Alexandria Sanborn

West Lafayette, IN
Email address: asanborn@purdue.edu
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Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
August 2014-Present
Master of Arts in English Literature
Focus: Victorian Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Novel and Narrative Theory,
Formalist Theory
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
August 2007-April 2011
Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature
Focus: Modernism, Novel and Narrative Theory
Honors and Recognition
University of Michigan
English Department Honors; April 2011
Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Representation, Re-presentation, and Repetition in
Gertrude Steins The Making of Americans; March 2011
Travel grant - Beinecke Library; November 2010
Teaching Experience
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
August 2014 - Present
Introduction to Composition (English 106)
Shenzhen Public Schools, Shenzhen, China
English as a Second Language Primary School
August 2013 June 2014
English as a Second Language High School
August 2012 June 2013
Research Experience
University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
February 2012-June 2012
Research Assistant
Compiled quantitative data from surveys administered; coded qualitative responses from
surveys administered; modified language in reports to reflect current data; conducted
searches for academic articles; formulated literature reviews, selected content for posters;
communicate findings to research staff

University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and Sweetland
Center for Writing
Research Assistant
September 2008 May 2011
Evaluated background literature and compiled annotated bibliography; transcribed
interviews and meetings with researchers, faculty, and Graduate Student Instructors;
coded qualitative data using NVivo; assisted with data management, including
entering data and providing input on organization