Denise E. Hopkins

Education

    

     M.A., English, Louisiana State University, May 2006

                Thesis

     B.A., English and Studio Art, Spring Hill College, May 2004

        

     Summa Cum Laude, Spring 2004

     Edward Day Stewart Award in English, Spring 2004

     President’s Scholar, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Spring 2004

     Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit Honors Society, Spring 2004

     Sigma Tau Delta, Omicron Pi Chapter, Fall 2002- Spring 2004, President,        

         Fall 2003-Spring 2004

     Dean’s List, Fall 2000-Fall 2004

     Honors Program, Fall 2000-Spring 2004

     Merilh English Essay Award, Spring 2003, Spring 2004

Scholarships

     Spring Hill College Honor’s Scholarship, Fall 2000-Spring 2004

     Spring Hill College Matching Tops Scholarship, Fall 2000-Spring 2004

     Women’s Sports Foundation Scholarship, Fall 2000 

2006-2008

Mount Carmel Academy

English and Art Instructor

2004-2006

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Graduate Teaching Assistant

        • Taught four sections of ENGL 2027, Introduction to Poetry, Fall 2004-          

            Spring 2005

        • Taught ENGL 1001, Fall 2005

        • Taught ENGL 1002, Spring 2006

2001-2004

Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL

English and logic tutor, St. Mary’s Children’s Home math tutor

        • Tutored peers in English and logic

        • Tutored high school girls in math

         "Reconciling Mystery and Manners: Free Indirect Discourse in ‘The Artificial Nigger’", Flannery O’Connor  Society Panel, American Literary Association Conference, San Francisco, CA., May 2006 .

        “Their Eyes, Whose God?:  Competing Notions of Divinity in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God”, Graduate Student Symposium, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA., December 2005.

      “A Historical Walk, A Contemporary Talk: A Discussion of the American                          Literary Canon and Two Contemporary Novels”, Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Dayton, FL., March 2004.