JOSH MEISSNER

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I'm Canadian-American. I've taught for my entire adult life, much of it abroad (Asia, the Maghreb, the Gulf, Eastern Europe).

Specialized Areas

ELA/Rhetoric/Composition

GMAT, GRE, IELTS, SAT, AP

ESL, EAP

Literature

18th Century English Literature, 20th Century American Literature

Early Modern - Enlightenment Historiography

Tacitean Historiography, Clarendon, Robertson, Ferguson, Hume, Gibbon

Early Modern - Eighteenth-Century Polemic/Literature of Controversy

Hobbes, Milton, Swift, Gibbon, Hazlitt

Virtue Epistemology, Intellectual Virtues, Virtue Responsibilism

Aristotle, Aquinas, Rescher, Zagzebski, Audi and Sosa

Core Competencies

Instruction

With an emphasis on clarity of exposition complemented by contemporary pedagogical

methodologies, primarily collaborative inquiry, i.e. participatory, responsive, learner-centered, discussion based critical engagement

• Curriculum Development

• Course Coordination

• Lesson Planning

• Timely Student Assessment, Integration, Record Keeping

(Schoology, Powerschool, etc.)

• Placement Standardization

• Research Supervision

• Mentoring, Academic Advising

• Co-curricular/Life Block

Employment

2020 - 2021 Founding English Chair (Upper School)

Shanghai Huaer Collegiate

KUNSHAN, CHINA

2019 - 2020 Head Teacher, Curriculum Director

The Acies Institute

KYIV, UKRAINE

2010 - 2019 Advanced Instructor

Saudi Aramco, Academic Programs and Partnerships

College Preparatory Program: College English and General Studies

DHAHRAN, KSA

2005 - 2010 Adjunct Instructor

Manhattanville Community College (PURCHASE, NEW YORK)

SUNY Westchester Community College (VALHALLA, NEW YORK)

SUNY Department of Writing and Rhetoric (STONY BROOK, NEW YORK)

SUNY Department of Comparative Studies (STONY BROOK, NEW YORK)

SUNY Department of Journalism (STONY BROOK, NEW YORK)

2004 - 2005 English Language Instructor

AMIDEAST

TUNIS, TUNISIA

1999 - 2004 Teaching Assistant, Adjunct Instructor

SUNY Department of Comparative Studies (STONY BROOK, NEW YORK)

1997 - 1999 English Language Instructor

James English School

SENDAI, MIYAGI, JAPAN

COURSE TAUGHT

College Preparatory

• Enhanced College Prep English Literature

• World War I: Origins and Aftermath

• Contemporary Social Studies

• Academic Reading and Writing

• Research Paper, etc.

Post-Secondary

• News Literacy

• Cross Cultural Encounters: Empire and Resistance

• Classical Greek Mythology

• Images and Texts (Cinema Studies)

• The Art of Cinema

• Exemplary Trash: Film Noir

• Exemplary Trash: Westerns

• Literature and Philosophy

• Modern American Authors

• Love and Death in American Literature

• Non-Western Literature: Asian American Identities

• Introduction to Philosophy

• Introduction to the Short Story

• Writing and Rhetoric

• Composition and Literature I

• Composition and Literature II, etc.

Education

Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature (ABD)

SUNY at Stony Brook

NEW YORK, USA

1999 - 2001

MA Methodologies

Trent University

ONTARIO, CANADA

1991 - 1995

Honors BA in English Literature and Cultural Studies

Trent University

ONTARIO, CANADA

Publications

The Perjured City: Augustinian Theodicy and the Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Springer Verlag, 2008

9783639061666

Plays: Five

Ordinary Press, 2001

0919740359

Work in Progress

The Empty Noise: Gibbon Contra the Watchmen of the Holy City