annafaktorovich

CAREER PORTFOLIO

Anna Faktorovich is an English Instructor at the Pennsylvania Highlands Community College. She is also an English Literature and Criticism Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Assistant at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Her Master work in Comparative Literature was completed at the University of South Carolina (USC). She finished her Bachelors degree at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in two and a half years with a double-major of Economics and Eastern European Studies, and a minor in Political Science. She presented her graduate research at over a dozen professional conferences, including SAMLA, SWWC, BWWC, the Texas Tech Migration Conference, and the New Haven Don Quixote Conference. Five of these were fully funded with Graduate Travel Grants. Her work was published in D-Lib Magazine, Peer English (UK), The Impact of Don Quixote (1605-2005) on the Culture of the Modern and Postmodern World and at national and state newspapers, such as the Cambridge Chronicle, and the Milford Daily News. This summer she started the peer-reviewed Pennsylvania Literary Journal for poetry, academic essays, interviews and book reviews. It is an online journal available at, http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal. Her "In Brief" article on this journal is scheduled to appear in the November/December issue of D-Lib Magazine. She is also putting together a website for the Women Abolitionists' works that seh collected on a grant funded trip at, http://sites.google.com/site/abolitionistwomen. She wrote and produced a short-film first called “Sisters and Brothers,” renamed as, “My Sister, The Psychopath,” http://blip.tv/file/108107, which was screened to sold-out shows as part of the “The Reel Movement,” a competitive indie showcase at the Somerville Theater, and at Berkley.

This website is an electronic Career Portfolio. Below you will find links to Anna's C.V., sample course syllabus, transcripts, service-related documentation, writing samples and to some of the websites that she developed. The information is primarily compiled for colleges and universities looking for part or full time, and online or in-person instructors. The image below was take moments before Anna delivered a PowerPoint presentation on "Hypertext," at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities Conference this October.