Jonathan Gerkin

Experience

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  Sportsplex

  Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  Desk Worker

  I admitted members into the facility, sold products, and dealt with member complaints and needs.

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Seminar Teacher for Educational Studies Program

  I designed the program’s seminars for literature, philosophy, and religion. I taught lecture and discussion classes on analyzing literature, philosophy, and religion: for example, a class on Machiavelli’s political philosophy followed by a class on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels and understanding them in a Machiavellian context.

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  Wheaton College (MA)

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Logic Tutor

  I held weekly office hours and helped students with whatever subjects in Formal Logic they were struggling with.

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2014

  Core Teacher for Educational Studies Program

  I designed and taught a six week course on select philosophy as communicated through Russian Literature. I created the class application and personally selected my students. In our daily two-hour mixed lecture seminars, we covered topics as variable as Mikhail Bakhtin's relevance to reading Dostoevsky, Augustinian Asceticism in the context of Tolstoy's later works, and the relevance of biblical exegesis to understanding particular elements of authorial context.

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  Wheaton College (MA)

  May 2014 - May 2015

  I sent out weekly newsletters to all Wheaton College seniors; these newsletters provided detailed career opportunities, resources, and advice. I also did significant career relevant research upon request, and aided in the organization of career related campus events. I worked with Professor Michael Drout on a new study focused on digitally determining the authorial relationship of the Middle English poems of the Cotton Nero A.x. manuscript and the dialectically similar poem, "St. Erkenwald." The publication of the resulting paper is pending.

  • Professional Resources Coordinator

    Sept 2014 - May 2015

  • Research Assistant

    May 2014 - Aug 2014
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  Fulbright Commission Slovakia

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2016

  English Teacher at Cirkevná spojená škola

  I lead English conversation classes at all levels of the primary school, which includes students ranging from ages 11-18. I also teach two British and American Literature courses aimed at encouraging conversation and cultural exchange.

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  St. Thomas More School

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2020

  English Teacher / English Department Chair
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  Burke Mountain Academy

  Jun 2020 - now

  High School English Teacher