Lecturer
California State University, Fresno
I teach courses in composition and rhetoric that are focused on empowering new university students with language skills primarily through reading and writing.
My Curriculum Vitae (Resume).
EXPERIENCE
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2021 2015
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2021 2017
Lecturer
College of the Sequoias
Likewise, here I teach courses in composition and rhetoric with the addition of logic and critical thinking, working to empower community college students with skillful language practices.
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2019 2012
IT Manager
Horn Photo
In a department of one (me) I managed a mix of 15-20 Windows and Mac workstations, customer endpoints, point of sale terminals, WAN/LAN/WiFi networks, and systems integration on both front and back ends of the company.
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2007 2003
IT Specialist
North American Title Company
Operating as a single support agent for the region, my responsibilities were two-fold: I managed and supported employees' computer systems, and I provided technology training and resources for clients of the company.
EDUCATION
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2015 2012
MA English Literature, Summa Cum Laude
California State University, Fresno
My thesis explores what I have named “friction zones,” points of interpretive anomaly and contention between the Judeo-Christian narrative and other, antecedent mytho-pagan narratives; moreover, this work focuses on these friction zones as they appear in selections from Victorian prose and poetry, revealing tensions between hegemonic and subversive narratives. While this research builds on feminist and deconstructionist literary theory, it also informs my core pedagogy which is to help students see places in their own lives where they have been marginalized and to nurture their own power in their present and future narratives.
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2012 2010
BA English Literature, Summa Cum Laude
California State University, Fresno
With a chosen emphasis in British literature, my undergraduate studies range in surveys of British literature from the Medieval period through the Victorian period (1200-1900 CE) and various theoretical frameworks including structuralist, post-structuralist, deconstructionist, feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, post-colonial, and new historical criticism.
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2010 2008
AA English
Fresno City College
Foundational work in composition, surveys in American literature, and creative writing in poetry and fiction.