CORE QUALIFICATIONS
PhD in Linguistics (emphasis: historical syntax)
TESL certified to teach English as a second language
Licensed to administer TOEFL ITP
10 years’ experience editing English academic manuscripts
5 years’ experience teaching English to University students
Canadian English: Native; French; Dutch: B1-B2; German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Latin: Reading
Organized, efficient and energetic
Excellent knowledge of Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, Turnitin, and Endnote
WORK EXPERIENCE
08/2014-Current: Writing Center Coordinator (Webster Leiden Campus: Webster University USA)
Provide assistance with English writing for students of Webster Leiden Campus; prep students for and invigilate the TOEFL ITP exam; edit content for newsletters, website, etc.;
Register graduate students for courses (Advising Function);
Monitor student progress (Retention Team).
08/2013-Current: Adjunct Professor (Webster Leiden Campus: Webster University USA)
Teach courses in academic English writing (own course design);
Teaching ESL courses (Listening & Note-taking, Research & Library Skills, Grammar, Business English; own course design).
09/2014-08/2016: Lecturer (Utrecht University: English Department)
Taught introductory courses in English linguistics (e.g., Sound Lab, Prescribing and Describing English, Academic English);
Supervised B.A. and M.A. theses related to Linguistics.
05/2012 to 2013: English Tutor and Manuscript Editor (Own business: Command English)
Provided one-on-one English lessons for non‐native speakers of all ages, including conversation,
listening, grammar, reading, writing and pronunciation;
Light copy editing: Edit BA, MA theses, academic journal articles, presentations and grant proposals for language mistakes, references, and style/flow;
Substantial editing: Provided comments on content in addition to language style.
05/2013: Language Assessor (Leiden Community College ROC)
Conducted the yearly English language exams with Dutch college students
05/2008‐11/2012: Research Assistant/Assistant in Onderwijs (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
Worked collaboratively on a government-funded project about language change;
Conducted research using digital corpora, completing the thesis “Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek”;
Organized bi‐weekly lectures in syntax;
Gave guest lectures in Greek Linguistics to Bachelors students;
Completed a research stay at Cambridge University;
Took part in international conferences and published academic papers.
09/2005‐06/2007: Teaching Assistant: Linguistics, Ancient Greek (Concordia University, Montreal)
Gave weekly lectures;
Provided and graded extra homework;
Kept regular office hours for students;
Proctored and graded exams;
Determined final scores.
09/2004‐06/2005: Research Assistant (Concordia University, Montreal)
Completed a summary of the existing literature on enjambment;
Analyzed enjambment in the Iliad according to various definitions.
06/2004 to 09/2004: Research Assistant in a Mercury Clean Laboratory (University of Alberta)
Summer job in a Mercury Clean Laboratory:
Cleaned lab equipment;
Conducted distillations and analyses of snow and water samples for levels of mercury.
EDUCATION
11/2012: PhD in Linguistics (Leiden University)
Worked collaboratively on the government funded project, “Syntactic change and what it tells us
about language”;
Conducted research and completed the thesis “Word order and information structure in New
Testament Greek,” http://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/311_fulltext.pdf ;
Organized bi‐weekly lectures in syntax;
Gave guest lectures in Greek Linguistics to Bachelor’s students;
Completed a research stay at Cambridge University;
Took part in international conferences and published academic papers.
01/2008: TESL certification (Universite de Quebec a Montreal)
Completed the Oxford Teaching English as a Second Language course.
10/2007: Master of Arts in Indo‐European Linguistics (Concordia University, Montreal)
Course work on ancient Indo‐European languages and literature;
Conducted research on word order in Herodotus' Greek using online resources;
Completed the dissertation, "A syntactic account of split DPs in Herodotus";
Held Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant positions.
07/2004: Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (University of Alberta)
Course work in Linguistics (phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, first and second language acquisition);
Course work in English literature, French literature, Spanish, German, Ancient Greek and Latin;
Course work in Economics, Psychology and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;
Graduated with distinction.
PUBLICATIONS
2015. Review of Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English (Meurman-Solin et al (eds.), 2012). English studies 2014.
2013. Review of Relative Clauses in Time and Space (Hendery 2012). Linguistic Typology.
2012. Word Order and Information Structure in New Testament Greek. PhD thesis. LOT publications: http://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/311_fulltext.pdf
2012. Word order Variation in New Testament Greek Wh‐questions. Proceedings of the Nineteenth
Internaltional Conference on Historical Linguistics eds., by Ans van Kemenade & Nynke den Haas,
293‐313.
2011. The Syntax of Correlatives in New Testament Greek. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011 eds., by Rick Nouwen & Marion Elenbaas, 61‐73.
Submitted. Subject‐verb inversion in New Testament Greek Wh‐questions. Submitted to the
Proceedings of ConSOLE XVIII.
PRESENTATIONS
10/2012. The diachrony of Greek relative clauses. CompSyn lectures, Leiden University.
07/2011. Relatives and correlatives in Greek. International Conference on Historical Linguistics XX.
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Japan.
02/2011. Correlatives in New Testament Greek. Taalkunde in Nederland (TiN‐dag), Utrecht
University.
02/2010.Determining basic word order in Koine Greek. SyntaxLab, Cambridge University.
12/2009.Subject‐verb inversion in New Testament Greek Wh‐questions. ConSOLE XVIII, Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona.
08/2009.Verb‐Initial in New Testament Greek: Wh‐ questions and the particle ára. International
Conference on Historical Linguistics XIX, Nijmegen University.
02/2009.SVO‐VSO alternations in the Koiné Greek of the New Testament. Taalkunde in Nederland
(TiN‐dag), Utrecht University.
08/2008.*Who wonders about multiple WH‐fronting and WH‐ in islands in Greek, which what when happened to?. Diachrony in Generative Syntax X, Cornell University.
02/2008.The split DP Hypothesis: Evidence from Ancient Greek, with Daniela Isac. Incontro di
Grammatica Generativa XXXIV, University of Padova.
03/2007. Split WH‐ elements in Herodotus. Linguistics Student Symposium, Concordia University.
12/2006. The ordering of determiners, adjectives and nouns in Ionic prose. Linguistics Student
Symposium, Concordia University.