Professional Experience

English Education Specialist, TRIO at NDSU

  • Advise 100 undergraduate students in academic, financial, and personal capacity using an intrusive and holistic advising model
  • Sole writing and English tutor for entire TRIO program (300+ students)
  • Coach TRIO students in conceptualizing, drafting, and editing resume and cover letters for coursework, internships, and job searches
  • Conceptualized and implemented workshops related to developing the academic writing process for students
  • Overhaul and maintain social media presence for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
  • Create weekly content for all platforms
  • Recruited, interviewed, and hired undergraduate teams of 4-7
  • Trained and supervised students in the creation of social media content
  • Mentored student workers in professionalization technique
  • Conceptualized and instituted a semester-long program for undergraduates interested in graduate school
  • Advised students on the process of choosing target programs
  • Guided students in development and revision of application materials
  • Coordinated individualized schedules for student application process

Research Assistant for Dr. Amy Earhart

During the summer of 2020, I served as a Research Assistant for Dr. Amy Earhart. Using Microsoft Excel, I assisted in developing datasets for a digital humanities manuscript, tracking demographic information about the editors and authors included in American literature anthologies. I also edited student work on an online digital humanities archive. Undergraduates had collected newspaper clippings and other accounts about the infamous Millican “Riot” in 1868, and their documentation needed to be standardized and verified. Although the event was published in papers from South America to Europe, and oral tradition has preserved rumors of a mass grave, the massacre has been largely forgotten by the local white community. Rather than trying to reconstruct and impose a single authoritative narrative, the website provides a collection of contemporary accounts and conflicting perspectives about the event.

visit Millican.Omeka.net

Level 3 Master Tutor, TAMU Writing Center

As a CRLA-certified Writing Consultant, I serve as a dissertation, article, and thesis advisor. Through written, oral, and visual communication, I provide consultation on academic and non-academic writing for graduate and undergraduate students. Where past consultations were frequently face-to-face, they now occur over digital messaging and video chat. I started in the fall of 2019 and am currently progressing toward a Level 3 certification. I personally developed a short training seminar and presented it to the 50 members of the Writing Center staff. Titled “Empathy in Writing Consultation,” the interactive seminar outlined the stages of the empathy cycle and tips for connecting throughout the process. Participants commented that my integration of multimedia made the seminar particularly relatable and memorable.

Other Experience

Digital Curriculum Development Team, Summer 2018, Texas A&M University

  • Devised training modules for introductory elements of the writing process
  • Developed interactive, multimedia lessons on composing introductions and comprehending writing prompts which are now in use across the university

External Reviewer Bedford/St. Martin’s Book Reviews (Internal use) Spring 2016-Fall 2017

  • Provided comprehensive critique as a technical writing instructor for textbook in development as well as extant text.
  • Markel, Martin, editor. Technical Communication. 11th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012.
  • Wolf, Joanna. Writing About Data. In Development.

Additional Training and Development

Mental Health First Aid Certificate, Oct 2021

Easel Solutions, Technology Training, June 2021

  • Adobe In-Design
  • Adobe Photoshop

LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Training, Level One, June 2021

Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Summer 2018

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia

  • “Out of the Box Text Analysis for Digital Humanities,” 2016
  • “Sounds and Digital Humanities,” 2016
  • “Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application,” 2017

Programming 4 Humanists, Texas A&M University, Center of Digital Humanities Research

  • “Github, command-line, oXygen, TEI, HTML, css, DIY Digital Editions,” Fall 2016
  • “Python within the Context of Digital Humanities,” Spring 2017