ALYSA SCHROFF

Detail-oriented teacher and researcher with over a decade of experience in higher ed. Bilingual Spanish/English. Systems thinker with experience in curriculum development, project and program management.

• Managed all aspects of an amateur theater group, including all scheduling, contracts with local venues and tech specialists, print and digital publicity, auditions, directing and designing sets and costumes for 5 one-act plays. (VIDA)
• Planned, collaborated with faculty, and wrote a 250-page dissertation. (IU)
• Co-organized two graduate student conferences (IU)
• Pre-planned and managed all logistics for a 2-month study abroad program, including making all in-country travel arrangements for a group of 4 adults and 25 minors, restaurant and hotel reservations, contracting tour guides. (IUHPFL)
• Used PowerPoint presentations, on-line materials, course websites, and classroom discussion facilitation to teach over 30 Spanish classes to students ages 11-60, beginning levels through advanced. (IU; MCCSC)
• Delivered research presentations at 6 professional conferences, including the prestigious MLA conference
• Delivered program recruitment presentations to university students (CLACS)
• Provided stage acting instruction and directed 5 one-act plays (VIDA)
• Wrote 3 successful research grants.
• Employed research skills to produce the as of yet unpublished scholarly manuscript, Women Writers of Mexico’s Cultural Revolution: Fashioning Womanhood, Modernity, and the Avant-Garde, 1920-1940.
• Curated information for and wrote a weekly newsletter (CLACS)
• Created mail merges and maintained listservs (CLACS)
• Maintained regular communication with theater business partners to schedule services and payments (VIDA)
• Created and delivered weekly itineraries for the host families of US high school exchange students (IUHPFL)
• Performed developmental and structural editing on my own writing and that of academic colleagues, in both English and Spanish
• Provided written feedback to students in my advanced Spanish courses
• Assisted in the formatting and manual indexing of Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile by Lessie Jo Frazier, and Lorca y el archivo: diálogos con el porvenir, edited by Melissa Dinverno (Chicago and MLA Styles)
• Planned and carried out five research trips—four international, one domestic
• Used finding guides and various research databases to access materials (physical and digital) from academic, public, and private libraries and archives in the United States and Mexico
• Created annotated bibliographies to summarize and operationalize large amounts of information
• Arranged and conducted in-person interviews with journalists and scholars in Mexico City
• Used Adobe Acrobat to create a near-complete archive of a previously undigitized newspaper column
• Consulted digital research databases to compile subject-specific bibliographies for literature reviews, and developed systems for recording database research, including Zotero

• 2020, MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-Blowing Teaching to students of Spanish, awarded by the Spanish majors of the IU Bloomington Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
• 2017, Merle E. Simmons Research Travel Fellowship, Indiana University
• 2014, Tinker Research Grant & Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University

• Grant Writing: Keys to a Successful Proposal, Udemy Inc., Apr. 2024
• Indiana University Dual Language Teacher Training - Summer 2023

• Recipient of 2020 MIND (Motivación, Inspiración, Dedicación) Award for Impactful and MIND-Blowing Teaching to students of Spanish, awarded by the Spanish majors of the IU Bloomington Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
• Grantee, 2017 Merle E. Simmons Research Travel Fellowship
• Grantee, 2014 Tinker Research Grant & Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship