Catherine Cooper
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in English; Aug. 2006-present
Middle Tennessee State University; Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Areas of concentration: 19th-century American literature, 20th-century American literature
GPA: 4.00
Master of Arts in English Literature, Aug. 2006
Belmont University; Nashville, Tenn.
Thesis: “Foster Mothers and Their Wise Daughters: Navigating the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Wise Children”
GPA: 4.00
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, May 2001
Rhodes College; Memphis, Tenn.
Major: English, Writing Concentration
Senior Writing Project: collection of short stories, “Unbalanced”
EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Administrator/Peer Mentor, MTSU. May 2008-present
Facilitate Teaching Assistant (TA) Coordinator and Assistant TA Coordinator with TA business and directly support group of 5 first-year TAs. Duties include planning and leading orientation, conducting peer group meetings, managing TA documents, leading grade norming sessions, and observing/evaluating TA performance.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, MTSU. August 2007-present
Independently plan and teach sections of English 1010 and 1020. Attend training, meetings, and professional development in the area of composition pedagogy. On track to teach English 2030 in Spring 2010.
Writing Assistant, University Writing Center, MTSU. Aug. 2006-May 2007; Jan.-May 2008
Tutored a wide range of writing students and attended weekly meetings and professional development in writing center pedagogy.
Research Assistant for Dr. Robert Petersen, MTSU. Aug. 2006-May 2007
Compiled bibliographies and edited conference presentations.
Writing Center Tutor, Belmont University. Feb. 2006-May 2006
Selected as first non-faculty member to tutor undergraduate and graduate students.
English Tutor, Aquinas College. Nashville, Tenn. Aug. 2005-May 2006
Supported basic English students by conducting weekly tutoring sessions with 10 students per semester.
AmeriCorps Reading Tutor, NashvilleREAD. Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 2002-Sept. 2003
Tutored at-risk third- and fourth-grade students at J. E. Moss Elementary School.
HONORS
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Fall 2007-present
Graduate Writing Award, Belmont University, May 2006, for essay “Kathy Acker as Moral Pornographer”
PRESENTATIONS IN COMPOSITION
“Collaboration Squared: An Experiment in Collaborative Pedagogy between Two Composition Classrooms.” Poster presentation with Leah Mittelmeier. MTSU Scholars Week; Apr. 4, 2008. Awarded Second Place amongst Graduate Poster Presentations in the College of Liberal Arts.
“Conversations about Collaboration.” Panel discussion with Leah Mittelmeier. English Graduate Teaching Assistant Share Fair; MTSU. Feb. 15, 2008.