English Department
Marymount University
2807 N. Glebe Road
Arlington VA 22207

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Home Address:

223 N. Jordan Street #102
Arlington VA 22304

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Contact:

tonya@cerosia.com
540.718.5380 (cell)
540.458.8762 (office)

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Research and Teaching Interests:

Restoration & 18th Century Drama, the History of the Novel, Composition & Technology,
Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Performance Studies, Narrative Theory, Visual Literacy,
Popular Culture

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Development Interests:

Student Research Initiatives, Study Abroad, Public and Community Arts Development,
Pedagogical Technology Seminars, Technology and Research in the Humanities, Conference Organization

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Teaching Portfolio: Syllabi

First-Year Composition: Technologies of College Composition
First Year Composition: Literature of the Gothic
First-Year Composition: Technologies of Advertising
First-Year Composition: Writing Women in Eighteenth-Century England
Introduction to the Short Story and the Novel: Villains & Criminals in Literature
What Is Literature? Word & Image, Content & Form
First-Year Composition: Villains, Criminals, and Outsiders
Survey of British Literature, 1660-1830s: Invention & Imagination, Experiment & Exploration
Early 18th-Century British Literature: Licensing & Licentiousness, English Theater 1660-1737
The Novel: 18th- and 19th- Century British Novel, Shape & Substance
The 18th Century British Novel: Texts & Contexts
A Networked and Theatrical World: The Spectacle of Culture in 18th Century Britain (course proposal)

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Teaching Portfolio: Sample Activities and Assignments

The Thesis Statement: From Observation to Argument
The Mother of All Handouts: Passive Voice (and Why It Matters)
First-Year Composition: The Technology of Genre (analytical/imitative)
First-Year Composition: Research Essay
First-Year Composition: Cormac McCarthy, Child of God (close reading)
Understanding Voice and Style Activity
Final Essay (First-Year Composition & Literature): Cormac McCarthy's Child of God
First-Year Composition: Collaborative Web Composition
Early 18th-Century British Literature: Individual and Collaborative Web Archive Projects

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WIRE: Writing Instructors' Resources wiki project
First-Year Composition: Collaborative Web Composition (course site)
Early 18th-Century British Literature: Individual Web Archive Project (sample student project)
Early 18th-Century British Literature: Collaborative Web Archive Project (sample student project)
Handout: Using Find/Replace to Highlight Weak Verbs
Sample Hypertext Project (in progress)

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Knowledge Base

Blackboard; CourseTools/CTools (Sakai Project); Student Weblogging; EEBO, ECCO, and other
database tools in the classroom; Electronic Peer Workshopping

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Writing Sample

Chapter 1, "A Monster with a Face Between His Feet": The Corporeal Culture of Farce in Early
Eighteenth-Century Britain (Advisors: Julie Ellison, Tobin Siebers, Leigh Woods, David Porter,
Lincoln Faller)

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• Julie Ellison: Professor, Department of English & Program in American Culture;
  Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, University of Michigan *
• David Porter: Professor, Departments of English & Comparative Literature, University of Michigan *
• Tobin Siebers: Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan *
• Leigh Woods: Professor, School of Music, Theater, and Drama, University of Michigan
• Lincoln Faller: Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan
• Jim Warren: Professor and Chair, Department of English, Washington & Lee University *
• Amaney Jamal: Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University

  * references in dossier

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English 125 Evaluations
367, 230, 125: Written Additions to Scantron Sheets
English 105 Evaluations
English 333 Evaluations
English 251 Evaluations
English 335 Evaluations
English 251 Evaluations
Collected Scantron Evaluations from the University of Michigan

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