I am a Doctoral Lecturer and teach General Education and Liberal Studies courses at the City University of New York School of Professional Studies. I have taught for decades in face to face and hybrid classes, and then in online asynchronous (and occasionally online hybrid) courses at CUNY SPS part-time from 2008 and full-time since 2017.
I designed the last two iterations of COM 110: Digital Literacy (in 2016 and 2021) and manage this course as well as COM 210: Writing at Work. I also teach World Literature, College Writing II, Writing at Work, Advanced Composition, and Liberal Studies Capstones I and II. I have also taught multiple Preparation for Teaching Online courses for new CUNY SPS faculty.
I have a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center where I wrote a dissertation on contemporary fiction which was published in Britain and narrated in a language or dialect besides standard English, focusing on the works of Samuel Selvon, James Kelman, and Suhayl Saadi. I am also interested in the representation of dialect in film (both spoken and in subtitles). Besides modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Anglophone literature, I have training and experience in writing pedagogy, Writing Across the Curriculum, and digital pedagogy, and I also do research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
In Spring 2025, I am on fellowship leave, working on several projects related to pedagogy and research.
