About // Research
Areas of Specialization:
English Education 7-12; Literary Theory; Critical Race Theory; Speculative Literature; Afrodiasporic Studies; Women’s Literature and Women’s Studies; Sound Rhetoric; Public Humanities; Composition; Rhetoric; Argument; Research Methods
Education:
NYS Teaching Certification, English 7-12 w/ an Extension in K-12 Special Education, Brooklyn College, December 2023
M.A., English w/ a Social Justice Literature Concentration, Lehigh University, May 2022
B.A., English and Political Science w/ a Minor in Environmental Science and Policy, cum laude, Union College, June 2019
Employment:
Angelica is a part-time English teacher and Marketing and Communication Associate at the Kew-Forest School. She began her journey in the publishing and editorial fields but has found her path writing and teaching English and Fiction Writing at the college, high school, and middle school levels.
She began teaching as a Teaching Fellow and Writing Tutor at Lehigh University. As a Fellow, she independently taught writing composition, reading analysis, research, and argument through various lenses such as utopia, ethnomusicology, dystopia, political theory, and protest movements. However, she has returned to New York since turning down her Ph.D. offer from UMass Amherst. She has begun teaching American Literature and Fiction Writing at the high school level at Xavier High School. Angelica recently earned her NYS Teaching Certification in English 7-12 from Brooklyn College.
As a Master's student, she has had the opportunity to develop her methodological project on defining a Black Futurist critical lens. This past summer, she was a Gipson Fellow, where she applied this evolving lens to the first two 18th-century texts with biracial female protagonists. She has also worked in the Gloria Naylor Archives, presented her conference paper "The Buried Woman" at LCIR's Narratives of Temporality 2021 Conference, and collaborated with the Lehigh University Art Gallery to run a public-facing creative writing workshop.
Before entering Lehigh University, Angelica spent a year looking for a way to work with words for a living. After exploring copious avenues, she worked in publishing as a literary agent intern at two agencies and held a substitute teacher position within the North Shore School District. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a Social Justice Facilitator, an LGBTQIA+ Ally and Ally Trainer, and a protest and education organizer in Union College's Women's Union and Environmental Club.
Future Endeavors:
Angelica is finishing her certificate extension in K-12 Special Education at Brooklyn College.
She is ripping apart her first finished novel into short stories she is editing for publication.
In 2024, she aims to update and expand her photography portfolio.