EDUCATION

PhD, English (September 2015)
St. John’s University (Jamaica, NY).
Dissertation: Fear of Falling: 9/11 and the Politics of Absence, successfully defended on May 7, 2015.

My dissertation, “Fear of Falling: The Aesthetic of Absence,” focuses on a wide range of popular and artistic reactions to 9/11, ranging from fiction, photography, journalism, comics, memorial construction, and documentary film. This research is focused upon absence as a post-9/11 aesthetic, but also upon political absences, like the carceral disappearance of alleged enemies of the state.     

Committee: Drs. Granville Ganter (Director), Jennifer Travis (Second Reader), and Harry Denny (Third Reader).

MFA, Creative Writing (May 2015).
Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY)
Creative thesis: Novel, Falling.

MA, Writing (May 2004).
Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY).

BA, English (May 1995), Summa Cum Laude, Dean’s List, President’s List.
Marymount College of Fordham University (Tarrytown, NY).

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

English Faculty – Bard High School Early College, Newark, NJ (August 2016 – present)
Bard College Courses:  Creative Writing
9/11 in Historical Perspective
Freshman Seminar II
The American Short Story
      Bard High School: Tenth Grade World Literature

Adjunct Professor – Union County College, Cranford and Elizabeth, NJ (August 2012 – present)
Completed training to teach online courses in Fall 2013.
Composition and Literature I: 9 sections taught.
Composition and Literature II: 9 sections taught.

Adjunct Professor – Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (September 2006 – December 2013)
Basic (Developmental) Writing II: 1 section taught.
Composition and Literature I: 10 sections taught.
Composition and Literature II: 2 sections taught
Creative Writing: Designed a creative writing course.

Adjunct Professor – Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY (September 1999-May 2000)      Introduction to Composition I: 1 section taught.
                Intermediate Composition: 1 section taught.

 

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professional English and Writing Tutor – Academic Resources, Morris Plains, New Jersey   (Summer 2015-present)

Freelance Writer – Hawthorne, New Jersey (Spring 2014-present)
Write screenplay synopses and tag lines for playwrights.       

Freelance Writing Tutor and Editor – Hawthorne, New Jersey (1/1995-12/2005)
Edited both published and working screenplays, non-fiction and fiction, articles, poetry, theses and dissertations.

Fiction Editor – INKWELL MAGAZINE, Purchase, New York (1/2010-12/2010)
Poetry Editor – INKWELL MAGAZINE, Purchase, New York (6/2006-6-2007)
Poetry and Short Fiction Editor – INKWELL MAGAZINE, Purchase, New York (1/2000-5/2003)
Short Fiction Competition Judge – INKWELL MAGAZINE, Purchase, New York (9/2003-12/2003)

Assistant Project Manager/Editor – HDR, Inc., White Plains, New York (1/2003-4/2004)

• Wrote copy and performed all technical writing; and edited all deliverables, including RFPs and Environmental Impact Statements for the Department of Sanitation in New York project.
• Assisted Project Manager.

Editor – The Guild Group, White Plains, New York (1/2001-12/2003)

• Edited all publications, ads, communications and promotional material; created and edited graphic presentations and pitches, and wrote copy and provided technical writing services.

Copyeditor – Helen Powers Communications, Katonah, New York (5/1997-12/1998)

• Copyedited college textbooks in a variety of subject areas.

 

Editorial and Marketing Assistant – Richard Owen Publishers, Katonah, New York (2/1996-12/1997)

• Edited catalogs, professional teacher education and college textbooks, children’s books, ads, brochures and other promotional materials; and represented the Company and its products at trade shows and conferences.        

 

Editorial Assistant – Thomas Publishing Company (10/1995-12/1996)

• Proofread the northeast region Industrial Buying Guides; and acted as liaison between marketing and  production departments.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Review of Trans-Canadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics by Libe Garcia Zarranz. English: The Journal of the English Association. Mc-Gill Queens UP. January 2018

Introduction. New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11. Ed. Victoria M. Bryan, Arin Keeble, and Heather Pope. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.

Review of The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity by Arin Keeble. The Journal of American Studies. Cambridge Scholars. Fall 2015.

“The Submission to Internal Exceptionalism and Cultural Capital in Post-9/11 America.” New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.

Introduction. New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11. Ed. Victoria M. Bryan and Heather Pope. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2015.

Review of The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity by Arin Keeble. The Journal of American Studies. Cambridge Scholars. Fall 2015.

“Clicking-In.” (FICTION) Picayune Magazine 2010.

“Ghostwriters,” “Dreams of Home,” and “Another Summer.” (POETRY) Amaranth Review 5/2010.

“You.”(POETRY) INKWELL Magazine 5/2005.

Current Project:

I’m currently working on a monograph about literature and other works of art that have been created as a result of the extrajudicial detention centers at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

Edited Collection:

Reflecting 9/11: New Narratives in Literature, Film, Television and Theatre. Eds. Heather E. Pope and Victoria M. Bryan. Collection of essays that began at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference Special Sessions on 9/11 and Literature from 2012-2014.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Paper presented at the “Contemporary Nationalism: Between Diversity, Democracy, and Authoritarianism?” Conference (Bard Center for Civic Engagement. New York, NY. February 2-4, 2017).

“Muslim Containment Culture: Jim Crow in Guantánamo Bay”. Bard Faculty Professional Development Conference (BHSEC Newark, NJ. December 7, 2016).

“Global Futures of Racial Difference.” Paper presented at the “The St John’s English PhD and the Global Humanities” Conference (St. John’s University. Jamaica, New York. April 23, 2016).

“Historical Paternalism: 9/11, Politics and Literature.” Paper presented at the “9/11 and the Academy” Conference (Emory and Henry University. Emory, Virginia. November 6-8, 2015).

“Incredibly Close to Comics.” Paper presented at the “9/11 and Popular Culture” Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference (Cincinnati, Ohio. October 1-4, 2015).

“Historical Paternalism: 9/11, Politics and Literature.” Paper presented at the “9/11 and the Academy Conference.” (Emory and Henry University. Emory, Virginia. November 6-8, 2015).

“Technology as Nether Land in Joseph O’Neill’s Novel.” Paper presented at the Literature After 9/11 Special Session of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Conference. (Durham, North Carolina, 2012).

“Knowing the Unknowable: Memorializing the Trauma of 9/11.” Paper presented at the War Studies Session of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Annual Conference (Pittsburgh, PA, 2012).

“Drew’s Falling Man: Image of the Real?” Paper presented at the Reframing 9/11 Media and Narratives/9/11 and Popular Culture Session at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. (Columbus, Ohio, 2012).

“Propagandizing Pain: President Obama and Mitt Romney’s Political Tears.” Paper presented at the Critiquing Culture Session of The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference (George Mason University. Fairfax, Virginia, 2012).

“Seducing Baudrillard: Feminism and the Allure of Appearances.” Paper presented at SUNY Stony Brook’s Annual Graduate Conference: Fearful Symmetry (Stony Brook, New York, 2010).

“Obama’s Tears: Propagandizing Pain for the American Affective Ideal and True Love.” Paper presented at the Constructing Obama Panel of the St. John’s University Annual Graduate Student Conference. (St. John’s University. Jamaica, New York, 2010).

Literature after 9/11 Panel Co-Chair and Organizer at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (SAMLA). (Atlanta, GA, 2014).

Literature after 9/11 Panel Chair and Organizer at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (SAMLA). (Atlanta, GA, 2014).

“Personify the Throne” and “Twisting.” Summer Writers’ Week Poetry Reading            (Manhattanville College. Purchase, New York, 2014). Invited presentation.

“You.” INKWELL Magazine Poetry Reading. (Purchase, NY, 2005). Invited presentation.

“Careers in English” Conference Panel (SUNY Purchase College. Purchase, New York, 1997). Invited presentation.

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

American Literature and Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Prison Literature and Studies, Creative Writing, Affect and Trauma Theory and their Politics, War Studies, Composition and Community College pedagogy.

 

TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS

9/11 Literature, Composition, Digital Literacy, Presidential Memoir, Memorializing Culture and Personal Trauma, Prison Literature, especially from or as a result of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay Detention Centers, 18^th C. Literature, Cultural and American Studies.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Midwest Popular Culture Association, NCTE, Poets & Writers, Society for the Study of Women Writers (SSAWW), Learning Styles Community, AWP.