Edwige Crucifix
Experience and Training
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- College Teaching Experience -
Principal Instructor
Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University
"Shéhérazades: Representation of the 'Orientale' in Modern French Culture," scheduled for Spring 2020
- Sole instructor
- Designed the class and chose all the material
Teaching Assistant
Department of French Studies, Brown University
Basic French (2nd semester French) Spring 2018
Intermediate French II (4th semester French) Fall 2017
- Taught the class as the sole instructor (4 times a week for FREN0200 and 3 times a week for FREN0400).
- Created activities, content and tests, to accompany the primary material and syllabi mandated by the department.
- Graded all oral and written assignments.
- Met with students during office hours.
- Mentored two UTAs per semester.
- Organized and participated to linguistic and cultural events and outings outside of class, including the monthly Petit Goûter, a series of events for the semaine de la Francophonie and the 2018 Providence French Film Festival.
FREN0400, group work during a regular class. Fall 2017.
Teaching Assistant
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brown University
“Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies,” Spring 2016
- Taught weekly discussion sections to complement the course seminar.
- Supplied additional material specific to the discussion sections and created activities and assignments.
- Graded the papers of students from both my own section and from the student-led sections.
- Met with all students during office hours.
"Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies," the students listen and take notes during a mini-lecture before launching into discussion. Spring 2016.
Teaching Assistant
Department of English, Brown University
“Faulkner," Fall 2015
- Taught weekly discussion sections on the assigned primary texts and on relevant social and political issues.
- Supplied additional material to help anchor Faulkner’s novels in their historical context or provide the students with adequate analytical tools.
- Created low-stake assignments and activities to be done in and outside of class.
- Graded all students on their writing and participation.
- Met with students during office hours.
Pastel illustration submitted by one of my students as part of his final project. This piece was part of a larger series of drawings accompanying a paper on "fragmented identities in Faulkner's novels."
Foreign Language Teaching Assistant/ French Tutor
French Department, Bard College
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
- Lead weekly conversation groups for beginning, intermediate and advanced students of French to complement the classes taught by the department’s main instructors.
- Designed topics of discussion and primary material to complement the exercises from the handbook.
- Taught parts of the intermediate French classes in the fall semester and of the intensive-beginner class in the spring, using materials and syllabi provided by the department.
- Graded tests and papers from all French courses.
- Provided one-on-one help to students during office hours.
- Organized and lead two regular cultural events (a monthly French cooking club and a weekly French radio-club), and the department’s French Film Festival.
- Organized and participated to the weekly French Table and the yearly Bard Language Fair.
- Accompanied the intensive beginner French class to Tours in various cultural excursions in the Loire Valley during the summer.
Language Fair organized with the other language tutors/FLTAs. Bard College, Spring 2012.
- Other Pedagogical Experience -
Research Mentor, Fall 2018
Mentored a Master’s student in the department of history for her thesis project on oral testimonies from Jewish women who took part in the French Resistance during WWII. During our weekly meetings, I helped her translating the oral testimonies from recordings in French and gave her writing advice.
Book Reviews Editor, Graduate Journal for Food Studies, 2016 – 2018
As the Graduate Journal for Food Studies has a mission to predominantly publish graduate students, my role as the Book Reviews Editor was to help young scholars get acquainted with the particulars of academic writing. This meant guiding writers through their first draft and then providing them with feedback on their arguments, writing style and format until the review was fit to be published. By teaching others, I learned how to become a better writer myself, but most importantly, how to provide encouraging, clear and actionable feedback and develop writing abilities that translate beyond academia.
Assistant Editor, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 2016 – 2018
My position for the journal NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, covered two main tasks. On the one hand, I was tasked to edited and fact-check articles and book reviews and to correspond with the authors. On the other, I was tasked to organize and moderate a weekly reading group in the English department, in preparation for the annual NOVEL Symposium to be held the following semester. I selected readings and materials to be discussed with the members of the group and supervised the draft on the upcoming conference “What is Abstract and What is Concrete in the Novel?”.
Member of the Center for Language Studies Think-Tank, Brown University. 2015 – 2017
I was selected and invited by the head of Brown University’s Center for Language Studies to be a member of the CLS Think-Tank, a group dedicated to imagining the future of language studies at Brown, sharing innovative pedagogical tools across language departments, increasing the appeal of small language programs, gathering data on the usefulness of a language degree among Brown Alumnae and drafting articles for the CLS website. My time on the Think-Tank provided me with the opportunity to experience the administrative challenges that accompany pedagogical challenges.
Local Advisor, Karunalayam Rural Welfare Society, Nettapakam, Tamil Nadu, India. 2013 – 2014
As an Advisor for the NPO, I worked with women of the Nettapakam region in Tamil Nadu, writing official reports for the NPO and organizing various events, to teach local women about beneficial government programs, health services, girls' education and other social issues. For these events, I organized talks from doctors and/or professors and gave regular presentations on girls' education and feminine hygiene.
Writer and content creator, Fichebook. 2011 – 2013
Created original book summaries, reviews, sample essays and reading questions for the fichebook project, an online platform for middle school, high school and college students.
Q&A during one of the "info camps" organized by Karunalayam Rural Welfare Society in the Nettapakam countryside with women from neighbouring villages.
- Pedagogical Training -
Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University.
Course Design Seminar, Spring 2018
Seminar training participants to efficient course and assignment design, for all institutions and levels of higher education.
Teaching Consultant Program, 2017-2018
Selected to serve as a teaching consultant, upon completion of the teaching certificate seminar. Observed instructors of all levels of experience as they taught their classes and provided them with critical feedback. Each observation entailed a pre-observation meeting with the instructor to discuss their teaching goals, in-class teaching observation, a post-observation meeting and the redaction of an observation report. The program also included participation to a monthly consultant workshop.
Teaching Certificate Seminar, 2015-2016
Teaching Certificate granted upon the successful completion of a year-long pedagogy seminar, including both theoretical and practical assignments.
Center for Language Studies, Brown University.
Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Seminar, 2015
Weekly seminar dedicated to foreign language instructors. Introduced participants to state-of-the-art pedagogy tools and technologies. Exposed to contemporary discussions in the field of language pedagogy.