Teaching
"Using Rhētorikós Spring 2021 in the Classroom: Evaluating Arguments"
Lesson Plan
In Spring 2021, I collaborated with with my fellow editor-in-chiefs of Rhētorikós: Excellence in Student Writing, Jessica D’Onofrio and Ellis Light, on an instructor's guide to this issue. This post shares my contribution to the guide, an in-class lesson plan designed to get students reflecting on and evaluating the arguments advanced in essays from our Spring 2021 issue.
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Fellowship Advising
"Who Should Write Your Recommendations?"
Video Lecture (2022)
While selecting recommenders may seem like an easy task, it has a substantial effect on the quality of your application to competitive awards and fellowships. As part of February Fellowships 2022, I discuss a variety of strategies, practices, and considerations to help applicants acquire the most effective letters of recommendation.
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"Benefits of Keeping a Work Journal"
Video Lecture (2021)
Keeping a regular journal can help you to document your personal and professional growth. In this video, I discuss this practice and how it can aid in the process of applying to prestigious fellowships and awards.
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"How to Present a Genuine Desire for Cultural Exchange in Your Fulbright Application Essays"
Video Lecture (2020)
Understanding the mission of the fellowship you are applying to is key. In this video, watch me share ways of demonstrating a desire to be a cultural ambassador in your application essay's to Fulbright, a program that values intercultural communication and exchange. This video will be of help to both those applying to both Study/Research and English Teaching Assistant (ETA) opportunities in the US Student Program.
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"Lesson Ideas for Fulbright ETA Applicants"
Video Lecture (2020)
Sharing a lesson idea that is engaging, relevant, and feasible is an important aspect of your Statement of Grant Purpose essay to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program in your chosen host country. In this video, I provide applicants with insights into crafting lesson ideas for language learning and cultural exchange that also showcase their unique personality, skills, and interests.
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Publications
"The Politics of Sport: John Day’s The Isle of Gulls"
Under review at Early Theatre
This article explores the political import of three scenes in John Day’s understudied satiric drama The Isle of Gulls. It reads the royal hunt, game of bowls, and double jest as examples of a cultural phenomenon that disguises politics as recreation.
“An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland”
An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland by the seventeenth-century English poet Andrew Marvell chronicles the victorious return in 1649 of Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army from their bloody conquests in Ireland. The poem juxtaposes the speaker’s praise for Cromwell’s Puritan politics and his sympathy for Charles I’s execution. This mixed political allegiance has triggered decades of critical controversy—beginning with the first posthumous collection of the poet’s work [...]
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https://www.literaryencyclopaedia.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6619
Published by Providence College Digital Commons in 2012
In my undergraduate senior thesis, I explore the various types of liturgical elements present in Richard Crashaw’s three poems dedicated to Saint Teresa of Ávila: “The Hymne,” “An Apologie” and “The Flaming Heart.” The external liturgical elements include the tabernacle, the use of incense, the Eucharist and the Litany of the Book of Common Prayer, while the internal ones exemplify the glorification of God and the mystery of Redemption in Christ.
My argument in this paper is twofold: first, I argue that these three poems ought to be considered a trilogy, and, second, I argue that Crashaw establishes a sort of “Teresean liturgy” through the Christian liturgical elements that are used to describe Crashaw’s personal experience reading the religious writings of Saint Teresa. Ultimately, this comparison between individual reading and the Christian liturgy allows Crashaw to exalt the transformative power found in works by Saint Teresa and advocate for an unconventional type of reading – one that turns away from the mind and towards the heart.
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