Faculty Directory H-Q | English Department

Havlin, Natalie

Phone: 718.349.4064
Office: E-200 B Mail: E-103
Email: nhavlin@lagcc.cuny.edu

Natalie Havlin is Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College where she teaches courses in U.S. Latina/o Literature, Caribbean Literature, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, and U.S. and Transnational Social Movement Studies. Havlin's research and publications have focused on U.S. Latinx writers and artists who have contributed to U.S. urban social movements since the early 20th century. Her publications also include research and reviews of scholarship on feminist art and theorizations about beauty, disability justice, queer theory, affect, decolonization, Left internationalism, and racial capitalism. From 2017-2020, Havlin served as co-editor of the peer reviewed journal WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) published by the Feminist Press at CUNY. For more information visit: www.nataliehavlin.com/

Hearts, Elliot

Phone: 718.730.7525
Office: M-120 EMail: E-103
Email: ehearst@lagcc.cuny.edu

Elliot Hearst

I joined the LaGuardia faculty in 2008, and have taught Writing Through Literature 102, as well as Preparing and Writing the Research Paper 103. I have also been a facilitator of ACT Writing Exam preparation workshops at Queensborough Community College.
I find that the most rewarding aspects of teaching are the give-and-take with students as we explore and discover together the underlying themes of a given text, and the process of helping students become more effective and expressive writers. I very much enjoy working with the highly energetic and motivated student body that we have at LaGuardia.
Schools Attended: CUNY - Queens College (B.A., M.A.)
Area of Specialization: The Romantic period
Authors I Teach: Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, Tim O'Brien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce, Alice Walker, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, William Blake, John Keats
Favorite Literary Quote: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Hendrickson, Jason

Phone: 718.349.4065
Office: E-200E Mail: E-103
Email: jhendrickson@lagcc.cuny.edu

Herzberg, Peter

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: E-103
Email: phersberg@lagcc.cuny.edu

Hiraldo, Carlos

Phone: 718.482.5674
Office: E-103A Mail: E-103
Email: eaykol@lagcc.cuny.edu

Carlos Hiraldo is a published theorist, poet, and book reviewer. His works include MachuPicchu Me (Palamedes Publishing, 2016), a collection of poetry, and SegregatedMiscegenation: on the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the US and LatinAmerican Literary Traditions (Routledge, 2003). His academic articles and his poetry have been published in national and international journals. His book reviews have appeared in such publications as Book/Mark,Galatea Resurrects, and Jacket. He teaches Basic Writing, Composition I, Writing through Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Short Fiction, Creative Writing, and The Novel. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook and his scholarship focuses mainly on ethnicity and class.
Carlos Hiraldo

Schools Attended: SUNY at Stony Brook (Ph.D. )
Area of Specialization: Post-Colonial Literature, 20th American Literature, Latino Literature
Favorite Quote: "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." - Kurt Vonnegut
Authors I teach: James Baldwin, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Jose Saramago, Amiri Baraka, Julia Alvarez, Fyodor Dostoevsky and etc and etc and etc.

Books:

Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American Literary Traditions.
New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
Machu Picchu Me. San Francisco: Palamedes Publishing, Inc., 2016

Editorial:

Editor, Heart of Darkness, including new Introduction, About the Author, and About the Editor sections, for Palamades Publishing, Inc, 2017.
Assistant Editor, Transplanting Your Head and Other Feats of the Future. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
Assistant Editor, The Highway of Light and Other Engineering Oddities. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
Co-Editor, SNARK: A Journal of Poetry and Short Fiction, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997-1999.

Articles:

“Haunted by a Memory I Never Lived,” Sophia and Philosophia, Fall-Winter 2019.
“Kelly Sadler and a Loss of Perspective,” Quillette. May 19, 2018.
The Class of Bukowski: Engaging LaGuardia's Working-Class Students with the Novels of Charles Bukowski. In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal of Teaching and Learning Volume 3, Fall 2008.
Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States, Asian American Law Journal Volume 15, May 2008.
Class in the Class: Sharing Bukowski's Class with Community College Students, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 35, Number 4, May 08.

Poems:

“Photograph,” “Ice Cream Man,” and “Our Traps,” Map Literary, October 2018.
“FB” and “In Contemplation,” Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2017.
Fat People Exercising. Other Poetry. Series III, Number 1, Winter 2008.
Off Sylvia Plath, Bay of Pigs and I Give You A Song. Still Standen: A Celebration of the Poet's Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Other Poetry Editions, 2007.
Kate Winslet. Miracle & Clockwork: The Best of Other Poetry, Series Two, 2005.

Conferences and Presentations:

Participated in panel discussion “How to Create a Poetry Collection” at the Broadway Branch of Queens Library, June 28th, 2018.
Read original poems for Newtown Literary Reading at The Astoria Bookshop on Friday, October 11th 2013.
Read original poems published in Newtown Literary Issue I at Waltz-Astoria for the Boundless Tales Reading Series on May 9th, 2013.
Chaired panel on Race and U.S. Literature and Round Table on Poets and Teaching Poetry for North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference in Buffalo, New York. April 10-13, 2008.
Guest Lecturer, Identity against the Grain: Caribbean Latino Authors and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 5th 2007.
Presented Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Race and Nation in the Americas, 47th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 10 – 13, 2005.

Hoes, Candace E.

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: E-103
Email: choes@lagcc.cuny.edu

Holmstrom, Bethany

Phone: 718.482.5639
Office: E-263D Mail: E-103
Email: bholmstrom@lagcc.cuny.edu

Housepian, Steve

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

Ifill, Patsie

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: E-103
Email: pifill@lagcc.cuny.edu

Isaac, Rochell

Phone: 718.730.7511
Office: M-109L Mail: E-103
Email: risaac@lagcc.cuny.edu

Johnsen, Heidi L.

Phone: 718.482.5663
Office: E-103 O Mail: E-103

Schools Attended: Brigham Young University (B.A. , M.A.) State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D.)
Area of Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition, Early American Literature, Women's Studies
Favorite Quotes about Writing:

" . . . with writing, you start where you are, and you usually do it poorly. You just do it-you do it afraid. And something happens. --Anne Lamott
Few of us make our living from writing, and the concept of writer tends to carry allsorts of cultural baggage, like creative genius and suffering. But if we write regularly, we are writers. I’ve found that students and adult professionals who write get a big boost by acknowledging that they are writers-a surprisingly mysterious and difficult inner adjustment of the mind and feelings. --Peter Elbow
You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it’s acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teachers. Sometimes they’re alive, sometimes dead. --Margaret Atwood

Jones, Jacqueline

Phone: 718.482.5969
Office: M-119 B Mail: E-103
Email: jacjones@lagcc.cuny.edu

Kamble, Jayashree

Phone: 718.349.4066
Office: MB-109 D Mail: E-103
Email: jkamble@lagcc.cuny.edu

Jayashree Kamblé is an Associate Professor in the English department. She teaches Basic Writing, ENG/ENA 101 Introduction to Expository Writing, and literature courses like ENG 291: Survey of British Literature II and ENG 245: Images of Women in Literature. She has a Ph.D. in English with a supporting program in popular culture from the University of Minnesota, where she also taught writing, surveys of British Literature, Shakespeare, and introductory literature courses spanning all genres. She worked as a copywriter before graduate school and as an academic adviser after. Her first book, Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology, was published in 2014 by Palgrave MacMillan. She is co-Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, publishes academic writing on romance fiction for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, and reviews romance novels for Kirkusreviews.com.
Schools Attended: B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Pune, India, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Areas of Specialization: Romance narratives in film, fiction, and television. Mainstream English and Hindi-language cinema. The novel. Literary theory and criticism.
Recent articles and book chapters:
“From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective,” “Capital Crimes” Special Issue of the Forum for Inter-AmericanResearch
“Branding a Genre: A Brief Trans-Atlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art.” Essay in the collection Romance Fictionand American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?
RecentAwards:
PSC CUNY Research Award 2017-2018

Kapetanakos, Demetrius

Phone: 718.349.5670
Office: E-103 EE Mail: E-103
Email: dekapetanakos@lagcc.cuny.edu

Kattekola, Lara

Phone: 718.730.7521
Office: M-109 G Mail: E-103
Email: lkattekola@lagcc.cuny.edu

Kinsley, M. Samantha

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: mkinsley@lagcc.cuny.edu

Kizershot, Julie

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: jkizershot@lagcc.cuny.edu

Klages-Bombich, Marisa A.

Phone: 718.482.5370
Office: E-103 S Mail: E-103
Email: mklages@lagcc.cuny.edu

Klages-Bombich, Marisa A.

Dr. Marisa Klages-Bombich is a professor in the English Department with research interests around rhetorical embodiment, faculty professional development, and developmental writing. She earned her PhD in 2008 with a focus on medieval rhetoric from West Virginia University. She most frequently teaches ENA101, ENG101 and ENG290. Her most recently co-authored boom is Taking College Teaching Seriously.

Knauer, Caron

Koh, Karlyn

Phone: 718.482.5658
Office: E-103 V Mail: E-103

Karlin Koh

Karlyn Koh. In addition to being a Professor of English at LaGuardia, I am the Director of the Honors Program, and the campus faculty representative for the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate scholarship program. I serve on several transfer scholarships selection committees, and advise the dynamic student collective, the Honors Student Advisory Committee (HSAC), which is based in Honors House (M201-B). Information about HSAC can be found at http://www.laguardiahonors.com/
My scholarly work is concerned with the effects of (post)colonialism and globalization on the construction of identity (in particular, racialized ethnicity). With funding from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Doctoral Fellowship, I completed a study on this subject, with a focus on the relationship between the writing of history and the emergence of subjectivity. I began a study of Asian North American avant-garde poetics and visual arts at New York University, where I held a SSHRCC Postdoctoral Fellowship. My research has been published in scholarly collections and journals as well as arts magazines, and has been presented at scholarly conferences in the US, Canada, Belgium and the UK. I have also published and presented in the field of honors education, and am a past Executive Secretary of the Northeast Regional Honors Council. I am also an avid student of yoga.
Schools Attended
University of Auckland, New Zealand (BA in English and Political Science); University of British Columbia, Canada (MA); Simon Fraser University, Canada (Ph.D.); School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University; New York University (Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Literature).
Area of Specialization
Critical theory, post-colonial theory, Asian American cultural studies, queer theory, poetry.
Awards/Honors

State Assembly of New York Women’s History Month Proclamation Recognition (for service to Queens and New York State), New York State Assembly (sponsored by Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan), March 2019.
Stanford University Teacher Tribute, Stanford University, September 2017.
Bonita C. Jacobs Transfer Champion Award, National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students, February 2014.
Professor of the Year Award, Student Government Association, LaGuardia Community College, Spring 2011.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Hallmark Paragon Award for Advisors—International Level, 2008.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, New York Region, Horizon Award forNew Advisors, 2007.

Selected Articles

“Cultivating a Community of Excellence” (with G. Mellow). Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 16.2 (Fall/Winter 2015): 65-69.
"Present Memory: Albert Chong's Imagining The Past." Out of The Archives: Process and Progress, ed. Sarita See and Angel Velasco Shaw. New York: Asian American Arts Center, Fall 2009. 16-22.
"'glove's dream': A Short Meditation." Aitia 28.1 (2009): 34-38.
"Networking a Community Out of Fragmentation" (with J. Chaffee and E. Goodman).
Honors in Practice 5 (2009): 161-170.
"Humanistic Mathematics" (with Dr. Marina Dedlovskaya). Mathematics, Information Technologies, and Education, Volume II. Ed. Sergey Gerasimenko. Orenburg, Russia: Orenburg State UP, 2006. 274-7.
"At the Edge of a Shattered Mirror, Community?" Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen, eds. Eleanor Ty and Donald Goellnicht. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004. 149-69.
"Speculations and (Dis)Identification: Notes on Asian Canadian Women Writers." New Scholars-New Visions in Canadian Studies 1.1. Seattle, WA: Canadian Studies Center, University of Washington, 1996. [monograph]

Selected Conference Presentations

“Applying for Major Scholarships I & II.” 2 General Sessions Workshops as part of the Major Scholarships Committee. Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Denver, CO, November 6-9, 2014.
“Fostering Honors Community in a World of Commuter Students” Panel (convener and co-presenter with J. Chaffee and E. Goodman). CUNY Honors Opportunities Conference, Macaulay Honors College, November 5, 2008.
"A Poetics of Betrayal," Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, April 19, 2007.
"'glove's dream.'" Rhetoric, Politics and Ethics conference, University of Ghent, Belgium, April 22, 2005.
"Reading Between Image and Text in Three Works." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, October 18, 2003.
"Figures of Community." 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, May 9, 2003.
"Community, Love and Friendship." "The Desire for Dimension: Queer Theory and Asian American Studies" panel organized by the Asian American Literature discussion group. Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, 29 December 1998.
"Asian Canadian: A Name (Un)Bound." 15th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, 26 June 1998.

Fellowships and grants

PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, City University of New York, Spring 2007.
PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award, City University of New York, Fall 2006.
PSC-CUNY 36 Research Award, City University of New York, Fall 2005.
CUNY Faculty Development Grant (with M. Dedlovskaya), Fall 2006.
Diversity Projects Development Fund Fellowship (with C. Hiraldo), City University of New York, Spring 2005.
Faculty Fellowship Publications Program, City University of New York, Spring 2005.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2001.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-8.

Honors Website: lagcc.cuny.edu/honors and http://www.laguardiahonors.com/

Kostos, Dean

Phone: 718.730.7453
Office: E-254 C

His poetry collections include This Is Not aSkyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, selected by Mark Doty), Rivering, Last Supperof the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and CelestialRust. His memoir, In the Toot, is forthcoming. He also co-edited Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothersand edited Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (its debut reading was held at the United Nations.

Kostos has taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Berkeley College, LaGuardia Community College, York College, and New York City College of Technology.

Dean Kostos is the author of Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and the chapbook Celestial Rust. He also edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry, the debut reading for which was held at the UN. He co-edited the anthology Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers, a Lambda Book Award finalist.
His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in over 200 publications, including Bayou Magazine, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Borderlines, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, The Dos Passos Review, The Dirty Goat, Ekphrasis, Euphony, GINOSKO, The Griffin, HUBBUB, The Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, Minnetonka Review, Owen Wister Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Reading Brokeback Mountain (anthology), Red Rock Review, The Same, Southwest Review, Stand Magazine, Stranger at Home (anthology), Talisman, Vanitas, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vanitas, Western Humanities Review, Zone 3, and on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com.
His literary criticism has appeared on Harvard U P Web site, in Talisman, American Book Review, and elsewhere.
He has co-translated poems from Spanish with Jaime Manrique for Bomb; his translations from Modern Greek have appeared in Barrow Street and Talisman.
Voices of Ascension commissioned him to write the text for the choral work Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War, set to music by James Bassi.
Box-Triptych, his choreo-poem, was staged at La Mama ETC.
A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has taught poetry writing at the Gallatin School of NYU, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Wesleyan, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, York College, and LaGuardia Community College.
Recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, he has served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown and Gold Circle Awards.

Kremens, Lisa

Phone: 718.730.7454
Office: E-254 A Mail: E-103
Email: lkremens@lagcc.cuny.edu

Lamone-King, Tulip

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

Larsson, Anna

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: alarsson@lagcc.cuny.edu

Leopando, Irwin

Phone: 718.482.5907
Office: E-103 P Mail: E-103

Leopando, Irwin

Irwin Ramirez Leopando is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the English Department Writing Program. He earned his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011. His research interests include composition-rhetoric, educational philosophy, and happiness studies. Born and raised in the Philippines, he came to New York City in 1995. He lives in Queens with his wife and two children.

Livingston, Sue

Maharaj, Aarty

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

Marks, Christine

Phone: 718.482.6105
Office: MB-109 M Mail: M-103
Email: cmarks@lagcc.cuny.edu

Marks, Christine

Christine Marks is an assistant professor in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College. She received her PhD from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, with a dissertation project on intersubjective identity constellations in the works of the contemporary American novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt. Her academic interests also include food and culture, literature and medicine, gender studies, hybrid identities, and theories of the gaze. She has taught courses in composition, cultural studies, American literature, and world literature. She currently teaches her composition courses at LaGuardia on the themes of border crossings and immigration as well as food across cultures. Some of her favorite authors to read and teach are Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Díaz, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lucy Grealy, Siri Hustvedt, Jamaica Kincaid, Richard Rodriguez, Arundhati Roy, Lauren Slater, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, and August Wilson. She has published articles on hysteria, illness, and identity in Siri Hustvedt’s work and has a forthcoming article on the use of metaphors in illness narratives.

McGurty, Ellie

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: emcgurty@lagcc.cuny.edu

Mckillop, Patrick

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

McMills, Neddy D.

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

McNair, Lucy

Phone: 718.730.7522
Office: E-254 E Mail: E-103
Email: lmcnair@lagcc.cuny.edu

Lucy McNair is an Associate Professor in the English department. She teaches Introduction to Expository Writing (ENG 101 and 102), Creative Writing (ENN 198 and ENG 274) and the internship course for The Lit, ENG 288. Previous to LaGuardia, she taught World Humanities, French, Translation Theory, and English as a Foreign Language. She holds a B.A. in German, a M.A. in Modern Languages (French and English), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. Before graduate school, she worked as a translator and published literary translations from the French including poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. Her scholarship focuses on North African literature and film. Her latest article, “Towards an Ethics of Traumatic Memory: Mouloud Feraoun’s La Cite des roses and Zahia Rahmani’s France, récit d’une enfance,” appeared in The Journal of North African Studies in 2018. At LaGuardia, she co-curates The New York Forum of Amazigh Film, an annual showcase of North African indigenous cinema ( https://www.nyfaf.com/). From 2016 to 2019 she has coordinated The Lit, the LaGuardia student literary and art journal, and currently co-leads the Language Across the Curriculum seminar at the Center for Teaching and Learning, an interdisciplinary approach that embraces and builds on language diversity. Prof McNair is dedicated to learning from and with LaGuardia students and proud to support their academic progress, creative expression, and life goals.

Meyer, Neil

Phone: 718.349.4067
Office: E-103 M Mail: E-103
Email: nmeyer@lagcc.cuny.edu

Neil Meyer joined the faculty of LaGuardia Community College in 2012. He completed his PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His dissertation, “Gracious Affections: Affect and Evangelicalism in Early America” analyzed the centrality of emotional, embodied experience in the spread of evangelicalism through the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States and the larger Atlantic world. His work has appeared in journals such as Early American Studies and New England Quarterly. Professor Meyer’s research interests include early American literature and culture, religious studies, queer theory, and genre literature. Schools Attended: Albion College (B.A.) and Graduate Center, CUNY (Ph.D. in English with a certification in American Studies). Selected Publications: “‘One Language in Prayer:’ Evangelicals, Anti-Catholicism, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing.” New England Quarterly, September 2012. “Falling For the Lord: Shame, Revivalism, and the Origins of the Second Great Awakening,” Early American Studies, January 2011.

Navarro, Lauren

Phone: 718.730.7509
Office: LIB-H5 Mail: M-103
Email: lnavarro@lagcc.cuny.edu

Nassif, Farid

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: fnassif@lagcc.cuny.edu

Nelson, Lee

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: lenelson@lagcc.cuny.edu

Oros, Ashley

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: aoros@lagcc.cuny.edu

Ortiz, Jenny

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14 Mail: MB-14

Pacht, Michelle

Phone: 718.482.5914
Office: M-103 CC Mail: M-103
Email: mpacht@lagcc.cuny.edu

Michelle Pacht is a Professor of English who earned her M.A.in English Literature at Hunter College and her Ph.D. in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.She teaches a range of composition and literature courses at LaGuardia, including Writing Through Literature, The Short Story, The Novel, and Images of Women in Literature. Dr. Pacht’s research focuses on how genre—the short story and short story cycle, in particular—has been used by 19th and 20th century American authors to raise questions about identity, history, and place. She has published and presented on authors including Willa Cather, Charles W. Chesnutt, Louise Erdrich,Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Maxine Hong Kingston, Flannery O’Connor, and Edgar Allan Poe as well as on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Books/Book Chapters:

December 2012 “Who’s Afraid of Mary Shelley? Why Community Colleges Should Assign ‘Difficult’ Texts and How to Make It Work” in Teaching Literature in Community College Classrooms: Traversing Practices, edited by Margaret Barrow and Manya Steinkoler, published by McGraw-Hill.
“Who’s Afraid of Mary Shelley?: Why Community Colleges Should Assign ‘Difficult’ Textsand How to Make it Work.” Teaching Literature in the Community College Classrooms:Traversing Practices. Ed. Margaret Barrow and Manya Steinkoler. McGraw Hill, 2012.
The Subversive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America.Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2009.
"Creating Community: Motherhood and the Search for Identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine." Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2007.

Journal Articles:

“Overcoming Obstacles: How WID Benefits Community College Students and Faculty.”Writing Across the Curriculum at the Community College, a special issue of Across the Curriculum. December 2010.
“The Messy Teaching Conversation: Toward a Model of Collegial Reflection, Exchange, and Scholarship on Classroom Problems.” with Drs. Heidi Johnsen, Ting Man Tsao, and Phyllis vanSlyck. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. December 2009.

Film:

Making Your Mark: Creating A Staged Assignment. A film by Karen Gregory and Thomas Meacham. 2009.

Conference Presentations:

May 2019 “A Child Adrift: Finding Family at Sea in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” presented at the Poe Studies Association session Poe and Childhood at the American Literature Association conference, Boston, MA
October 2018 “Articulating Success: Facilitating Student Continuity and Transfer from Two-Year to Four-Year Colleges” presented at the CUNY Humanities Alliance Conference Community College and the Future of the Humanities, New York, NY
October 2018 “The Making of a Community College Major” presented at the Two-Year College English Association Northeast Annual Conference English at the Crossroads: Power and Possibilities, Long Island City, NY
April 2018 “From First-Year Composition to Disciplinary Writing: Critical Assignment Design Considerations for WID Instructors,” respondent and session moderator at Critical Pedagogies at CUNY: Learning Through Writing, Long Island City, NY
February 2018 “Faculty’s Role in Transfer” presented at Preparing Students for Transfer: Strategies for Faculty, Long Island City, NY
June 2016 “Feminine Transgressions: Sex, Marriage, and Gender Roles in Edith Wharton’s Short Stories,” presented at the Edith Wharton Society Conference Wharton in Washington, Washington, D.C.
“Using Technology to Reach Basic Skills Students Nationwide” presented at the New York College Learning Skills Association Symposium. Briarcliff Manor, NY. April 2015.
“The Scene of the Crime: Home Burials in the Stories of Edgar Allan Poe” presented at the Fourth International Poe Conference. New York, NY. February 2015.
“Reaching the Facebook Generation: Using Social Media to Teach Literature” presented at Transitions and Transactions: Literature Pedagogy at Community Colleges. New York, NY.April 2012.
“Spinsters and Sea Widows: Women, Wilderness, and Identity in Sarah Orne Jewett’s Deephaven” presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. April 2011.
“Take the Money and Run: How Henry James Predicted Bernie Madoff” presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
“Classroom Collaborations: Creating WID Resources By and For Faculty and Fellows”presented at the Writing in the Disciplines Conference. Bronx, NY. October 2009.
"Reclaiming the Classroom: Two Year Colleges and Innovative Self-Assessment" presented at The Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. April 2008.
"Creating Community: Motherhood and the Search for Identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine" presented at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, St. Charles, IL.June 2007.
"How to Reform a Racist: Genre as Politics in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman"presented at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. May 2007.
"Creating Connections: Isolation, Epiphany and the Collective Protagonist in O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge" presented at O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers: A Scholarly Conference. Milledgeville, GA. April 2006.
"Framing History: The Short Story Cycle as Political Statement in Hawthorne's Legends of the Province-House" presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention,Washington, D.C. December 2005.

Parry, Dylan

Phone: 718.482.5687
Office: MB-14Mail: E-103
Email: dparry@lagcc.cuny.edu

Prendable, Sylwia

Phone: 718.482.5909
Office: E-103AMail: E-103
Email: sniczewska@lagcc.cuny.edu