poetry                                                  workshop leader, Poetry Out Loud judge, audition adjudicator, mentor poet for Von Steuben High School’s Ricochet Review, and panelist                                          for the Illinois Arts Council Literature Program.

                                     Grant Writer, RHINO Poetry                                                                                                                                                                     2008-Present 
                                     Responsibilities: researching funding sources and securing grants that make up 25% of annual budget.  Successfully secured Grants for                                           General Operating Support from the Illinois Arts Council (2009-Present) and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation (2012-2015), as well as                                          Project Specific funding from Poets & Writers, Inc. (2009-Present).  Completed and updated Illinois Cultural Data Project profiles (2009-                                            Present). 

                                     Adjunct Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago                                                                                                                2008-Present
                                     Responsibilities: creating original syllabi and teaching undergraduate courses such as Exploring Poetry, American Literature 1492-1865,                                          American Literature 1865-Present, Studies in American Literature, Women in Literature, and Human Values in Literature.  

                                     Grant Writing Certificate Instructor, DePaul University                                                                                                                2016-Present
                                     Responsibilities: creating original syllabi for the grant writing certificate course in the school of Continuing and Professional Education;                                            mentoring adult learners in the process of researching potential funders, drafting Letters of Inquiry, Proposals, and Budgets.

                                     Creative Writing Faculty, The Chicago High School for the Arts                                                                                                      2016-2019
                                     Responsibilities: creating original curricula for a 2-year, modular workshop on Advanced Creative Nonfiction.  Teaching the Advanced                                                workshop, open only to juniors and seniors in the Creative Writing Conservatory specializing in Creative Nonfiction.
                
                                     Adjunct Professor of English, Georgetown University                                                                                                                         1996-2006 
                                     Responsibilities: creating original syllabi and teaching undergraduate courses such as Re-membering the Americas, 18th and 19th Century                                      Literature: Empire and Resistance, and Composition.

Education:                  Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Maryland                                                                                                                                 1997 
                                     M.A. Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina                                                                                                                        1991 
                                     B.S. Spanish and Education, University of Wisconsin                                                                                                                                     1985                                            Completed a dissertation entitled Narratives of Treason: Postnational Historiographic Tactics and Late Twentieth Century Fiction in the                                                      Americas.  Published scholarly articles, presented original papers at academic conferences, served as a Mentor Teaching Assistant, Core                                          Curriculum Coordinator, and Graduate Student Government Representative.  Won a Dissertation Fellowship and a Foreign Languages and                                      Area Studies Fellowship.  Served as a lecturer and workshop leader for Baltimore County Public Schools and the Institute for Maryland                                            and New Jersey High School English Teachers.

Skills:                           Published Writer 
                                     Poems, essay, and reviews in numerous journals and anthologies, one book-length collection of poetry, and the Instructor’s Resource                                               Manual and online companion for Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader (Houghton-Mifflin 2003).

                                     Trained Reading for Fluency Tutor
                                     Working Knowledge of Spanish
                                     Blackboard and Sakai

  References and Credentials Available Upon Request