Maren Bradley Anderson

other contact information available upon request

maren @ marens.com (re-type without spaces)
http://www.marens.com

Goals

I hope to teach writing, literature (especially Elizabethan drama), and ESL at a two- or four-year institution, and eventually seek a tenured teaching position.

Education

 

Mount Holyoke College:

Humboldt State University:

B.A. English, minor in Studio Art received May 1995 

M.A. English with concentrations in Literature and the Teaching of Writing with an ESL minor May 1998

Related Experience

 

Employment
Western Oregon University September 2002 to present

University of Phoenix, Online

May 2002 to present

  Diablo Valley College
 		 June 2002 to August 2002

 

California State University, Hayward

June 2000 to August 2002

Los Medanos College

Fall 2000

 

Humbodlt State University

Spring 1996 through Spring 1998

College-level classes taught

 

Writing classes

Expository Writing I, Expository Writing II, Essentials in College Writing

 

Literature classes

Critical Writing and Drama, Introduction to Shakespeare, Introduction to Fiction, Women in Literature, Mythology

 

Other courses

Theater, Technology and Culture; Technology and Teaching English; General Studies 1011

Classes at other levels

 

High school 1996-1998

CAAP (now PAD) English Tutor ; and Summer Camp tutoring English Team Leader; both through Humboldt State University

 

Junior high 1996-1998

CAAP (now PAD) English and Math Tutor through Humboldt State University

 

Teen summer camp 1996-1998

Creative Writing Camp for young teens.

 

Elementary school 1999-2001

General tutoring and Instructor of Creative Writing, Lafayette Elementary School Mentoring Program, Oakland, CA

Other Experience

August 1998 to August 2000

Division Administrative Assistant and/or Production and Administrative Assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 

Fall 1994, Spring 1995

Teaching Assistantship sculpture studios, Mount Holyoke College

Fall 1992 to Winter 1994

Newspaper Editor Mount Holyoke News
Awards ● AFL-CIO essay contest, at Arcata High School, 1992
● Robert P. Sibley Book Prize, at Mount Holyoke College,  1993
● Five-College New Play Contest, for Remote Control, 1995
 

Thesis Topics

·         Class and Other Laughing Matters: Considerations of Class and the Comedies of Shakespeare 

·         Farrell Revisited: A re-issuance of portions of a survey from 1970 that predicted English teaching methods in the year 2000. 
 

Other Activities 

Founder and President Spring 1997 of the Proposed NCTE Student Affiliate Club of Humboldt State University

 

Maren Bradley Anderson— Supplemental

 




 
 
 

Related Courses 

·         Topics in ESL Writing 

·         Seminar in Teaching Writing 

·         Seminar in Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Writing 

·         Writing Workshops (graduate, undergraduate, community) 

·         Seminar in The Development of Writing Abilities 

·         Shakespeare Seminars (graduate and undergraduate) 

·         Elizabethan Drama 

·         American Drama 

·         American Literature after the Civil War 

·         Studies in Medieval England, Drama 

·         English Literature Survey I (Norton Anthology of British Literature, I) 

Conventions

 

1995 N.C.T.E.

·         Cumulative Teaching with Patti Stock 

·         Literature - New Approaches to Funding 

·         Shakespeare - New Teaching Techniques with Rex Gibson 

·         Political Assumptions of Research 

·         Teaching Basic Writers 

·         Play Writing - Incorporations into Writing Programs with D. Salzer 

·         C.C.C. Luncheon with Tina McElroy Ansa speaking 

·         The Internet for Teachers 

1996 C.A.T.E.

·         Shakespeare Workshop 

·         Women Heroes in Literature 

·         Comedy Workshop 

·         Luncheon with Pam Huston Speaking 

1997 NCTE Spring Convention

·         Recorder for presenting team on Miscue Analysis 

·         ESL Issues 

·         Media in the Classroom 

·         Remembering Moffett 

·         Shirley Brice-Heath address 

 

Computer Programs:

 

Adobe:

·         Illustrator (completed training course) 

·         PhotoShop (completed training course) 

·         FrameMaker (completed both Caxton training courses) 

·         Acrobat 

·         PageMaker

Lotus:

·         123 

·         Amipro 

·         Approach

Microsoft:

  • Word 

  • Excel 

  •  PowerPoint 

  •  Frontpage
     

Miscellaneous:

·         FileMaker Pro. 

·         Quark Xpress. 

·         Somewhat proficient in HTML. 

·         Several years experience in cross-platform issues. 

Writing:

Plays:

  • Webster's Box, 1991--A young man reminisces about his recently deceased father
  • Remote Control, 1995-2002--Two people fall in love despite meddling from their families
  • Burden, in progress--An older man commits suicide to the bafflement of his family

Books:

  • Apollo's Pond, a serialized novel, in progress. Visit it at www.marens.com/apollo1.htm: --A young woman meets a foreign man while traveling in Greece with her mother.

Editorials:

  • Various articles on topics pertaining to world and local events at Mount Holyoke College while editor of the Editorial/Opinion pages of The Mount Holyoke News.

Presentations:

  • Fishbowl Presentation, Wednesday Workshop CSU Hayward, 2000--Outlines the uses and benefits of modeling response groups to students.

Theses:

  •  Class and Other Laughing Matters: Considerations of Class and the Comedies of Shakespeare  (recently revised and submitted to two conferences)

  •  Farrell Revisited: A re-issuance of portions of a survey from 1970 that predicted English teaching methods in the year 2000.