Director of Library Program and Information Resources, Friends Academy (July 2022-Present)
- Engage in fundraising efforts including grant writing, donor engagement, and external outreach.
Librarian | Archivist, Friends Academy (August 2015-June 2022)
- Integrate digital citizenship training within the curriculum, student life, and outreach.
- Teach students how to research effectively, evaluate information, and engage in digital storytelling.
- Manage library systems and services.
- Direct archival digitization project.
Writing Instructor, Seton Hall University (July 2013-June 2015)
- Enabled students to succeed professionally.
- Created departmental policies as member of First Year Writing Committee.
- Generated data set for a literacy study through encoding writing samples.
Writing Tutor, The College of Saint Rose (July-August 2013)
- Assisted writing development of incoming freshmen enrolled in HEOP/AOE.
English Teacher, Hunan Provincial Education Association for International Exchange (July-August 2011)
- Taught English and US History courses.
- Guided students to success on the General English Proficiency Test.
Writing Fellow, Le Moyne College (January 2011-December 2012)
- Aided students’ writing development.
Education:
Master of Library Science, Queens College, 2019.
Concentrations: Archives, Human-Computer Interaction, Metadata, Digital Humanities
Master of Arts in English and Literature, Seton Hall University, 2015.
Concentrations: 19th-Century British Literature, Jane Austen, British Romanticism, Victorian science
Thesis: “Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel”
Bachelor of Arts in English, Le Moyne College, 2012.
Concentrations: Philosophy, Theology, Irish Literature
Publications, Presentations, and Workshops:
- Hoenzsch, Karl (2018) ““A Great Machine”: George MacDonald and Popular Science,” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies: Vol. 37 , Article 1.
- “Digital Literacy: Fake News, Data Privacy, and Social Media in the Classroom,” Teaching and Learning Conference 2018, Friends Academy
- “Gender Performativity and the Shortcomings of Gender Identities in Troilus and Cresida,” Conference on Women and Gender 2014, Seton Hall University
- “Alice’s Adventures in Letterland,” New Jersey College English Association 2014, Seton Hall University
Expertise:
- Writing
- Research
- Teaching
- Web Development
- UI/UX Design
- Multimedia Design
Technical Skills:
- XML/XSLT
- HTML/CSS
- RDA/EAD/EAC-CPF/MARC/MARCXML/MODS
- PHP