English Teacher Administrative Assistant

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San Juan, Philippines

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November 01, 2022

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CURRICULUM VITAE

SHARIF A. EL GAMMAL-ORTIZ

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

****-******* ******* ********* ** English, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

2019-2022 Lecturer in English, Facultad Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Humanísticos y Sociales, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón.

2019 (Fall) Lecturer in English, Departamento de Estudios Humanísticos, Universidad Interamericana de Bayamón.

2016-2017 Administrative Assistant, English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language & Culture.

2015-2016 Joint Research and Teaching Assistant, English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Professors Nalini Natarajan and Christopher Olsen.

2014-2015 Undergraduate and Graduate English Tutor, Center for the Development of Linguistic Skills, College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

2013-2014 Intermediate and High School English Teacher, Colegio Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Grades, Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico. 2013 (Fall) Lecturer in English, University College of San Juan. EDUCATION

2018 Ph.D., English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Dissertation: “Disturbing the Page: Aligning Spirit Symbols in Kamau Brathwaite’s Poetry.” Advisors: Michael Sharp (Chair), Maritza Stanchich, Nalini Natarajan. 2011 M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry and Translation), Columbia University. 2008 B.A., English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. 2

HONORS, AWARDS, HONORABLE MENTIONS

2019 Humanities Medal for outstanding performance, including a unanimous PS grade in doctoral dissertation, a GPA of 4.0, and completion of a full-time PhD degree is less than five years, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition, poetry shortlist. 2015 Leonor Arroyo Poetry Prize, English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship competition finalist. 2011 SAND Journal Issue 4 Poetry Competition Winner, Berlin, Germany. 2010 Benjamin T. Burns Poetry Prize, School of the Arts, Columbia University. 2008 Margaret Nance Award for Academic Excellence, English Department, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. PUBLICATIONS

Poetry

2020 “Noche de San Juan,” “One Advises the Other,” Sargasso, vol. I & II, 2019-20. 2017 “Honoring an Egyptian.” The Acentos Review, February 2017. 2016 “Message from Nur Al-Masri.” The Caribbean Writer, vol. 30, 2016. 2015 “Amaryllis Doing Laundry at Her Mother’s and Whistling,” “Amaryllis Sipping Coffee.” The Acentos Review, August 2015.

2015 “Amaryllis Washing Clothes at Her Mother’s House,” “Amaryllis on the Number Six Train Heading Uptown to the Bronx.” Tonguas, vol. 14, 2015. 2014 “Robin,” “Syndrome of Fetal Alcoholism.” The Atlas Review, vol. 4, 2014. 2014 “The Inscription Reads.” SAND Journal, vol. 9, 2014. 2013 “Panopticon.” Entasis Journal, vol. 4, 2013.

2012 “Beatriz.” SAND Journal, vol. 6, 2012.

2011 “Critique of a Sonnet as a Red-eyed Mongoose,” “Still Life with José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949),” “Discourse on the Inequality of Concussions,” “Third World Masochist.” The Acentos Review, November 2011. 2011 “The Horse Butcher’s Apprentice.” SAND Journal, vol. 4, 2011. 2011 “Carpe Dæmon.” Why I Am Not a Painter: A Gathering of Poems by MFA Students in NYC, Argos 2011.

2010 “Puerto Rico,” “Self-portrait as Mary Kate and Ashley Olson.” The Acentos Review, August 2010.

2009 “El Morro and the Ka ‘bah.” Sargasso, vol. 1, 2009. 2008 “The Human Canine by Way of Sestina,” “Sonnet.” The Acentos Review, September 2008.

Book and Film Reviews

2019 Nalini Natarajan’s Atlantic Gandhi. Sargasso, vol. 1 & 2, 2015-2016. Spanish Translation of Keith E. McNeal’s Original Book Review in English. 2019 Isar P. Godreau’s Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico. Callaloo, vol. 40, no. 3, 2017. Book Review. 2016 Dannabang Kuwabong’s Voices from Kibuli Country. Callaloo, vol. 39, no. 1, 2016. Book Review.

2015 Rafael Ocasio’s Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantation to the Slums. Caribbean Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, 2015. Book Review. 2015 Edgardo Pérez Montijo’s Rehearsing and Improvising the Self: Performance in the Novels of Earl Lovelace. Caribbean Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, 2015. Book Review.

2015 Ida Does’s Poetry Is an Island: Derek Walcott, titled “Tribute to Great St Lucian(s).” Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters, 2015. Film Review. 2015 Vladimir Lucien’s Sounding Ground. The Caribbean Writer, vol. 29, 2015. Book Review.

2014 Nalini Natarajan’s The Resonating Island: The Caribbean in Postcolonial Dialogue. Sargasso, vol. 1 & 2, 2014-2015. Book Review. Essays

2021 “The Totemic Page: Ogotemmêli’s Thought in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite,” Navigating Crosscurrents: Trans-linguality, Trans-culturality and Trans- identification in the Greater Caribbean, edited by Nicholas Faraclas et al. University of Curaçao, 2020.

2017 “Shadow-Work.” Being Bilingual in Borinquen: Student Voices from the University of Puerto Rico, edited by Alicia Pousada, Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 2016 “Area of No Feeling in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Claire of the Sea Light.” The Caribbean Writer, vol. 30, 2016. CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

2019 Reader. Columbia Selects: MFA Readings at the KGB Bar. Catherine Pond, Rachel Ephraim, and Sharif El Gammal-Ortiz, KGB Bar, New York, NY, January 2019.

2018 Poetry Contest Judge. Poetry Out Loud: Puerto Rico: National Recitation Contest, National Competition POL, Francisco Arriví Theater, Santurce, March 2018.

2017 Presenter. “Palindromic Training: A Workshop on Writing Poetry.” PRTESOL Northern Chapter Third Annual Conference: Empowering Language Learning, University Gardens High School, San Juan, August 2017. 2017 Poetry Contest Judge. Poetry Out Loud: Puerto Rico: National Recitation Contest, National Competition POL, Francisco Arriví Theater, Santurce, March 2017.

2016 Panel Speaker. “(Re)interpreting the Practice of Surrender in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse and Maryse Condé’s The Story of the Cannibal Woman.” Caribbean Without Borders: Releasing Ever-Changing Cultures, Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Librería Mágica, April 2016.

2015 Panel Speaker. “Not Another Nineteenth Century European Novel: George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin.” 18

Annual Eastern Caribbean Island

Cultures Conference, “Islands-in-Between,” The UWI Open Campus St Kitts and Nevis, The Gardens, Bassterre, November 2015.

2015 Panel Speaker. “Euzhan Palcy and Her Elders.” 34 th

Annual Conference on West

Indian Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Spring 2015. 2015 Panel Speaker. “Pneumatological Testements: Pariag and Aldrick, Two Practitioners of Natural Writing.” Symposium by the University of Michigan and 5

the University of Puerto Rico, Negotiating Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in a New Global Age, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Fall 2015. Courses Taught

Basic English (ENGL 101), University College of San Juan Intermediate English (ENGL 102), University College of San Juan Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 114), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Film as Literature (ENGL 124), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Online Course) English in Everyday Use (ENGL 112), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón Poetry and Drama (ENGL 121), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Online Course) Basic (GEEN 1101), Intermediate (GEEN 1102), and Advanced (GEEN 1201), TESL Courses, Universidad Interamericana de Bayamón

Reading for Communication (ENGL 113), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Online Course) Public Speaking (ENGL 117), Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Online Course) Writing About Literature (ENGL 3291), University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Expository Writing (ENGL 3232), University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras MEMBERSHIP

Sociedad Eco-Ambiental, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. English Majors Association (EMA), University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Golden Key International Honor Society.

Columbia University Alumni Association (School of the Arts, Writing). LANGUAGES

English (native), Spanish (native), French (spoken fluency, some writing), Italian (basic), Arabic

(basic).

REFERENCES

Dr. Michael Sharp

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Professor of English and Caribbean Studies

787-***-**** ext. 89624

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Dr. Maritza Stanchich

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Professor of English and Caribbean Studies