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.

• "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