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Mary CopelandCell: 323-632-6103
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Mount Saint Mary's UniversityMFA in Creative Writing; Merit Scholar
Mount Saint Mary’s UniversityMA in Humanities, with emphasis in History; Merit Scholar
University of California, Los AngelesBA in History, Summa cum Laude, with college honors and highest honors in History
Los Angeles Harbor CollegeAA in Liberal Arts
Academic Honors and Awards
Mount St. Mary’s University, Graduate DivisionAcademic Excellence: Best Master's Thesis Graduate Merit Scholarship, Graduate Merit Scholars ProgramAcademic ScholarshipCultural Exchange ScholarshipGraduate Transfer Scholarship
University of California, Los AngelesSumma cum laudeCollege honorsHighest honors, HistoryCarey McWilliams Award, best senior thesis in History Liev-Blad Scholarship Dean's Honors List
Los Angeles Harbor CollegePresident’s Distinguished Honors award
Non-Academic Awards
Primetime Emmy AwardsHonorary Emmy from the writing team of Steven Dontzig and Gary Peterman, producers, for “Contributing to the Emmy Winning Production 'Murphy Brown,' Outstanding Comedy Series, CBS”
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Teaching
Adjunct Faculty, History (Los Angeles Valley College): 4/2016-6/2016History 1: Introduction to Western Civilization(online)
Adjunct Faculty, Humanities (Los Angeles Harbor College): 9/2015-presentHumanities 17: Film Appreciation
Adjunct Faculty, Humanities (ITT Technical Institute, Sylmar): 9/2015-presentEnglish Composition 1320GE English 117Communication 2520
Tutor, English (Flex College Prep: Los Angeles) 6/2015-4/2016Private tutoring, entry-college level English, focusing on reading (comprehension and analysis) and writing (all parts of the college-level essay writing process: thesis formation, outlining, structure, grammar).
Teaching Assistant, Western Mystery Traditions (Mount St. Mary's University), 5-8/2015Humanities 269H (graduate level), Dr. Jane CrawfordPrepare and present lectures for each class meeting on specific aspects of the Western Mystery Traditions. Assisted with creation of syllabus, as well as choice of texts for the class. Support professor and class in discussion, writing process (including topic choice, texts, etc.), and administration of class (posting texts, reminder e-mails, etc.)
Supplemental Instructor, Remedial English (California State University, Dominguez Hills): 8/2011-5/2014, 1/2015-12/2015Prepare and teach workshops on aspects of Remedial English (English 88: Reading; English 99: Writing; English 110: composition), using a variety of multi-modal teaching strategies. Implement student-centered instructional activities; provide one-on-one and small group tutoring. Program Director: Dr. Paz Oliverez; Supervisor: Raul Martinez/Amanda Reyes/Toumik Asaatorian
e-Folio Coordinator (Los Angeles Harbor College): 12/2009-6/2010Created and implemented e-Folio pilot program. Created training materials and handouts for training workshops; provided one-on-one hands-on assistance; interfaced with academic and administrative personnel at LAHC and the e-Folio platform providers (Minnesota University).
Guest Lecturer
20 March 2016: MSMU, Humanities 269H: Dracula and His Contemporaries"Dracula and Frankenstein's Creature: Our Monsters, Ourselves"
12 July 2015: MSMU, Humanities 269H: Western Mystery Traditions"Judaism in Context: the Time of the Hellenistic Mysteries"
21 June 2015: MSMU, Humanities 269H: Western Mystery Traditions2
"Isis the Mother Goddess: Then and Now"
17 May 2015: MSMU, Humanities 269H: Western Mystery Traditions"Gods, Goddesses, and the Eleusinian Mysteries"
April, 2015: MSMU, Liberal Arts 110 Senior Seminar: Crime and Punishment"The Costumes of the Last Imperial Romanovs, or How the Other Half Lived"
March, 2015: MSMU, Humanities 252H: Historical Figures: Rasputin and His Russia"The Clothing and Costumes of the Last Imperial Romanovs"
September, 2014: MSMC, Humanities 269H Conspiracy Theories in History"Freemasonry, Secret Societies and the French Revolution"
July, 2014: MSMC, Humanities 269H: The Western Esoteric Tradition"The Western Esoteric Tradition: Practical Applications in Ceremonial Magic"
May, 2014: MSMC, Humanities 257H: Critical Eras in European History: The French Revolution"The Clothing of France from Pre-Revolutionary through the Napoleonic Eras"
February, 2013: UCLA, History 161: 19th Century Freemasonry in the United States and Mexico"Women and Freemasonry"
Publications
Academic Publications"Freemasonry, Secret Societies and the French Revolution." Humanitas, https://www.msmu.edu/graduate-programs/humanities/humanitas.aspx
"Dracula and Frankenstein's Creature: Our Monsters, Ourselves." Humanitas, https://www.msmu.edu/graduate-programs/humanities/humanitas.aspx
"Hannah Mather Crocker and Cotton Mather: Voices for Women's Education, 100 Years and Two Generations Apart" The Bulletin of the Congregational Library, second series vol. 10:1, 2013
"The Reverend, the Bluestocking, and Freemasons Behaving Badly: An Exploration and Close Reading of 'a Series of Letters on Freemasonry' by 'a Lady of Boston'." Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternity, 2011: 144-157. link: http://www.equinoxjournals.com/JRFF/article/view/9197
Additional Publications"Don't Come Round…" Enjambed, California State University Dominguez Hills Student Literary Journal, Spring 2013. http://cah.csudh.edu/english/pdf/ENJAMBEDSpring2013.pdf* Note: as printed, the last stanza of the poem is missing
"The House" Bardic Echoes, October-December (vol XVIII, #4) 1977. Poetry quarterly, published by The Bards, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Conference Presentations
June, 2014: Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium"When is the Devil Not the Devil? or Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar"
October, 2013: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association"The Damaged Detective as Other"
April, 2013: Syracuse University: The Monstrous, the Marginalized and the Transgressive Forms of Humanity"Our Monsters, Ourselves"
February, 2013: Society of Early Americanists"Hannah Mather Crocker and Cotton Mather: Two Voices for Women's Education"
October, 2011: New England Historical Association“Hannah Mather Crocker: Two Works in Context.”
May, 2011: International Conference for the History of Freemasonry"The Reverend, the Bluestocking, and Freemasons Behaving Badly: A Close Reading and Exploration of "A Series of Letters on Freemasonry by a Lady of Boston."
Produced PlaysMarch, 2016: "So Very Romantic"One-act play, produced as part of an evening of one-act plays at Los Angeles Harbor College
Book Production
Indexing: Dr. Tim William Machan, ed., Notre Dame University: Imagining Medieval English: Language Structures and Theories, 500–1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Created index for 400+ page work, using PDF/code process, to Cambridge University Press' specifications and requirements.
Copy-editing/proofreading: Dr. Eileen Hunt Botting, ed., Notre Dame University: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Yale Press, 2014). Copy-edited and proofread for content, standardization of terms throughout essays by multiple contributors, grammar and punctuation, and to ensure conformity to the Yale Style Guide.
Copy-editing/proofreading: Dr. Eileen Hunt Botting, Notre Dame University: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights (Yale Press, 2016). Copy-edited and proofread for content, grammar and punctuation, and to ensure conformity to the Yale Style Guide.
Research Assistant
Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Watson, UCLA Located and reproduced materials in journals and books for Dr. Watson’s research.
Digital Humanities
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Contributed design concepts, original material, and proofreading/editing services for in-progress website on Women in China, in fulfillment of National Endowment for the Humanities grant requirement, created during fall, 2013 course on History of Women in China, taught by Dr. Jane Crawford, at Mount St. Mary's.
Memberships and Associations
American Historical AssociationGolden Key Honor SocietySigma Tau Delta: National English Honor SocietyPhi Sigma ThetaPhi Alpha Theta, Theta Epsilon Chapter; UCLA Chapter, International History honors society
Certificates/Seminars
Introduction to Etudes Learning Management System Community College Teaching Certificate, California State University Dominguez HillsPreparing Future Faculty Program, Claremont Graduate UniversityStorytelling with Milbre Burch (Ph.D., Theatre. University of Missouri, Columbia)
References
Dr. Jane CrawfordMount Saint Mary’s University, Department of History/Political ScienceOffice: 213-477-2500E-mail: [email protected]: 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, California 90007
Juan Baez, Chair, HumanitiesLos Angeles Harbor CollegeOffice: 310-233-4425Email: [email protected]: 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington, California 90744
Dr. Martha SklarCalifornia State University, Dominguez HillsEmail: [email protected]: 1000 E. Victoria, Carson, California 90747
Dr. Paz Maya Oliverez, Interim Associate Vice President, Student SuccessCalifornia State University, Dominguez HillsOffice: 310-243-2563Email: [email protected]: 1000 E. Victoria, Carson, California 90747
Toumik AsaatorianCalifornia State University, Dominguez HillsOffice: 310-243-2894
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Email: [email protected]: 1000 E. Victoria, Carson, California 90747
Dr. Millie Kidd, Program Director, Humanities (Masters)Mount Saint Mary’s UniversityOffice: 213-477-2500E-mail: [email protected]: 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, California 90007
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