I am an Educator, Writer, and Photographer.
I received my undergraduate degree at Susquehanna University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Secondary Education. Recently, I finished my Master's degree in English at the Nation University of Ireland Galway. Throughout my Master's, I continued to study language and its relationship with narrative in addition to book history through a multi-media lens. With a background in general American and British Literature, my expertise resides in general English instruction, Differentiated Instruction, History of Literary Media, and Irish Literature. I seek to study the role of narrative in everyday life and formal writing. Furthermore, I want to continue my education in postgraduate studies, working toward the completion of a Ph.D. in the discipline of English and literature or Higher Education.
I analyze the relationship between humanity and written text, specifically our co-evolution. I believe that books or any media delivered via a standardized form of a medium are critical to human society; additional analysis of the history of how storytelling and narrative have forced humans to the top of the earth's hierarchy. Peering into book history through multi-media studies illuminates alternative viewings of many written works. Moving beyond the methods of traditional English Literature analysis to allow for a closer look into narratives as well as the materials and decisions that make up the physical book. It's important to study how influential media presence has been for humanity, however, the relationships between text and humans are very expansive and require contextual applications. I wish to research the various revolutions throughout history and to look at what roles media has played in them.
Employment Wants:
A flexible curriculum that allows for exploration in regard to instructional design is an imperative attribute of an employer. I am looking for a job within the field of secondary education or higher education that will allow me to teach while still pursuing advancements within my own education and research. Most importantly, having an understanding and students' first environment should be essential to the classroom environment.
Education is a fluid and dynamic field that needs to be tailored to student's needs while still addressing crucial information and content. I want to bring creativity through artistic expression and appreciation into the classroom to broaden students' sense of creative thinking. Students need to have outlets and diverse abilities to have intelligent, thoughtful, and mature discourse in the classroom. Additionally, providing students with varied and diverse exposure to material is critical to their success in the real world.
On-campus I have had several jobs and held many leadership positions throughout my time as an undergraduate student. I have been heavily involved in such as the Photography Club, where I served as both the VP of Public Relations and later as the club President. Additionally, I worked at Trax our on-campus student entertainment center, where I helped plan, organize, set up, and run events open to all Susquehanna University students. We provided a variety of entertainment, artistic, and spiritual events meant to cater to the variety of needs on campus in regard to students.
I was also an Orientation Leader throughout my entire time at the University. I was fortunate to be selected as a university ambassador, so I got to introduce and integrate new students into the university and its culture. Working with orientation every year was an amazingly rewarding experience and it allowed leaders to pass on what they love about our university to the newest class of students. Later, I also worked as an intern on Susquehanna University's Common Reading Anthology, where six other students and myself were in charge of designing, organizing, and printing an anthology of texts for the newest class to enter the university. I was the Junior Reading and Teaching Guide Editor on the team where I helped facilitate the educational standards of the anthology. We designed and planned lessons that focused on extending the texts within the anthology and provided professors content to teach First-Year students across disciplines.
Lastly, I was also a member of Greek Life on campus. Within my Fraternity, Phi Mu Delta, I served as the Alumni Chair and Chapter Historian where I worked to plan alumni relation events meant to facilitate the connection between undergraduate students and working professionals to help them acquire jobs and internships. As the historian, it was my job to keep records in addition to refurbishing and stabilizing damaged documents for the chapter.
My work focuses on the intersection of English, culture, and education regarding personal research. These areas hold my interests and garner a special relationship with each other to create a wider shared culture. By analyzing these subjects I seek to expand my knowledge in addition to analyzing how humans advance in these key areas. Special relationships are shared especially between the study of language and education, by exploring these areas I seek to improve cultural understanding. My non-research-related personal work is composed of a swath of expression and creative writing practices. I have worked in various forms of written works from shorter forms like poetry to longer prose like essays and short stories.
In regard to previous work, the most pertinent information is addressed in the "Teaching" and "Research & Publications" pages of this website. In those pages, I provide an in-depth explanation of the experience and how it has influenced my career. Please refer to those sections for more extensive information in regard to my experiences and research.
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