A Professional Development Panel for Graduate Students: Post/Modern Subversion Conference Day 2
Hosted by Comparative Literature graduate studies
The second day of the Post/Modern Subversion conference will be focusing on professional development for graduate students. This will take place on Saturday, June 1, 10am-2pm in Sproul Hall room 912. The day will begin with brief presentations (5-15 minutes) from a variety of speakers including faculty members in academia; community college professors; and a variety of speakers from alt-ac who graduated from the graduate program in Comparative Literature at UC Davis. After the presentations, we will have a roundtable discussion as well as questions from the attendees, followed by a reception. The entire program is listed below. Faculty and graduate students from all departments are warmly invited to attend. A light brunch will be served. Please email slerner@ucdavis.edu with any questions.
10:00 Opening words and introductions
Sicily Lerner, organizer, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature
10:05 Presentations
Dr. Michael Subialka Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Davis, speaking on how to write a CV
Dr. Klaus Mladek Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth, speaking on what a job interview looks like from the interviewer’s side
Dr. Gema Ortega Associate Professor of English at Dominican University, speaking about receiving a PhD in Comparative Literature and making the switch to teaching in an English department
Dr. Leonardo Giorgetti Acting Assistant Professor of Italian at Stanford University, speaking about his current role
Phill Cabeen PhD candidate in Germanic Languages, U-Illinois Chicago, speaking on his experience on the academic job market
Ozlem Ozmen Akdogan Postdoc at Harvard University, speaking about working as a postdoc
Dr. Tekla Babyak Independent scholar and activist
Noel Bruening English professor at Woodland Community College
Dr. Steve Cirrone English professor at Sacramento City College and author
Elena Shapiro Author
Dr. Victoria White Coordinator, Success Coaching and Learning Strategies, Office of Educational Opportunity and Enrichment Services at UC Davis
Dr. Monica Keane Archives & Special Collections Librarian at Santa Clara University
Dr. Daphne Potts Sr. Manager, Claims Partnerships & Communication at Blue Shield of California
Dr. Cloe Le Gall-Scoville Director of Resident and Fellow Development in the Office of Graduate Medical Education at UC Davis Health
12:15 Break
12:25 Roundtable discussion and questions and answers
12:55-2 Reception
