Experience

• University of Houston

  Lower Division Studies Administrator

  My responsibilities include keeping enrollment figures for the department, meeting with my chair to report about enrollment and scheduling, hiring lecturers to teach unstaffed Lower Division classes, scheduling classes for the department, working with New TA Orientation in various capacities, working with the book representatives, acting as mediator between student and instructor difficulties, working on the Undergraduate Committee for our college, working with the Latino faculty, reviewing and approving/rejecting petitions for credit transfer from other universities, observing TAs and evaluating their teaching skills, holding supervisory meetings with my TA groups, assigning TAs to appropriate supervisors, and so forth.

• California State University, Northridge

  Assistant Professor in English

  I taught a number of literature classes at lower division, upper division, and graduate levels. I also served on a number of committees in the College of Education, Chicano Studies Department and English Department.