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Mary's resume

Mary Teresa Ryan
Teacher, Tutor, Editor, Writer
Work in College Education

2011 – Present Adjunct Lecturer in Linguistics. The Education and Language Acquisition Department (ELA), LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.
Courses: Introduction to Language; Bilingualism; Writing for Non-Native Speakers.
Teach curriculum as well as remedial workshops on topics in linguistics and language. Development of linguistic games into apps. Advise student on academic choices and progress. Upbeat and humorous presentation of what can often be an abstract and technical subject in an entertaining multimedia manner, superlative faculty and student assessments. Expert in teaching live and remotely.

2014 – Present Senior Tutor. The Writing Center. LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.
As a language expert and linguists, provide tutoring for individual and small groups of predominantly multilingual and/or multiethnic students in English grammar, composition, literature, citation conventions and rhetoric, including as they pertain to the other non-English subjects taught at the college in a full-service, high-octane tutoring center. Present successful workshops in grammar, cultural issues and reading theory for the center and train new tutors. Advocate for students with cognitive disabilities, conducting special individual sessions tailored for their unique requirements. Committed to student emotional and academic support, helping to optimize accelerated academic performance. Live and remote sessions.

2011 -2013;2016-pres Adjunct Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY.
Courses: Syntax; Multilingualism in the USA; Introduction to Linguistics; Analyzing Language, College Now. Excellent peer and student assessments. Live and remote classes on several platforms.
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Editorial Experience

2018 - Present Editor. MSK Editorial Services. Full editorial, proofreading and writing consultation services. Current project: “Daniela’s Journey” (ghostwriting)/ D. Goltermann.

2013 – 2016 Editorial Consultant. Donald T. Beldock, New York, NY.
Edited the work of prolific novelist and playwright for publicatio




Education
Ph.D. Coursework. M.A./Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Completed: 79/75 credits.
Elected Committees: Professional Development; Colloquium
Research: A New Experimental Technique on the Interaction of Syntactic and Prosodic Sentence Processing in Reading. Data mining and analysis, academic research and technical writing skills.

M.A. in Linguistics. M.A./Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Thesis: Uniting Competing Models of First Language Acquisition, a study on how the mind learns.
Tuition Fellowship.
Elected Committees: Executive; Curriculum and Examinations.

B.A. in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY.
Majors: 1. Teaching English as Second Language; 2. Theoretical Linguistics.
Minor: Greek and Byzantine Studies/Modern Greek Language.
Honors: Humanities; Linguistics; Greek and Byzantine Studies.
Languages Studied: Spanish, Greek and French.
Scholarship: University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Founder: The Summer English Project, an innovative ESL program for undocumented immigrants in Queens. Collected data used to obtain major Federal grant for the Department which established The Community Language Project at Queens College.
Research Grants, PI: Experiment on Greek/English Bilingualism; The Summer English Program.

 Consistently superlative faculty and student assessments.

 Languages Studied: Spanish, French and Greek.

 Member, Mensa, a society for the study and cultivation of intelligence for the betterment of the human condition.


I also hold certifications in online teaching and TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language).