Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest
American Studies
Eco-Criticism
Post-Colonial Studies
Creative Writing
Education
Binghamton University, 2016-May 2020
PhD, English with Creative Writing Concentration
Dissertation: Water Sermon: A Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, and Fly Fishing
Field Exam 1: Eco-Fiction in the Anthropocene
Field Exam 2: Resource Manifest Destiny, the Petrofrontier, and
Great American Fracking Literature
Field Exam 3: Into the American Wilderness: Addiction and Nature Memoir
Binghamton University, 2014
MA, English with Creative Nonfiction Concentration
Thesis (Advisor, Leslie Heywood): “Water Sermon”
SUNY New Paltz, 2013
BA, English Major and Creative Writing Minor
AA, Liberal Arts
Orange County Community College, 2011
Teaching Experience
Binghamton University
Adjunct, English
ENG 300D: Crude Culture in America, Summer 2019 (online)
ENG 300K: Fiction and Film in the Anthropocene, Winter 2020 (online)
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Adjunct, English
ENG 100: College Writing 1, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
ENG 098: Accelerated Learning Skills, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Morrisville State College
Adjunct, English
Skills 088, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
Composition 101, Fall 2018
Composition 102: The American Dream, Spring 2019
Hartwick College
Adjunct, English
Composition 101, Fall 2018
St. Thomas Aquinas College
Adjunct, English
Death of an Empire: British Imperialism and Literature, Spring 2017-Fall 2017
Rockland Community College
Adjunct, English
International Composition 1, Spring 2016
International Composition 2, Fall 2017
Composition 1, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017
ENG 098 Support Module, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017
Binghamton University
Teaching Assistant, English
ENG480H Monsters and Heroes, Spring 2014
ENG300Z Zombie Nation, Fall 2013
Administrative
Rockland Community College, Academic Success Center
Lead Support Staff, Reading and Writing Center, Fall 2015-Spring 2017
Interviewed and Trained New Tutors
Managed/Created Tutee Appointments via TutorTrac
Created Tutor Schedules and Input via TutorTrac
Managed Tutor Callouts
Managed Student and Tutor Conflicts
Managed/Troubleshoot TutorTrac Log Listing
Secured Strategic Innovation Grant for Summer Funding 2016
Designed and Ran Skill Building Workshops for Students
Created/Adhered to Budget Spreadsheets
Ran and Maintained Center Statistic Reports for Director
Advertise and Promote Workshops, Writing Center Tours, and Events
Tutoring
Rockland Community College, Academic Success Center
Tutor, Reading and Writing Center, Spring 2015-Spring 2017
Liberty Partnership Program
Tutor, East Ramapo High School, January 2016-May 2016
New Paltz School District
Tutor, Tutored variety of subjects in New Paltz Middle School, 2012-2013
Highland Residential Center
Tutor, Tutored variety of subjects to youth offenders in minimum security prison, 2011-2012
Certifications
Harpur Online Teaching Certification, Spring 2019
Successfully completed online teaching certificate for Binghamton University
MyCourses Learning Management System Training, Spring 2019
Successfully completed training for MyCourses to teach online courses
Grants
IASH-Public Humanities New York, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
Secured Funding for Writing for Recovery in the Southern Tier to Teach Creative Writing to Addicts in Treatment
National Endowment of the Arts, Spring 2019
Secured National Endowment for the Arts Grant to Teach Creative Writing Workshops to Juvenile Delinquent Teenagers at Children’s Home of Wyoming, Binghamton, NY
Rockland Community College, Academic Success Center, Summer 2016
Secured Funding for Strategic Innovation Grant for the Reading and Writing Center, Allowing it to Stay Open Throughout Summer
Awards
Honorable Mention, Academic of American Poets College Prize, 2019
“Men and Baseball”
AWP Nomination, Binghamton University, Creative Nonfiction 2017
“Blood Brothers”
Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2015
“Don’t Go Over Your Hipboots”
Honorable Mention, Best American Essays of 2015
“Don’t Go Over Your Hipboots”
Non-Academic
Calendar Committee, Rockland Community College, 2015
Fiction Editor, Harpur Palate, Binghamton University, 2013-2014