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Jeffrey N.

Private tutor in San Leandro, CA

Education

Yale University, BA in Comparative Literature (GPA: 3.86) Cambridge University, MA in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, Graduate Theological Union, MA in Theology (GPA: 3.94) University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Comparative Literature (Spanish, English, and Italian) (GPA: 4.0)

Experience

Dr. Jeffrey Neil W.has lectured and tutored since 2003. He has helped students of all ages from middle school to college to executives with their writing, presentation skills, and applications to elite university programs and jobs at Fortune 500 companies. Jeffrey taught at the University of California for sixteen years. A writer of fiction and non-fiction, he has received the US White House Commission’s Presidential Scholar in the Arts award and Yale’s Wallace Prize for the best fiction. Jeffrey has received various fellowships for research, including the Ehrman, Torbett, and Bildner Fellowships. He has been funded by the prestigious Ford-Mellon foundation. He has delivered lectures at Oxford, Yale, the U. of Pennsylvania, the U. of Toronto, and Harvard. In 2018, Dr. Neil taught in Beijing for TAL Education, the world's largest educational company, creating a brand new program in the Humanities for Chinese middle school students. Jeffrey helps students write essays, letters, and business proposals that have led to acceptance at their program or job of choice. Jeffrey can teach English language and grammar, beginning and intermediate writing, as well as advanced business and literary prose. Jeffrey's ability to speak and interpret in Spanish and Italian also make it easier to work with foreign students. Jeffrey taught beginning and intermediate Spanish at UC Berkeley. He has conducted research in Spain many summers at the Archive of the Indies, University of Granada library, Cordoba, and Santiago de Compostela. His dissertation was partially devoted to Miguel de Cervantes' writing. Please contact Jeffrey for a free one hour consultation. Although new to this website, he has many reviews on other rating websites and can send the link to those who want quality assurance. Online teaching allows Jeffrey to tutor clients all over North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Subject Expertise

12th Grade Writing European History History SAT Subject Test in World History French French 1 French 1 French 2 French 3 Expository Writing Persuasive Writing 10th Grade Writing 11th Grade Writing AP World History 9th Grade Writing ACT with Writing Creative Writing PSAT Writing Skills Writing Geography SAT Subject Test in Spanish World History ACT English World Civilization AP English Language and Composition SAT Subject Test in United States History SAT Subject Test in Spanish with Listening American Literature AP English Literature and Composition AP Spanish Literature and Culture British Literature CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP English Literature GRE Subject Test in Literature in English Literary Analysis Literature World Literature Italian AP Spanish Language Medieval Literature Spanish Spanish 1 Spanish 2 Spanish 3 Spanish 4 SAT Writing ACT Writing SAT Verbal ACT Reading GRE Verbal AP European History

Availability

Weekdays at any time, Weekends in the afternoon

Can Meet

Up to 15 minutes away for no additional charge

Hobbies

I enjoy traveling all over the world, cycling, getting to know the architectural and art history of new places, cooking Mediterranean-inspired food, going on walks with my dogs, and, most recently visiting Christmas markets throughout Europe. I also have set up a non-profit to bring Haitian Christmas lanterns to the US and Europe. They're stunning works of art, and they give artists, who would otherwise have no market for their handicrafts, the possibility to earn a livelihood.

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