User:Chemica

Hello, fellow Wikipedians. My name is Jarod. I am originally from Baltimore, Maryland, but currently live in Austin, Texas. My professional background is in language teaching and international education.

Education and Professional Background
I received my B.A. in French from Claremont McKenna College in May 2008. I spent my junior year studying in Dakar, Sénégal and Marseille, France. I have taught at the New York Military Academy, Amherst Regional High School, Belchertown High School, and Strive Prep - RISE. I completed my semester of student teaching at Brighton High School in the Boston Public Schools. During the 2009-2010 school year, I completed my M.Ed. in Secondary Education - French at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. In 2014, I graduated with a Master of Arts in the International Education Management program at Monterey Institute of International Studies. I currently work as an international student advisor for Texas Global at The University of Texas at Austin.

Editing interests
Most of my contributions to Wikipedia are gnome-like, using the random article link to find subs and make minor edits to articles. I try to restrict my more extensive editing and writing to Francophone culture, literature, critical theory and literary criticism, education, some philosophy, and articles about academia. Through my interests in comparative literature, language, and culture, I hope to branch out into African and Middle Eastern subjects. Articles that I have started include Senegambia Confederation, Them (novel), Randy Steven Kraft, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.