HILLARY E.

WEISS
315 S Winter Street #2, Adrian, MI 49221 | 517-306-0231 | hillaryeweiss27@gmail.com

EDUCATION
Masters in Literary and Textual Studies, Bowling Green State University, May 2016
Bachelor of Arts in English Secondary Education, summa cum laude, Siena Heights University, May 2014
Senior Thesis: Another Brick in the Wall: The Gender Roles and
Nonconformity (and Conformity) of Women and Men in Daisy Miller and
The Awakening

MASTERS THESIS
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Articles
Choosing a Name; Joining Identities. SHU Spectra, 2013.

CONFERENCES
The AIWC: Feminist Actions, Traditions, and Global Feminism. To be presented at the Women's,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Symposium, Bowling Green, Ohio, March 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR, BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

SPRING 2015-PRESENT

General Studies Writing 1120: Academic Writing (1 section, enrollment 24; Spring 2015)
Students learned valuable skills in grammar, writing summaries, research proposals, annotated
bibliographies, and research based argument papers and discussion.
To aid students with concepts such as synthesis, I created lesson plans such as Using Synthesis
through Feminism. In this assignment, students explored and compared the various sources
about feminism and wrote agree, disagree, and builds upon synthesis examples
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, VARIOUS 5-12 LENAWEE COUNTY SCHOOLS
STUDENT TEACHER, ONSTED MIDDLE SCHOOL

SPRING 2014- PRESENT

SPRING 2014

Student Teaching: 7th and 8th grade English (4 classes, enrollment 30-35 each class; Spring 2014)
I created lesson plans about literature and writing using the Common Core State Standards of
Michigan
WRITING CENTER TUTOR, SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY

2011-2014

HILLARY E. WEISS

HONORS AND AWARDS

Awardee of the Earhart Foundation- Emerging Scholar Scholarship for 2013-2014
Awardee of Outstanding Student in the Humanities Division, Siena Heights University, 2013-2014
Awardee of Outstanding Achievement in English, Siena Heights University, 2012-2013

AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE

Kappa Gamma Pi, 2014-present
Sigma Delta Tau Member, 2012-present
REFERENCES
1. Matthew Barbee, Associate Professor of English, Siena Heights
University
e-mail: mbarbee1@sienaheights.edu
office phone: 517 264-7611
2. Julie Barst, Assistant Professor of English, Siena Heights
University
e-mail: jbarst@sienaheights.edu
office phone: 517-264-7678
3. Julieanna Frost, Associate Professor of History, Siena Heights
University
e-mail: jfrost@sienaheights.edu
office phone: 517-264-7642
4. Caleb James, PhD student, Bowling Green State University
e-mail: cajames@bgsu.edu
office phone: 419-372-0571