Degrees

• BA English Albany State University 1992
• MA English University of Adam Mickiewicz 2021

Research interests

• Adaptations
• Indigenization in adaptation
• Narrative and dramatic techniques in the TEFL university classroom
• Screenplay: Story and Narrative
• African American narratives: historical, literary, filmic, televisual
• American culture and American history

Teaching experience

• TEFL at university level
• WA Faculty of English at UAM 2012–2013; 2017–to date
• NKJO at UAM Poznan 1995 – 2012
• KJO Wrzesnia 2008 – 2015
• KJO Gniezno 1996 – 2007
• KJO Pniewy, Wągrowiec
• Senior Lecturer
• Lecturer
• Exam Committee Coordinator
• Course Designer – American Life and Institutions; American History; EFL Writing; EFL Speaking; EFL Reading; British Culture; British History; Screenplay; Current Affairs

Teacher Trainer and Training

• NKJO ‘INSETT’ Teacher Trainer, Zajączkowo
• “Use of Debate in the Classroom”, 2000
• “Technology in the Classroom”, 2000
• “Narratives and Drama in the Classroom”, 2001
• “Decision Making and Group Consensus”, 2001
• “Short and Sweet: Creative Classroom Activities”, 2002
• “American Culture Creatively”, 2007
• UWKO "Uniwersytet Jutra" Moodle for Advanced Users, 2019

University Theater

• EFL College Theater – Coordinator, Director, Writer at “English Language Theater Festival”; Bydgoszcz 1997, 1999 – 2006, 2010
• EFL College Theater – Coordinator, Artistic Director at “Poetry and Prose Festival”, Slupsk 1998, 1999

Related Professional Experience

• Editor, proofreader. “A Collection of Lessons on the District of Wrzesnia” ©2011
• Assistant editor. Taylor and Francis medical publications division 2005
• Galley editor, journalist. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Medical Journal Monthly 1998
• Freelance journalist. Highway: “Magazyn Miejski Poznania”. Issues 1, 4, 6, 7 1998
• 1995 – to date. Proofreader, Copy Editor, Translator, Freelance Writer, Screenplay Writer