Karen Rose
Long Beach City College
Department of English
562-938-4099

krose@lbcc.edu

     
Education    
2001 Ph.D. in English, UCLA  
  Dissertation: "The Evolving Self: Postmodern Coming-of-Age Novels by Women Writing in the United States."  
     
1996 M.A. in English, UCLA  
     
1991 B.A. in English, UCLA
Magna cum laude, high honors in English
 
     
Teaching Interests Composition; Contemporary American, British, and Irish Literature; Gender and Ethnic Studies; Teaching with Technology  
     
Experience    
8-01 - 6-02 Part-time Instructor, El Camino College
Teaching English B: Introduction to the Composing Process.
 
     
8-01 - 12-01 Part-Time Instructor, Cerritos College
Teaching English 20: Basic Writing
 
     
1-01 - 6-02 Director of Sales and Marketing, DreamTree Media www.dreamtreemedia.com  
  Participated in the development of company web site, organized a sales campaign for custom designed web applications.  
     
7-00 - 8-01 Webmaster, The Magic Web Channel, Inc. www.magicwebchannel.com  
  Administer web site, function as liaison between the corporation and their ISP.  
     
9/97-6/99 Honors and Undergraduate Programs Counseling Assistant, UCLA  
  Assisted undergraduates in selecting courses and majors, led workshops for transfer students and English majors, hosted a daily "virtual counseling" chat room, helped students get the most out of their time at UCLA.  
     
Winter 1997 Teaching Associate, UCLA  
  English 4: "Critical Reading and Writing." Instructor: Karen Rose.  
  Introduced students to literary analysis, with close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from principal modes of literature: poetry, prose fiction and drama. Course requirements include: four papers, midterm exam, final exam, reading response journal.  
     
Fall 1996 Teaching Associate, UCLA  
  Women's Studies 10: "Introduction to Women's Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Society." Instructor: Ricky Jane Manoff, Ph.D.  
  Attended all lectures; led two weekly discussion sections with 30 students each; held office hours; graded papers, midterm exams and final exams.  
     
Spring 1996 Teaching Assistant, UCLA  
  English 85: "The American Novel." Instructor: Michael Merril, Ph.D.  
  Attended all lectures; led two weekly discussion sections with 30 students each; held office hours; graded papers, midterm exams and final exams.  
     
Winter 1996 Teaching Assistant, UCLA  
  English 10C: English Literature, 1832 to the present." Instructor: Deborah MacComb, Ph.D.  
  Attended all lectures; led two weekly discussion sections with 30 students each; held office hours; graded papers, midterm exams and final exams.  
     
Fall 1995 Teaching Assistant, UCLA  
  English 176: "American Drama: The Modern Period." Instructor: James Goodwin, Ph.D.  
  Attended all lectures, held office hours, led end of quarter review session, graded papers and final exams.  
     
Spring 1995 Reader, UCLA  
  English and Chicana/o Studies M105: "Chicana/o Literature: Borders, Diasporas, Migrations and Exile." Instructor: Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ph.D. Attended all lectures, graded all papers, midterm exams and final exams.  
     
1994-5 Editor, UCLA Department of Physics  
  Edited grant proposals and conference papers.  
     
Spring 1994 Teaching Assistant, UCLA  
  English 85: "The American Novel." Instructor: Reed Wilson, Ph.D.  
  Attended all lectures; led two weekly discussion sections with 30 students each; held office hours; graded papers, midterm exams and final exams.  
     
Fall 1993-Winter 1994 Teaching Assistant, UCLA
English 4: "Critical Reading and Writing."
Instructor: Karen Rose.
 
  Introduced students to literary analysis, with close reading and carefully written exposition of selections from principal modes of literature: poetry, prose fiction and drama. Course requirements include: four papers, midterm exam, final exam, reading response journal.  
     
Fall 1993-Spring 1993 Teaching Assistant, UCLA  
  English 3: "English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language."
Instructor: Karen Rose.
 
  Focused on rhetorical techniques and skillful argument. Course requirements include: four papers, in-class essays, reading response journal.  
     
Summer 1991 Instructional Assistant, Santa Monica College
Worked in the Learning Resources Center as a writing tutor.
 
     
1988-1990 Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project Team Leader, UCLA
 
  Coordinated weekly trips to Ventura School prison facility where tutoring groups provide wards with necessary skills to prepare them to attend college or pursue technical careers upon release.  
     
Awards    
1999-2000 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA