Teaches : ESL
(ESL II and ESL III/HSPA Prep)

Education and Certification

•  Bachelor of Arts in English, Montclair State University , Upper Montclair , NJ (2007)

•  MA in Multicultural Education with ESL Certification Currently in Progress (NJCU)

Areas of Special Interest: Multicultural, World and Women's Literature, Poetry, Gothic Literature, Theater Studies, & Art History (Ancient-Renaissance)

Favorite Reads:

•  To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

•  American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings by Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons

Bonnin)

•  The Hour of the Star (A Hora de Estrela) by Clarice Lispector

•  Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

•  “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett

•  “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

•  “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville

•  Dracula by Bram Stoker

•  The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People (Transl. by Eino Friberg)

•  Neruda and Vallejo Selected Poems by James Arlington Wright and Pablo Neruda

•  Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan (Transl. by John Stevens)

•  Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi

•  Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

•  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

•  Women's Letters by Eds. Grunwald and Adler

•  Shakespeare (anything!)

•  The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women by Gilbert and Gubar

Favorite Periodicals: The Jersey Journal, Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish newspaper), National Geographic Magazine, Poetry Magazine, & Yoga Journal