Emily Christine Ponder

eponder@purdue.edu
(574) 339-8068
Permanent address School address
52401 Hollyhock Road Heavilon Hall
South Bend, IN 46637 500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47905
Education
Purdue University, BA in Language and Literature May 2009
Majors: English Literature, Classical Culture and Literature
Minor: Linguistics
University Honors Program
College of Liberal Arts Honors
GPA: 3.98/4.0

Academic Achievements
Purdue Outstanding Senior in English 2009
Purdue English Department Literary Awards
--Kneales Award Literary Criticism, 1st place, “From Dwarven Toys to the Ruling Ring:
Gift-Giving as a Necessity for Solidarity and Wisdom in Tolkien’s The Lord of the
Rings” 2009
--Kneales Award Linguistics 1st place, “Chair steps and mark times and slides, oh my! :
Word formation processes in the marching band vocabulary” 2009
--Kneales Award Cultural Criticism, 1st place, “An Invasion of Personal Space:
Integration as a Weapon of White Supremacy” 2008
--Kneales Award Literary Criticism, 2nd place, “From the Undeserving Poor to Middle
Class Morality: The Fabian Conflation of Class and Morals in Shaw’s Pygmalion” 2009
--Kneales Award Linguistics 2nd place, “Geometry: It will drive you to abstraction” 2009
--Kneales Award Gender Studies 2nd place, “He Said, She Said: Xander, Anya, and
Performativity of Gender in Buffy’s Hush” 2009
Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts Honors Colloquium
--Presentation “Defining Truth: The Modern Mythologization of Science” 2009
--Poster: “From the Undeserving Poor to Middle Class Morality: The Fabian
Conflation of Class and Morals in Shaw’s Pygmalion” 2009
--Presentation “Altar, Soapbox, and Courtroom: the Many Faces of Ancient Greek
Theatre” 2008
--Presentation “Dracula and The Woman in White: A Comparison of Victorian Styles and
Characters” 2007
Purdue general scholarship 2008-2009
Phi Beta Kappa – inducted March 2008
College of Liberal Arts Honors scholarship 2007-2008
Dean’s List and Semester Honors: fall 2005—spring 2009
Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, ENGL 106, Purdue University, fall 2009

Independent instructor for a freshman composition class of nineteen students. Lecture
three times a week, conference with students twice a week. Responsibilities include
instructing in rhetoric, style, and argument, and evaluating students. Share a syllabus
approach with other TAs, which focuses on composition in modern society and the
information age, focused on multimodal communication.

Extracurricular Experience
Editor, Ask James I: A Bible Study for Individuals or Small Groups (Ponder, Lance. Booksurge
LLC: New York, 2008.)
Content editing and copy editing
Marching Band Student Leader Corps: Assistant Piccolo Section Leader, 2008 season
Taught musical and marching techniques. Regularly prepared lesson plans for sectional
rehearsals. Administered memorization tests. Held regular meetings with section
members.
Purdue “All American” Marching Band, 2005-2009
Purdue Concert Bands, 2006-2009
University Honors Program 2005-2009

Study Abroad Experience

Beijing, China. May 2008. Week-long performance tour with the Purdue Marching Band. Part
of the pre-Olympic Meet-in-Beijing International Festival of Music and Art. Cultural
exchange focused on music.
Bucharest, Romania. March 2006. Week-long study of Romanian culture, history, and folklore.
Part of regular semester honors course Vampires in Folklore, Fiction, and Film with
Professor John Kirby
Quebec, Canada. August 2005. Week-long study of French Canadian culture and
Canadian/American relations. Sponsored by the University Honors Program. Lectures
from professors of Université Laval. Interacted with native speakers of French,
improving my skills in that language.