Recent Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area
Recent Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area
Seeking to engage in academic research in literature or linguistics via a postgraduate degree.
Theoretical linguistics, mediaeval devotional literature, linguistic fieldwork.
(Higher Education industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Studying for a Diplôme de langue et civilisation françaises (Diploma in French language and civilisation).
(Non-Profit; Broadcast Media industry)
May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)
RFA broadcasts news and information in nine native Asian languages to listeners who do not have access to full and free news media. The purpose of RFA is to provide a forum for a variety of opinions and voices from within these Asian countries.
• Logged programming and edited logbook entries for submission into records for assessment of RFA by Congress, media evaluation, &c.
• Checked, prepared and arranged recorded sound files received from correspondents in Asia for broadcast into China, reporting any problems or discrepancies with accompanying scripts.
• Prepared newscast rundowns of daily radio programs for reference in production.
• Performed initial adaptation of RFA content for redistribution online.
B.A. , Linguistics , 2005 — 2009
• Managing editor of To An Unknown God, UC Berkeley’s journal of Christian thought.
• Bible Study Leader for Crossroads Christian Fellowship; regularly led college students in exegetical studies, having prepared and typeset colometrized and annotated passage handouts.
Mediaeval rhetoric of canonicity, oral and silent reading, pictorial (inter)textuality, textual (spacial and temporal) adjacency pairs, hyperbaton, text as object, concordance, information structure; theology, moral philosophy, political philosophy, intellectual history, conlanging, classical Chinese, typography
Chinese for Christ Church, Linguistic Society of America, Rejoice Christian Fellowship
National Merit Scholarship, 2006
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2006