A Teacher’s Guide to First-Year Writing (developer)
The Teacher’s Guide to First-Year Writing is a digitally native tool produced for the 100+ full and part-time instructors of writing at Baruch College’s English Department. I developed, edited, and solicited material for the Teacher’s Guide, and have incorporated it into our training for new hires (which I also co-developed). The guide provides sample assignments, syllabi, assessment methods, and more—and features a range of perspectives on each.
Join the Conversation (editor)
I co-developed a local first-year Reader for Baruch’s English 2100 (Writing I) courses. It features writing by Baruch English department faculty and doctoral writing fellows. It expanded into a second edition and then a third, each with new readings and student samples. Proceeds from the publication are sent back into supplemental professional development pay for adjunct faculty in the First-Year Writing program.
Teach Hybrid (developer)
Teach Hybrid is a project I co-developed for the Baruch Center for Teaching and Learning, which offers pedagogical training and resources to faculty across campus. As a CTL “Digital Pedagogy Specialist,” I designed this platform of online resources for teaching and teacher training in Hybrid classroom spaces—based on programming the CTL has developed over a multi-year span. I continue to manage new material for the site.
The Journal of Basic Writing (editorial assistant/designer)
The Journal of Basic Writing is a CUNY-native peer-reviewed journal founded by Mina Shaughnessy in 1975. It spoke to the increased interest in Basic Writing pedagogy after the implementation of open admissions policies at CUNY in 1970—and the demands of CUNY students to have more opportunities to receive college preparation support. I design the journal’s issues and assist in their editing and proofreading.
12th Street Journal, The New School, Riggio Honors Program (faculty advisor)
12th Street is widely regarded as one of the best undergraduate literary journals in the country. It has multiple times taken the top prize from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) for best content and design nationally. I teach the magazine editing course associated with the journal, which includes training in WordPress and some coding; the students in the course work as staff to produce it. It runs year-round and publishes work from students across campus.
The CUNY 1969 Project (co-developer)
I am currently co-developing an interactive Open Educational Resource (OER) platform about CUNY’s history inspired by the “Reacting to the Past” educational role playing game model. The game is set in 1969, a period of unrest as students demanded radical changes to the admissions policies at CUNY—eventually leading to the implementation of open admissions in 1970.
Read Great Works (developer)
As the Writing and Great Works Program Manager, I worked with a team of doctoral writing fellows to develop a web resource for students taking our two Great Works of World Literature courses, which are general education requirements at Baruch. The site is a searchable corpus of student writing, in which they reflect on the experience of reading texts for their Great Works sections.
Coldfront Magazine (associate editor)
For six years, until 2018, I worked with three other colleagues to publish Coldfront, an arts magazine focused on exploring contemporary American poetry. It published reviews and interviews, held events across NYC, and peaked with a broad audience of 10,000+ unique readers. I managed the website and edited several sections of content.
Sample Courses
I tend to build digitally native courses, most recently via Baruch Colleges WordPress platform, Blogs@Baruch. My students generally build their own sites, and I give them feedback (and they conduct peer review) via the hypothes.is social annotation platform.
