Ann Henry
Skype: AnnMarie Henry
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Denver
English
M.A., San Francisco State University
English/Creative Writing
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
Literature
Honors in the Major
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
California Language Academy
Teaching EFL to adults
1-23 to 4-24
Private Tutoring
Tutoring neurodivergent (Primarily ADD/HD, Autism Spectrum) Secondary and University students.
2020 to present
RIT Dubai
Online Co-teaching
Helping students prepare academic essays in English and History classes using track changes and Skype, giving guest lectures, using Zoom, and preparing background materials. Courses co-taught include Written Argument, World History, and Literature of Pandemics.
September 2018 to Present
Test Tutor
Tutor
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Preparing students for SAT, ACT, FCE, CAE, IELTS, GRE, PTE, and IGCSE. Assisted in helping students prepare university application essays.
June 2019 to December, 2022
Canadian Trillium School
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Taught English to students in grades 5 through 9.
January 2019 to June 2019
EIE, Shandong University of Business and Technology
Visiting Assistant Professor
Yantai, China
Taught academic writing and speech in an English immersion program for students planning to study abroad, as well as IELTS, TOEFL and SAT prep. Helped to prepare a course on world history and geography.
September 2017 to January 2019
Hermann Otto Gymnasium
Teacher
Pattyantus Primary
Teacher
Miskolcs, Hungary
Taught writing and speech to students in grades 9 to 12 in a bilingual program for advanced students of English, planning to study abroad. Also taught Cambridge curriculum to students in grades 4-6
September 2014 to June 2017
Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
Baku, Azerbijan
Taught academic Writing for freshman.
September 2013 to June 2014
Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
Assistant Professor
Courses included British drama, British and American culture, intercultural
communication, film, oral presentation and academic writing.
September 2010 to June 2013
International University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, BiH
As a Visiting Professor, taught 18th century poetry and prose, modern British novel, and
academic writing.
September 2009 to June 2010
American University of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Taught academic writing, creative writing, and introduction to literature.
September 2008 to June, 2009
International Black Sea University
Assistant Professor
Tbilisi, Georgia
Taught American Studies-American novel, American
short story, American media, American cinema, and American cultural geography.
September 2006 June 2007
Modesto Junior College
Adjunct Instructor
Modesto, CA
As an adjunct instructor, I taught advanced academic writing, emphasizing research and documentation, composition, and developmental Writing.
September 2004 to June 2007
City University
Assistant Professor
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Taught composition to second year students, helped to develop a program in American
Studies, developed writing lab.
September 2003 to June 2004
Zabaikailske State University
Assistant Professor
Chita, Russia
Taught American literature and American independent film to third and fourth year
students, American Studies to fifth year students, taught a faculty seminar on postcolonial
Anglophone literature, and coordinated student applications to programs in the U.S. and
U.K.
September 2000 to June 2003
University of Sarajevo
Soros Foundation Fellow
Sarajevo, Bosnia
As a Soros Foundation Fellow, I taught in the first and second year English Program at
The University of Sarajevo. Courses taught included a survey of British literature from
Chaucer to Dryden, 18th and 19th Century British novel, and teaching methodology.
Also served as a faculty mentor to Graduate Teaching Assistants, and supervised fourth-
Year Senior Thesis projects.
September 1999 to June 2000
Anglo-American College
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Composition
Prague, Czech Republic
As coordinator of Composition and Lecturer in Literature, my duties included planning
and implementing curriculum, hiring, training, and evaluating instructors, and
administering the Summer Fine Arts Program. Courses taught included Russian
literature, film theory, Renaissance drama, representations of women in Literature, a
Content-based composition course on European History 1890 to 1914, and a literature
course designed for Business majors entitled Economics and the American imagination. I participated in student recruitment and community outreach.
September 1994 to June 1998
Red Rocks Community College
Adjunct Instructor
Lakewood, Colorado
Taught basic and developmental writing, composition, and creative writing.
September 1991 to June 1993
University Of Denver
Graduate teaching Fellow
Denver, Colorado
As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, taught composition, introduction to Literature, creative
writing, and contemporary fiction. Worked as a tutor in the Writing Lab.
9-87 to 6-91
REFERENCES:
Jamie Rae Alexander Smith
Head, History and Geography
EIE
Shandong University of Business and Technology
Yantai, China
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John Dayton
Former Dean, AUBiH
Chair, Liberal Arts
RIT Dubai
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Patrick Wall
Former Department Head, Modesto Junior College
Professor, San Joaquin Delta College
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PUBLICATIONS:
FICTION:
“A Broken Skateboard in Hell”
Fatherhood
Edited by Natela Donzadje
Forthcoming
“The Art of Disappearance”
Translator
Spring, 2003
“Snake”
Black Ice Collector’s Item
1998
“Adam Names the Animals”
Mississippi Review
Fiction Prize Finalist
1995
“How Food Was Invented, and Why”
Nobodaddies
1994
“Trotsky in Autumn”
Sucaranochee Review
Fiction Prize Winner
1993
“What’s On”
Frighten the Horses
1991
“MaMa”
City Lights Review
1991
“Phoenix and Reflex”
Westword
Fiction prize winner
1990
ESSAYS:
“Hemon on Culture and Food.”
Transfer, Fall 2021
Collaborator on course book entitled Building Language. Chapters written included “Content Based Instruction,” “Task Based Learning,” and “Student Centered Instruction.”
“Paving the Road to Hell: Humanitarian Aid in the Former Yugoslavia ”
Economies in Transition in Central Europe and the Balkans
William Bagatelas and Bruno Sergai, Eds.
Iura Press
Fall, 2004
“Culture and International Relations”
9/11: Has Anything Changed?
Iura Press
Spring 2004
“The Brain Drain in Bosnia”
Southeast Europe Review
February 2004
“Ice Palaces”
Navychod
2003
“The Nasty Nineties”
San Francisco Examiner
1991
“The Non-Decade”
San Francisco Examiner 1982
“Youpie”
San Francisco Bay Guardian
1981
SCREENPLAYS:
“The Sleep of Reason”
Optioned by FilmArt
2008
“Scheherazade”
Produced by FilmArt
Released Spring 2006
“Baba Yaga”
Optioned by FilmArt
2000
“The Nature of the Beast”
Optioned by Premiere Entertainment
1999
“Trance”
Optioned by Media, a program of the European Union
1999
“In a Dark Wood”
Optioned by Neo-Modern Entertainment
1997
PLAY:
“A Lot You Can Learn”
Produced January 1984,
Other Cafe Radio Theater
POETRY:
“The Architecture of Bucharest”
Burning Books Poetry Prize Honorable Mention
2001
“Emigre”
Conduit,
1996
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
‘Makeshift Joy”
Making Sense of Food
Interdisciplinary Net
Athens, Greece
October 12, 2013
Truth, Memory, and Sasha: Aleksander Hemon and the Fictive Self
Southwestern State University
Blagovegrad, Bulgaria
October 2009
“Looking East: Some Contemporary Eastern European Immigrant Writers”
Tbilisi State University
American Studies Center
November 10, 2006
“Crossing Over: Georgian Immigrant Theater “
Tbilisi State University
American Studies Conference
June 7, 2007