Teaching CV
LynleyShimat Lys
Brooklyn, NY 11217
[email protected]
Teaching & Instruction Resume
Teaching & Tutoring Experience
Sept. – May 2004-5 Hebrew Teacher, 3rd Grade, TempleBeth Torah, Fremont, CA
Sept. – May 2004-5 Writing Coach - High School English Students, Berkeley, CA
http://www.writercoachconnection.com/
June – Aug. 2003 Hebrew Tutor, Private Lessons, Berkeley, CA
Feb. - June 2000 Teacher of English for Russian Speakers, Arad, Israel
1999 & Prior Tutoring Math, English, Writing, Languages for peers and at Berkeley Women's Shelter
Extensive experience with childcare for ages 0 – 10, work in Gan on Kibbutz Gal’on, Israel
Workshops Led
Mar. 2008 “Yiddish Film” – History and Theory of Yiddish Culture On Film
Mar. 2008 Yiddish Break, BrandeisUniversity, Waltham, MA
Feb. 2008 "Finding our Place:
Images of Men, Women, and Fluidity in Jewish texts and film"
Co-Led with Justin Rosen, NUJLS Conference, Columbia University
Mar. – Apr. 2006 “Jewish Gender Theory,” & “Jews and Bisexuality”
National Union of Jewish LGBT Students (NUJLS), Wesleyan, CT
http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=3291
Education
Aug. – Dec. 2005-6 Moving Image Archiving & Preservation (MIAP) MA Courses, NYU
Aug. - May 2005-6 Served as first year student representative to MIAP Committee
May 2002 Graduated with Distinction in General Scholarship,
BA in Comparative Literature (Hebrew, Russian, English),
University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), CA
Awards:
Aug. – Dec. 2005-6 NYU Graduate Fellowship, Various
June – Aug. 2006 NYU Dorot Summer Travel Grant Recipient
May 2002 Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in Poetry, UC Berkeley, CA
May 2002 Fabilli-HofferLaconicEssay Prize Honorable Mention, UC Berkeley, CA
July 1998 Israel at Fifty Scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
July 1998 Dorot Summer Research Grant, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
May 1995 National Merit Scholarship
May 1995 University of California Regents' Scholarship
May 1995 AP Scholar with Distinction
Writing Classes & Groups Attended
Sept. 2007 - Present Times Square Playwrights, New York, NY
Sept. 2007 - Present NYC Screenwriters Meetup, New York, NY
June – Sept. 2007 Facilitator, Park Slope Summer Writing Group, Brooklyn, NY
Sept. - Dec. 1999 Black Fire on White Fire, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley, CA
Sept. - Dec. 1998 Poetry in the Dark, (student group) UC Berkeley, CA
Aug.- Dec. 1996 Creative Writing, Laney College, Oakland, CA
Sept. - Dec. 1993 Memoir Writing Class, Vista Community College, Berkeley, CA
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
Fall/Winter 2006, Issue 1 “Call For Return: Fielding Questions On Lebanon,” PresenTense,
http://www.presentensemagazine.org/pdfs/issues/PT102306.pdf
2006 – 2007, Volume 2 “What Must Not Be Aired: Israeli Civil Unrest and the Invasion of Lebanon,”
Mayim Rabim, NYU Israel Journal, New York, NY.
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Mar. 2007 “Shuvi, Shuvi haShulamit: Jerusalem Archaeologies in Kadosh and Bayit,”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Chicago, IL –
http://www.cmstudies.org/documents/SCMS2007INTFPforweb.pdf
Nov. 2006 “Shoah, Kedma and Walk On Water: Touch in Holocaust Film”
Film & History 2006, Dallas, TX –
http://www.h-net.org/~filmhis/conference_events/2006_Conference_Program_Template.pdf
Oct. 2006 “Student Networking,” Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA),
Anchorage, AK - http://www.amiaconference.com/2006/index.html
Oct. 2006 “International Volunteering: Israel,” AMIA 2006, Anchorage, AK
Feb. 2006 “Weimar Gender Roles” Cinema Studies Student Conference 2006, NYU, NY
http://www.cinematologists.com/2006/topics.html#f430 May 2005
“Gender in Weimar Films Schuhpalast Pinkus and Hamlet,”
German Film Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA
May 2004 “Jewish / Yiddish Film Weddings” Film Studies Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA
• Also attended:
March 2006 Orphans Film Symposium, University of South Carolina, SC.
July 2006 Jerusalem International Film Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
July 2006 Jerusalem Conference of Audiovisual Archivists, Jerusalem, 2006.
Published Work
FORTHCOMING - Poetry in PresenTense Magazine www.presentensemagazine.org
Jan. 2002 Edition “Tel Aviv Melody” in Big City Lit, www.nycBigCityLit.com
Feb. 2001, Vol. 1 “She,” “Enormity,” in Sapphic Litorus, UC Berkeley, CA
Mar. 2000, Vol. 1 “Irinka” in The Occasional Bagel, UC Berkeley, CA
Apr. 1999, Vol. 2 “Tea House,” “Isle” in Cal Literary Arts Magazine, UC Berkeley, CA
Mar. 1999, Vol. 5 “Out of Jaffa” in The Body Inside, Evanston, IL
Jan. 1999, Issue 27 “Letter Knife” in Sparks, www.eserver.org/sparks/sparks.html
Nov. 1998 “Sickle,” “Birth” in Asteroid, UC Berkeley, CA
Aug. 1998, Issue 4 “Salt Pillar,” “To Seek,” “Tocsin” in Road of Shadows, Issue 4,
www.longshadows.com/road4/poet5.html
June 1998 Edition “Collage,” “Night Life,” “Crusin’ Shangri-LA,” “Tempest,” “Escape,”Poetry Magazine
www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/1998/june/lys.htm
Jan. 1998, Issue 3 “Rising,” “Looking Glass,” “Expectations,” Road of Shadows,
www.longshadows.com/road3/poet5.html
Jan 1998 Edition “Sublimate,”” “Philosopher,” Poetry Magazine,
www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/1998/jan/lys.html
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Topics & Themes of Interest
Writing
Essay Writing
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Creative Writing
Poetry,
Play Writing,
Fiction,
Non-Fiction
Language & Literature
Russian Language & Literature
Hebrew Language & Literature
Yiddish Language & Literature
Italian Language & Literature
French Language & Literature
Film
Yiddish Film
Israeli Film
Jewish Film
Italian Film
French Film
