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Jeff Schragel
52 North Seventh Street Apt. #1
Indiana, PA 15701
(716) 228-2450
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English/Literature & Criticism (Course completion, May 2006)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana, PA 15705
Major Areas: British Romanticism / Contemporary Women’s Writing
Minor Areas: Literary Criticism and Theory / Pedagogical Studies
Dissertation Topic: Sites of Resistance in the Poetry of John Clare
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David Downing
Master of Arts Degree in English (May 2003)
Buffalo State College: Buffalo, NY
Major Areas: British Romanticism / Contemporary Women’s Writing (Body Image/ Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women’s Writing)
Minor Areas: Irish Literature / Joycean Studies / Literary Theory and Criticism
Master’s Thesis: “Deconstructing Patriarchal Ideology in Mary Gordon’s The Shadow Man”: Investigated the role of women, physicality, and distortion of body image in contemporary American women’s fiction, specifically, the work of Mary Gordon (Completed May 2003).
Bachelor of Arts Degree in English (May 2000)
Canisius College: Buffalo, NY
Major Areas: British Romanticism, Philosophy
Concentration Areas: Writing Minor, Desktop Publishing, History, Psychology
Teaching Experience
Buffalo State College: Buffalo, NY (September 2000-May 2003)
Guest Lecturer, English Department: Guest Lectured in numerous classes including Upper and Lower level courses on an as needed basis. Topics included: British Romanticism--Coleridge, Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, William Blake, and John Clare; African American Literature--Alice Walker, Margaret Walker; Asian American Literature: Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston; Chicana Literature: Pat Mora, Ana Castillio; Irish Literature: James Joyce.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Spring 2005)
Guest Teaching in Dr. Ronald Shafer’s ENGL 121: Humanities in Literature. Topic: Shakespeare’s King Lear.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Canisius College: Buffalo, New York (1997-2000)
Writer / Copy Editor: Canisius College newspaper “The Griffin”
Canisius College: Buffalo, New York (1998-2000)
Officer: English Club; duties included advertising, organizing events, copy editing, etc.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana, PA 15705 (September 2004-May 2006)
Graduate Assistant: Assistant to Dr. Ronald Shafer; duties included: grant writing, copy editing, covering classes, administrative activities.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana, PA 15705 (September 2005-May 2006)
Editorial Assistant: Assistant to Dr. David Downing; duties included: copy editing, layout, typesetting (using Quark Xpress), web design, administrative activities.
Specializations in English Studies
British Romanticism Pedagogical Studies
Contemporary Women’s Fiction Post-Colonial (Theory)
Composition Studies Asian American Literature
Irish Literature Chicano/a Literatures
Honors and Scholarships
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana, PA 15705
IUP Graduate Assistantship (August 2004-Current)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana, PA 15705
$540 Travel Grant to present paper at MLA conference (December 2005)
Conference Presentations
“Sites of Resistance in John Clare’s Early Verse.” Modern Language Association National Conference, Washington, DC (December 29, 2005).
“Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” Pennsylvania College English Association, Gettysburg, PA (April 7th, 2005).
“Gendering in the Nineteenth Century: The Poetry of John Clare.” Spring Colloquium Series, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Forthcoming: April, 5 2006).
Conference and Workshop (Participation)
International Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee, WI (Novemeber 2003).
Pennsylvania College English Association, Gettysburg, PA (April 2005).
NCTE: CCCC’s Conference (March 23-25, 2006).
GSA/EGO Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Indiana, PA (Janruary 2005).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Pennsylvania College English Association
John Clare Society
John Clare Society of North America
REFERENCES
Dr. David Downing
Dr. Ron Shafer