Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Boston College (2006): M.A., English Literature
University of Southern California (2002): B.A., Music, summa cum laude

ACADEMIC FIELDS OF INTEREST

Composition & Rhetoric
American studies
Digital literacies
Narrative theory
Science fiction studies
California literature & film
Musicology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2010-2012 Peace Corps Volunteer, Eastern Visayas State University, Main Campus, Tacloban, Philippines
2010-2010 Peace Corps Trainee, Eastern Visayas State University, Tanauan Campus, Philippines
2007-2010 Adjunct English Instructor, Irvine Valley College
2006-2010 Adjunct English Instructor, Fullerton College
2006-2006 Adjunct English Instructor, Chapman University
2005-2006 Teaching Fellow, Boston College
2005-2005 Writing Tutor, Boston College Academic Development Center
2005-2005 GRE Teacher, Kaplan Test Preparation, Newton, MA
2003-2004 Title I Tutor, Orange County Department of Education
2001-2002 Senior Tutoring Facilitator, Med-COR, Los Angeles
1998-1999 Volunteer English & Music Teacher, 32nd Street Elementary School, Los Angeles

COURSES TAUGHT

Developmental Reading I & II (Eastern Visayas State University)
Fourth-Year English (Eastern Visayas State University Secondary Laboratory High School
Advanced College Writing (Irvine Valley, WR 2; Fullerton College, ENGL 103)
College Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 100; Irvine Valley College, WR 1)
Preparation for College Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 60; Irvine Valley College, WR 201)
Introduction to Creative Writing (Fullerton College, ENGL 105)
California in the Popular Imagination: Seminar in Rhetoric & Writing (Chapman Univ EN103)
Literature of the Philippines (Eastern Visayas State University, Tanauan Campus, LIT 213)
First-Year Writing Seminar (Boston College, ENGL 010)

AWARDS, HONORS, & APPOINTMENTS

Sabbatical Replacement (1-semester full-time appointment, Fullerton College, 2008)
Donald J. White Award for Teaching Excellence (Boston College, 2006)
Boston College Graduate Technology Assistant (2006)
Boston College Teaching Fellowship (2005-6)
Passed Boston College Comprehensive Theory Exam with distinction (2005).
Passed Boston College Comprehensive Textual Analysis Exam with distinction (2005).

PEACE CORPS Major Secondary Projects (2010-2012)

Textbook acquisition (Acquire sets of science, math, and English textbooks; a collaborative project with Fullerton College)
Book donation (Goal: increase library fiction collection from 152 titles to 1,000+)
Scholarship for Future Educators (tuition scholarship for 30 students in the College of Education)
Planned: Creative writing module and literary journal for 4th-year high school students (in collaboration with Belinda Lora)

PEACE CORPS Workshops, Seminars, and Events (2010-2012)

Apr ??: HIV/AIDS Awareness Training of Trainers, Alangalang School District, Leyte (co-taught with Geraldine Tibe and PCV Louise Sargent)
Feb 3: Speaking Engagement at University of the Philippines, Tacloban Campus
Jan 21: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers, EVSU ("Subject-Verb Agreement, Modifiers, Conditional Tense," co-taught with Arlene Villasante)
Jan 20: Attended "Teenage Pregnancy" presentation for 4th year students at EVSU
Jan 15: Attended fiesta in Marabut, Samar
Jan 14: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers, EVSU ("Prepositions, Comparatives, Idioms," co-taught with Belinda Lora)
Jan ??: "Understanding By Design" workshop for faculty (all day). Eastern Visayas State University.
Dec 17: Outreach Program and Feeding for students at Burante Elementary School, Tacloban
Dec 14: Research Learning Episode: Faculty of the College of Education. Delivered the recapitulation of presentations.
Dec 7: Awarding and Induction Ceremony for recipients of Peace Corps Scholarship for Future Educators
Nov 30: DepEd Journalism Workshop & Competition. Presenter and Judge. Catbalogan, Samar.
Nov 25: National Reading Month culminating activity. Judge for declamation, story telling, joke telling, and extemporaneous speech contests.
Nov 22: Official Handing Over Ceremony of 500+ donated books: Eastern Visayas State University Main Library
Nov 18: "How to take the GRE" informational session for Peace Corps volunteers (co-taught with Jenn Rimbach). Lima Park Hotel, Batangas
Nov 16-18: Mid-Service Training for Peace Corps volunteers (1 year completed)
Oct 26-28: "Santa Fe Elementary Teachers In-Service Training" (led by PCV Holly Lovejoy)
Oct 19-20: 67th Leyte Landing Anniversary. Invitee to dinner, Palo, Leyte.
Oct 15: "Scouting Excellence and Sir Winston Churchill" lecture delivered at CIE, The School for Leaders
Oct 8: "Innovation in the Assessment of Learning in Education for Sustainable Development" Professional Education 383 guest interviewee.
Oct 5: "Culminating Activity for Faculty Enrichment Workshops," creator of recapitulation video.
Oct 5: Assistant coach for "A Prayer for Teachers" voice choir, EVSU World Teachers Day.
Oct 2: "Online Writing & Layout for Journalism" Department of Education Workshop, Borongan, Eastern Samar (Presenter; 400 participants)
Sep 30: "Utilization of Newer Educational Media" culminating activity guest sharer for Educational Technology II course.
Sep 22: "Writing Project Proposals" seminar for staff at PhilHealth Tacloban.
Sep 17: "Leadership of Sir Winston Churchill" lecture delivered at CIE, The School for Leaders
Sep 16: "Designing Effective Rubrics" workshop for faculty (all day). Eastern Visayas State University
Sep 15: Trumpet performance of "Bayan Ko" at Palo Seminary
Sep 9: "Higher Order Thinking Skills, Table of Specifications, and Leading Discussions" workshop for faculty (all day). Eastern Visayas State University.
Sep 2: Buwan ng Wika (Filipino Language Month) culminating activities (attendee).
Aug 27: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers (Word Usage; Vocabulary, Pronouns).
Aug 26: "Syllabus Enhancement Workshop; Americanisms & Filipinisms" workshop for faculty (all day). Eastern Visayas State University.
Aug 13: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers (Singulars/Plurals) with Jessica Alalid.
Aug 2-4: Project Design and Management Seminar (Peace Corps host). Eastern Visayas State University.
Jul 30: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers (Prepositions, Adverbs, Adjectives, Idioms) with Belinda Lora.
Jul 29: Judge, Jingle Competition for National Nutrition Month (Theme: "Isulong Breastfeeding").
Jul 23: Attended wedding of Mr. & Mrs. Ruel Advincula.
Jul 16: Skills Enhancement Seminar for Student Teachers (Subject-Verb Agreement & Pronunciation) with Arlene Villasante.
Jul 14: Judge, Cheer Competition for EVSU Intramurals.
Jul 9: Peer Counseling Leadership Seminar for youth from Dulag, Leyte (Dept of Agrarian Reform).
Jun 29: 50th Anniversary Peace Corps event at Sangyaw Festival (Tacloban City)
Jun 27: "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teams" speaking engagement. Department of Agrarian Reform, Tacloban.
Jun 25: "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teams" speaking engagement. National Nutrition Council, Tadyaw Beach Resort, Tolosa.
Jun 6-8: Teacher Training for new faculty at Bacolod City College (organized by PCV Justin Tabor)
May 13-25: TUDLO-Mindanao, a teacher enhancement program for the the island of Mindanao, including Philippines' minority Muslim population.
Apr 25-28, May 2-5: Remedial Reading Program at Tanauan National High School (organized by PCV Jean Pfautz, Tanauan, Leyte)
Apr 16-21: Planning session for TUDLO-Mindanao with other Peace Corps volunteers (Manila)
Apr 11-15: Lesson Planning Workshop for Grace Christian Mission Technical School (with PCV Jessica Friedman, Old Boso Boso, Antipolo City)
Apr 4-8: Peace Corps Regional Language Camp participant (studied Tagalog)
Apr 1: Commencement Speaker, St. Clare Child Development Center
Mar 26: "See it, Swim it, Save it!" Environmental awareness program (led by PCVs Peter and Selena Barlow, Babatgnon, Leyte)
Mar 12: "A Cross Cultural Comparison of Financial Factors in America and the Philippines" Guest Sharer for EVSU PhD Seminar on "The Economics of Education", (San Juanico Golf Club, Tacloban, Leyte)
Mar 5: "Singulars/Plurals, Pronunciation, and Idioms" Skills Enhancment Workshop for EVSU student teachers (with Jessica Alalid)
Feb 23-27: "The Role of Lesson Plans and Teaching Methods." Teacher Workshop for Grace Christian Mission Technical School, Old Boso-Boso, Antipolo City (organized by PCV Jessica Friedman)
Feb 12: "Subject-Verb Agreement and Grammar Teaching Strategies" Skills Enhancement Workshop for EVSU student teachers (with Arlene Villasante)
Feb 5: "Long- and Short-Term Planning," presented at the Eastern Visayas State University Dulag Campus (with PCV Mei Chen)
Jan 15: "Prepositions and Pronunciation" Skills Enhancement Workshop for EVSU student teachers (with Ma. Belinda Lora)
Jan 8: "Teaching the Process of Writing" at Dep Ed Seminar, "Communicative Learning Teaching" in Catbologan, Eastern Samar (with Rustum Geonzon)
Jan 1, 2011: "Literacy in the Facebook Era: A Pedagogical Approach to Internet English in the Filipino Classroom" published in PAGSUBAY, the literary journal of EVSU's Graduate Program
Dec 27: Adjudicated Beauty Pageant, "Search for Mr. & Mrs. PYAP Tacloban 2010"
Dec 16-24: Performed with the Baras Chapel Choir "Missa de Gallo" for Simbangabi (Palo, Leyte)
Dec 15: Attended "ECHO Seminar Workshop on ICT Tools for Effective Classroom Management" (led by Bryan Gervacio, EVSU)
Dec 12: Community Outreach Project and Presentation on Personal Hygiene for Taguite Elementary School (Babatgnon, Leyte)
Dec 5: Community Cleanup for International Volunteer Day (Pitad Para Kalibungan), Barangay 37, Tacloban City (organized by PCV Mei Chen)
Nov 20: Godfather in Christening of James C. Sabate, son of Alma Consuerga
Nov 16: Community Clean-up (Barangay Baras, Palo, Leyte)
Nov 12: Delivered speech in local dialect (Waray-Waray) for the 49th Peace Corps Philippines Swearing in Ceremony, Antipolo City, Manila, Philippines
Nov 5: Computer Literacy Workshop for faculty of the Eastern Visayas State University. 31 attendees
Nov 4: Seminar on Syllabus Design, Eastern Visayas State University Tanauan Campus
Ongoing: Weekly dispatch blog entries for Peace Corps Worldwide, Peace Corps in the 21st Century
Oct 27: Performed "Take Me Home Country Road" to commemorate the birthday of the barangay captain
Oct 20: Walk for Peace, commemorating 64th Leyte Landing Anniversary (organized by Mayor Remedio Matin Patilla)
Oct 19: Performance of "You are My Sunshine" and "Take Me Home, Country Road" commemorating Leyte Landing Anniversary
Sep 27: Judged Leyte Division Oratorical Contest, Palo National High School (with Rustum Geonzon)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS GIVEN

Facebook in the Classroom: Productive Identites and Social Bonding in Nonymous Online Environments (ECCTYC 2009)
10 Tips for Teaching with Technology (Fullerton College, May 1, 2008)
Big Boy, Little Room: Reevaluating Male-Gendered Narratives of Self (CSUF Conference on Gender and Scholarship, chair of the panel "Dropouts, Downloads, and Diamonds: Male Performance and Attendance in the Composition Classroom," March 24, 2008)
Preparing Our Students (and Ourselves) for Timed Exams (Fullerton College Faculty Development Program, Aug 16, 2007)
A California Abroad: Mapping the West in Twain's European Travels of 1868" (Fordham University 2006 Graduate English Association Conference, "Transitional Spaces and Places." Oct 10, 2006)
Boston College New Writing Faculty Syllabus Workshop. Discussed my first-year teaching experiences and led 1-hour small group workshop for incoming faculty. May 10, 2006.
Playing Parts: Writing Inside and Outside Academia, (Panel Discussion, Boston College Graduate Colloquium, April 14, 2005)

DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES

Visiting Writer Committee (Fullerton College)
Website subcommittee of Technology Committee (Fullerton College)
Freshman Writing Award Committee (Fullerton College)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2008 Online Teaching Conference, held at Miracosta College, June 5-6 2008.
Basic Skills & Developmental Writing Training Program, Fullerton College, Spring 2008. 3 workshops and 2 hours one-on-one with faculty mentor.
"Millennial Mind" presentation on 21st century students, Fullerton College, Feb 14, 2008.
Virtual Instruction Academy, Fullerton College, Summer 2007. 5-week course for distance education certification.
"Community College & CSUF Connections: Conversations in English Studies." CSU Fullerton. Feb 9, 2007. Participated in panels on "Transfer Level Writing," "Sharing Our Realities," and "Developmental Writing."
Community College Hiring Committee information session, Fullerton College. Led by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss, Feb 2, 2007.
2007 Online Teaching Conference, held at Ohlone College.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND

Virtual Instruction Academy (2007) 5-week distance education certification, Fullerton College
"Using Blackboard in the Classroom." Irvine Valley College seminar (2007)
Web Editor, Boston College First Year Writing Program (2005-6) http://bc.edu/fws
Web Editor, New Comm Ave: Journal of College Writing (2005-10) http://newcommave.com
Web Design (howtoteachonline.org), in addition to using Blackboard and WebCT online classrooms
Thorough understanding of web design (HTML, PHP, Drupal, SQL, Wordpress), graphics manipulation (Photoshop, GIMP, Vegas), sound design (Mixcraft, Audacity), multiple operating systems (Windows XP & Vista, Mac OS X), and proponent of open-source software

SCHOLARSHIP

Literacy in the Facebook Era: Internet English in a Filipino Education(2010)
Facebook in the Classroom (2009)
"The First-Year Literary Tradition: Influence of Narrative Models and Publication on Student Writing," considered for the 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication
Postsuburban Legends: Genre Fiction in Late 20th Century Orange County (2006), under consideration in Journal of Popular Culture
Writing as a Performing Art: A Paradigm for the Composition Classroom (2006), under consideration in insideenglish
John J. McAleer: The Making of Rex Stout's Biography (2005)
Reevaluating the Female Spectator: Thirteen's Manipulation of Visual Pleasure (2005), written for the Harvard Graduate Consortium for Women and Film
Ben Jonson in the Harvard Classroom, 1888-1898 (2005), read at the Boston College seminar "Invention of the Renaissance"

CREATIVE WRITING

1337: A Game Novel (2010)
TWEET, TWEET: a mysticotelegraphic fistbump panegyric to the american open road odyssey (2009)
On the Beautiful Sea: Eight Stories (2008)
Once There Was, Once There Wasn't (screenplay, 2006)
Woman With Knife No.5 (screenplay, 2006)
That's Funny, Isn't It? (screenplay, 2005)
Reflections from the Pool (2005)

INTERVIEWS

A Meme for Writers (2/10/10)
Tweet, Tweet Fullerton College Faculty Reading (11/10/09)
A Mutual Respect Friend of a Friend (7/22/09)
Stephen Kis Writer Interview (7/27/08)
On the Beautiful Sea publication (7/20/08)

WEB ARTICLES

CONFERENCES & LECTURES ATTENDED

Mark Axelrod: 2008 Visiting Writer Event, Fullerton College. April 7, 2008.
2008 Online Teaching Conference, held at Miracosta College, June 5-6, 2008.
Ron Carlson discussing the process of writing a story. UCI Langson Library, October 3, 2007.
"Using Blackboard in the Classroom." Irvine Valley College seminar. August 1, 2007.
2007 Online Teaching Conference, held at Ohlone College.
"Community College & CSUF Connections: Conversations in English Studies." CSU Fullerton. Feb 9, 2007. Participated in panels on "Transfer Level Writing," "Sharing Our Realities," and "Developmental Writing."
Community College Hiring Committee information session, Fullerton College. Led by Darren Chiang-Schultheiss, Feb 2, 2007.
Fordham University Graduate English Association Conference, "Transitional Spaces and Places." Oct 10, 2006.
Boston College. New Writing Faculty Training. May 17, 2006.
"Love, Sex, and Literature." Boston College Spring 2006 Graduate Colloquium. (April 21, 2006).
Robert Atwan & Susan Orlean discussing editing Best American Essays 2006. Coolidge Corner Bookstore, November 20, 2005.
"Playing Parts: Writing Inside and Outside Academia." Boston College Spring 2005 Graduate Colloquium. April 14, 2005.
Jonathan Safran Foer reading & discussing his work. Boston College, April 7, 2005.
Lorrie Moore reading & discussing her work. Boston College, November 20, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Administrator, 2010 St. Angela Merici School Spelling Bee
Web designer & webmaster for dirtcakes journal (2010-)
Volunteer at Alta Gardens nursing home, Garden Grove, Summer 2008.
Smart Foundation volunteer, Summer 2008.
2008 Relay for Life Cancer Walk. Morongo Basin, April 26, 2008.
Volunteer regularly at Fullerton College's Humanities division information booth (first week, club rush week, job fair week)
Perform regularly as adjunct trumpet player for Bellflower Community Orchestra (2007-Present).
Liasoned with Houghton Mifflin Co. to publish student essays in Patterns Across Cultures (2008), by Stuart Hirshberg and Terry Hirshberg, The Riverside Reader (2007) by Joe Trimmer and Maxine Hairston and Everyday Arguments (2007), by Katherine J. Mayberry.
Discussed my first-year teaching experiences and helped new faculty develop syllabus at Boston College's First-Year Teacher program (May 10, 2006).
Designed and taught a teacher training program entitled "Preparing our students (and ourselves) for timed exams," Fullerton College, August 16, 2007.
Tutored group home junior high and high school students living in the Hart Community Home as part of the Title I Education program (2003-2004).
Tutored inner-city high Los Angeles school students in English, math, and science as part of a school-enrichment program, MedCOR, preparing students for the medical profession (2001-2002).