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

Associate Professor of English, Sept. 1992 - May 2004
Program Director, 1996-1999
Transylvania University

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

Communication

• Writing: book reviews, editorial commentary, business and public relations copy, fiction, and scholarly articles in web and print publication.
• Editing and proofreading: newspapers, journals, and business publications. Writing instruction (creative, business, general audience, scholarly).
• Public speaking: national presentations for general audiences, boards of trustees, managers, and professional specialists in education, media studies, and publishing.

Administration

• Program Director: management and communications for multi-tiered projects in several departments. Managed traffic for publication, content development, and project logistics. Responsibilities: annual budgets, grants making, program assessment, human resource management (recruiting and hiring staff), and event management (visiting writers, skills workshops, and convention planning). Directed program development in writing assessment and grants funding.

Creative:

• Conceptual design and content development: 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.

Technical

• comprehensive research and computer skills.

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.
• Betty T. 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, 2002-2004.