A multicultural interdisciplinary scholar-teacher

Beverly B.

English

My initial training to qualify began as an undergraduate majoring in English at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and resumed when I was a graduate student in the field of Folklore and Folklife particularly at the University of Pennsylvania (UP) as a two-year recipient of the Chimicles Teaching of Writing Across the University Fellowship which culminated in my receipt of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. During these two years, I received constant guidance in Writing Across the Disciplines from the Writing Center Director, began teaching Writing Across the University courses, and had my start as a Consultant in a Writing Center where I gave a presentation with a colleague on “An Introduction to the Academic Discipline and Writing Conventions of Folklore and Folklife in the United States.” Since those graduate student years, I have taught innumerable Composition and Writing Across the Disciplines courses, many of which were in the discipline of English, as well as been an almost constant presence in a Writing Center, particularly at the New York Institute of Technology-Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NYIT-NUPT) Overseas Education Program where I was Associate Professor of English for almost ten years (2010 to 2019) in addition to having served as English Department Chair (XXXX-XXXX) and Director of the NYIT-NUPT cultural center (XXXX-XXXX).

Public Speaking

As a former Associate Professor of English at a university, I have years of experience teaching public speaking courses. I help students build the confidence they need to perform beautifully and with excellence before the public. I also provide students with the opportunity to prepare for debate participation.

Writing

My initial training to qualify to tutor writing began as an undergraduate majoring in English at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and resumed when I was a graduate student in the field of Folklore and Folklife particularly at the University of Pennsylvania (UP) as a two-year recipient of the Chimicles Teaching of Writing Across the University Fellowship which culminated in my receipt of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. During these two years, I received constant guidance in Writing Across the Disciplines from the Writing Center Director, began teaching Writing Across the University courses, and had my start as a Consultant in a Writing Center, Since those graduate student years, I have taught innumerable Composition and Writing Across the Disciplines courses, many of which were in the discipline of English, as well as been an almost constant presence in a Writing Center, particularly at the New York Institute of Technology-Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NYIT-NUPT) Overseas Education Program where I was Associate Professor of English for almost ten years (2010 to 2019) in addition to having served as English Department Chair (2012-2017) and Director of the NYIT-NUPT cultural center (2011-2017). In addition to my training in and practice of the teaching of writing, I would also bring my multicultural interdisciplinary scholarly experience to our tutoring session. As alluded to above, I am a teacher-scholar with a PhD in the discipline of Folklore & Folklife from UP whose primary focus has been on the folk traditions of the Chinese diaspora: Chinese America, as evidenced by my dissertation later turned book The Chinese and Chinese American Ancestor Veneration Ceremony in the Catholic Church, 635 A.D. to the Present (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010; 2013) and an ongoing project, Chinese and Filipino Folk Traditions in Catholic Bohol, Philippines, based on fieldwork conducted in this country (2011-2014; 2017)