Wayne S. Coffey

Writer, Researcher, Instructor

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Brooklyn, NY

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EXPERIENCE

Austin Community College, Austin, TX — Adjunct Professor of Humanities

AUGUST 2019 - DECEMBER 2022

-Responsible for instruction in Humanities I (prehistory-1500) and II (1500-present), a survey of major works in literature, history and art.

-Taught students at the high school, traditional college, and returning student levels

-Acted as mentor to students as they applied to 4-year institutions

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz — Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor

AUGUST 2011 - AUGUST 2019

-Served as a teaching assistant in the Visual Studies, Literature, History of Consciousness and Art departments

-Responsible for the administrative tasks (grading, attendance, classroom management, online evaluation) to maintain the course

-Was the primary instructor for the small groups that met in addition to the main lecture

Austin Community College, Austin, TX — Adjunct Professor of English and Writing Composition

JUNE 2015 - AUGUST 2016

-Taught writing composition I and II to high school students, traditional college students, and returning adult students

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz — MA (2015), PhD (expected September 2023) History of Consciousness

AUGUST 2011 - SEPTEMBER 2023

-Major: History of Consciousness. An interdisciplinary program requiring courses in literature, social sciences, visual studies, history, and philosophy

-Minors: Visual Studies, Critical Race/Ethnic Studies

Texas State University, San Marcos, Austin — MA, English

AUGUST 2009 - AUGUST 2011

-took courses in entire range of Anglophone literature, including international literature, as well as literature and film from outside of the West

-Master’s thesis: The Imaginative Imperative: Narrative and Social Consciousness in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the Television Show The Wire

PROJECTS

Dissertation— Reproducing the Crisis: Violence, Blackness and Visual Culture in the American Postwar City

-This dissertation is completed and is in the correctional stage in conversation with thesis advisors/references. Completion date expected September 2023.

REFERENCES

Eric Porter

Professor of History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and History of

Consciousness

University of California, Santa Cruz

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David Marriott

Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy

Emory University

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Derek Conrad Murray

Professor of Visual Studies

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Grant Potts

Professor of Philosophy

Austin Community College

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SKILLS

Instructor (13 years)

Academic Project Management

Admissions and Interview Expertise

Digital and Physical Archival Research

Curriculum Development

Classroom Management

Interpersonal and Team Communication

English, Writing, Social Sciences Tutoring

AWARDS

Austin Community College Distinguished Educator Award Nomination

University of California Humanities Research Center Research Fellowship

University of California, Santa Cruz Humanities Division Dissertation Fellowship

LANGUAGES

English

French (reading)

Latin (reading)

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