About

Welcome to my online portfolio. Here, you will gain a comprehensive view of my experience as a teacher, scholar, and writer and how these three vocations have intersected over the past 14 years.

Teaching: A proven effective educator of over 100 college students and 300 high school students from various cultural and educational backgrounds, I have taught at both Georgetown University and New York University in humanities, British and American literature, composition, and film studies, and high school English, philosophy, and art history at the Edmund Burke School in Washington, DC and the McLean School in Potomac, MD. Last year, I received the Ham Bishop Award for service, devotion, and leadership. My experience includes designing advanced English and writing courses with lectures, extended discussion and close reading of texts, research and writing projects, and the work-shopping of student essays. For the past three years, this has included working with eleventh graders on college admissions essays, helping them to craft a perfect glimpse into their passions, goals, creativity, perspective, and life experiences.

I am especially dedicated to marginalized voices of individuals managing mental health and learning differences, including ADHD, dyslexia, and autism spectrum disorder.

Over the past eight years, I have designed all of the courses I have taught as a primary instructor from the ground up to include as many diverse voices as possible, whether that’s the voice of a fourteenth-century mystic or a twenty-first-century young adult. In fact, the best learning opportunities occur when these voices connect. I think it is not only important for students to learn in a multiculturally rich community but also to challenge the very idea of “culture” as an organizing structure. I am especially dedicated to marginalized voices of individuals managing mental health and learning differences, including ADHD, dyslexia, and autism spectrum disorder. I believe that it is my job as an educator to understand the learning style of each student, adapting and challenging when necessary. Often, these adaptations can work well to introduce the wider learning community to new ways of approaching knowledge. For that reason, I try to make my lessons as media-diverse as possible, offering multiple perspectives and encouraging students to consider how the packaging of knowledge effects its truth content.

In addition to teaching high school and college students, I have an interest in / commitment to extending educational opportunities to incarcerated and returning citizens. I’ve tutored with The Petey Greene Program, which places tutors in correctional facilities in DC, MD, and VA, assisting students working to continue their education.

Scholarship: I received my PhD in English from New York University, specializing in medieval literature with emphasis on Chaucer, aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and critical theory. I received my BA in English and Spanish from Washington & Jefferson College and my MA in English from Georgetown University. I have presented work on topics including medieval prostitution, the rhetoric of abortion in medieval Ireland, Adorno and Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and women and generosity. My dissertation, “Diseased Texts: Formosa Deformitas and Middle English Literature,” develops a theory of medieval aesthetics that addresses the intersection of art, ideology, and negative affects (especially dread, horror, boredom, and disgust) in late medieval texts like The Canterbury Tales and Thomas Malory’s Works. My secondary research interest is in the horror film and “unwatchable”/extreme/vilified cinema, including the work of Gaspar Noé, Takashi Miike, Lars Von Trier, and Jörg Buttgereit. Click Gina Dominick, CV (2025).

Writing: I have eight years of experience as a writer, editor, and proofreader in various professional and personal settings, both academic and non-academic. It’s been a pleasure to work on projects with a diverse community that has included Italian literature and philosophy scholars, a B Horror critic, a British-Kuwaiti playwright, and the late US Senator, Harris Wofford Jr, lifelong education advocate and political activist.