Jaime Cleland
jcleland@gc.cuny.edu
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Graduate Center, CUNY, expected 2007
Dissertation: "I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee": Creating the Representative
American Self in 20th Century Ethnic Autobiography. Director: Nancy K. Miller
Examination fields: American Autobiography, the 1950s, Narrative Theory
- M.Phil. in English, Graduate Center, CUNY, December 2003
- B.A. in English, Marietta College, May 2000
summa cum laude; College Honors
Teaching experience
- Hunter College, City University of New York.
Fall 2006-
Graduate Teaching Fellow
courses taught:
- English 250.96: Introduction to Asian American Literature
- English 377: 20th Century American Fiction
- Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University.
Spring 2005-Fall 2005
Adjunct Instructor
Courses taught:
- English 1100: Composition and Rhetoric
- Lehman College, City University of New York.
Fall 2000-Spring 2003
Graduate Teaching Fellow / Adjunct Lecturer
courses taught:
- English 101: Principles of Effective Writing I
- English 102: Principles of Effective Writing II
- English 223: English Literature
- The Write Place, Marietta College writing resource center.
Fall 1997-Fall 1998, Spring 2000
Peer Tutor
Academic consulting experience
- Collegiate Learning Assessment, Council for Aid to Education.
Fall 2004-
Test Scorer
responsibilities:
- assessing student exams in writing and critical thinking
- training peers in scoring calibration
- Research Foundation, City University of New York.
Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Instructonal Technology Fellow
responsibilities:
- researching best practices in online education
- expanding and maintaining blackboard site for faculty participants
- School of Law, City University of New York.
Fall 2003-Spring 2005
CUNY Writing Fellow
responsibilities:
- coordinating workshops on writing across the curriculum for
law professors
- coordinating workshops for students targeting specific legal
writing issues
- assisting students at the writing center
- maintaining writing center web site
Publications
Forthcoming:
- Book Review: Call It English: The Language of Jewish American Literature
by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Women's Studies Quarterly. Forthcoming December 2006.
- "Aloft," "A Gesture Life," "Lee, Chang-rae," "Lee, C.Y.," "Lee, Mary Paik,"
"Native Speaker," "Wong, Jade Snow." Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature.
Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming July 2007.
In Print:
- "McCarthy, Mary," "Rahv, Philip," "Spiegelman, Art." Encyclopedia of Ethnic
American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
- "Pink Pants and Pessaries: Mary McCarthy's Aesthetics of Embarrassment."
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 15:1 (2004): 29-43.
Conference Presentations / Sessions Organized
- Workshop leader, "Responding to Student Writing," 13th annual orientation session for
teaching interns, CUNY Graduate Center English program, New York, NY, August 23, 2006.
- "Looking Down on Long Island: Chang-rae Lee, Gish Jen, and the Case for the East Coast,"
Emerging Critical Scholarship on Asian Pacific American Issues Conference, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 3-4, 2006.
- "First Aid to the Biologist: Reconciling Science, Religion, and Immigration in Mary
Antin's Fiction," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec.
27-30, 2005.
- Session leader, "Mary Antin and Science in The Promised Land and Beyond," Modern
Language Association Annual Convention, Washiongton D.C., Dec. 27-30, 2005.
- Discussant, forum on graduate student publication, CUNY Graduate Center English program,
New York, NY, Nov. 18, 2005.
- Workshop leader, "Responding to Student Writing," 12th annual orientation session for
teaching interns, CUNY Graduate Center English program, New York, NY, August 23, 2005.
- Discussant, "Illegal Expertise: Working with Students and Faculty at the CUNY School
of Law," Writing Across the Curriculum Semester of Inquiry Conference, CUNY, May 13, 2005.
- Workshop leader, "Responding to student Writing," 11th annual orientation session for
teaching interns, CUNY Graduate Center English program, New York, NY, August 19, 2004.
- "Using High/Low Stakes Writing in the Law School," 7th National Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference, WAC From an International Perspective, St. Louis, MO,
May 20-22, 2004.
- Moderator, "Vicarious Lives" panel, 9th annual English Students’ Association graduate
conference, "Locating Love," CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 26, 2004.
- "Dying to be American: Death and Assimilation in Three Asian American Works," Central
New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, Oct. 27-29,
2002.
- Co-chair, 7th annual English Students Association graduate conference, "Reflections in
the Mirror," CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 8, 2002.
- "Shattering and Reconstructing Worlds of Words in the Fiction of J.D. Salinger,"
The Metaphysics of the Image, Fordham University, New York, NY, Oct. 19-20, 2001.
- "Mary McCarthy, Embarrassment, and the Reader," Secrets and Confessions,
SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, Feb. 16-17, 2001.
- "Effects of Cohort Group Membership Versus Life Phase on Civic Activity,"
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Montana,
Missoula, MT, April 26-29, 2000.
Awards
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship, fall 2006-
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Dissertation Proposal Award, awarded by the Graduate
Center, 2005
- Lynn Kadison Dissertation Year Fellowship for Service, awarded by Graduate Center
English program, 2005
- Instructional Technology Fellowship, fall 2005-spring 2006
- CUNY Writing Fellowship, fall 2003-spring 2005
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship, fall 2001-spring 2003
- University Fellowship, awarded by Graduate Center English program, 2000-02
- Asa Shinn McCoy Award, top academic honor given at commencement, Marietta
College, 2000
- Ione Congdon Hammond Memorial, outstanding graduating English major, Marietta
College, 2000
- Honorable mention, East Central Colleges student literary competition, for
two poems, "Hatfield Blood" and "haiku," spring 2000
- Marietta College Investigative Studies Program Grant for thesis "Effects of
Cohort Group Membership versus Life Phase on Civic Activity," 1999
- Howard Prize, awarded by Marietta College for strongest writing portfolio, as
judged by faculty and professional writers, 1999
Writing and editing experience
- The Laureate, City University of New York.
Fall 2000-
student editor of CUNY Baccalaureate Program newsletter
- Marathon Oil Company, Houston, Texas.
Summer 2000; January 2001; Summer 2001
intern, Public Affairs
- Confluence literary magazine, Marietta, Ohio.
Spring 2000
student editor
- Pulse, Marietta College literary magazine.
Fall 1999-Spring 2000
editor in chief
- Marcolian, Marietta College student newspaper.
Spring 1998-Spring 2000
editor in chief
- Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan.
Summer 1999
intern, communications
- Cody Enterprise, Cody, Wyoming.
Summer 1997
intern, reporting
Professional service
- Executive Committee (elected member), GC English program, 2004-2006
- CUNY-wide Writing Fellows Council (appointed member), 2004-2005
- Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (elected member), GC English program, 2003-2004
- Elections Committee (elected member), GC English Program, 2002-2004
- Placement Committee (elected member), GC English Program, 2001-2002
- Course Assessment Committee (elected member), GC English Program, 2001-2002
- President, Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Delta Omicron chapter, Marietta College
- Designer, Marietta College English department home page, 1999
Memberships
- Modern Languages Association
- The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (MELUS)
- Phi Beta Kappa, inducted spring 2000
- Sigma Tau Delta, English honorary, inducted spring 1998
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