Resume

• 2008

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Specialization in Anglo-Saxon literature

  medieval literature

  dramatic literature.\nDissertation title: \"Motherhood and Power in Middle English Romance

  \" defense date: March 31

  English

  The Medieval Society

  The Catholic University of America

• 2003

  MA

  2005 Fellowship to O'Neill Theatre Center's National Critics Institute

  Theatre

  Graduate Fellow in Costumes

  Villanova University

• 1997

  BA

  Psychology

  Kappa Kappa Psi

  Marching Band

  Pep Band

  Concert Band

  Symphonic Chorus

  Psi Chi

  Boston University

• Literature

  University Teaching

  Academic Writing

  Editing

  Research

  Student Affairs

  Higher Education

  Public Speaking

  Creative Writing

  Teaching

  Lecturing

  Michael

  Furey

  Riverside Dinner Theater and Conference Facility

  Adj

  New York University

  Upper Darby Summer Stage

  The United States Naval Academy

  The Catholic University of America

  University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Northern Virginia Community College

  Washington D.C

  Teaching Fellow for the English department. Courses taught include ENG 101 (Writing: Logic and Rhetoric)

  ENG 326 (Workshop: Writing Improvement)

  ENG 526 (Graduate Workshop: Writing Improvement)

  TA for ENG 352 (Chaucer and His Age II: Troilus and Criseyde; taught lectures in Anglo-Saxon Poetry

  Pearl

  and Medieval Drama)

  IENG 100 (Intensive English: High Intermediate Writing and Grammar)

  IENG 94 (Intensive English: Low Intermediate Speaking and Listening)\n\nTeaching Fellow for the Intensive English Program

  where courses taught include IENG 100 (High Intermediate Writing and Grammar) and IENG 094 (Low Intermediate Speaking and Listening)

  Teaching Fellow

  The Catholic University of America

  Fredericksburg

  VA

  Performer in White Christmas; Hello

  Dolly!; The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Pinkalicous\n\nCostume Designer for White Christmas; All Shook Up

  Actor and Costume Designer

  Riverside Dinner Theater and Conference Facility

  Teach ENGL 348: Literature and Culture: Myths

  Monsters

  and Sagas of the Viking North

  University of Maryland Baltimore County

  The United States Naval Academy

  Annapolis

  MD

  Taught 3-4 sections per semester of HE 111 (Introduction to Rhetoric and Literature I: Short Story and Drama) and HE 112 (Introduction to Rhetoric and Literature II: Poetry and Novels)

  Adjunct Professor

  Upper Darby Summer Stage

  New York University

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  I teach Cultural Foundations II at the Washington

  D.C campus. This course covers literature

  art

  architecture

  and music from around the world from roughly the eighth to the eighteenth century. Some of the literary highlights taught in this course include Beowulf

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  Monkey: Folk Hero of China

  The Arabian Nights

  The Tempest

  Dante's Inferno

  and various others.

  Part-Time Faculty

  Villanova

  PA

  Taught courses in the Augustine and Culture Seminar: ACS 1000: Ancient Traditions

  and ACS 1001: Modernity and its Discontents.

  Adjunct Faculty

  Adj

  Annandale

  Beginning Fall 2019

  I'll be adjuncting for NOVA Annadale in their English Department.

  Adjunct Professor

  Northern Virginia Community College

  Received NEH Fellowship to attend the \"Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature\" 4-week Summer Institute at the Medieval Institute in Kalamazoo

  MI.

  National Endowment for the Humanities

  O'Neill Critics Institute Fellowship

  Awarded fellowship to attend the 2005 O'Neill Critics' Institute in Waterford

  CT. Award was granted for winning the national American Collegiate Theatre Festival (ACTF) competition as a theatre critic.

  The O'Neill Theatre Institute