INSTRUCTOR OF LITERATURE & HUMANITIES
Private
Sep 2015 – Present
New Oriental English College, Vancouver
LITERATURE & HUMANITIES INSTRUCTOR FOR GRADES 10-12
September 2014 – June 2015
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Planned and taught a six-month interdisciplinary course to senior-level secondary school students on the ethical, political, and psychosexual dimensions of the nuclear family as represented in the writings of Aristotle, Sophocles, Ovid, Shakespeare, Freud, Plath, Coetzee, and Oē; introduced concepts of determinism, free will, justice, psychoanalysis, and epistemology; elaborated on the use and purpose of various rhetorical schemes, tropes, and sonic devices for literary analysis as well as for the composition of non-fiction, expository texts
LITERATURE & ETHICS INSTRUCTOR FOR GRADES 10-12
July – August 2014
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Effectively designed and taught an intensive interdisciplinary course to students of diverse cultural backgrounds on European new world narratives, technologies, and ethics with reference to moral and political writings by Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Kant; and engaged students to reflect on different accounts of the social contract, natural rights, human agency, and gender equality; and gave composition lessons on the writing of introductions, thesis statements, conclusions, organisation, documentation of evidence, and citation conventions.
Department of English, Oxford
THESIS TUTOR/EDITOR AT OXFORD
October 2010 – May 2012
- Copyedited and proofread other doctoral candidates’ dissertation chapters; illustrated various conventions of academic writing with accessible examples; and offered weekly instructions on the complex mechanics and organisational principles of thesis writing
COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR AT ST. EDMUND HALL
January – March 2011
- Prepared and conducted tutorials on Victorian poetry of mourning; created a course syllabus that included the works of Milton, Tennyson, Arnold, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; taught a selection of elegiac verses by Romantic poets; assisted the student in developing her graduating thesis; and compiled weekly reports on her essays and research progress
DEVELOPING LEARNING AND TEACHING SEMINARS
January – March 2011
- Attended regular teacher-training seminars and workshops to: develop a teaching portfolio, assess student learning outcomes, design teaching modules, and evaluate teaching methods
CO-CONVENER FOR ROMANTIC REALIGNMENTS SEMINAR
September 2010 – June 2011
- Co-convened and organised biweekly seminars at the English Faculty; invited recognised specialists in the period to present their work-in-progress; and assisted in making living arrangements for speakers from other institutions
CO-CONVENER FOR ROMANTIC GRADUATE FORUM
January – December 2010
- Co-convened and organised the biweekly graduate forum for postgraduates specialising in eighteenth-century literature and Romantic authors; invited fellow postgraduates to present their research and exchange ideas; led and facilitated group discussions and debates; and helped foster a cordial space for collaboration among Romanticists and other period specialists