Tricia Johnson

Miami University, Department of English Literature 714 S. Locust St. Apt. 40 Oxford, OH 45056 Johns649@miamioh.edu 260-273-6103 !

EDUCATION
MA English Literature, Miami University BA Literature, Ball State University Summa Cum Laude, with Honors 2013-2015 2009-2013

AWARDS
Honors Fellow, Center for Middletown Studies, 2011-2013 Perham Scholarship, 2012

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Theater is Hell: Metatheater and Distance in Sartres No Exit. Dayton University Graduate Conference. Dayton, Ohio. March 29, 2014. American Ghosts: Nostalgia and Noir Anxieties in The Great Gatsby and Vertigo. Butler Undergraduate Research Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana. April 12, 2013.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Technology Enhancement Spring 2012

Worked with a team of ten students to create audio and video supplements to existing exhibitions at the museum and conducted archival research for primary genealogical information for the Vonnegut family tree exhibit Honors Research Fellow, Middletown Studies Dept. Jan. 2011-May 2013

Conducted archival and electronic research in late 19th- early 20th century American reading culture, and proofed manuscripts for the What Middletown

Read web database project and forthcoming book by Frank Felsenstein and James Connolly. The project was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and SLATE arts magazine. Senior Copy Editor, Ball State Daily News Jan. 2011-May 2011

Lead a team of copy editors in proofreading daily print and online content for quality, AP style, fact-checking, and grammar. I also worked individually with reporters to improve their content and style, as well as with the Copy Chief and General Editor to suggest areas of improvement for the general copy staff.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Associate, Miami University English Department August 2013-May 2015 Courses taught in a laptop classroom: (C) English 112: Composition and Literature (C) Spring 2014 (1 section) Under the course theme Representation and the Lens, students and I explored the ethics of representation, memoir, and narration. Our writing projects revolved around analysis of Spiegelmans Maus I & II and Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, and identification of the cultural and historical situatedness of writers and readers that create individual perspectives and social narratives. English 111: Composition and Rhetoric (C) Fall 2013 (1 section) Students and I studied producing rhetoric through recursive writing and analyzing rhetoric in print, visual, and aural texts. Throughout the semester we composed five major projects: narrative reflection, rhetorical analysis, public issue argument, multimodal remix, and personal reflection through illustrated memoir. Student Assistant, Ball State University Honors Program

May 2010-August 2011 Honors 201, 202, 203: Honors Humanities Sequence I acted as teaching assistant, grader, and student-professor liaison for a sequence of Honors Humanities courses titled Songs of Ourselves offered on a competitive basis to freshman Honors students. Spanning classical Greek epic to postmodern ethnography, this writingcentric course engaged students in a variety of humanities disciplines including literary and cultural critique, history, art history, and philosophy.

SERVICE
Miami English Graduate Student and Adjunct Association (MEGAA), 2014 Graduate student representative Emerson Society Papers, 2013 Assistant Editor to the Ralph Waldo Emerson Societys Fall 2013 scholarly publication Odyssey , 2011-2012 Editorial staff and advertising committee to Honors college creative publication Friends of Bracken Library Executive Board, 2010-2013 Student representative Academic Appeals Board, 2011-2012 Student representative and appeals committee member