CATHERINE KURTZ
Workshop/Curriculum Design Experience
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Designing a workshop
for graduate school-bound sophomores that examines the relationship
between the spoken and written word, teaches collaborative editing
skills, and helps with writing grant proposals. |
Currently |
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Designing a writing
workshop for first generation college students in which
relationships between students’ home cultures/languages and that of
the university are explored in order to help students maintain their
voices while negotiating academia. |
Currently |
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Serve on the McNeill
team, a committee dedicated to understanding and improving student
development and success on an administrative, pedagogical and
community level. |
2008-present |
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Train undergraduate
students in the Student Academic Services Center’s writing lab to
tutor peers with a wide range of learning styles and backgrounds. |
2007-present |
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Direct the
instructional assistant (IA) component of the Student Academic
Services Center Writing Program. This includes hiring, training and
supervising a staff of 17 undergraduate students, as well as
evaluating their performance and working serving as a mentor. |
2001-present |
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Designed the audio essay project,
in which students conduct theme- driven conversations in response to
specific ideas within scholarly texts and employ multiple
intelligences by combining a new technology with a new genre to
create a new kind of dialogue. |
2006 |
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Designed the
critical analysis film essay in which students use scholarly essays
to analyze contemporary films. This curriculum met the departmental
goal of bringing technology into the classroom; incorporating
multiple learning styles; and allowing instructors to assess
students’ close reading skills from multiple angles. |
2005 |
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Designed the IA
workshop program, in which undergraduate instructors’ assistants
create and lead workshops to establish their role in the classroom,
assist instructors in assessing student skills, and model leadership
for students. |
2004 |
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Founded, staffed,
and supervised the editorial team of the student online magazine,
sub-scribe. |
2003 |
Teaching
Experience
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
Multicultural topics
instructor, teaching writing and research on topics in social
justice |
2007-present
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
Research and writing
academic specialist |
2000 – present
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
Pre-collegiate
Development Program teacher, responsible for curriculum and
instruction of high school students learning about issues of
diversity, identity and critical thinking |
Summer 2007 |
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Instructors’
Assistant Coordinator, responsible for diversity training and
curriculum development |
2002-present |
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
Creative Writing
instructor |
2002 – 2005 |
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
Freshman research
and writing instructor |
1999 – 2005 |
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Colorado Chautauqua
Association
Director of Cultural
Residency Program |
2004 – 2005 |
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
CU Upward Bound
pre-collegiate program
Native American
literature instructor for high school sophomores and juniors
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2003
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University of
Colorado, Boulder
English Creative
Writing instructor |
1998 – 2000
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Boulder Valley
Public School District, K-6
Creative Enhancement |
1997 – 1998 |
Education
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MA in English with a
focus on creative writing
University of Colorado,
Boulder |
2000
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BA in English and
Dramatic Arts
University of California
at Santa Barbara
Graduated with Honors
and Distinction in both majors |
1997 |
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Lee Strasberg Theater
Institute, Hollywood, CA |
1987-1990 |
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Guildford School of
Acting, Surry, England |
1990 |
Awards,
Fellowships, and Residencies
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Tin House
Writing Conference |
2007 |
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Presented a
paper at the New York Conference on College Composition and
Communication |
2007 |
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Women’s
Resource Center award for women who make a difference |
2006 |
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Hungarian
Multicultural Center residency |
2004 |
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LEAD Scholars
Diversity Award |
2004 |
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Squaw Valley
Writers’ conference Patricia Simpson fellowship |
2003 |
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Port Townsend
Writer’s conference |
2003 |
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Voices of our Nation
writers’ scholarship, VONA conference, San Francisco, CA |
2003 |
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Ruth Murray
Underhill Award, Denver Women’s Press Association |
2001 |
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Teaching
assistantship, University of Colorado at Boulder |
1998 - 2000 |
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Scholarship at
Guildford School of Acting, Surry, England |
1993 |
Editorial
Experience
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Freelance
editor/book doctor |
2008-present |
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Senior editor of
Sub-scribe magazine |
2006-present |
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Isaacman, Kaufman, &
Painter line editing/screen play synopses |
1997 - 2001 |
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International Sports
Sciences, Association
Associate editor
Sports Performance Nutrition
textbook |
1995 - 1996 |
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Benjamin Cummings
Publishing, SF, CA health textbooks |
1994 |
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Laurel
Entertainment, NY line editing, screenplay synopses |
1993 |
Publications
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“Fluffy,”
Sub-scribe |
2008 |
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“The Truth About
Willy,” Sub-scribe
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2006 |
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“click,click,click,”
Clovis Press, Spoonbill and Sugartown |
2006, 2005 |
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“District 8,” the
Vizivarosi Gallery |
2004 |
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“Timing,” Punk
Planet |
2004 |
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“43,” Terrain |
2004 |
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“A Reversal of
Culture,” AIM magazine |
2004 |
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Book reviews,
Rocky Mountain News |
2004 |
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Play reviews, art
reviews, Boulder Weekly |
2003-2004 |
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Book reviews,
Daily Camera |
2001-2002 |
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“High Ceilings,”
Pinyon Poetry |
2003 |
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“Female Sacredness,”
Seeds of Peace |
2002 |
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“Female Sacredness”
Eastern Horizons |
2002 |
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Articles for
Medfit News, Santa Barbara, CA |
1994-1996 |
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“Benched,” a one-act
play |
1994 |
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“Grapefruits,” a
ten-minute play |
1994 |
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