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As a 2019 graduate from Gettysburg College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Biology, I'm passionate about discussing and working at the intersection of literature, media, pop culture, and social justice. I'm interested in starting a career in the academic or trade book publishing, literary or lifestyle magazine, library, art museum, or social justice advocacy organization industries.
I have experience in writing, editorial, tutoring, formal research, administrative and office assistance, and customer service roles.
Additionally, I have approximately twelve months of internship experience in Biology research, which ground my scientific knowledge, analytical reasoning, and software adaptability.
Editorial Letter or Reader's Report that I wrote during my internship with Creative Media Agency, Inc. for an author's full manuscript under consideration for representation. The editorial letter was used to help the literary agent Paige Wheeler respond to a represented author with feedback for manuscript improvement.
The following is an excerpt from my research-based essay, composed for my Undergraduate Fall 2019 English Seminar, “The Beats and American Culture” under Professor Jack Ryan. In this paper, I compare the central characters of focus from the texts of On the Road by Beat writer Jack Kerouac and “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” by Herman Melville. I analyze Kerouac’s Dean Moriarty and Melville’s Bartleby as resistance figures epitomizing the goals of the literary movements of...
This writing sample was the winning submission for Gettysburg College’s 2018 Dr. John W. Ostrom English Award (see resume). The essay was written for an American Gothic English course under Professor Elizabeth Duquette. The previously eleven-page document was excerpted to include the Introductory paragraph, a body paragraph on Henry James’s The Turning of the Screw, and the Conclusions paragraph (divisions marked by ellipses).
My Catalogue Essay about the Guerrilla Girls’ 1991 art piece, Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, was published in the catalogue The City: Art and the Urban Environment, corresponding to the student-curated exhibit at Gettysburg College’s Schmucker Art Gallery. This exhibit was co-curated with my student-colleagues enrolled in the Art History Methods class, under the direction of Professor Shannon Egan, PhD. The catalogue was published December 2018. See link:...
Minority group experiences about their periods, from the homeless and prison inmates to Native American and LGBTQ+ communities.
Even though gender equality is more socially accepted than ever, Feminism is a topic often avoided by men due to gender expectations.
Synopses of editorial and tutoring work with Students at Gettysburg College’s Writing Center, submitted to my supervisor
These images are a shortened version of the slides I used to present my Summer Research Project at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, under the direction of Smruthi Vijayaraghavan, PhD (June to August 2018). We evaluated the cellular mechanism a recently developed drug was suspected to utilize, in treatment of this specific lung cancer type. The graphs were put together by me with assistance from my mentor, using FlowJo, GraphPad, and Photo and Microsoft Power Point Editors software.