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My CV

Here's my CV, and it's more interesting than on a PDF because...there are pictures.

Education
  • M.F.A. in Creative Writing ~ The University of British Columbia, 2023
  • M.A. in Creative Writing: Prose Fiction ~ The University of East Anglia, 2020
  • B.A. in Communication and Psychology ~ Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2019 
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick, May 2019.

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The University of British Columbia, May 2023.

English Instructor

LaSalle College Vancouver ~ April 2024-Dec 2024

  • English 101: Rhetoric & Composition; English 212: Introduction to Poetry

  • Presented various core, foundational topics to a class size of 25-31 students

  • Emphasized practice/examples; encouraged student participation & group work

  • Designed assignments; graded assignments; provided constructive feedback

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Inside LaSalle College Vancouver (Google Images).

Block A Participant

Playwrights Theatre Centre ~ Oct 2023-Feb 2024

  • Worked on a full-length adult play that explores grief

  • Participated in cohort discussions and workshops

  • Had a staged reading of an excerpt from the play

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Introducing my play during the PTC Block A staged readings, 2024.

Marketing Coordinator

Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival ~ Sept 2023-April 2023

  • Updated the Festival Squarespace website and built new webpages

  • Communicated with the Festival playwrights, directors, and external contacts

  • Wrote a press release

  • Designed, printed, and disseminated the Festival poster

  • Created and led a social media campaign on Instagram

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2023 website banner.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

UBC ~ Sept 2021-April 2023

  • Taught a weekly Intermediate Screenwriting seminar (Spring 2023)

  • Read, provided constructive feedback, and assigned marks for undergraduate Creative Writing students’ pieces

  • Led office hours, monitored the TA email, and answered student questions

  • Provided a lecture centered on diversity and representation in screenwriting (Fall 2022)

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University of British Columbia.

Editorial Assistant Intern

Rutgers University Press ~ Sept 2016-Dec 2018

  • Executed design and index checks for manuscripts

  • Prepared pre-copyediting reviews for manuscripts

  • Updated production spreadsheets and the press database

  • Coded manuscripts using the Scribe Add-In software

  • Contacted and wrote to authors and copyeditors

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Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Communications Coordinator

ArtS Club Theatre Company ~ July 2023-Feb 2024

  • Handled media and public relations

  • Wrote press releases

  • Organized and facilitated advance photoshoots

  • Conducted interviews

  • Helped edit show trailers

  • Wrote, copyedited, and proofread collateral

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Interviewing Jiv Parasram & Christine Quintana, Director and Playwright, respectively, of Someone Like You (2023).

Guest Artist Workshop Leader

ArtStarts Explores ~ Feb 2023

  • Created and filmed an arts/writing workshop, Tracing Memories Through Objects, which uses experimentation and play and is based in the mediums of paper, drawing, and writing.

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Screen grab of the YouTube workshop video.

Playwrights' Gym Participant

Green Thumb Theatre ~ May 2022-June 2022

  • Participated in cohort discussions and guest speaker sessions about Green Thumb-produced plays and social issues relevant to young audiences

  • Delved into creating for Theatre for Young Audiences

  • With my cohort, workshopped my writing and provided respectful feedback

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Mountainview, Vancouver.

Creative Leader Intern

National Centre for Writing (Norwich, UK) ~ Dec 2019-March 2020

  • Co-led the Children’s City of Literature Program in Norwich Lower School

  • Guided sixth graders in writing short stories on the speculative theme of “Norwich 2040”

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Elm Hill, Norwich, UK, 2020.

Work Experiences

Marketing Volunteer

Vancouver International Film Festival ~ Sept 2022-Oct 2022

  • Drafted copy for VIFF’s social media channels

  • Gained insight into VIFF’s sponsors and partners

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University of British Columbia.

i-Teams Project Member

UEA & British Archive for Contemporary Writing ~ Jan 2020-March 2020

  • Collaborated in an interdisciplinary team of students on “Animating the Literary Archive”, a heritage project

  • Proposed a plan for a digital exhibition of the creative writing process

  • Conducted market research, contacted companies, and communicated with professionals in relevant fields

  • Participated in a group presentation to an audience of 50 people

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University of East Anglia.

Red Pine Ambassador

Douglass Residential College for Women ~ May 2016-May 2019

  • Represented the women’s program at several events by assisting with planning and executing tasks, as well as speaking on student panels

  • Led tours of Douglass campus to incoming or prospective students

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Douglass campus, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Prose Editorial Board Reader

PRISM international literary magazine ~ May 2021-Aug 2022

  • Read and analyzed literary submissions weekly for their suitability for publication

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PRISM international, Summer 2022 issue.

Unboxed Volunteer

  • Collaborated with team members to create and install an exhibition on the Nobel Prize-winning author, Doris Lessing, at the Millennium Library in Norwich, UK, in partnership with the Sainsbury Center of Visual Arts at UEA

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Millennium Library, Norwich, UK.

Community Involvement
Skills
  • Experience working and communicating with diverse groups

  • Experience working independently and collaboratively in a team

  • Adept in Google Suite, Microsoft Suite, Slack, video conferencing platforms, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Submittable, Squarespace, Wix, and WordPress

  • Skilled in Canva, Audacity, and Adobe Premiere Rush

  • Comfortable presenting to large groups of people

  • Experience participating in fully online environments and discussions

  • Fluent in English and Bengali; Full professional fluency in Spanish

Publications
Presentations
  • The Invisible Return. UBC Children's Literature Conference: Beyond Borders, June 2024, University of British Columbia. YA Novel-in-progress Reading.

  • On the Tracks. Block A Staged Readings, February 2024, Playwrights Theatre Centre. Dramatic Script Reading.

  • “Issues on Character Representation.” CRWR206B, October 2022, University of British Columbia. Course Lecture.

  • Icarus and Daedalus. Stage and Screen Writes, December 2021, University of British Columbia. Dramatic Script Reading.

  • “Novel Excerpt/The Representations of Mental Illness in the Media and Grief in Fiction.” Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis Conference, May 2019, Rutgers University—New Brunswick, New Jersey. Conference Presentation.

  • “Introducing a New Mental Health App.” Undergraduate Research Writing Conference, April 2017, Rutgers University—New Brunswick, New Jersey. Conference Presentation.

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Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Thesis Conference, May 2019.

Awards & Honors
  • Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Semifinalist​ (2023)

  • Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition, Shortlisted (2020)

  • Joseph B. and Florence Voorhees Cejka Graduate Fellowship (2019)

  • Paul Robeson Scholar (2019)

Copyright © 2025 Tanya Banerjee - All Rights Reserved.

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