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Abdoo, Sherlyn

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: sabdoo@lagcc.cuny.edu

Abdullah-Matta, Allia

Phone: 718.349.4078

Office: LIB-H4

Mail: E-103

Email: amatta@lagcc.cuny.edu

Aceto, Jon

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: jaceto@lagcc.cuny.edu

Aksakalova, Olga

Room: LIB-H1
Mail: E-103
Phone: 718.730.7508
Email: oaksakalova@lagcc.cuny.edu

Alexander, Christopher

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: M-109E
Mail: E-103
Email: calexander@lagcc.cuny.edu

Chris Alexander holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and a Ph.D. in American Literature from The University at Buffalo, with a dissertation project on the nineteenth-century roots of literary Modernism. His interests include the study of everyday life and experimental auto-ethnography as an art/writing practice; narrative structure and narratology in fiction and table-top role-playing games; and constraint-based writing in the work of Georges Perec. Also, drag queens and death metal. His creative publications include Panda (Truck Books 2012) and McNugget (Troll Thread Press 2013).

Aykol, Ece

Phone: 718.482.7516
Office: M-109N
Mail: E-103
Email: eaykol@lagcc.cuny.edu

Bajaj , Lalit

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: lbajaj@lagcc.cuny.edu

Baksh, Anita

Phone: 718.730.7507
Office: LIB-H2
Mail: E-103
Email: abaksh@lagcc.cuny.edu

Bandele, Nkosi

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: Nbandele@lagcc.cuny.edu

Baumgartner, Jennifer

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: E-254B
Mail:E-103
Email:jbaumgartner@lagcc.cuny.edu

Berke, Nancy

Phone: 718.482.5908
Office: E-103 T
Mail: E-103
Email: nberke@lagcc.cuny.edu

Nancy Berke. I received my Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and came to LaGuardia in 2004. Prior to LaGuardia, I taught at Hunter College and was a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium. My areas of specialization are American modernism, poetics, and women’s studies. At LaGuardia I teach all levels of composition, Introduction to Poetry, and The Woman Writer. My publications include the book, Women Poets on the Left (Florida, 2001), and articles in Legacy, The Times Higher Education Supplement, American Studies, as well as other publications. I have also contributed chapters to the feminist anthologies Gender in Modernism (Illinois, 2007), A History of Twentieth Century American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge, 2016), and Options for Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English (Modern Language Association, forthcoming). In addition to teaching and writing, I co-founded and facilitate LaGuardia’s Faculty Scholars Publication Workshop and am a LaGuardia representative on the CUNY University Faculty Senate.

Bird, Matthew

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: mbird@lagcc.cuny.edu

Boccio, Rachel

Rachel Boccio is an Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York. Her scholarly interests range widely across the American nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a particular focus on literature, education, incarceration, and arts and activism. Her articles have appeared in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, Rethinking Schools, and The Edgar Allan Poe Review. Prior to joining the faculty at LaGuardia, Dr. Boccio taught English and American literature for two decades at John R. Manson Youth Institution, a maximum-security prison for adolescent males in Connecticut. An essay drawing on this work will appear in the forthcoming MLA volume, Approaches to Teaching Literature and Writing in Prison.

Bromley, Robin

Phone: 718.482.5687

Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: rbrobley@lagcc.cuny.edu

Bruns, Cristina

Phone: 718.730.7506
Office: E-263C
Mail: E-103
Email: cbruns@lagcc.cuny.edu

Biography
The focus of Professor Cristy Bruns’ scholarship and much of her teaching are these broad questions: Why do we read fiction and how does it affect us? What do stories do for us? Why does literature—fiction, poetry, drama—matter? She is the author of the book Why Literature? The Value ofLiterary Reading and What It Means for Teaching? (Continuum/Bloomsbury Academic 2011) and has published several articles, the most recent of which is entitled “Reading Readers: Living and Leaving Fictional Worlds” in the journal Narrative (October 2016). Cristy earned a Bachelors degree in English at Wheaton College, a Masters degree in English at Northwestern University and an individual interdisciplinary Ph. D. in English and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At LaGuardia Community College she is Assistant Professor and teaches a range of composition and literature courses.

Burg, Evelyn

Phone: 718.482.5634
Office: E-103U
Mail: E-103
Email: burgev@lagcc.cuny.edu

Cardaio, Luke

Office: MB-14
Mail: MB-14
Email: lcardaio@lagcc.cuny.edu

Chandler, Linda - Deputy Chair

Phone: 718.482.5910
Office: E-103CC

Biography

LINDA CHANDLER received a B.S.E. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a Masters in English from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in American Literature before 1800 and Nineteenth Century American Literature. She has presented at numerous conferences and is currently working on her manuscript Keeping Home: Another Look at Domesticity in Antebellum America. She has taught Basic Writing, Composition I, Composition II, The Bible as Literature, Children's Literature, the New Student Seminar and LIB200: Science, Humanism and Technology at LaGuardia.
Schools attended: University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E.); Stanford University (M.A.); University of CA, Berkeley (Ph.D).
Area of Specialization: American Literature before 1800; Nineteenth Century American Literature.
Favorite Quote: "Make better ripples in the world" - Melanie Lewis

Chatterji, Tuli

Phone: 718.730.7451
Office: E254A
Mail: E-103
Email: tchatterji@lagcc.cuny.edu

Christensen, Brooke

Phone: 718.482.5687

Office: MB-14

Mail: MB-14

Email: bchristensen@lagcc.cuny.edu

Clark, Emily

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14
Mail: MB-14
Email: emclark@lagcc.cuny.edu

Clark, J. Elizabeth

Phone: 718.482.5665
Office: E-103H

• Biography • Biography

J. Elizabeth Clark earned her B.A. from Lycoming College (creative writing and history) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Binghamton University (creative writing and American literature with an additional certificate in Latin American & Caribbean Area Studies). She is a published poet and has written articles on a variety of subjects such as ePortfolios, writing pedagogy, pedagogy and technology, digital rhetoric, assessment, women's studies, the poetry of HIV/AIDS and NBC's The West Wing.

At LaGuardia, she has provided leadership in ePortfolio, assessment, advising student clubs, the college's common reading program, basic writing, accelerated composition, and the writing program. She often leads professional development seminars about technology, curriculum, ePortfolios, and integrative learning. Outside of LaGuardia, she is on the Council for Basic Writing, works with AAC&U on integrative learning & ePortfolio, and currently serves as the copy editor for the International Journal of ePortfolio.

Her current writing projects include a middle grade novel and non-fiction science writing for children.

For more, please see: jelizabethclarck.com

Cole, Terry - Special Faculty Assistant

Phone: 718.482.5657
Office: E-103 K

Coleman, Tara

Phone: 718.730.7454
Office: E-254B
Mail: E-103
Email: tcoleman@lagcc.cuny.edu

Comins, Barbara Dr.

Phone: 718.482.5667
Office: E-103 BB

Biography
Bio coming soon.
Dr. Barbara Comins, Professor of English, began her professional life as a cellist playing in the New Jersey Symphony, the New York Pops, the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and orchestras backing Tony Bennett, Benny Goodman, Henry Mancini, Barry Manilow, Luciano Pavarotti, Doc Severinsen, Frank Sinatra, Ben Vereen, and many others.
Winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities dissertation award, she earned her Ph.D. in English as a fellowship student at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her writing includes pieces in the New York Times, Poetry Calendar, Allegro, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and the Edith Wharton Review. Her essays “‘That Queer Sea’: Elizabeth Bishop and the Sea,” “‘Shuddering Insights’: Elizabeth Bishop and Surprise,” and “‘Then the Theatre…Changed’: Musical Frames for Wallace Stevens” appeared in the anthologies Divisions of the Heart: Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place, “In Worcester Massachusetts”: Essays on Elizabeth Bishop, and Essays on Transgressive Readings: Reading Over the Lines. With the British composer John Marson, she co-wrote the musical Getaway.
At LaGuardia Community College, she teaches freshman composition; creative writing; literature; the college’s capstone liberal arts seminar “Humanism, Science, and Technology,” and the course she created “Cultural Identity in American Literature.”

Conners, Carrie

Phone: 718.482.5965
Office: M 120-D

Carrie Conners is originally from Moundsville, West Virginia. She received her BA in English Literature and English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and her MA and PhD in Literary Studies with a minor in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her academic interests include contemporary American poetry, humor in literature, politics in literature, and working-class poetics. In addition to Composition, she has taught Creative Writing, Introduction to Poetry, First Year Seminar, and Learning Communities clusters. She has published articles and book chapters on American poetry. She is also a poet, and her book Luscious Struggle is forthcoming from BrickHouse Books. Her poems have appeared in Bodega, Little Patuxent Review, The Monarch Review, Kestrel, Quiddity, RHINO, and other publications.

Poetry Book

Luscious Struggle. BrickHouse Books, 2019 (forthcoming).

Article and Book Chapters

“‘Ping Ping Ping / I break things’: Productive Disruption in the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cisneros, and Wanda Coleman.” The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2018.

“Bursting at the Seams: Exploding the Confines of Reification with Creative Constraints in Sleeping with the Dictionary” in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Eds. Dr. Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan. University of Alabama Press. 2014.

"But he aint never bin seen!": The Protean Howard Hughes and Overlapping Capitalist Narratives in Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger” in The Changing Image of the Businessman through Literature. Ed. Christa Mahalik. Cambridge Scholars Press. (2011).

Features, Interviews, and Honors

“Considering Craft: Adapting from a Whirlwind to a Calm Breeze.” October 2018. https://littlepatuxentreview.org/tag/carrie-conners/

“From a Newtown Literary contributor: Carrie Conners”https://www.newtownliterary.org/single-post/2018/11/29/From-a-Newtown-Literary-contributor-Carrie-Conners

Pushcart Prize Nomination: “Negotiations Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel and United Steelworkers of America.” Kestrel. November, 2018.

Selected Conference Presentations

“Loved Labors Lost in Appalachia.” Kestrel Symposium. Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV. September 21-22, 2018.

“Work Is Work: American Working-Class Poetics in the 1990s.” Presented at the National Poetry Foundation Poetry and Poetics of the 1990s Conference at the University of Maine 2017.

“Creative Writing Across the English Department: Models of Engagement.” Presented at the Transitions and Transactions II: Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conference at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. 2014.

"The Good Life: The Politics of Hedonism in Marilyn Hacker’s Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons." The National Poetry Foundation Poetry of the 1980s Conference. University of Maine. 2012.

Corcoran, Daryl

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Biography

Schools attended: Vassar College and the University of Michigan (BA); Drew University (Master of Letters); Teachers College of Columbia University (Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language).
Area of specialization: I have taught American, British, and world literature, journalism, and theater arts. My Masters thesis was part academic and part creative and centered on epistolary novels. A published writer, I have written articles for ELLE Magazine, New Jersey Countryside Magazine, the Vassar Quarterly, and The Asbury Park Press.
I have also worked in corporate sales for Xerox Corporation and AT&T and as a literary agent, a Rights Director at Dell Publishing Co., Inc. and a high school English teacher.

Emaildcorcoran@lagcc.cuny.edu

Costa, Catherine

Phone: 718.482.5662
Office: E-103 R

Croson, Linda - Day Supervisor of the Writing Center

Phone: 718.482.5688
Office: E-111

Cucu, Sorin

Phone: 718.482.5681

Office: E-103 FF

Mail: E-103

Email: scucu@lagcc.cuny.edu

DeLong, Lois

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Biography

Lois Anne DeLong, an adjunct instructor at LaGuardia since 2007, has taught most of the basic composition courses offered by the Department of English, including ENG/ENA/ENZ 099, ENG/ENC 101, ENG102, and ENG103. The two basic threads that run through all of her classes is the interrelation between writing and critical thinking, and the idea that literature is best perceived in the context of its time. To achieve the latter, her classes often incorporate articles and research projects aimed at better understanding the social, economic, and political forces that created the world depicted in the text.
Prior to joining the LaGuardia faculty, Lois spent 25 years as a professional writer and editor in the nonprofit sector, handling a variety of assignments in technical publishing, public relations, and marketing. Most of those years were spent at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, where she served as managing editor of two quarterly magazines, publications marketing manager, and senior communications consultant. In 2004, she launched her own editorial freelance business, Better World Ink. She is a regular contributor to an engineering journal, Environmental Progress and Sustainable Development, writing about news and research trends affecting environmental engineers working in the chemical process and energy sectors. Other freelance clients have included ENACT, Inc., a nonprofit drama-in-education organization, and the Grand Street Settlement.
Theatre is another dominant influence on Lois’ life and teaching style. A founding member of the Presbytery of Long Island El Salvador Partnership, she serves as project director for the group’s Youth Theatre Workshop, an annual program that brings together young people from Long Island and El Salvador for a week of theatre exercises, improvisations, and the development and performance of an original bilingual play. Lois is also director of GSG (Godsongs Group) Productions, a youth and young adult theatre group based in Brentwood, NY, that produces original plays. To date, she has penned ten full-length plays for this group, and several shorter presentations for the Youth Theatre Workshop. In 2004, Pioneer Drama Services published one of her plays, a topical one-act called "Touchy Subjects" that deals with sexual harassment in schools. She is also co-author of No Manger too Small, a collection of short Christmas plays for children, published by CSS Publications in the fall of 2006.
Schools Attended: New York University (B.A.-Journalism and Dramatic Literature; M.A.-Theatre in Education)
Literature I like to teach: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, 14 by Jose Casas, The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and the oral histories of Crossing the Boulevard. In future classes, we will be studying Othello by Shakespeare, Antigone by Sophocles, and Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow.

Denatale-Dineen, Rosemary

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Dragan, Richard

Phone: 718.482.5686
Office: M-111G

Biography

Richard Dragan currently teaches Basic Writing, Composition I and II. In Spring 2007, he taught American Literature II, a survey of American Literature since 1865. Previous to LaGuardia, he taught a two-semester sequence on Great Works (with a World Literature focus) at Baruch College for several years. While in graduate school, he worked extensively in business and technical journalism publishing hundreds of articles for national magazines and websites. His work has been translated into 11 languages in print and online. Additionally, he has taught web design and computer technology at Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education for over a decade.
He is busy revising his dissertation on the use of recent science for aesthetic effects in the encyclopedic novels of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Richard Powers. He is collaborating on a cognitive science cluster for 2009 that will bridge 'the two cultures' of science and the humanities. He is circulating a manuscript of short stories, Words for a Mood, and is working on a new novel.
An avid amateur classical and jazz guitarist, he continues to arrange music, especially jazz standards and the music of J. S. Bach.
Schools Attended: Oberlin College (B.A. in English and Minor in History), Columbia University (M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction), The Graduate Center / CUNY (Ph.D. in English). Areas of Specialization: 20th/21st Century British and American Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism, Science and Literature, James Joyce, Anglophone Literature, Creative Writing—Fiction, Journalism. A Favorite Quote: "What two temperaments did they individually represent? The scientific. The artistic." --James Joyce, "Ithaca," Ulysses (1922).
Authors I Have Taught At LaGuardia: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Mina Loy, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, John Updike, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, John Ashbery, Alice Munro, Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Wright, Derek Walcott.
Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers:

"Falling Men: Realistic and Postmodern Terror and Wonder in DeLillo and McEwan's Recent Fiction and James Marsh's Man on Wire." Don DeLillo in the Twenty-First Century Conference, Don DeLillo Society, Louisville, KY, February 2009.

"Close Reading Matters: Explicating American Literature by Urban Community College Students." Close Reading Conference, NYCEA, St. Bonaventure University, Buffalo, NY, October 2008.

"Darwin on the Balloon: Reading Evolutionary Science in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love." Revolution and Literature / Evolution and Literature Conference, NYCEA, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, April 2007.

"Leaving the Bronx: Don DeLillo's Modern and Postmodern Cities in His Early Fiction." Literature and the City Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 2006.

"Mind-Body Problems: Science and Triangulating Desire in the Work of Richard Powers and Jeanette Winterson. " Locating Love Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 2004.

Contributing Editor: PC Magazine

Eisenstadt, Bert - Associate Director of the Writing Center

Phone: 718.482.5688
Office: E-111

Fink, Tom

Phone: 718.482.5672
Office: E-103 I

Professor Thomas (Tom) Fink--member of LaGuardia's English Department since 1981--regularly teaches ENG 101, 102, and 270 (Introduction to Poetry), and also sometimes teaches ENG 266 (Shakespeare). ENG 289 (Introduction to Literary Studies), Poetry Writing (ENG 271), and ENG 259 (Technical Writing). Professor Fink is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Selected Poems & Poetic Series (Marsh Hawk P, 2016). A new collection and a book of collaborative poetry will both appear in 2020. His poem, "Yinglish Strophes IX," originally published in Barrow Street, was chosen by Heather McHugh and David Lehman for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's). Fink's books of criticism include "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth Century U.S. Poetry (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickison University Press, 2001) and The Poetry of David Shapiro (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993). Fink is the co-editor of two critical anthologies: Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary Innovative American Poetry (U of Alabama P, 2014) and Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2007). He is also co-editor of Literature Around the Globe (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994). Professor Fink has published over 200 reviews, interviews, and articles in numerous journals, including Contemporary Literature, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Exchange Values, Jacket (and Jacket 2), Minnesota Review, Slope, Talisman, Twentieth Century Literature, and Verse.Fink's paintings hang in various collections. For further information, please see www.thomasfinkpoetry.net and/or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fink_(poet) ‎ Schools Attended: Princeton University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.)Area of Specialization: Contemporary U.S. Poetry  

Foster, Judith N.

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14

Fox, Meghan

Phone: 718.730.7453
Office: M-119A
Mail: E-103
Email: mefox@lagcc.cuny.edu

Dr. Meghan C. Fox is Assistant Professor of English, Co-chair of the English Department’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Committee, and Director of Recruitment for the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Liberal Arts Option at LaGuardia Community College. She teaches literature, composition, journalism, and liberal arts courses, and she is a faculty mentor to the Journalism Club and The Bridge, the college’s student newspaper. Her research interests include modernism, metamodernism, and feminist and queer theory. She has published work in Woolf Studies Annual and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 and has a forthcoming article in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. She is currently working on a monograph concerning hybridity in literary modernism titled “Betwixt and Between”: The Liminal Subjects and Hybrid Forms of Modernism. She serves on the Board for the Feminist inter/Modernist Association.

Gallagher, Kristen

Phone: 718.482.5638
Office: C-411

Kristen Gallagher is a writer, professor, and yoga and meditation teacher living in Queens, NY. Her most recent book, 85% True / minor ecologies (Skeleton Man Press 2016), blends fiction and nonfiction in a series of tales of Florida-based ecological horror. It has been reviewed in Tripwire, Full Stop, and Jacket2; an interview about it appears in Dichtung Yammer; and part of it has been translated into an endlessly self-generating audio book by Human Scale Press. Other recent books include: Grand Central (Troll Thread 2016), We Are Here (Truck Books 2011) and "Florida," a long chapbook from Well Greased Press in 2015. Other recent publications include: excerpts from “Florida” published in 6x6 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017; "Untitled (Rosewood Trip)," text w screenshots from Google Maps, published in Printed Web 3 in 2015; and "Dossier on the Site of a Shooting," a multi-platform digital work published on GaussPDF in 2014 and reviewed by Paul Soulellis in Rhizome. Her essay “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions,” originally published in Radical Teacher, is anthologized in Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching (Bloomsbury 2013). Her essays on the work of Tan Lin appear in Jacket2, Criticism: A Journal for Literature and the Arts, and the collection Reading the Difficulties from University of Alabama Press. Her essay “LeRoi Jones’ ‘Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,’” appears in Jacket 2: Feature on Poetry 1960. In LaGuardia’s English Department, she teaches ENG 099, ENG 101, ENG 102, ENN 198: Creative Writing Urban Studies, and ENG 274: Creative Nonfiction. She teaches yoga and meditation through LaGuardia’s Wellness Center.

Gallardo, Ximena

Phone: 718.482.5902
Office: M-109 B

Biography

Originally from Chile, Dr. Ximena Gallardo C. is a gender and film scholar who has published and presented widely on issues of representation in popular culture. She is currently working on a comprehensive study of women and gender in science fiction cinema entitled She Came from Outer Space. Dr. Gallardo is also Feminism editor for Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, and the co-chair for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area for the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Her first book, Alien Woman (Continuum, 2004), a study of the representation of women and gender in the Alien film series, was co-authored with C. Jason Smith.Schools Attended: Louisiana State University.
Area of Specialization: British literature, Gender Theory and Film Theory, Ethnic Literatures, and Composition.
Favorite Quote: "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -- Catherine Aird
Authors I teach: Whenever I teach essays, novels, and short stories, I usually choose at least one article or essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Café or Mama Day, and at least one work by Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild,” Dawn, or Wild Seed. When I teach drama, I always include at least one play by William Shakespeare (my usual choices are Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and King Lear), and several selections from the following: Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez, Dutchman by Imamu Amiri Baraka, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith, Jeffrey by Paul Rudnick, Betrayal by Harold Pinter, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. My choices for poetry vary enormously, but I tend to fall back on one or more of these poets: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Plath, Angelou, Piercy.Books: Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley. Co-author. New York: Continuum, 2004. Winner of the 2005 Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Association Book Award.Articles:

"Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic." Co-author. Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays. Ed. Giselle Liza Anatole. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009.

"The Alien Film Series." Co-author. Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vol. II. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008: 3-5.

"Feminism." An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett. Ed. Andrew M. Butler. Oxford: Greenwood, 2007. 149-152.

"Sexism." An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett. Ed. Andrew M. Butler. Oxford: Greenwood, 2007. 331-333.

"Alien: The History of Xenosex." Den of Geek. Dec. 19 2007.

"Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, and Alien Love: An Interview with Marleen S. Barr." Co-author. Fem-scape, a special edition of Reconstruction. 5.4 (Winter 2005). n.p. 5 pp.

"How the Online Classroom Changed the Way I Teach." In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning 1.1 (Fall 2005): 23-27.

"'Who Are You?': Alien/Woman as Post-human Subject in Alien Resurrection." Post.human.ous, a special edition of Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 4.3 (Summer 2004). n.p. 13 pp.

"Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling's Wily Web of Gender." Co-author. Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Ed. Giselle Liza Anatole. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. 191-205.

Editions:

Fem-scape, a special edition of Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 5.4 (Winter 2005).

Post.human.ous, a special edition of Reconstruction. Co-editor. Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 4.3 (Summer 2004).

Websites: LaGuardia Community College's 2007-2008 Common Reading Companion Website to An Inconvenient Truth. Content manager. LaGuardia Community College. 2007-2008.

Gonzalez, Belkis

Phone: 718.482.5667
Office: M-119B
Mail: E-103
Email: begonzalez@lagcc.cuny.edu

Green-Anderson, Gail

Office: MB-14
Mail: MB-14

Biography

Gail has been a full-time member of the English Department since 1986. In her early years at LaGuardia she was a full-time teacher and a full-time student. Thanks to an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, she was able to complete her Ph.D. in English at CUNY Graduate Center. She feels tremendous admiration for LaGuardia's "juggling" students.
Gail teaches a wide variety of courses at LaGuardia including Basic Writing, Composition I, Writing through Literature and The Novel in the college's Honors program. She has been a member of many LaGuardia Learning Community faculty teams. In 1998, LaGuardia's Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society, granted her honorary membership to acknowledge her excellence as a teacher. In 2003 she was named a Semi-Finalist for the David R. Pierce Faculty Technology Award from the American Association of Community Colleges.
With Bret Eynon, she launched In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning. The first issue was published in Fall 2005. She continues to serve as Editor of the college's journal.
Schools Attended: George Washington University (B.A.); SUNY at Oneonta (M.A.); Graduate School and University Center, CUNY (Ph.D.)
Favorite Quote: "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Grégoire, Stafford

Phone: 718.482.5679
Office: E-103

Biography

Stafford Grégoire earned his Baccalaureate at Hunter College (1992) and his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (May 2004). His specialization is in Nineteenth Century African American and American Literature. He is revising his dissertation, Blacks Seeing Seeing Blacks: Surveillance and The Gaze in the Works of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown for publication. This work explores the nexus between Foucault’s theory of surveillance and Lacan’s refinement of the theories of the Gaze. He is interested in the depiction of the visual forces of the “look,” “the gaze,” or surveillance, which reify the status of African Americans as diminished beings. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at LaGuardia Community College CUNY and working on a newer, though still related field, Hip-Hop Fiction or contemporary African American crime novels. He has recently presented two papers on the subject in New Mexico and The Bronx. “Hip-Hop Scribes: Uncomfortable Truths in Black on White” examined the creation of a new genre of African American or Black Literature outside of the confines of mainstream publishing. “Hip-Hop Scribes: Double-Consciousness Double-Crossed” examines how this new genre is, because of its unique genesis, able to transgress the DuBoisian paradigm of “self-consciousness” in African American Belle Lettres. Previous Academic Honors:

Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award (1998-1999)

Summer Mellon Fellowship (1995)

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (1992-1994)

Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship (1990-1992)