University of Toronto

Sessional Lecturer II

I have over 10 years of experience teaching English literature and writing at the University of Toronto, designing my own syllabi, lectures, and assignments for 8 different courses and over 40 separate classes. I have taught all of the major literary genres (fiction, prose, poetry, drama) as well as composition & rhetoric. I am qualified to teach the novel from its beginnings to the present (from Daniel Defoe to Cormac McCarthy) and have expertise in Children's Literature. My classes ranged in size from 25 to 200 students. I also supervised and managed teaching assistants.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Hilary Nicholls Fellow

- Adding bibliographic, provenance, and binding detail to Sirsi catalogue records for early printed books (1500-1640) using RDA standards and DCRM(B) rules
- Updating holdings records in centralised English Short Title Catalogue database
- Performing derived and original cataloguing into Sirsi database using RDA standards, and DCRM(B) rules
- Selecting materials and instructing classes, e.g. workshop on heraldry for VIC 225 History of the World in Objects, Prof. Cathie Sutton (2019/02/25)
- Reader Reference: answering questions, finding materials, supervising reading room clients, exit control
- Teaching: instructing and supervising visiting students in the handling of rare books
- Outreach: contributing Instagram posts and photographs, curating an exhibition of the month

Sheridan College

English Instructor

For two years, I taught composition to a diverse range of talented students at Sheridan College's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I taught the full array of communications courses at Sheridan's three campuses: Communications Foundations, Essential Communications, and Composition & Rhetoric.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Libraries

Graduate Student Library Assistant

- Performing derived and original cataloguing into Sirsi database using the Cutter Expansive Classification system, RDA standards, and DCRM(B) rules
- Reader Reference: answering questions, supervising reading room clients, exit control
- Teaching: instructing and supervising visiting students in the handling of rare books
- Donor Relations: assisting with review of donor records, corresponding and meeting with book collectors and specialists interested in collection materials
- Outreach: contributing Instagram posts and photographs, curating an exhibition of the month
- Evaluating materials to determine their retention in the on-site collection or placement in storage
- Assisting with the assessment, purchase, and acquisition of rare books

University of Toronto, Faculty of Information

M. I. student (Library and Information Science)

After many years working as an adjunct professor, I am studying library science at the Faculty of Information with a special interest in rare books and academic librarianship. I'm an avid member of the Book History and Print Culture program, with a focus on bibliography, the "afterlives" of books, and book collectors. Transitioning to this field has been a natural evolution of both my research commitments and my dedication to advancing the research needs of others.
Coursework Achievements:
Top grade: Collection Development, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Book History in Practice, Analytical and Historical Bibliography, and Readers' Advisory.
April 2018 - Curated exhibit of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum in class exhibition “The Renaissance in Print” at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Material exhibition displayed at the E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria College. Online exhibit created using Omeka software for CRRS website: https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/vic449/bacon-sylva

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Recent Purchases for the Joseph Brabant-Lewis Carroll Collection,”

The Halcyon

A discussion of recent acquisitions by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for the Joseph Brabant Lewis Carroll collection, including a presentation copy of the first edition of the French translation of _Alice in Wonderland_ given by the author to Alice Pleasance Liddell, with an autograph inscription and custom binding.

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Recent Purchases for the Joseph Brabant-Lewis Carroll Collection,”

The Halcyon

A discussion of recent acquisitions by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for the Joseph Brabant Lewis Carroll collection, including a presentation copy of the first edition of the French translation of _Alice in Wonderland_ given by the author to Alice Pleasance Liddell, with an autograph inscription and custom binding.

“The Lewis Carroll Collector: Joseph Brabant’s Acquisitions Records as Material History”

The Book Collector

An analysis of the archives of a book collector, Joseph Brabant, who donated 10, 000 items about Lewis Carroll to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Recent Purchases for the Joseph Brabant-Lewis Carroll Collection,”

The Halcyon

A discussion of recent acquisitions by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for the Joseph Brabant Lewis Carroll collection, including a presentation copy of the first edition of the French translation of _Alice in Wonderland_ given by the author to Alice Pleasance Liddell, with an autograph inscription and custom binding.

“The Lewis Carroll Collector: Joseph Brabant’s Acquisitions Records as Material History”

The Book Collector

An analysis of the archives of a book collector, Joseph Brabant, who donated 10, 000 items about Lewis Carroll to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

“The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Recent Purchases for the Joseph Brabant-Lewis Carroll Collection,”

The Halcyon

A discussion of recent acquisitions by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library for the Joseph Brabant Lewis Carroll collection, including a presentation copy of the first edition of the French translation of _Alice in Wonderland_ given by the author to Alice Pleasance Liddell, with an autograph inscription and custom binding.

“The Lewis Carroll Collector: Joseph Brabant’s Acquisitions Records as Material History”

The Book Collector

An analysis of the archives of a book collector, Joseph Brabant, who donated 10, 000 items about Lewis Carroll to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

"Taken from Life: the Fisher Library Acquires an Important Sketch of General James Wolfe"

Halcyon