Karen Rose
Department of English

Long Beach City College

4901 E. Carson St.

Long Beach, CA 90808
email:  krose@lbcc.edu
phone:  562-938-4099

web site:  http://www.skidandkaren.com

 

Education

2001               Ph.D in English, UCLA
Dissertation:  “The Evolving Self:  Postmodern Coming-of-Age Novels by
Women Writing in the United States.”  Directed by Sonia Saldívar-Hull.

 

1996               M.A. in English, UCLA

 

1991               B.A. in English, UCLA
Magna cum laude, high honors in English

 

Teaching Interests
Composition; American literature; contemporary literature; teaching with technology.

 

Experience

8/02 - Present            Full-time Instructor, Long Beach City College
                       

 

8/01 - 6/02                 Part-time Instructor, El Camino College

                       

 

8/01  -8/02                 Part-time Instructor and Course Developer, Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
                                    http://www.onlinecci.com



9/01 - 7-02                 Part-time Instructor, The University of Phoenix



8/01 - 12/01               Part-time Instructor, Cerritos College
 

 

1/01 - 8/01                 Director of Sales and Marketing, DreamTree Media

                                    www.dreamtreemedia.com

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7/00 - 8/01                 Webmaster, The Magic Web Channel, Inc.

                                    www.magicwebchannel.com

                       

1997 - 1999               Honors and Undergraduate Programs Counseling Assistant, UCLA

                       

1995 - 1997               Teaching Associate, UCLA

                                    Courses taught include:  English 3 “English Composition, Rhetoric,      and Language” (taught for three quarters) and English 4 “Critical Reading and Writing” (taught for three quarters).



1992 - 1995               Teaching Assistant, UCLA

                                    Worked as assistant to professor, led weekly discussion sections, held           weekly office hours, graded all papers and exams for the following        courses:   English 85 “The American Novel,” English 10C “English     Literature, 1832 to the present,” English and Chicana/o Studies    M105C “Chicana/o Literature:  Borders, Diasporas, Migrations, and             Exile,” English 176 “American Drama:  The Modern Period,” English   173C “American Fiction since 1945,” Women’s Studies 10             “Introduction to Women’s Studies:  Feminist Perspective on Women        and Society, and English and Chicano/a Studies M105B “Recent             Chicano/a Literature.”



199 4 - 5                     Editor, Department of Physics, UCLA

                                   

 

1991                           Instructional Assistant, Santa Monica College

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1988 -1990                Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project Team Leader, UCLA

                                   

 

Committees

8/03 – 6/04                Basic Skills Task Force, Long Beach City College



8/02 - present            Chair, English Department Technology Committee, Long Beach City

                                    College



8/02 - present            English Majors and Minors Committee, Long Beach City College



1/02 - 7-02                 Academic Senate, El Camino College



9/97 - 6/99                 Committee member, Transfer Intensive Program (TIP), UCLA. 



1996                           Organizing Committee member, Annual Marathon Reading, UCLA. 

 

Awards         

1999-2000     Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA



1991-1992     Lilly Bess Campbell Memorial Fellowship, UCLA