Victoria Barnett-Woods is a doctoral student at George Washington University expected to graduate in Spring 2018 with a PhD in English. She holds a Master's degree in English from Marquette University and a Bachelor's degree in English from California State University, Northridge. Her academic and professional experiences include teaching positions, fellowships, publications, and presentations on topics related to postcolonial literature and language.

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EDUCATION
Current: Doctoral student, George Washington University
Expected Graduation: Spring 2018
May 2013 Marquette University
• Master’s degree in English
• Instructor of Rhetoric and Composition (2011-2013)
• 3.95 Cumulative GPA
May 2008 California State University, Northridge
• Bachelor’s degree in English, Honors Program
• Minor in Spanish
• 3.75 Cumulative GPA average from institution
• 3.86 GPA average for major
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
• 2015 The George Washington University College Travel Grant
• 2015 Institute for Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras: Visiting Scholar
• 2015 ASECS Graduate Student Pot-Jam Fellowship for Annual Conference
• 2014 PAMLA Graduate Student Travelling Grant
• 2013-2018 Graduate Fellowship, George Washington University
• 2013-2015 Graduate Professional Development Award, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences,
The George Washington University
• 2012 Committee Member “Returning the Gift” 2012 conference, Marquette University
• 2012 Co-chair Metcalfe Speaker event: Dr. Robert Warrior, Marquette University
• 2011 Teaching Assistant Fellowship (2011-2013), Marquette University
• 2007 Recipient of Barbara Ann Ward Scholarship for Spanish, Cal State Northridge
• 2006-2007 Recipient of Northridge Achievement Scholarship
WORK EXPERIENCE
• 2013-Present: EAP tutor for L2 writers at the GWU Language Center
• 2013-Present: Graduate Assistant for the Writing in the Disciplines program, GWU
• 2011-2013 Instructor in Rhetoric and Composition, Marquette University
o Co-Founded and collaborated with librarian Heather James on the “Embedded
Librarian” components to First Year English program piloted Fall 2012. Scaled Fall
2013.
o Piloted “Flipped Classroom” teaching pedagogical strategies in First Year English
(video tutorials and further information available upon request)
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o Four courses taught 2011-2012 academic
year
o Three courses taught 2012-2013 academic year
• 2011 ESL instructor, Reseda, California
o ESL education for adult zero-fluency parents of local elementary school
• August 2008—November 2010, United States Peace Corps Volunteer, Philippines
o Instructed approximately 7th
, 8th
, 9th
and10th
grade children in rural farming community
o Participated in Tudlo Mindanao, an international language camp for Mindanoan
instructors, sponsored by USAID
o Co-founder of Remedial Reading Program
o Adult ESL training with municipal employees in the mayor’s office; Licab, Nueva Ecija
o Raised funding, erected, and implemented a Language Learning Center for community
o ASL instructor at the Tarlac Home for Girls
o Founding member of the Peer Support Network for Peace Corps Philippines
o Extended Description of Service available upon request
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
• Upcoming Presentation: “Villainous Missionaries and Unearthly Men: Religious Anxieties in
the Caribbean Gothic.” PAMLA Annual Conference. Portland, OR. November 2015
• Upcoming Presiding Officer: Long-Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture Panel at
PAMLA Annual Conference. Portland, OR. November 2015.
• Upcoming Moderator: “Byron and Resistance.” NASSR Annual Conference. Winnipeg, Canada.
August 2015.
• Upcoming Presentation: (T)racing Labor: The Labor Politics of the West Indian Plantation and
the Industrial Revolution. NASSR Annual Conference. Winnipeg, Canada. August 2015.
• Forthcoming Publication: “Passing Through the Cracks: Gossip and Subversion in Forster’s A
Passage to India and Sidhwa’s Cracking India. Word Hoard (Western University, Canada).
• Presenter: “Coded Decoloniality: Code-switching in Postcolonial Caribbean Literature.”
Translating Creolization Symposium. St. Michael, Barbados. May 2015.
• Presenter: “(Re)production, Slavery, and the Cultural Economy of Empire in The Woman of
Colour.” ASECS Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. March 2015.
• Presenter: “(Re)production, Slavery, and the Cultural Economy of Empire in The Woman of
Colour.” WSECS Annual Conference. San Louis Obispo, CA. February 2015.
• Presenter: “The Silence of the Enslaved: Trauma and Narrative in Olaudah Equiano and Mary
Prince.” GWU English Graduate Student Association Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.
February 2015.
Rome Hall
801 22nd
Street NW Ste. 654
Washington, DC 20052
(267) 884-1930

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• Publication: “Lost in Untranslation: The
Untranslated Word and Representations of Otherness in Colonial and
Postcolonial Literature.” The Global Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol. 2, Issue 3.
ISSN: 2320-4397. December 2014.
• Workshop Participant: “Representing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century: Atlantic Britain.”
Facilitated by the Yale Center for British Art and the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
New Haven and Farmington, CT, December 2014.
• Presenter: Geographies of Imperialism: Commodities, Slavery and the Metropolitan
Coffeehouse. PAMLA Annual Conference. Riverside, CA, October 2014.
• Presenter: Geographies of Imperialism: Commodities, Slavery and the Metropolitan
Coffeehouse. Transatlantic History Conference. Arlington, TX, September 2014.
• Presenter: “Hindus and Highlanders: Translation, Mimicry and Colonial Ambivalence in
Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah” NASSR Annual Conference. Washington,
D.C., July 2014.
• Presenter: “Coded Decolonization: Code-switching in Postcolonial Literature” CEA Caribbean
Chapter Annual Conference, Mayaguez University, Puerto Rico, March 2014.
• Presenter: “The Flipped Classroom: Application for the Core Curricula” Annual Celebration of
Teaching and Learning. Marquette University, Milwaukee, May 2013.
• Presenter: “Lost in Un-translation: The Untranslated Word and Representations of the Other
in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature” UMass Translations Studies Conference, Reading
Between the Lines. U of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2013.
• Presenter: “Cultural Continuity and Representations of the Other in World Literature” Global
Lives Conference. Stony Brook University, October 2012.
• Workshop Participant: “Poetics and Politics of Cultural Translation” Facilitated by Dr. Jyotsna
Singh. Newberry Library, Chicago, September 2012.
• Presenter: “Subversive (Post)colonial Discourse.” Principles of Uncertainty Interdisciplinary
Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, May 2012.
• Presenter: “Gendered Stereotypes in The Duchess of Malfi” The Newberry Annual Medieval and
Renaissance Conference. Newberry Library, Chicago, January 2012.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
• Spanish Language Skills: Superior (ACTFL proficiency exam)
• Tagalog (Filipino) Language Skills: Advanced High (ACTFL proficiency exam)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Business and professional writing knowledge
Rome Hall
801 22nd
Street NW Ste. 654
Washington, DC 20052
(267) 884-1930

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Victoria Barnett-Woods
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Rome Hall
801 22nd
Street NW Ste. 654
Washington, DC 20052
(267) 884-1930