Meghan Lavin

I utilize research-based strategies to empower individuals in academic settings to succeed, with a focus on Collaborative Learning and Integrated Reading and Writing. Seeking opportunities that will allow me to use my skills as a teacher, mentor, and leader to help create meaningful learning experiences for students. I have dual citizenship, and I'm sensitive to the needs of students from a multitude of backgrounds.

Creative Nonfiction: Lessons in Minimalism

Your minimalism was more than the lack of stuff. It was how you moved through the world with a feather-like tolerance for office politics, the slenderness of your friend group, and the silence which was a guiding principle of what I knew of your life.

25th February 2022

Lesson Plan: Language, Literature and Culture

A three day lesson plan with discussion plans, literary analysis, creative writing assignment and close reading work

25th February 2022

Research Paper: Social Equality in Joyce’s Ulysses’ “Wandering Rocks”

The linguistic richness of the food contrasts sharply with the linguistic poverty of the thick yellow soup the Dedalus sisters eat for dinner. The acquisition of food in “Wandering Rocks” is easier for some than others, and this is one way of viewing inequality in the episode.

17th January 2022

Cooking, Together: Why Fusion Cooking is Here to Stay

The first time I tried bitter melon wrapped in a pita, I knew I would someday love you.

14th April 2021

Charles Isadore: Boston Pop-Up Chef – Mystery Diner

That night, we ate Butternut Squash Crostini with ricotta and balsamic vinegar drizzled on top. Next, we had Tricolor Ravioli filled with arugula and shiitake. We finished with a coffee cream puff, served with a hot caramel sauce.

16th December 2019

Poem: The Sommelier

There was something about you, the way you poured Bordeaux with such austerity, bucolic Sancerre, a cloth napkin draped around the neck, the way you filleted fish tableside like it was poetry.

3rd September 2019

Travel Writing: Eating Fish Soup

I sat in the hot, sterile living room—on a cold leather couch, opposite a steaming bowl of a deep red broth, speckled with crushed chillies with a whole fish, bones intact, staring blank at me in the face.

James Madison University • 8th September 2017

Graduate Thesis: Project Based Learning

Through project-based learning, students collaborated with their peers in addition to making a difference in their school community. This project created better relationships with students, increased their communication with others in the school community, created a more productive and meaningful learning structure, and created a sense of active engagement in students.

28th April 2016

Collaborative Publication: Kairos 20.2, Almjeld et al, A Decade of Hidden Feminism

The works in this issue of Kairos focused on new media's roles in academia; specifically, how new technologies impact academic understanding both inside and outside of the classroom. All works focused on this idea of challenging how academic writing sometimes does not complement changes in technology.