Erin Elisavet Kozák, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D. in English (2010; dissertation on Renaissance English poetry)
• M.Phil. and M.A. in English (2006)

• B.A. in English with highest honors
• B.A. in German with high honors
• Phi Beta Kappa

Work Experience

Editorial Positions

• Editorial Manager, Bishop Fox (2018-present)
• Interim Editorial Manager, Bishop Fox (2017-2018)
• Technical Editor, Bishop Fox (2015-2017)
• Editorial Assistant, Bishop Fox (2015)
• Editorial Assistant, James Boswell Editions, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Summer 2009/2010)
• Freelance Editor (2008-2012; projects from such fields as architecture, business administration, education, history, and the arts)
• Editor and Copywriter, Yale Open Education Video Lecture Project, New Haven, CT (2007-2009)
• Editorial Assistant, Zoetrope: All-Story (short-fiction magazine), San Francisco, CA (2002-2003)

Teaching Positions (Writing and Literature Courses)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Mills College, Oakland, CA (Fall 2012-Spring 2015; courses: Rhetoric and Composition for the College Writer; Shakespeare)
• Lecturer, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon Campus, San Ramon, CA (Fall 2011; course: Composition and Literature)
• Lecturer, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA (Spring 2011-Spring 2012; courses: Critical Reading and Writing I and II)
• Instructor, Yale Summer Exploration Program, New Haven CT (for high school students, Summer 2010; course: High School to College Writing)
• Instructor, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (Spring 2010; courses: Intro. to Literature, Milton)
• Instructor, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT (Fall 2009; course: Shakespeare)
• Graduate Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Fall 2005-Spring 2010; courses: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, The Eighteenth-Century Novel)

Other Work Experience

• Freshman Admissions Application Reader, U.C. Berkeley Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Berkeley, CA (2011-2012, 2010-2011 cycles)
• Curatorial Assistant to Director of Germanic Collections, Department of Area Studies, Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2002)
• Archivist's Assistant, Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2000-2001)

Volunteer Experience

• Self-directed Reader, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, New Haven, CT (2006-2008)
• Reader, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, New Haven, CT (2006)

Publications

• Blog: Kozak's Classic Cinema (kozaksclassiccinema.com): Commentary on classic movies from the birth of film to 1950
• "The Marx Brothers' 'Everyone Says "I Love You"' in Film and Popular Music." The Discographer Magazine 3.5 (2016) 3-12

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Warnock Fellowship (2009, 2010)
• John F. Enders Grant for Summer Research (2008)
• Graduate Fellow, Saybrook College, Yale University (2007-2010)
• Beinecke Library Summer Research Fellowship (James M. Osborn Fellowship in British Studies, 2006)
• Robert Dudley French Fellowship (2004-2005)
• Noah Webster Prize: Honorable Mention (2004)
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (2003-2004)
• Yale Graduate School Fellowship (2003-2010)

Languages

• German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek; Old and Middle English

Certifications

• Poynter ACES Certificate in Editing (Poynter Institute; 2023)

Technical Skills

• Software: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)—advanced; WordPress; FinancialForce; JIRA; Confluence; Asana
• Style Guides: Associated Press, Chicago Manual of Style, American Psychological Association