Graduate Student Support
Graduate Writing Consultant & Graduate Teaching Consultant
GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING CONSULTANT, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia
Aug 2022 - Present
Aug 2022 - Present
- Conducted classroom observations, student focus groups, and consulted individually with instructors on their teaching.
- Completed the CTE’s award-winning Course Design Institute.
GRADUATE WRITING CONSULTANT, Graduate Writing Lab, University of Virginia School of Engineering
Aug 2018 - May 2023
- Created workshops on specialized topics in STEM/Engineering writing and in academic writing for L2/ESOL graduate students, as well as in best practices for approaching graduate school.
- Facilitated peer review groups for graduate and postdoctoral writers, consulted one-on-one on dissertations, research articles, visuals and posters, and presentations.
- Helped UVA Engineering students plan, develop, and refine applications for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, significantly increasing UVA Engineering's GRFP success rate.
SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP, WORKSHOPS, AND EVENTS
- Conference presentation (WIP): “Graduate Student Perspectives on Virtual Consultations: Highlighting Flexibility and Equity,” Consortium for Graduate Communication Summer Institute, June 14-16, 2022
- Developed and led recurring workshop presentations for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as part of UVA Engineering’s Graduate Writing Lab: “Structuring Paragraphs for Readability and Flow,” “Sentences and Punctuation,” “Revising Your Own Writing,” “Verb Tense in Academic Articles,” “Paraphrasing and Summarizing,” 2018-2023
- Organized the Graduate Writing Lab’s Software Showcase, April 2019
- Helped design and execute UVA Engineering Graduate Writing Lab’s “ESL Grad Writing Camp,” January 7-10, 2019
SERVICE AND MENTORING
- Invited graduate student member, job search committee for UVA PhD+ director, spring 2023
- Teaching As a Graduate Student (TAGS) facilitator, CTE, fall 2022; fall 2023
- Career & ABD representative, Graduate English Students Association, UVA, 2021-2022
- Assistant Editor, Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition, 2020
- Graduate student mentor for incoming first year graduate students, 2018-2020; 2022-2023
- Selected by peers to co-chair the UVA Graduate English Student Association’s interdisciplinary graduate conference, 2017-2018 (“Narrative Innovations,” March 2018)
