Experience

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  Cause 4 Paws Feline Rescue

  • Greater Montreal and surrounding area

  • Founder and Director

    • Dec 2003 - Present
    • Greater Montreal and surrounding area

    - not-for-profit rescue organization with a triple mandate: education, sterilization, and adoption. - Educates and sensibilizes people to the horrific overpopulation of homeless cats and kittens in Québec, and the astronomically high kill rate. - Dedicated to the rescue, veterina...

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  Self-employed

  • Free-lance writer and photographer

    • 1996 - Present

    - Published a scholarly book with McGill-Queen’s University Press- Published 16 travel stories in the Montreal Gazette, most of which were published by other CanWest Global newspapers and also ran online at canada.com - In progress: ‘You All Became a Part of Me:’ The Life and Music of Jazz Legend Charlie Biddle in his Own Words. An Authorized Biography. This book is being done as oral history in keeping with African-American tradition. I developed strong interviewing skills, and diversified my ability to synthesize material from multiple sources (at least 60 interviews have already been conducted).

  • Independent Scholar, English Language and Literature/Letters

    • Oct 1990 - Sep 2000

    Worked on an academic book that was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1998; began to work as a free-lance travel writer and photographer for the Gazette in 1996; created plan for authorized biography of Montreal jazz legend Charlie Biddle in 2000.

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  Concordia University

  • Instructor

    • Sep 2007 - Dec 2007

    Taught course in Travel Writing within Creative Writing certificate program.

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  Université de Montréal

  • Chargee de Cours

    • Jan 2000 - Apr 2000

    Taught Anglais 2151: English Literature of the Romantic Period.

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  Concordia University

  • Liberal Arts College

  • Fellow

    • Sep 1996 - May 1997
    • Liberal Arts College

    Team-taught first year multidisciplinary course in Literature and Philosophy. The Liberal Arts College is a great books program. This course covered select primary sources from Homer through Milton.

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  Marianopolis College

  • Full-time sessional teacher

    • Oct 1992 - Dec 1992

    Taught two courses in Introductory College English and two in nineteenth-century American literature.

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  McGill University

  • Faculty Lecturer

    • Oct 1990 - May 1991

    - Taught three interdisciplinary Art and Literature seminars (two upper-level and one graduate), and one genre Fiction course.- Researched, analyzed and synthesized complex material- Compressed complex and diverse material; Disseminated information via oral and written presentation- ...

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  McGill University

  • Montreal, Canada Area

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    • May 1984 - Dec 1984
    • Montreal, Canada Area

    Research assistant for FCAR-funded group project.

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  McGill University

  • Montreal, Canada Area

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English

    • Sep 1982 - Dec 1982
    • Montreal, Canada Area

    Teaching assistant for course in seventeenth- through nineteenth-century American literature.

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  McGill University

  • Montreal, Canada Area

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English

    • Sep 1981 - Dec 1981
    • Montreal, Canada Area

    Teaching assistant for course in seventeenth- through nineteenth-century American literature.