Resume

• 2006

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English Language and Literature

  University of California

  Berkeley

  Flipping the Classroom

  lynda.com

  BD9948

• 2002

  French

  Latin

  Bachelor's degree

  English Language and Literature

  General

  UC Berkeley

• Editing

  Teaching

  Graphic Design

  Teaching Writing

  Research

  Student Affairs

  18th Century

  University Teaching

  Educational Leadership

  Higher Education

  Literature

  Archival Research

  Public Speaking

  Mentoring

  Qualitative Research

  PowerPoint

  Academic Writing

  Thomas-Bignami

  UC Berkeley

  Department of English

  Diablo Valley College

  Diablo Valley College

  University of California

  Berkeley

  Department of English\nSpecializing in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

  University of California

  Berkeley

  UC Berkeley

  “The Enlightenment

  ” Instructor

  Fall 2011. \nNovels: Defoe

  Robinson Crusoe; Voltaire

  Candide; Walpole

  The Castle of Otranto. Poetry: Alexander Pope

  John Milton

  Erasmus Darwin

  William Blake. Films: The Madness of King George

  Robinson Crusoe (1927). Philosophy and Criticism: Kant

  Diderot

  Bacon

  Voltaire

  Locke

  La Mettrie

  Smith

  Shaftesbury

  Paine

  Rousseau

  Wollstonecraft

  Hume

  Addison. Painting: Joseph Wright

  “Experiment on a Bird in the Air-pump;” Fuseli “The Nightmare.” \n\n“The Enlightenment

  ” Instructor

  Fall 2010. \nNovels: Defoe

  Robinson Crusoe; Mackenzie

  The Man of Feeling; Lewis

  The Monk. Poetry: Alexander Pope

  John Milton

  Erasmus Darwin. Films: The Madness of King George

  Robinson Crusoe (1927). Philosophy and Criticism: Kant

  Diderot

  Bacon

  Voltaire

  Locke

  La Mettrie

  Smith

  Shaftesbury

  Paine

  Rousseau

  Wollstonecraft

  Hume

  Addison. Music: Bach

  The Art of the Fugue

  Coffee Cantata BWV 211; Mozart

  The Magic Flute. \n\n“Travel Writing

  ” Instructor

  Spring 2010 and Fall 2009.\nNovels

  Memoirs

  and Voyages: Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Travels with Herodotus; Ibn Battuta; Bruce Chatwin

  In Patagonia; Antonio Pigafetta; Jonathan Swift

  Gulliver’s Travels; Jorge Luis Borges; George Orwell

  Homage to Catalonia; Philip Gourevitch; w. G. Sebald

  The Rings of Saturn; Dimiter Kenarov. Poetry: Homer

  The Odyssey; Virgil

  The Aeneid; Emily Dickinson

  Robert Frost. \n\n“Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

  ” Teaching Assistant to \nProfessor Richard Hutson

  Spring 2009. Led weekly discussion sections

  composed exams

  and directed student essay writing.\n\n“Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries

  ” Teaching Assistant to \nProfessor Janet Sorensen

  Fall 2008. Led weekly discussion sections

  composed exams

  and directed student essay writing.

  Graduate Student Instructor

  Diablo Valley College

  UC Berkeley

  Department of English

  UC Berkeley

  Assistant Reading & Composition Coordinator and Pedagogy Instructor

  UC Berkeley

  Reader for English 121

  Romanticism (Fall 2013).\nReader for English 120

  Late-Eighteenth Century Literature (Spring 2014).

  Graduate Student Reader

  Pleasant Hill

  English 122 Freshman English: Composition and Reading\nVisit: English122DVC.wordpress.com\n\nEnglish 162 Language

  Literature

  and Culture\nInternational Education Center's Spring Bridge Program 2014\nVisit: English162DVC.wordpress.com

  Adjunct Instructor of English

  Diablo Valley College