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Born in Garden Grove and raised in Riverside, Lena, whose first language was Vietnamese, was determined to fluently read and understand Shakespeare after years of shying away from it in high school. In university, she studied Shakespeare with Dr. Heidi Brayman and Dr. John Briggs while discovering a love for American literature and poetry with Dr. Steven Axelrod. After earning a B.A. a year early in 2021, she completed a M.Ed and taught a class of 12th graders in 2022 (she misses them so much). Today, Lena aims to become a community college professor, a profession and position she feels will help her increase accessibility to Shakespeare and other initially intimidating texts.
B.A. English, summa cum laude, UCR, 2021
M.Ed. Single Subject English, UCR, 2022
Shakespeare
Literature of the Early Modern Period
Medieval Literature
The Romantic Period
Poetry
American 19th Century Poetry
Chivalric Fairy Tales
Monstrosity and Otherness
Shakespeare and Servitude
Paradise Lost
Poetry
Shakespeare
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