Teaching English as a foreign language
Pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Tutor, Coventry University (remote), summers of 2022 and 2023, and spring 2024.
Assistant Professor, EAP, at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (remote), summers of 2020 and 2021.
Teacher on Prépa course at Oxford Intensive School of English (OISE), Bristol, summer 2019.
This is an intensive short course preparing French students for the English language part of their competitive entry exams into the elite Grandes Écoles.
EFL teacher at International house, Bristol, summer 2019.
I taught students at pre-intermediate and intermediate levels, in three classes a day, focusing on grammar and vocabulary, skills and fluency, and the National Geographic “Life” coursebook.
I have also been doing one-to-one tutoring at intermediate level and above since June 2019.
Qualifications
How to Teach IELTS, Cambridge English Teacher, 2022
Teaching English Online, Cambridge Assessment English on FutureLearn, 2020
CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), International House Bristol, 2019
Copy-editing
2015-Present
I have worked on a range of projects, including:
A journal article on South Korean horror cinema and history
A student dissertation on the relationship between aesthetic and commercial value
A journal article on affirmation in the work of certain Black authors
A journal article on environmental justice in Vietnam
A collection of short science fiction stories by contemporary artists
A PhD thesis on postcolonial English literature
A book review on gender inequality in labour markets
Articles on education preparation providers and academic faculty training in Saudi Arabia
A paper on children’s hospice gardens
John le Carré and the Cold War, a book (published by Bloomsbury in 2018)
Food and Drink Infographics, a book (published by Taschen in 2018)
A book correcting popular misconceptions about China
An anthropological journal article on solidarity
A PhD thesis and journal article on international monetary systems
A book chapter on financial governance
A master’s dissertation on gender and sexuality in gothic novels
A master’s dissertation proposal in psychoanalysis
2001-2002
Dictionary assistant
English language teaching dictionaries, Oxford University Press
SfEP courses
Proofreading 1: Introduction (Online)
Proofreading 2: Headway
Copyediting 1: Introduction (Online)
Copyediting 2: Headway
Copyediting 3: Progress
Film and video
Camera operator
“Mahajanaka Dance Drama – UK Tour November 2019” for Neon Dance and PinDrop, 2019
Researcher and editor
“Chickens are Intelligent, Sensitive and Inquisitive” for Veganuary, 2018
Camera operator, editor, and video production mentor
“Dementia in Rural Wales”, three videos for Alzheimer’s Society Cymru, 2017
Camera operator and editor
“10,000 pages”, collaboration with Emilia Melville, 2017
Camera operator and editor
“Being Rendered Visible”, dir. Ros Martin, 2016
Camera operator and editor
“Intersectionality in the Struggle for Black Reparations”
Talk by Esther Stanford-Xosei to the Oxford Pan-Afrikan Forum, 2015
Camera operator and editor (with Naomi Morris)
“Big Dance Oxford”, 2010
Video producer and director
Rotunda concert videos for “Telling the Bees” and “The Branch Immersion”, 2009
Video producer and director
(camera, sound recording, editing, with Naomi Morris)
“Car to Spire”, for OYAP Trust, Pegasus Youth Theatre and Liverpool Capital of Culture, 2008-2009
Camera operator
“Orpheus” (butoh production), Café Reason and Non-stop Tango, 2008
Camera operator
“Journeys to Freedom”, Pegasus Youth Theatre, 2008
Video producer, director, camera operator
“Catweazle Club” (acoustic performance venue), 2008
Video editor
“Annex”, dir. Ery Nzaramba, 2008
Video editor
“For the Record: The Social Life of Indian Vinyl in Southall”
dir. Kuldip Powar, with Goldsmiths College Methods Lab, 2008
Camera operator and editor
At channelflip.com, 2007-2008
Video producer (camera and editing)
“1-2-3-4 Music Festival”, 2007
Video assistant (volunteer), DIPECHO V PSAs
Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre project in the Caribbean, 2007
Assistant to cameraman
“Cuckoo” episode of Natural World, prod. Mike Birkhead, 2007
Runner
“Brideshead Revisited”, dir. Julian Jarrold, 2007
Runner
“Framed”, dir. Jon Kirby, 2005
Library assistant (work experience)
Oxford Scientific Films, 2005
General assistant
“The Tragedy of Albert”, dir. Matthew Green and Duncan Brown
Oxford University Film Foundation, 2005
Editorial assistant
“Spirit in Mass” (sculptor biography), dir. Anna Thornhill, 2005
Volunteered at these festivals:
– Britdoc
– Oxdox
– Wildscreen
– World Congress of History Producers
Film and video courses
At Film Oxford (formerly OFVM):
– Shooting Break: Introduction to Digital Video
– 16mm
– Research for Film and TV
– DSLR Cinematography
With InsightShare:
– Participatory Video for Social Change
Education
PhD, Art History, Open University, 2015
Thesis Title: ‘British Neo-Constructivism between 1956 and 1978: Art and the Politics of Technoscientific Modernisation’
Supervisors: Dr Steve Edwards and Paul Wood
Supported by the AHRC
MPhil Criticism and Culture, Cambridge University, 2009
BA English Language and Literature, Oxford University, 2005
Conference papers presented
‘“These dying centres”: Constructivism and anti-colonialism in “This is Tomorrow”’,
Historical Materialism Tenth Annual Conference, SOAS, November 2013
‘The British Constructionists and the Technocratic Renovation of National Life’,
Art and Politics in Britain, University of Cambridge, November, 2011
Published writing
Introductory catalogue essay
for Tudor Titzoiu, unspoken lines – no man is an island exhibition, 2018
Introductory catalogue essay
for Robin Cornell, Return of the Cool exhibition, 2012
‘How not to be an atheist’ (book review essay) in Mute Vol 2, No. 15 − Grey Goo Grimoire, 2010
Arts sector work
Co-curator with Tudor Titzoiu
on his exhibition, unspoken lines – no man is an island,
at Hamilton House, Bristol, 2018
Work-study fellow at the Venice Architectural Biennale,
for the British Council, 2014
Administrative work
HR administrator
Resourcing & Recruitment and Learning & Development teams,
Oxfam GB, 2006-2007
Job evaluation admin assistant
Oxfordshire County Council, Personnel Unit, Strategy Directorate, 2002
Charity volunteering and activism
Activist
Countering Colston, June 2016 – April 2017
Video assistant (volunteer), DIPECHO V PSAs
Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre project in the Caribbean, 2007
Conservation volunteer,
Operation Wallacea (Indonesia), 2002