Susan Kacvinsky

Seeking full-time teaching-track faculty position in English in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Motivated teacher with experience in delivering engaging lessons to students. Proficient in fostering a creative environment, engaging class discussion and individualized writing instruction with actionable feedback.

California Teaching Credential

• 06/13, Kenyon University Writer’s Workshop for High School Teachers, Week-long workshop focused on creating exciting lessons aligned with Common Core
• 07/12, University of California Los Angeles Writing Project, Summer workshop in best practices and techniques to engage struggling writers in learning to write college-level academic writing
• 07/12, Facing History and Ourselves: Race and Membership in America, Weeklong workshop on the politics of race in America focused on the impact the history of racism still has on our daily lives
• 06/2011, 06/2013, USC Shoah Foundation, Three-year program to write lessons using the archive of 51,000 survivor testimonies to teach important lessons from the Holocaust
• 08/07, College Board, AP Literature and AP Language and Composition week-long institutes

I have a master’s degree in Professional Writing from USC and a master’s degree in Mythology, Education and Archetypal (Jungian) Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. I have written a memoir, two novels and a five-act play. My essays have been published in This I Believe of NPR, Science of Mind magazine, and Underwired magazine—and I was a semifinalist for the Norman Mailer prize. I have studied narrative form and structure, and editing and revision extensively through organizations such as Story Grid, Writing Academy, and Community of Writers among many others.