Resume

• 2016

  Brown

  Experienced Freelance Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in writing

  interviewing

  scheduling and management. Strong media and communication professional with a Master’s Degree focused in English Language and Literature

  General from University of Minnesota Duluth.

  Julia

  Brown

  St. Luke's Duluth

  MN

  Queensborough Community College

  Myself

  The City College of New York

  University of Minnesota Duluth

  Duluth

  Minnesota Area

  Freelance Writer

  Myself

  •\tMentor faculty converting course from textbooks to open educational resources (OER)\n•\tEvaluate OER materials\n•\tLead faculty workshops on OER conversion\n•\tOutreach to departments across campus regarding OER course conversion \n

  The City College of New York

  City University of New York City College

  New York

  New York

  First Year Inquiry Writing Seminar: Composition for Narrative Medicine\nEnglish 21001: Writing in the Humanities and Arts\n •\t Created an OER digital syllabus and interactive course web page\n • Writinginhumanities2018s.wordpress.com\n • Zero textbook cost to students\n \n

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Instructor of Record: WRIT 1120: College Writing—25 students per semester \n• Designing the course to meet the expectations of the university\n• Writing course materials and assignments to span the 16 week semester\n• Grading and giving feedback to student work\n• Selecting texts relevant to teaching rhetoric and writing

  yet appealing to students\n• Managing day to day business of the classroom i.e. lecture

  and small group work\n\nWriting Consultant \n• Working with students and faculty one-on-one across all stages of the writing process\n• Helping the client understand needs of audience depending on rhetorical situation\n• Copy editing\n

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Duluth

  Minnesota Area

  University of Minnesota Duluth

  • Supervising undergraduate volunteers and adult community members with disabilities\n• Giving feedback and suggestions on stories\n• Coordinating and promoting final reading event\n• Copy editing stories for journal publication\n

  Storytelling Project Graduate Coordinator

  Duluth

  Minnesota Area

  University of Minnesota Duluth

  • Writing magazine and newspaper articles\n• Interviewing doctors and other hospital staff\n• Writing website copy\n• Writing copy for patient and doctor brochures

  fliers and posters\n• Copy editing various written content\n

  Marketing/Writing Intern

  Duluth

  Minnesota Area

  St. Luke's Duluth

  MN

  •\tLiaise with departments across campus to foster collaboration with CETL\n•\tWork one-on-one with faculty from all disciplines\n•\tTeach faculty how to run Blackboard efficiently and effectively for their courses\n•\tTeach faculty how to use other educational technologies such as YouTube

  WordPress and CUNY Academic Commons\n•\tCreate and lead faculty workshops on various pedagogy and technology related topics\n•\tResearch within the fields of Digital Humanities and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning\n

  The City College of New York

  Queensborough Community College

  Bayside

  New York

  English 102: Introduction to Literature\nEnglish 101: Introduction to Composition

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Member

  Modern Language Association

  Treasurer

  English Graduate Student Association at UMD

  Member

  National Council of Teachers of English

  German

  English

  Summer Writing Fellowship

  A fellowship designed to fund summer research and writing of a capstone paper

  University of Minnesota Duluth

  Robert Sand Fund Award and Travel Grants

  Award funding academic conference attendance to present research

  Robert Sand Fund

• 2014

  Master’s Degree

  Graduated with a 4.0 from the English M.A. Program

  Writing Track. Studied in the related field of medical humanities

  English Language and Literature

  General

  English Graduate Students Association: Treasurer

  October 2014- Present; National Council of Teachers of English: Member

  October 2015- Present; Planning Committee of 2015 Lake Superior Summit on Teaching Writing: Member

  University of Minnesota Duluth

• 2010

  Bachelor’s Degree

  English Language and Literature

  General

  Winona State University

• 2006

  High School

  La Crescent High School

• Proofreading

  Copy Editing

  Retail

  Literature

  Writing

  Retail Category Management

  Blogging

  Interviewing

  Editing

  Public Speaking

  Research

  Customer Service

  Content Writing

  Copywriting

  Newspapers

  Content Marketing

  Teaching

  Organization Skills

  Microsoft Office

  Magazines

  St. Luke's Q Care Express Clinics: Quick

  Easy and Convenient

  Freelance writer for St. Luke's Hospital

  St. Luke's Q Care Express Clinics: Quick

  Easy and Convenient

  Written freelance for St. Luke's

  An Innovative Treatment for Uterine Fibroids: Minimally Invasive Procedures at St. Luke's

  Short-form academic article on digital pedagogy in the composition classroom.

  The Digital Story: Integrating the Personal and Academic through a Multimodal Approach

  Book Review: Taking Turns

  “The End of the Anthropocene as Told by Someone Who Cannot Predict the Future”

  Ghost written for St. Luke's during my internship

  A Mother’s Instinct: Life Saving Technology at St. Luke’s

  Poem in a literary journal

  “Escaping Updike and the Other Men Who Exhaust Me”

  Ghost written for St. Luke's during my internship

  Staying Healthy During Pregnancy

  Written freelance for St. Luke's

  Pelvic Floor Therapy at St. Luke's: Improving Lives by Treating a Common Condition

  Book Review: Medieval Robots

  Ghost written for St. Luke's during my internship

  Don’t Overlook Eye Health: Tips from Ophthalmologist Dr. Ahrens of Miller Creek Medical Clinic

  \"The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer

  but I can Hear the Falcon (I Think)\"

  Book Review: The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra

  Janelle Poe

  Yolande Brener

  Grant-funded eBook guiding English faculty in converting courses to OER.

  City College English Department OER Guide

  Written freelance for St. Luke's

  Julianne Vasichek's Liver Transplant Journey: St. Luke's Aids in Life-Saving Organ Donation Efforts

  Grant-funded project culminating in an eBook and website. Guides instructors in English (composition

  creative writing

  and literature) in converting courses to OER. My role included content research and writing

  website coding and design

  and organizing and publishing of the eBook.\neBook link: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/city-college-english-department-oer-guide

  Writing for the Sciences Curriculum Committee

  Worked with a small committee to revise the Writing for the Sciences curriculum to reflect the research that has been done on pedagogies using public-facing science writing

  and to utilize OERs.

  Co-editor: Special Edition of Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

  FIQWS Narrative Medicine Curriculum Committee

  Worked with a team of educators to revise the curriculum for FIWQS: Narrative Medicine courses.