Teaching Experience
Sacred Heart Unversity — 2022
Adjunct Professor, Department of Languages and Literature
• I currently teach introductory literature (poetry, prose, drama) and composition (academic writing) courses to undergraduate students
Southern Connecticut State University — 2021
Conceptions of Self Seminar; Teaching Intern, English Department
• Selected by faculty to co-lead an original, creative writing course, Conceptions of Self Seminar, for the Honors College based on my years of work in yogic consciousness studies and performance in the Creative Writing MFA program
• Assisted the lead professor in curriculum development, reviewed and edited students’ work, mentored students in meditation techniques for creative productivity
University of Massachusetts Amherst — 2012-2013
Tadashi Suzuki Method of Acting; Teaching Assistant, Theater Department
• Selected as an undergraduate student to assist a 4-hr acting methodology class
Teaching & Research Interests
• Contemporary Critical Theory, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Modern American Drama, Shakespeare, Feminist Theory & Literary Criticism, Theatre of the Absurd
• Creative Writing and Conceptions of Self, Tricksters in Contemporary Fiction, The Poetics of Truth-Telling
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Bachelor of Arts
Theatre & Performance Studies
UMass Amherst 2013 -
Master of Fine Arts
Poetry & Creative Writing
Thesis: petrichor & pearl beads
ProQuest Accession No. 28649765
SCSU 2021