Professional Employment
Current employment: High School English Teacher, American International School of Vilnius, 2009-2011
Fulbright Lecturer in Creative Writing, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 2007 - 2009
Guest Faculty, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004
Director, Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 2005 - 2007
Co-Director, Stonecoast Summer Writers’ Conference, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 2004
Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 2000 - 2007
Adjunct Professor of English, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1997 - 2000
Lecturer, College of New Rochelle, School of New Resources, New York, New York, 1994 - 1995
Assistant Program Director, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, New York, 1993 – 1995
Honors
PEN International Translation Fund Grant
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship
Halpur Palate Prize for Literary Translation
Spring of Poetry Award for Literary Translation
Witter Brynner Award for Young Literary Translators
Academy of American Poets Award for Student Poetry,Honorable Mention
New York State Yeats Society Fellowship to the Yeats Summer School
New York State Yeats Society Poetry Contest
New York State Yeats Society Poetry Contest
Karl and Franzeska Lederer Stipend for German Literature
Goethe Institute Certificate for Excellence in German
Membership in Delta Phi Alpha: German Honor Society
Douglass College Award for Excellence in Creative Writing
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