Dr. Codrina Cozma
Department of Humanities & Learning
Support 805 Chester Ave.
South
Georgia College Douglas, GA 31533
100 West College Park Drive Ph. #: 813-943-1994
Douglas, GA 31533
Ph: 912-389-4294
Fax: 912-389-4052
E-mail: codrina2010@yahoo.com
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Twentieth-Century American Literature
& Film, University of South
Florida (2005)
M.A. English
with a concentration in literature, Valdosta
State University
(2002)
B.A. English and German Language and Literature Al.
I. Cuza
University, Iasi, Romania
(2000)
DALF French Professional Certification, French Ministry
of Education in Paris, France (2000)
DELE Spanish
Professional Certification, Ministry of Education, Madrid, Spain
(2000)
OTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING:
UCF Adjunct Retreat, November 5, 2005
Online Facilitator Training,
Socrates Distance Learning Technologies Group (August 2005)
Undergraduate International
Exchange Program, sponsored by Open Society Institute, NY, for one year of
study
at Valdosta State University
(1998-1999)
Civic Education Project
Certificate in American Civilization, awarded by Professor Louis Petrich, Al.
I.
Cuza University, Iasi, Romania,
1998
Civic Education Project
Certificate in Text Analysis: American Modern Drama, awarded by Professor
Louis
Petrich, Al. I.
Cuza University,
Iasi, Romania, 1998
TEACHING/RESEARCH INTERESTS:
American Literature (all
periods and genres), Film and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Context, Literature
and Translations, Post-colonial Studies
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor of English, South Georgia College,
Douglas, GA
(January 2006-present)
World Literature II
Composition I – three
sections
Full responsibility for three sections of introductory
composition
Developmental Reading
Visiting Instructor, University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL
(August-December 2005)
American
Literature Survey
Teaching covered an introduction to major critical
schools and close readings of texts from Colonial through 19th-century American
literature.
Instruction included interactive in-class group work,
peer-grading, multi-media presentations, mock-conferences, etc.
Composition
I
Full responsibility for four
sections of introductory composition
Software Training Specialist, USF HSCIS, Tampa, FL
(April-August 2005)
Projects
and teaching involved the use of Word, Excel, Outlook Email and Calendar,
PowerPoint, Captivate, DreamWeaver, Photoshop, Flash
Teaching Assistant, University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL
(August 2002-August 2005)
Composition
I
Full responsibility for eight
sections of introductory composition
Designed syllabi,
assignment descriptions, and class-by-class schedules
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Emphasis on developing structural
(grammar, style, and vocabulary) and conceptual (organization
and
content) writing skills
Extensive use of technology both for
teaching and for students’ assignments (incorporating
graphics into papers, designing Power
Point presentations, and writing academic journals posted as blogs on
motime.com)
Composition II
Full responsibility
for ten sections of advanced composition
Provided online
syllabi, assignment description, daily schedules, and assessment parameters
Emphasis on research (using databases, field trip interviews, conferences,
and MLA style)
Established standards for mock-interview
presentations that required students to demonstrate
integration of technology and professional
public speaking skills
Teaching with
technology: (smart screen; online office hours; group drafting in a computer
lab;
blogging
on motime.com)
British Literature Survey
Team-teaching of this graduate class
included participation in lectures and grading, presentations
of
criticism and socio-political context for prominent literary figures, and
providing
extensive
annotated bibliographies for specific literary works
Integrated multimedia for presentations
and teaching
American Modern Literature
Full responsibility for teaching this survey course of Modern American
poetry, fiction, and drama
Designed a syllabus that included writers and works representative
for the period
Selected quality anthologies as textbooks
Established fair assessment standards on a variety of assignments
Included exposure to historical, social, and critical contexts for
the selected authors and works
Integrated multimedia in teaching and in evaluating students
Graduate Assistant Tutor, Valdosta State
University (2001-2002)
VSU Writing Center (2001-2002)
Literature,
technical writing, writing for other disciplines (social and natural sciences,
history, business), Regents’ preparation sessions and grading, orientations, research
projects
ABAC – Regents’ Grader (2001)
VSU Special Services
Department (2002)
English,
Spanish, Math, and Sociology, research projects, and editing
VSU Modern and Classical
Languages Department (2001)
English,
Spanish, French, and German, office work, databases, and inventories
PUBLICATIONS:
Articles:
“Joe Gillayley: A Model of
Cultural Hybridity in Keri Hulme’s Novel The
Bone People,” Journal of
Maori and Pacific Development 5.1 (February 2004): 69-81.
“John Martin Bolzius and the
Early Christian Opposition to Slavery in Southern Georgia,”
Georgia
Historical
Quarterly LXXXVIII. 4 (Winter 2004):
457-476.
Review:
Tim Wood, The Poetics of
theLimit: Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry,
Journal
of American Studies, Cambridge UP, 38:1 (April 2004): 178.
Creative Writing:
“Happiness” (poem), Tears
and Triumphs, Owings Mills, MD:
International Library of Poetry, 2001.
161.
“Wishes” (poem), Footprints
Through the Forest, Owings Mills,
MD: International Library of
Poetry,
2001.
124.
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“Letter to An Angel” (poem), The Best Poems
and Poets of 2001, Owings Mills, MD: International
Library
of Poetry, 2001. 142.
“I Wish,” “Dreams,” “Happiness” (poems), The
Sound of Poetry, (CD collection featuring the best 33
world
poets), Owings Mills, MD:
International Library of Poetry, 2001.
“Wonders”
(poem), South Georgia Writing Project Anthology, Valdosta, GA:
Valdosta State
University, 2001. 6.
“I Remember” (essay), South Georgia Writing
Project Anthology, Valdosta,
GA: Valdosta State
University, 2001. 7-8.
Publications
in progress:
Review for the South
Atlantic Review of the monograph Secular
Revelations: The Constitution of the
United States and Classic American Literature by Mitchell Meltzer, Harvard UP, 2005.
Monograph: The Power of the Spoken Word: Literature
in the American Mass Media of the 1990s
Monograph: The International Reception of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Article:
“Resurgences of the Past in the Movie vs.
the Novel Beloved”
Article:
“The French Whitmanesque in Hemingway’s
Novel The Sun Also Rises”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“UCF In Print,” UCF TV Show
dedicated to UCF published faculty; Host: Charna Wiese, Orlando, FL,
December 9, 2005
“The French Whitmanesque in Hemingway’s Novel The Sun Also Rises,” Graduate
Colloquium,
University of South Florida, 2004
“It Is Written” (poem),
Annual Convention of the International Society of Poetry, Orlando, FL,
2002
TRANSLATIONS:
Books:
Heinz-Dönges, Lisa. Ursula
şi Liza. Transl. from French into Romanian by Codrina Cozma.
(Original
title
Ursule et Lise.) Fagaraş,
Romania: Agape
Publishing House, 2000.
Elliot, Elizabeth.
Pasiune şi Puritate.
Transl. from English into Romanian by Codrina Cozma.
(Original
title Passion and Purity.) Fagaraş,
Romania: Agape
Publishing House, 2000.
Wigglesworth, Smith. Ungerea Duhului sāu. Transl. from
English into Romanian by Codrina
Cozma.
(Original title The Anointing of
His Spirit, 1994). Springfield,
Missouri/Oradea, Romania:
Life Publishers, 2000.
Conferences:
Simultaneous interpreting (English-Romanian and
Romanian English) at the conference “Evolution or
Creation,”
lecturer Terry Mortenson, Cuza University, Department of Biology, Iasi,
Romania, 30 Oct., 1997
EDITING
WORK:
Gordon and Maney, P.A., The
U.S. Immigrant Visa Guide, 2nd edition, Tampa, FL,
2003
MIS Society, Newsletter,
University of South Florida, 2002-2004
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
Irving Deer
Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Literature and Culture, English
Department,
University of South Florida, 2005
2005 William
Bacon Stevens Award for the best article published by a graduate student in the
Georgia
Historical Quarterly in 2003-2004. Georgia
Historical Society, Savannah,
GA, 2005
Florida Center for Writers Award for Distinguished Scholarship,
English Department, University of
South Florida, 2004
Excellence in Teaching
Composition Award, English Department, University of South Florida,
2004
Outstanding Achievement
Award, University
of South Florida, 2004
International Poet of Merit
Award, International Society of Poets, Orlando
Annual Convention, 2002
Editor’s Choice Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, International Library of Poetry, 2002
Editor’s Choice Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, International Library of Poetry, 2001
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Undergraduate Exchange
Student Full Grant, Open Society Institute, New York, NY,
and Valdosta
State University, 1998-1999
Beryl Spector Memorial
Scholarship, Women’s Press Club of New York State, Albany, NY, 1997
Merit Scholarship, Al. I.
Cuza University,
Iasi, Romania, 1996-2000
SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS:
Modern Language Association, American
Translators Association, Amigos Interpreters’ Guild of
Valdosta, MIS Society at USF, SIFE, Sigma Tau Delta International
English Honor Society
LANGUAGES:
Spanish, French, German, Romanian, Latin (advanced
oral and written proficiency and translation skills);
Japanese and Greek (beginner level)
SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
Translator:
Amigos Interpreters’ Guild of Valdosta, Valdosta, GA, 2001-2002
U.S. Embassy, Return to Romania Program, Bucharest, Romania,
2000
Ronald McDonald House, Albany, NY,
1997
Romanian National Television,
Iasi, Romania, 1997
Christian Churches, Romania
1992-2000
Treasurer: Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Valdosta
State University, 2001-2002
Community Service:
Hillsborough County and University
of South Florida (2002-2004)
Mediation
of construction efforts for sidewalks and traffic light on 50th Street in Tampa, FL;
sidewalks construction was finished in November 2003
VSU SIFE (Student Business
Organization) and Boys and Girls Club of Valdosta
(2002)
Volunteered
teaching economics to elementary and middle-school students
VSU Program Right Track
(1998-1999)
Tutored
Valdosta Middle School students in all academic
subjects
REFEREES:
Dr. Lawrence Broer
University of South Florida
Department
of English, CPR 107
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
Ph: 813-974-2421
E-mail:
lbroer@tampabay.rr.com
Dr.
Philip Sipiora, Dissertation Chair
University of South Florida
Department
of English, CPR 107
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
Ph: 813-974-2421
E-mail: psipiora@gmail.com
Dr. Joseph Moxley
University of South Florida
Department
of English, CPR 107
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620
Ph: 813-974-2421
E-mail: moxley@taa.usf.edu