Resume

• 2010

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Supervised by Professor Michael O’Neill\n\nThesis: Minds Moving Upon Silence: P.B. Shelley

  Robert Browning

  W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot\n

  English Literature

  Theatre – Oedipus Rex: Jocasta

  Durham Theatre Review

  Poetry Society

  Durham University

• 2009

  Master of Arts (M.A.) with Distinction

  English Literature: 20th Century Literary Studies

  Dissertation: 'A Noise in Silence: The pragmatic and aesthetic implications of silence in the poetry of Robert Browning and William Butler Yeats'

  University of Durham

• 2004

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  Senior Essay: 'Shahrazad’s Sister: The constant factor

  or the unknown quantity

  in the world of The Thousand and One Nights?'\n\nSenior Essay Result – A-

  Humanities

  Theatre - Fefu and Her Friends: Cecilia

  Phaedra’s Love: Chorus

  Twelfth Night: Olivia

  Antigone: Messenger/Chorus

  Pride and Prejudice: Lady Catherine de Bourgh

  Dancing at Lughnasa: Agnes

  Marat/Sade: Marat. Politics - Yale Political Union

  Yale University

• 1998

  Academic Scholarship\n\nA-Levels in English Literature (A)

  History (A)

  Religious Studies (A)\nAS-Levels in English Literature (A)

  History (A)

  Religious Studies (A)

  Theatre Studies (A)

  General Studies (A)

  Theatre – Acted in 10 productions over the course of 5 years

  with leading roles in all of them. Productions included Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma. Fencing – U18 England Squad for Foil and Epee. School Debate Team member. Amnesty International House Representative. King’s Chapel Choir member

  The King’s School

  Canterbury

• University Teaching

  Editing

  Writing

  Tutoring

  Teaching

  Gosden-Hood

  Serena

  Gosden-Hood

  City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College

  The Times Literary Supplement

  National Louis University

  Enjoy Education Tutoring Agency

  The London Magazine

  Durham University

  I was employed as a tutor for AS

  A level

  GSCE and the SAT verbal for an agency whose tutors are selected from graduates of Oxford

  Cambridge and the Ivy League

  Private Tutor

  London

  United Kingdom

  Enjoy Education Tutoring Agency

  I write a column on society and the arts for the London Magazine

  edited by Steven O’Brien.\nA selection of my pieces are entitled

  ‘In Search of a Literary Life’

  ‘The Art of Not Answering: the evasive rhetoric of the American Election’ and ‘The Death of the Literary Patron’

  Writer

  London

  United Kingdom

  The London Magazine

  Greater Chicago Area

  Teaching English Literature. Current focus is on Orwell

  Larkin

  Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Themes of depravation and deterioration (romantically

  linguistically or politically) render the subject matter suitably cohesive.

  Adjunct Instructor

  City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College

  I taught undergraduates 19th and 20th century drama

  including Ibsen

  Chekhov

  O’Neill

  Miller

  Beckett and Pinter

  and the relevant critical material\n\nI also taught undergraduates Post-War Poetry and Fiction - the primary focus was on Evelyn Waugh

  George Orwell

  Muriel Spark

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Ted Hughes

  Sylvia Plath

  Martin Amis

  Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin

  Part-time teacher

  English Literature Department

  Durham

  United Kingdom

  Durham University

  Greater Chicago Area

  Adjunct Instructor

  National Louis University

  I received reviewing assignments from the editors Michael Caines and Thea Lenarduzzi.\nI reviewed Torsten Krol’s

  ‘The Secret Book of Sacred Things’

  Sam Halliday’s

  ‘Sonic Modernity’

  G.Schulze’s

  ‘The Degenerate Muse’ and Sanja Bahun’s

  ‘Modernism and Melancholia’

  Reviewer

  London

  United Kingdom

  The Times Literary Supplement