Patrick Mooney
Graduate Student, English Department
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Mooney is a Ph.D. candidate in English at UC Santa Barbara with a decade of experience teaching, curriculum design, and tutoring across higher-education and community-college settings. He combines deep scholarly knowledge of the Victorian-to-postmodern literary trajectory with practical expertise running large discussion sections, designing instructional programs, and assessing student writing. A former co-lead TA and instructor of record, he has led pedagogy seminars and technology-focused training for faculty and peers. Outside the academy he brings corporate training and learning-development experience—redesigning onboarding and tracking systems for call centers—which informs his systematic approach to instructional design. Fluent in editorial practice and comfortable with coding, he bridges humanities scholarship and technical fluency to create engaging, evidence-driven learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at University of California, BerkeleyIntercultural German Studies, Intercultural German Studies at Universität BayreuthPh.D., English, Ph.D., English at University of California, Santa BarbaraAA, block-transfer degree, AA, block-transfer degree at Southwestern Oregon Community CollegeM.A., English, M.A., English at UC Santa BarbaraHigh school diploma, General College-Prep Curriculum, High school diploma, General College-Prep Curriculum at Bandon High School
German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
pandora10
markov-chain10
python10
twitter-api10
markov-model10
twitter9
flickr9
natural-language-processing9
gnome9
glob9
music9
nlp9
social-media8
syntax-highlighting8
text-encoding8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
patrick-brian-mooney/LibidoMechanica
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Automated love poetry, generated by a text generator.
Contributions:129 commits, 2 PRs, 1458 pushes in 5 years 9 months
nlppythonpostsautomated-text-generationmarkov-chain
patrick-brian-mooney/AutoLovecraft-python
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Script that posts to the blog The Worst of Bad Lovecraft
Contributions:476 commits, 1539 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 5 months
automated-textautomated-text-generationhorror-fictionhp-lovecraftmarkov-chain
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