CURRICULUM VITAE
MATT FULLERTY
(Click to contact Matt)
Current Address: 2030 F Streewt NW #904, Washington, DC 20008, USA. Tele: 571 338 2538
E-mail: fullerty@gwu.edu or fullerty@gmail.com
Permanent Address: Becksound, 3 Hetton Garth, Leyburn, Yorkshire DL8 5HP, England, UK Tele: 01925 625684 EDUCATION
9/03 – Present THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC, USA.
English PhD; Graduate Teaching Assistant (see below).
9/01 – 6/02 UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, Norwich, England
Master’s in Creative Writing (Prose).
9/99 – 3/00 WEST HERTS COLLEGE, WATFORD, England
Postgraduate Diploma in Multimedia Publishing. Covered all aspects of Editorial (copy-editing and proof-reading), Marketing (planning an integrated campaign), Commissioning, (researching and planning a list),
Print Production (paper and print technology), DTP (QuarkXPress and Illustrator), and Multimedia (Photoshop, Web Page construction and developing a prototype CD-ROM).
9/95 – 6/98 LADY MARGARET HALL, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, England
Master of Arts Degree, English Language and Literature, 2:1
Activities: College rowing captain of 2nd eight crew (1996-7) and 1st eight crew (1997-8); squash and darts captain, also tennis and pool teams (1996-8); The Oxford Isis Student Newspaper (Film reviewer, 1997-98); Oxford Student Radio (presenter sidekick on radio show for Night Talk program, 1996-7).
9/88 – 6/95 THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL, England
6/95: 3 A Levels – all Grade A
English French Geography 6/94: AS Maths, Grade B
Warren Prize for English Lower-sixth Geography Prize 93 – 94: 8 GCSEs – all Grade A
Maths, English Lang, English Lit, (Oral Distinction), French, German, Geography, Latin, Chemistry
TEACHING
9/04 – Present: THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC, USA
1/07 – 4/07: Introduction to British Literature, “The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” Last two centuries of British literature, teaching freshman through seniors.
9/06 – 12/06: Introduction to British Literature, “The Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries\.” Covered four centuries of literary history in one class, teaching freshman through seniors.
9/05 – 6/06: Taught the University Writing freshman composition class, “Extreme Censorship: Adaptation from Text to Screen.”
(Fall 2005 and Spring 2006).
9/04 – 6/05: Taught the University Writing freshman composition class, “Lost in the Academy: The Academic Novel in Britain
and America.” (Fall 2004 and Spring 2005).
9/03 – 6/04: Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in the English Department with 4-year fellowship.
Tutored undergraduates for four semesters in the University Writing Center.
Fall 2004 spent 4 months tutoring DC police in writing for their BA in the new Police Science program.
EMPLOYMENT
9/01 – 11/02: HODDER & STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, based in London, England
HEINEMANN EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, based in Oxford, England
Freelance editor for secondary schoolbooks: 35 projects completed to date, editing and proofing, on wide range of books including English, Maths, Further Education (Sport, Psychology), liaising with editors and authors.
3/00 – 6/01: HODDER & STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS, London, England
Desk Editor: 16 months on the Maths list for secondary school books. Handle manuscripts from initial copy-editing right through to publication. Working with in-house Production, Design and Marketing departments, and managing freelance copy-editing and proof-reading. Range of editing skills required: checking and re-writing English, breaking down questions for students and incorporating design elements.
1/00 – 2/00: ORION PUBLISHING PLC, London, England
Intern, Fiction Department: Drafting press releases in Publicity, reviewing copies from newspapers for internal files, writing reports of forthcoming books’ opening chapters.
10/99 DARTON, LONGMAN & TODD PUBLISHERS, London, England
Intern: handling declines and foreign right permissions in Editorial.
CONFERENCES
April 12-15, 2007 Paper entitled “The Invisible Line: Etical Responsibility Between Student and Professor:
Butley (1971), Educating Rita (1980) and Oleanna (1992)”
College English Association, New Orleans
Conference Theme: Empathy & Ethics
March 4, 2005 Paper entitled “When Fiction and Theory Meet: Cascading Timeand Einstein’s Dreams”
English Student Association at CUNY Graduate Center
Conference Theme: Owning It: Theory/Anti-Theory/After Theory
March 11-13, 2005 Paper entitled “When Fiction and Theory Meet: Cascading Time and Einstein’s Dreams”
American Comparative Literature Association 2005 Annual Meeting
Conference Theme: Imperialisms--Temporal, Spatial, Formal
REFERECNES Professor Judith Plotz, The George Washington University jplotz@gwu.edu
Professor Marshall Alcorn, The George Washington University alcornma@gwu.edu
Professor Margaret Soltan, The George Washington University msoltan@gwu.edu
SKILLS
Computer:
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint.
Technical: QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop, both Mac and PC. Designer of Web Pages, personal and corporate.
Photoshop. HTML. Development of a commercial CD-ROM using Premiere and Director.
Languages:
French A level: good written and spoken
German GCSE, Latin GCSE
Other:
Clean driving licence
Non-smoker
First Aid, Health and Safety in the Workplace Award
London Marathon 2000, raised $1000 for Child-line, UK children's charity
New York Marathon 2004 Washington, DC Marine Corps Marathon 2007
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