Phd in English Expected 2016. A.M. English Awarded 2012. GPA3.9/4.0

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education

2010-2016HARVARDUNIVERSITYCAMBRIDGE,MA

PhD in English expected 2016. A.M. English awarded 2012. GPA3.9/4.0.

Dissertation on Jewish Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Delivered 6 national conferencepresentations.

Honors Include: Bok Center Teaching Award (2011-15), Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Dexter Term Time Fellowship, Malloy ResearchFellowship,Tikvah Leadership Fellowship, and GSAS Summer ResearchFellowship.

Published in: SUNY Press Edited Volume, American Literary History, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Tablet Magazine, Fig Tree Books, and HarvardCrimson (see below).

2006-2010HARVARDCOLLEGECAMBRIDGE,MA

Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude in English. GPA3.8/4.0.

Honors include: Emory Elliott Memorial Prize, LeBaron Russell Briggs and TravelingFellowship.

Summer Internships: Clinton Global Initiative Intern (2007); Summer Fellow at the Associated Press(2008).

experience

2014-2015HARVARDUNIVERSITYCAMBRIDGE,MA

Acting Allston Burr Assistant Dean of Harvard College, KirklandHouse

Managed the academic progress and personal welfare of 400 undergraduate students and 25 graduate ResidentTutorsby leading weekly meetings and improving administrative policy to optimize impact andefficiency.

• Advocated for and represented Kirkland House at weekly college-wide, 30-member AdministrativeBoardmeetings endeavoring to implement disciplinary policy in line with broader educationalmission.
• Partnered with the Dean of the College and 12 House Masters to set vision and strategy for the universitycommunity.
• Collaborated with House and College administration to set priorities for House budget of $2million.
• Instituted a case-based approach to student rules and expectations, reducing disciplinary infractions by25% from previous years.
• Streamlined House Office operations, enabling improved same- day responses to studentrequests.
• Counseled over 150 students in individual meetings on issues ranging from academic strategy to mentalhealth.

2012-2014CAMBRIDGE,MA

College Teaching Fellow, Harvard X TeachingFellow

Designed and taught six Harvard undergraduate courses ranging in size from 30 to 270 students. Subjectsincluded:American Modernism, Cold War Culture, Immigrant Literature, Biblical Criticism, JewishLiterature.

• Lectured to classrooms of 80 to 100 students and led weekly discussion groups of 25students.
• Revised grading rubric to reduce grading turn-around time by50% from previous iteration of the course.
• Developed content and managed discussion forums for courses with enrollments of 10,000 and 13,000students.
• Led HarvardX production team of seven including academics, programmers, and a social media strategisttoensure maximum reach and engagement for an online course with over 7,000 internationalstudents.
• Designed and developed course videos, discussion forums, and annotation used by over 10,000students.

2011-2014Senior Residential Tutor, LowellHouseCAMBRIDGE,MA

Oversaw all student social activities for 500 residents and appointed Senior Tutor after 1 year (out of 35tutors).

• Coordinated with administration and student leadership on all aspects of student life and formally mentoredover30 advisees each year on courses of study, summer opportunities, interpersonal conflict and mentalhealth.
• Directed executive group tasked with making decisions about all aspects of House life by assessingandsynthesizing insights accumulated through interviews with 100 students andtutors.
• Spearheaded $15,000 project to redesign and renovate House gym and commonspace.
• Developed House social policy on programing, increasing average event attendance by50%.

Summer 2015Research Associate, Daniel Gordis, Shalem College JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

Directed researched, reviewed and edited full-length book manuscript, a new history of Israel.

Summer2014The Colbert ReportNEW YORK,NY

ContentConsultant

•Generated and presented briefing on Philip Roth, to prepare production team for an interview with theauthor.

•Strategized interview strategy, edited interview script and problem-solved potential pitfalls with leadproducer.

Expanded List of Talks and Publications

Talks

• “Cultural Prospects for American Jewry: The Next Fifty Years.” Endowed Lecture, Little Neck Jewish Center November

2015

• “This Land Is Neuland: Bezmozgis, Nevo, and the Comings and Goings of Contemporary Jewish Fiction.” August 2015

• “Fact and Fiction in Jewish American Literature.” Endowed Project Identity Lecture, Young Israel of Great Neck. February

2014

• “The Way We Live Now: Assaf Gavron’s The Hilltop, Ben Lerner’s 10:04, and a New Agenda for Jewish Literature.” JAHLIT, Miami.

November 2014

• “Poets and Settlements: The Israeli Literary Elite in the Aftermath of the Six Day War.” ACLA, NY, March 2014.

• “The Religious Turn in Contemporary Jewish Fiction. MELUS, Oklahoma City. March 2014.

• “Jewish American Fiction Makes Aliyah.” JAHLIT, Miami FL.

• “Blake and Milton: Influence and its Discontents.” University of Cambridge MPhil Conference, Cambridge, UK March 2011.

Publications

• “From Beit Midrash to Seminar Room.”Teaching Jewish American and Holocaust Literature.SUNY Press, forthcoming.

• “What Jewish American Literature Needs to Do Next.” Studies in American Jewish Literature, forthcoming.

• “A World So Contentious: The West Bank as Expatriate Space in Jewish American Literature.” American Literary History,

forthcoming.

• “ A Salon in Jerusalem.” Tablet Magazine, forthcoming.

• “Bloodshed and Three Novellas: A Review.” Fig Tree Publishers, April 2015.

• “Ty Cobb and the Problem of Anti-Semitism.” Tablet Magazine March 28, 2014.

• Assorted Columns. Harvard Crimson. February- May 2013.