Phone: 773.787.9656
Email: ingrid@shockandawe.us
1941 N. Oakley Avenue
Chicago, Il 60647

Education

Ph.D., American Literature, 1992
University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., English, 1986
Saint Mary's College, CA

Experience

Assistant Director of Accreditation, June 2005-present
Higher Learning Commissioin
Chicago, IL 60602

Marketing Director, January-June 2005
JDM and Associates
Evanston, IL 60201

Distance Educator, February 2005-present

Freelance Writer/Editor, Sept 2000-present

Associate Professor of English, Sept. 1992 - May 2004
Transylvania University
Lexington, KY 40508

Director, English Department 1996-1999

Other: free-lance writer, public radio interviewer, small business management (psychology practice, retail, and restaurant), catering business owner, rock musician, and political organizer. 1986-2004.

Professional Skills

Administration

Directed programs and managed communications for projects in many departments. Managed traffic for publication, content development, and project logistics. Responsibilities: annual budgets, grants making (arts and sciences), design of program assessment and curricular reform, external reviews, human resource management (recruited, hired, and supervised staff), and event management (visiting writers, skills workshops, and convention planning).

Communication

• Writing / Editing / Proofreading: business, direct marketing, and public relations copy; journalism/magazines; reports and articles—in web and print. Includes: promotions and collateral materials, direct mail, catalogs, news, features, fiction, editorials, reviews, business to business, and business to consumer. All styles and formats.
• Public speaking: national presentations for general audiences, boards of trustees, managers, and professional specialists in education, media studies, and publishing.
• Instruction: popular culture/media, American studies, literature, writing, critical thinking.

Creative

• Conceptual design and content development:
  Advertising: copy for marketing and public relations agencies, educational publishers, and small businesses. Print collateral, web content, catalogs, direct mail, and press releases.
  Academic: American popular culture—film, fiction, music, media, fashion, advertising, social policy and politics. Topics include gangsta rap, the Mob, the U.S. drug war, conspiracy theory, artificial intelligence, madness, sexuality, and ethnicity in multicultural advertising.
  
• Community Work: member of arts programs boards and councils, developed and served in public humanities and arts program, developed and facilitated continuing education groups for various organizations.

Technical:

• Comprehensive research & computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite, databases, etc.)

Awards/Grants

Kenan Development Grant, sabbatical research, 2000.

Tenured and promoted, 1998.

$50,000 Bingham Award for Teaching Excellence, determined by a committee of faculty from five national universities, 1997.

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Johns Hopkins University , 1994.

Jones Travel Grants: awarded for research in Washington, D.C. 1993, Portland, OR 1996, Winchester, England 1998, and Chicago, IL 2003.

Officer, national professional organization: Popular Culture Association.