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Ghazala Afzal
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Education
M.A. (Composition Studies) Long Island University,
Brooklyn
M.Phil. (Literature & Linguistics) University of
Peshawar, Pakistan
M.A. (Literature) University of Peshawar
B.A. (Literature & Political Science) Frontier College
for Women, Peshawar
Teaching
Started teaching at Nisar Shaheed College, Risalpur
(Pakistan) and taught undergraduates for eight years;
moved on to the Department of English and Modern European
Languages at University of Peshawar (Pakistan) in 1988,
and taught graduate and M. Phil students for another
seven years; worked as Public Relations Officer for
National University of Technology and Sciences (Pakistan)
for 18 months before my immigration to US. After graduating
from LIU, started teaching composition classes in 2000,
and am still teaching composition and literature courses
as adjunct associate Professor while working full-time
at St. Francis College, Brooklyn as ESL & Remediation
Specialist. I have also taught at SUNY Empire State
College, and to under-training officers at the Superior
Services Academy in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Interests
I have written and published poetry, short stories
and essays extensively in Pakistan for major publications;
did multiple teleplays and two drama serials of 13 episodes
each (one hour duration) for the National Television,
as well as scripts of various natures. I now do volunteer
work for victims of domestic abuse and am associated
with "Sakhi," a well-known South Asian organization
in New York. In Pakistan, I was associated with Girls
Guide Association, Red Cross, Blood-Doner's Club, and
served on the Executive Committee of Peshawar University
Teachers Association for many years.
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| Deanna Andrews-Mitchell |
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| June Baird |
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| Van Baird |
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| Eric Blake |
Education
Teaching Diploma- MicoTeachers' College University
B.A. University of the West Indies
M.A. Long Island University
Advanced Diploma in Ed.Administration-Long Island University
Ed.D. Nova Southeastern University
Academic Specialties and Research
British and American Literature
Educational Leadership
Dissertation: English Leadership model for struggling
readers and writers
I am an Adjunct Professor of English at LIU. I have
been teaching in the English Department since September
of 1995. In addition to teaching on the main campus,
I have been teaching at various off campus sites. I
started as a graduate assistant while pursing my studies
at the University. I am also a New York City public
high school teacher and administrator of English. My
sphere of interest has been British, Caribbean and American
Literatures. I have been teaching for over 20 years.
I have published creative pieces in Downtown Brooklyn:
A Journal of Writing, the literary magazine of the
Brooklyn Campus. At LIU, I have been teaching English
Composition (English 13,14, 16 and 17) Gaining a doctorate
was an achievement for me which I hope will motivate
other minorities. My philosophy is that learning is
a life-long process.
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| Glaister Butler |
Glaister Butler holds a double
master's in English with a concentration in literature
and the teaching of writing from Long Island University
(LIU), a bachelor's in English in cross-cultural literature
with a minor in Spanish from Hunter College, The City
University of New York (CUNY), and an associate's in liberal
arts form Medgar Evers College (CUNY). He teaches developmental
writing and college composition at LIU. Glaister also
teaches college composition and remedial reading at Medgar
Evers and college comp at Empire State College, The State
University of New York. His research interest is Jamaican
folklore on which he is currently completing a book. Glaister's
academic accolades include department honors in English
at Hunter, a Diamond/CUNY Pipeline Fellowship at The Graduate
Center, The City University of New York, and The National
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Sara Campbell
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MA Columbia University
MPhil Columbia University
Dissertation in progress: "The Treatment of Non-Human
Nature in Whitman, Dickinson, Frost and Millay"
Taught Logic and Rhetoric and American Literature at Columbia
University from 1987 - 1991
Have been teaching at LIU since 1998
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Bruce Chadwick
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I began my teaching career
in the Brooklyn College Writing Center in 1975 as a volunteer
tutor. I began teaching composition at LIU in 1977, eventually
teaching other courses in New York area colleges: Brooklyn
College; Kingsborough Community College; Marymount Manhattan
College. I worked for WW Norton on Diagnostic Tests for
Heffernan/Lincoln's Handbook, Writing: A College Handbook;
and I contributed work towards the 9th edition of the
Harbrace College Handbook. I entered Georgetown
University in 1985 on a one-year Writing Center Fellowship
where I studied with Professors Slevin, Moshenberg, and
Kim Moreland. At Georgetown, in a theory of Writing Seminar,
I presented a paper on Beverly Cleary's children's novel,
Dear Mr. Henshaw, which, with the help of Dan Moshenberg,
I developed into an article in 1987:
"A Theory of Writing for Young Children: Arguing
for a Moffett-Vygotskian Reading of Beverly Cleary's Dear
Mr. Henshaw." At Georgetown, I concentrated on
composition studies, graduating with a Master's Thesis
judged Worthy of Distinction. I entered the English Education
doctoral program at NYU in the fall of 1990, furthering
my concentration in composition studies. My dissertation
evolved into an autobiographical reflection of my composition
pedagogy from the beginning of my teaching career to the
present. I was helped immensely by advisors, Margot Ely,
John Mayher, and Gordon Pradl. I incorporated into it
aspects of music and genealogy, as well as a history of
composition theory. I am now teaching at Kingsborough
Community College in addition to LIU. At Kingsborough,
I have served on portfolio committees, and I am on the
Assessment Subcommittee at LIU. I also do free-lance editing
for Mr. Donald MacLaren, Queens, New York. My current
research is in writing assessment. I am also interested
in reader-response theory and pedagogy in the teaching
of literature, and in the creative process of classical
composers, especially that of Johannes Brahms and Robert
Schumann.
George Washington University, 1966, BA American History.
Long Island University, Brooklyn, 1974, MS Elementary
Education.
Georgetown University, 1986, English.
New York University, 1996, English Education, PhD.
Courses Taught at LIU: English 14, 16, 17: English
Composition. English 64: Survey of Non-Western Literature.
Memberships: National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE). Brooklyn Historical Society. Heights Toastmasters
(President)
Honors and Awards: Writing Center Fellow, Georgetown
University, 1985. Master's Thesis: Judged Worthy of
Distinction, 1986.
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| Josephine Clark |
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| Liz Dalton |
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Jim Dardouni
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Degrees: BA & MA Long Island University, Brooklyn
Courses taught at LIU: English 13, 14, 17, 61, 63
Additional: Coordinator of Developmental English at
Touro College
I've been teaching English 13 at the Bushwick site
since September, 1991 as well as English 14, 17, 61,
and 63. Since February, 1979, I've been teaching full-time
at Touro College, where I coordinate and teach in the
Developmental English program. I also teach writing
and literature. I feel very fortunate to be a part of
these two institutions. Outside interests include scuba
diving, Japanese culture, and traveling.
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| Thulani Davis |
A Visiting Writer (Fall 2007) to the English Department's
MFA Creative Writing program, Thulani Davis is a journalist,
novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Among her work
are two novels, 1959 and Maker of Saints;
several plays; the scripts for Paid in Full and
Maker of Saints; and the librettos for Amistad
and Malcolm X. She is the author of two collections
of poetry, has worked on several PBS documentries, and
has published in numerous magazines and journals. Her
most recent book is My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First
Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. Davis has
been a Buddhist priest for sixteen years.
Professor Davis's website: http://www.thulanidavis.com/
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| James Dievler |
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| Allen Durgin |
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| Antonino Gulli |
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Lynn Hassan
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I am an artist and a teacher with a long history of
working in both fields inside and outside academic environments.
Overall, my life path has followed a unique course of
study providing me with idiosyncratic modes of learning
that have nurtured my experiences as an artist and a
teacher.
My teacher training began with early education through
innovative teaching practices, based in part on the
philosophy of Carl Rogers, at the oldest humanistic
based school in the United States, Modern Play School/Play
Mountain Place in Los Angeles, California. Work in the
field of mental health, again within innovative programs,
deepened my understanding of psychological practices,
social institutions, and human development. One such
experience was at Diabasis in San Francisco, California
where I worked as a primary therapist under the auspices
of John Perry, a Jungian psychiatrist who pioneered
treatment modalities for acutely psychotic adults. Hospice
work and assisting individuals with physical disabilities
and others with HIV/AIDS, sensitized me to another range
of issues that also interweave psychological, inter-personal,
and community dynamics.
Teaching in the arts includes improvisational dance
and visual mediums within university settings and private
classes. My own art work has been exhibited and published
on the West and East coasts of the U.S. In 2000 and
2004 I was invited to Eastern Europe to participate
in international art festivals where I created multiple
installations for each event. In 2002 I taught a workshop
for art students in Romania. I also created and performed
an interactive performance piece. Currently, in addition
to ongoing studio work, I am completing the visual component
for a hypermedia collaborative project.
My formal academic training includes a B.A. in art
and psychology from Antioch, San Francisco; an M.A.
in studio art and dance from Antioch, Yellow Springs,
Ohio; an M.F.A. in sculpture and painting from SUNY,
Albany, New York. My experience of the Antioch degree
programs expanded my knowledge of rigorous, innovative
teaching/learning experiences for adults.
In the Spring of 1999 I began tutoring at the Long
Island University Writing Center. My work as a tutor
and member of the WC community expanded into administrative
activities, in coordination with the Director and Associate
Director, when I developed a tutor mentor program and
formalized the coordination of the Occupational Therapy
Workshop for new OT students. In Fall 2003 I began adjunct
teaching for the English Department Writing Program
and in addition, in Fall 2005 a course for the Media
Arts Department. For the 2006/2007 teaching year I was
the Acting Director for the Writing Center while Patricia
Stephens was on sabbatical in South Africa.
Courses Taught at LIU
ENG 14 Basic Writing
ENG 14X Basic Writing for ESL Students
ENG 16X First Year Composition for ESL Students
MA 150 Writing for Visual Media
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Mary Herbert
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Mary Kennan Herbert has taught literature
and writing courses at the Brooklyn campus of LIU for
over a decade. She has a BA in fine arts from Peabody
College at Vanderbilt University, and she earned an MA
in creative writing with a specialization in poetry, at
the City College of New York. Her poems have been published
in a variety of journals in over twenty different countries
around the world. Six collections of her poems have been
published by Ginninderra Press in Australia, and one volume
by Meadow Geese Press in the USA. Her work has won awards
and has been selected for several anthologies. Prior to
her academic career she was a senior editor in book publishing
and brings that expertise to the LIU campus.
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| Katherine Hogan |
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| Rochelle Isaac |
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| Karlene Jackson-Thompson |
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Letty Kisten
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Letty N. Kisten is an Adjunct Associate Professor of
English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
She began teaching English Composition and Basic Writing
courses (English 16, 14 & 13) at LIU, after graduating
with a Master's degree in English/Teaching of Writing,
from Long Island University. She earned her Bachelor's
degree in English from City College of New York (CUNY).
While pursuing her bachelor's degree she was a staff
writer for The Campus, the college's newspaper, and
tutored at City College's Writing Center. In addition
to teaching at LIU, she volunteers at her neighborhood
elementary and middle schools, and serves on the English
department's Writing Program committee, at LIU. Kisten
is a member of Modern Language Association (MLA), National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Conference
on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
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| Eric Lehman |
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| Andrea Libin |
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| Katt Lissard |
Visiting writer Katt Lissard (in the Creative
Writing MFA) is a recipient of a 2007 Art Matters grant
for her ongoing theatre work in Lesotho, southern Africa;
and she was just awarded a Lanesboro Residency –
a Jerome Foundation grant administered through the Cornucopia
Art Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Lissard, a playwright
and director, spent most of 2005 in Lesotho on a Fulbright
– teaching at the National University, producing
and directing plays, and researching the dramatic/theatrical
response in sub-Saharan Africa to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
As a direct outgrowth of her work, the Winter/Summer Institute
in Theatre for Development (WSI) was launched in June
of 2006 in Lesotho – the Institute brought together
performers and directors from four countries to create
theatre in response to the HIV pandemic. Katt’s work
has been seen at a variety of NYC venues. She is a Mabou
Mines Resident Artist alum, an Affiliate Artist of New
Georges Theatre Company and a two-time MacDowell Colony
Fellow. She taught for four years in the Interdisciplinary
Masters Program at Goddard College and is a frequent instructor
and project director at the State University of New York’s
Empire State College in Manhattan.
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| Rosemary Mayer |
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| Cecilia Muhlstein |
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Matthew Nagin
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Matthew Nagin earned a B.A
in English Literature from Cornell in 1999 and a M.A.
in Humanities and Social Thought, an interdisciplinary
program, at New York University in 2001. Since then he
has English Composition Courses at numerous institutions
among them Long Island University, Fordham, The Fashion
Institute of Technology, Queens College, Kingsborough
Community College and The Borough of Manhattan Community
College. Some of the classes he has taught include ACT
Prep, Developmental Writing, Reserach Writing, ESL, Freshman
Writing, and Writing Across The Curriculum.
As per his own writing, he has published fiction in numerous
literary journals, among them Void Magazine, American
Drivel Review, New Works Review, Tell It Again Stories,
Krax Magazine and Downtown Brooklyn. His poetry, in turn,
has been published in more than a dozen journals, such
as Westward Quarterly, Spillway, Clark Street Review,
Pegasus, and Prism Quarterly. He has also published prose
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| Arthur Pennisi |
Professor Arthur Pennisi has
been teaching as an Adjunct Professor of English at LIU
since September of 1992. He is currently teaching English
14 on campus and at the Ridgewood Bushwick extension campus.
He has taught English 13, 14, 16, and 17 over the past
fifteen years. He has recently retired from the NYC Department
of Education after thirty four years of service, the last
eleven years as a Middle School Principal. Professor Pennisi
has also taught courses for the Speech and Education Departments
at LIU. He earned his B.S and M.S. at Queens College and
an additional M.S. at Brooklyn College. His outside interests
are spending time with his grandchildren, sports and traveling.
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Jennifer Radtke
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Jennifer Radtke has taught
as an Adjunct Instructor and in private schools for 20
years. Her courses have included English as a Second Language,
Writing, Research and Literature. She is currently at
Long Island University and The School for New Resources,
College of New Rochelle, both in Brooklyn, New York. She
has a MA from the Graduate Center of the City University
of New York in comparative literature with a concentration
in Caribbean Literature. Her current research interests
include emerging cultural convergences across the Black
diaspora and changing American family structures.
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| Anele Rubin |
Anele Rubin has an MA in English with a
Concentration in Creative Writing/Poetry from New York
University’s Graduate Writing Program, a Post-MA
Certificate in Advanced Religious Studies from NYU’s
Liberal Studies Department, and a BS in Liberal Studies
with a Concentration in Humanities/ English and Philosophy
from Louisiana State University. Her poetry has appeared
in over forty publications including Great River Review,
Midwest Quarterly, River Styx, California
Quarterly, Paterson Literary Review, Rhino,
Lips, Potomac Review, and O, the Oprah
Magazine. Her first book, Trying to Speak,
published by Kent State University Press, won the 2004
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and Foreword Magazine’s
2005 Silver Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Rubin won
the Great Lake College Association’s 2006 New Writers
Award in Poetry and was named a finalist for the 2006
Anna Akhmatova Award for Excellence in Writing. She has
been teaching composition and literature courses at LIU’s
Brooklyn Campus since 1988. In Spring, 2007, she will
be reading her poetry and working with students at several
GLCA colleges, including Kenyon, Antioch, and Earlham. |
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Morgan Schulz
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I graduated from West Point in 1992 and
served three years as a lieutenant in Italy. I received
a Master's in English (1998) from UNC-Wilmington and had
a one-year writing fellowship with Ernest Gaines and Robert
Olen Butler at the University of Louisiana. I began teaching
at Hunter in the Fall of 1999 and received an MFA in Fiction
from Brooklyn College in 2001. Currently, I'm at work
on a novel cycle based on my West Point experiences.
My experience extends from composition sequences that
varied from straight rhetoric and writing-based to fiction/poetry/drama/essay
sequences at Pratt. I've taught English 14, 16 and 17
at LIU since 2000, both on-campus and at the three extension
campuses (recently promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor
at LIU). I have taught and teach Honors Composition and
Honors Introduction to Literature classes at both Brooklyn
College and Hunter. For the Honors courses, I introduce
sub-themes ranging from a study of Mythography to Utopian/Dystopian
Visions. I teach English 311, Introduction to Fiction
on a yearly basis at Hunter as well as Introduction to
Creative Writing. I've designed and taught courses to
include, ‘The Outsider in Literature’, ‘New
York in Literature and Film’, ‘The Faces of
King Arthur’, “The Future is Now!” (a survey
of hard Science Fiction from the last century) and ‘Both
Sides Now: The Viet Nam Conflict through Film and Literature’(a
course I also have taken in-country to Viet Nam during
the winter intercession with stops in Ho Chi Minh City,
Hue and Hanoi). |
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Susan Shurow
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BA in English, MA in Reading
and MA in Guidance. Taught high school English at John
Dewey High School for over 20 years, and was a high school
guidance counselor at E.R. Murrow High School for 10 years.
Have been an adjunct at KCC and taught basic writing courses
there, taught GED to adults at NYC Tech., and have taught
English 13, 14 and 14X at LIU, off-site and on campus.
I have received NEH grants to study Shakespeare in Oregon,
at the Folger, and with Shakespeare and Company in Mass.
In addition, I received an NEH to study Virginia Woolf
in England, and and NEH grant to study World Literature
at CUNY Grad Center. I am retired from the Board of Education,
and for the last few semesters I have taught English 14X
at LIU. |
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| Yolaine St. Fort |
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Lara Stapleton
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Lara Stapleton is a writer
of fiction, poetry and essays. Her 1998 collection The
Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing, was a PEN Open Book
Committee Selection and an Independent Booksellers' Selection.
She is a 1994 graduate of NYU's writing program, where
she received her Master's with a full fellowship. Her
work has been published in dozens of magazines, including
Poets & Writers, MS. and The Antioch
Review . She is the 1998 winner of the Columbia
Journal Fiction Award, and this year has been nomicated
for a Pushcart Prize. She is also the co-editor, with
Veronica Gonzalez of the 2004 Juncture: 25 Very Good
Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings, published by Soft
Skull press. The book showcases writing by both up and
coming and established writers, including Colson Whitehead
and Jonathan Lethem.
Lara Stapleton has taught developmental writing, composition,
literature, ESL, and creative writing in New York for
twelve years. Here at LIU, she has taught Eng 13, 14,
16, the x sections of these three courses, and American
and Non-Western LIterature. She has also taught similar
courses for BMCC and Pratt. She has taught Creative
Writing for NYU, the Bowery Poetry Club, and the Asian
American Writers' Workshop. She also lived in Madrid
briefly, and taught ESL there. Her Bachelor's degree
is from the University of Michigan, where she graduated
with honors.
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| Mariana Vinitskaya |
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| Orlando Warren |
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| Cheryl Williams |
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