Experience Summary
For the past three years, I have been working as a senior lecturer in freshman composition at Suffolk University. In addition to my teaching experience, I also volunteer regularly with 826Boston, a non-profit tutoring and writing center in Roxbury, MA. From week to week, I supervise middle school student’s homework and also writing projects in which they are engaged at the center. Also I have run weekend story writing workshops, and I am on the editorial board for a forthcoming book of student writing called Bedtime Stories. I come to the classroom from a career as a freelance journalist for such publications as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Runner's World, Budget Travel, and Poets & Writers magazine. Prior to heading out on my own, I was an award-winning producer at WGBH in Boston, creating web sites and DVDs for such for well-known PBS programs such as American Experience and This Old House.
Teaching Style
Overseeing recent high school graduates’ transformation into college students has been a gratifying experience. I take a hands-on approach using in-depth discussion, analysis, in-class exercises, peer review, and revision. As a teacher my role is both to instruct about accepted concepts and methods for reading and writing and to act as a resource to help students improve their skills. Prompting them with questions and encouraging them to keep refining their work, I witness their realization that what I am asking them to do is not impossible. I give my students the tools they will need to succeed throughout school and beyond.