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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

MATT FULLERTY 

 

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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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