Education:
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University
of New York
A.B., Philosophy, Bishop's University, Quebec, Canada
Recent Grant Activity and Awards:
2006-2007: PSC CUNY Research Award for James, Tintoretto and the Drama in the Picture
2005-2007: Writing in the Disciplines Seminar Leader
2002-2003: Project Co-Director: Teaching Portfolio Seminar
2001-02: VATEA Grant for Creation of Professional Development Center
1999: Received CUNY Performance Excellence Award
1998-99: Project Co-Director, VATEA Grant for Writing Across the Curriculum
1998-99: Received PSC CUNY Research Award for Representation in the Fiction
of Henry James
Research Interests :
Postcolonial literature (African, Caribbean, Latin American literature),
literature of the Southwest, Hispanic-American literature; postmodern
and psychoanalytic approaches to literature, in particular, explorations
of "identity" as a social and psychological construct
Learning Community Activities:
LaGuardia has been a leader in the learning community movement since
1976. I am committed to pedagogy that reflects an awareness of
cultural diversity and different student expectations towards learning.
The integrated curriculum and collaborative structure of learning communities
promotes an integration of multiple perspectives.
2006-2008: LaGuardia is a participant in the two-year project on Assessing Learning in Learning Communities.
I am a Resource Fellow for the National Summer Institute on Learning Communities coordinated bythe Washington
Center for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education.
Recent Publications:
“Learning Communities and the Future of the Humanities.” Profession 2006 (MLA): 163-176.
“Charting an Ethics of Desire in The Wings of the Dove.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. Summer 2005. Vol. 47 (3): 301-323.
“Situated Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Classroom Strategies for Faculty in Learning Communities” in Diversity, Educational Equity and Learning Communities. Washington Center. Emily Lardner et al. eds. Summer 2005: 61-78.
"Learning More, Learning Better: Developmental Learning Communities
at LaGuardia" in The Pedagogy of Possibilities: Developmental
Education, College-Level Studies, and Learning Communities. National
Learning Communities Project Monograph Series. AAHE 2003.
"Engaging in Diversity at LaGuardia Community College." Change
Magazine, March 2003, with Gail Mellow and Bret Eynon
"Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure." (Review) The
Henry James Review (24) Winter 2003: 99-102.
"Trapping the Gaze: Images of Desire in James's Early and Late Fiction."
in The Finer Threads, the Tighter Weave: Essays on the Short Fiction
of Henry James. Joseph Dewey and Brooke Horvath eds. Purdue University
Press, 2000.
"Respositioning
Ourselves in the Contact Zone." College English 59 (2) February 1997:
149-170.
"Knowledge and Representation in The Ambassadors: Strether's Discriminating
Gaze." Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 39
(4) Fall 1997: 557-579.
Recent Conferences and Workshops:
June 2007: "Designing Learning Communities." Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA.
June 2007: "Learning Communities and Educational Reform." J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Summer Institute, Richmond, VA.
March 2007: "Strengthening Learning Communities." Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL.
February 2007: Strengthening and Expanding Learning Communities.” Norwalk Community College, Norwalk.
Fall 2006: “Learning Communities and Student Affairs.” Atlantic Center For Learning Communities Retreat, Passionist Retreat Center, Bronx,NY.
May 2006: “Building and Expanding Your Learning Communities.” Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland.
April 2006: “Learning Community Design and Assessment.” Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA.
March 2003: "Designing and Sustaining Learning Communities."
Nassau Community College, Garden City, Long Island, NY
July 2002: PEW National Learning Communities Project, Fellows
Retreat, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
July 2002: "From Lost Letters to Lurking Beasts,"
Henry James Today, The International Conference of the Henry James Society,
The American University of Paris
March 2001: "Diversity Issues in Learning Communities," American
Association of Colleges and Universities, Providence, Rhode Island
April 2001: "Approaching Cultural Diversity: Topics and Strategies."
AAHE, March 2001. Co-facilitated workshop with Evergreen State College,
Tacoma, University of Texas at El Paso and The Washington Center for the
Improvement of Undergraduate Education.
May 2001: "The New Student House: A Developmental Learning Community"
Post-Conference Institute for The Washington Association of Developmental
Education, Silverdale, Washington.
Link to Curriculum Vitae
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Summer 2002:
France
The Auvergne Region
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