Sean Thomas

28 West Third St. Apt. 2232 South Orange, NJ 07079 (856) 366-3646 thoma287@purdue.edu Online Teaching Portfolio: seanthomasportfolio.com Education West Lafayette, IN Purdue University Master of Arts August 2011 to May 2013 Major: English Literature (Modernism/Postmodernism) GPA: 3.97 Honors & Awards: High Pass on Masters Exam Notre Dame of Maryland University Master of Arts in Teaching Major: Secondary Education GPA: 4.0 Baltimore, MD July 2009 to May 2011

Philadelphia, PA Saint Josephs University Bachelor of Arts August 2004 to May 2008 Major: English Literature, Minor: Classical Studies GPA: 3.94 Honors & Awards: Summa Cum Laude, Daniel J. Dougherty English Award, Departmental (English) Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Presidential Scholar Oxford University Tutorial and lectures on Shakespeares life and works Teaching Experience Xavier High School English Teacher New York, NY August 2013 to present Oxford, U.K. Summer 2007

Currently teaching English 10 (World Literature and Heroes) & English 11 (American Literature) Faculty advisor for the Music Appreciation Club Tutor in the school Writing Lab Service Leader: Taking a group of juniors to Camden, NJ for an immersive, community service program called The Urban Challenge Taught writing to rising 8th graders in July as part of HAP (Higher Achievement Program) at Xavier West Lafayette, IN August 2011 to May 2013

Purdue University Introductory Composition Instructor

Taught English 106 (Introductory Composition) for four semesters In the fall of 2012, taught the Learning Community course for English 106; designed a composition curriculum specifically for Education Majors; organized and implemented outside programsincluding guest speakers and tutoring opportunitiesin collaboration with the School Education for my English 106 students Teaching Awards: Q Award for Excellence in Teaching (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012), Department of English, Purdue UniversityThe Quintilian Award is given to the top ten percent of English instructors in the Introductory Composition program. Excellence in Teaching Award (2011-2012), Department of English, Purdue UniversityAward by the College of Liberal Arts for excellent teaching in Purdues Introductory Composition Program
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Operation Teach Volunteer Program English Teacher

Baltimore, MD July 2009 to June 2011

Archbishop Spalding High School (Long-Term Substitute): June 2010-June 2011 o Taught Honors English 11 (American Literature), CP English 12 (Major British Writers), and Creative Writing o Faculty advisor for the Dodge Ball Club o Designed and implemented a cross-curricular unitin collaboration with the history and foreign language departmentsabout writing, audience, and social change for my Creative Writing class Saint Katharine School (St. Katharines was closed at the end of the school year): June 2009-June 2010 o Taught 7th and 8th Language Arts as well as 7th grade social studies (World Cultures) and 8th grade history (American History) o Facilitator of afterschool programs: video game club and Homework Help

Professional Development & Organizations JSEA Colloquium Fordham Preparatory High School Brown Bag Workshops Instructors sharing pedagogical strategies/materials Purdue University English 505 Year-long practicum on teaching composition Purdue University National Council of Teachers of English Interests & Involvement

October 2013

Fall 2011 to Spring 2013

Fall 2011 to Spring 2012

2012 to Present

Reading, especially the Modernists (Faulkner, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot), Postmodernists (Rushdie, Pynchon, DeLillo), and genre fiction (King, George R.R. Martin, Gaiman, Tolkien, Alan Moore) I also love: Toni Morrison, Michael Chabon, Anne Sexton, Phillip Larkin, Cormac McCarthy, John Edgar Wideman, Flannery OConnor, Dave Eggers, Frank OHara, Sylvia Plath, and many, many more WSJR, Saint Josephs Universitys Radio Station: DJ and Program Manager (2006-2008) Crimson and Gray Literary Magazine Contributor and associate editor (2004-2007) Editor-in-chief (2008) Writing (mostly short fiction, but also poetry and creative nonfiction) Community service After school tutoring at the Gesu School in West Philadelphia through Saint Josephs Universitys Campus Ministry (2005-2007) Running (5 and 10ks, but someday a marathon) Bicycling Hiking (mostly in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and on the Appalachian Trail in PA, but I did hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon) Amateur film-making and editing

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