SUJAY SOOD, PH.D.

EDUCATION 2008 1997 1991

349 OGDEN AVENUE JERSEY CITY, NJ 07307 (917) 340 0385; SUJAYSOOD@GMAIL.COM

M.S.T. Adolescence Education (7-12) Fordham University, New York, NY, Ph.D. English, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, certificate in Comp. Lit. B.A. English, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2010-CURRENT NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL, NYC ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, FILM, THEATRE 9th & 11th Common Core aligned ELA, Regents, College Prep Film Theory, theatre SAT Preparation (math & verbal). BAYARD RUSTIN EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX, NYC -- ELA & VIDEO PRODUCTION 12th College Writing; 12th Creative Writing; College Advisory 11th Regents Prep; 11th Video Production; 11th SAT PREP; College Advisory 10th Film Studies & Media Studies THE BOSTON CONSERVATORY, BOSTON, MA Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts Department. JUNIOR YEAR: Year long Core Curriculum Modernism: Explosion of technologies and Media, Art & aesthetics Post-Modernism: The Computer age & Digital Media, Non-Western Cultures & Literatures: post-colonial writing Intersections: Art, Literature, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Film. SENIOR YEAR: (Fall & Spring) Seminars & Electives Time, Space, and the Body: Creating Performance for the 21st-century (creative dialogue with the ideas of Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein) Film: Aesthetics and techniques: film theory & 8 mm filmmaking. Media Studies Consent/Dissent: current affairs and the mass media, Chomsky 1999-2004: MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART, BOSTON, MA Lead Tutor, Writing Center ESL, Remedial, M.A. thesis EMORY UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA Instructor, Department of English English 101--102: Freshman Composition; English 215 Brit. Lit. UNIVERSIT CHARLES DE GAULLE, LILLE, FRANCE Maitre de Langue, Department of English Travaux Diriges, Deuxime Anne: literature, writing, and cultural studies

2006-2010

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2012 2010-2012 Consultant for Online Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Developing online projects for global access by all educators via e-platforms. Curriculum Design for new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Yearlong workshop with Principals, District Leaders, and Teachers to understand the demands of the new nationwide core standards and to design curriculum across the disciplines that emphasize all knowledge as narratives; integrated approach to raising text complexity across the disciplines. Team Leader, NYC Museum School for CCLS Bi-weekly meetings with department leaders and principal to initiate CCLS based approach to teaching and curricular development.

2010-2012

PUBLICATIONS: Modo-Culture: Bollywood Films and Globalization in Global Heritage: Tradition and Innovation: Africa and South Asia in Perspective. Ed. Lorenza Coray-Dapretto. Ruediger Koeppe Verlag: Cologne, Germany 2007, V: 105-126 An Introduction to Dharmic-Ethics, in Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a Post-Colonial World. Eds. Geoffrey V. Davis & Peter H. Mardsen. Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004, XVI: 65-74 The Man of Man, in Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a Post-Colonial World. Eds. Geoffrey V. Davis & Peter H. Mardsen. Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004, XVI: 299-309 Dharmic-Ethics: The Ethical Sociality of the Self in Postcolonialism and Postmodernism, Doctoral Dissertation, Winter 1997. "The Politics of Escapism in Rushdies The Moors Last Sigh," Commonwealth, Volume 1, No. 19, Autumn 1996: 64-73 Prose Poems: Untitled Series in Snow Monkey, an Eclectic Journal for the Literary Arts, #9: Vol 4, Issue 3. Raven Press 2002: 24-25

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Modo-Culture: an examination of Globalization through recent Bollywood hits, ESSE 7, Zaragoza, Spain, September 8-11, 2004. The Ontology Fantastic: The Ethics of Reconstruction, American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, CA April 22-24, 2003. Mediality and The Matrix: the film and Kittler American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder, Colorado, April 20-22, 2001. Ethics and the future of Postcolonial studies, ASNEL 2000, Aachen, Germany, June1-4, 2000. Draupadi and Translation in Postcolonialism, American Comparative Literature Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 10-13, 1997. "Censorship Machines: Rushdie and The Moor's Last Sigh," Commonwealth Studies Conference, Universit de Nancy, France, May 17-19, 1996. "The Space of Synthesis / the Space of Imagination: A Re-examination of Kora in hell and the Collage as Art Form," MLA Convention, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 1995.

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES Varsity fencing, intramural champion: squash, racquetball, billiards Acting, directing, playwriting: Theatre Emory, TAG (India), Lille (France) LANGUAGES Honorable Mention for the Academy of American Poets Award: Emory University 1995 March Fellowship for Outstanding Accomplishment in Literature: Lafayette College 1991 MacKnight Black Poetry Prize: Lafayette College 1991

AWARDS

Englishfluent, Frenchfluent, Hindifluent