, Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawaii
, Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
, Teacher Consultant, Ulster Co. BOCES
, St. John's University
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Emily Abendroth
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Temple University. Emily Abendroth is a writer and artist living in Philadelphia, where she regularly teaches literature, critical theory, the contemporary essay, and creative writing to students of all ages. She also leads workshops and service-learning sessions for high school youth on the issues of mass incarceration and educational access. Her recent print publications include:
Exclosures #1-8 (Albion Press);
Toward Eadward Forward (Horse Less Press); the broadside and multi-media collaboration "Property : None / Property : Undone" (TapRoot Editions); and an extended excerpt of "Muzzle Blast Dander" in
Refuge/Refugee (Vol 3 of the ChainLinks book series).
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Dorothy Albertini
Bard College
Dorothy Albertini teaches in Bard’s Language & Thinking Program. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Arts Colony, Ucross Foundation, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work appears in
H_ngm_n,
Drunken Boat,
Tantalum, T
he Brooklyn Rail, and
NANO Fiction, where she was the winner of the first annual NANO fiction contest. For many years, she was the Associate for College Preparatory & Volunteer Programs and Green Haven Campus Coordinator at the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). During her time with BPI, Albertini developed and taught a college preparatory writing and reading course, utilizing Institute practices as the foundation for addressing students’ transitions from varied educational backgrounds. She received her B.A. from Bard College and MFA from Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
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Susan Behrens
Marymount Manhattan College
B.A., Queens College, CUNY; M.A., Ph.D. in linguistics, Brown University; professor, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Department and instructor of English as a second language, Marymount Manhattan College; research associate in experimental psychology, Cambridge University, U.K. Author of
Grammar: A Pocket Guide and co-editor of
Language in the Real World (both Routledge).
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Glynis Benbow-Niemer
Glynis Benbow-Niemier lives in Illinois. She is a poet, editor, and educator who taught composition at College of Du Page for ten years. She joined IWT as an associate in 1988 while working on her doctoral degree in Composition Studies at New York University (PhD 1994). Since then, she has lead a variety of Institute workshops at Bard and as an onsite consultant. Glynis has also led workshops in IWT's affiliated programs: the Language & Thinking program for Bard's incoming students and the summer Writing & Thinking Workshops for high school students at Lake Forest and Fir Acres.
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Jeff Berger-White
Deerfield High School (IL)
Jeff Berger-White is a teacher at Deerfield High School, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. He teaches AP Senior English and team-teaches 20th Century History and Literature. During the summers, he has often taught in programs through IWT; these include workshops at Lake Forest College (1996-2002), the Monte Sol Workshop at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2001), the Language and Thinking Workshop at Bard College (2002), and IWT’s Writing to Learn Workshop for teachers (2003). He holds a B.A. and an M.A.T., both from Boston University.
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Celia Bland
Bard College
Celia Bland’s poetry and prose has recently appeared in
Poetry International, The Boston Review,
The Evergreen Review and
Drunken Boat and is upcoming in
The Cortland Review, The Narrative Review, and
Lumina. Her essay, “Secret Book Written in the Dirt,” will be included in an upcoming collection devoted to the poetry of Jean Valentine (University of Michigan). Her poetry collection,
Soft Box, appeared in 2004. She has been awarded a residency at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the summer of 2013. She is writer-in-residence at Bard College and also teaches for the Bard Prison Initiative.
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Ranny Bledsoe
Charlestown High School (Boston, MA)
Ph.D. in Mathematics, New York University. She is the headmaster of Charlestown High School in Boston and has taught in colleges and universities in the United States and Venezuela. Recently, she taught middle school math in the Boston Public Schools, and at present is a professional math coach for the Boston Public Schools. She has been teaching workshops on the use of informal writing in the math/science classroom for IWT since 1986.
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Maureen Burgess
The Hewitt School
Maureen Burgess is the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Learning through Writing (CTLW) at The Hewitt School in Manhattan, where she also serves as the K-12 Dean of Teaching and Learning: Humanities. A high school and college instructor for nearly twenty years, Maureen currently teaches American literature, world literature, and creative writing courses in the upper school, advises the school newspaper, and mentors its social justice club. Maureen earned her B.A. at Fairfield University and her Ph.D. at The Ohio State University. Maureen also is an assistant editor for fiction at
Narrative Magazine.
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Ric Campbell
Bard College
Ric Campbell is director, MAT Program at Bard College. A.A.S., Tompkins-Cortland Community College; B.S., M.S., SUNY Cortland; graduate work, SUNY Albany, SUNY Brockport; Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Specialization: curriculum design and writing instruction for teachers. Taught high school and elementary school in Chatham, Cortland, and Dryden, New York, and in New York City; was director of education for Washington Houses Community Center, New York City. Taught and supervised workshops for at-risk New York City adolescents through Bank Street College and Liberty Partnership Program. As researcher for Project ASSERT at Harvard, developed curriculum that addresses issues of race, class, and gender in the classroom. Former associate director of IWT (2001-2003).
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Rebecca Chace
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Rebecca Chace is the author of
Leaving Rock Harbor (Scribner); an “Editor’s Choice”
New York Times Book Review, also a June Notable Book/Indie Pick by the ABA (American Booksellers Association) and a finalist for the 2010 New England Book Award. Her first book, a memoir,
Chautauqua Summer, was a
New York Times Book Review “Notable Book“, as well as “Editor's Choice" and "Picks for Summer"; Rebecca is also the author of the novel,
Capture the Flag, adapted for the screen by Ms. Chace and director, Lisanne Skyler, and received the Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Award at the 2010 Nantucket Film Festival. The film was screened at national and international film festivals in 2010-2011. Also a playwright, her plays include:
Colette (Theatre for the New City), an adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel,
The Awakening, produced
by
Book-It Repertory Theatre at the Seattle Repertory Theatre; with a second production at Seattle Rep. in June, 2005. Ms. Chace received a grant from A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and A.S.K. Theatre Projects in Los Angeles as part of the FringeACT festival for her play
Vershinin’s Wife. She has received fellowships and/or been a guest artist with New York Theatre Workshop, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. “
Looking for Robinson Crusoe” (Fiction Magazine) an excerpt of her current book, was nominated for a Pushcart prize and a Distinguished Story in
Best American Short Stories, 2010. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Mary Chang
Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawaii
BA, University of Michigan; MFA, University of Oregon; Ph.D. candidate, Education, University of Hawaii. Former associate director of the IWT, she has taught in the Language and Thinking program and the Bard College at Simon's Rock Young Writers Workshop.
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Indu Chugani
Winsor School (Boston, MA)
Indu Chugani teaches middle and high school English at the Winsor School in Boston, where she has developed writing-intensive courses for 9th and 11th grade students, respectively. She has taught in the Language and Thinking program at Bard and has led IWT workshops since 2005. Indu is a founding member of Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) and has developed workshops for IWT on teaching non-western texts, including
The Ramayana and Salman Rushdie's
East, West. She also helped launch and served as an editor for
Writing from the Inside Out, a journal showcasing writers from IWT workshops. Indu earned her M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English and her B.S.Ed. from the University of Georgia.
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Frank Cioffi
Baruch College, CUNY
B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University. Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Baruch College-CUNY. Articles published in books and journals including
LIT, Style, Narrative, Critique, Extrapolation, and
Written Communication. Author of
Formula Fiction? (Greenwood Press, 1982),
The Imaginative Argument (Princeton University Press, 2005). Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Pam Cobrin
Barnard College
Pam Cobrin is lecturer in English and director of the Writing Center and associate director of the Writing Program at Barnard College. Ph.D., New York University in Performance Studies. She has published and given conference papers on diverse subjects ranging from feminist theatre historical studies to writing pedagogy (theory and practice).
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Alan Devenish
Westchester Community College, SUNY
Alan Devenish is professor of English, SUNY/Westchester Community College. B.A., Marist College; M.A., NYU-in-France; Ph.D., New York University. Recipient, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship. Poetry published in Chain, The Cortland Review, College English, Poetry Northwest, and others. Directed the Writing Center and Workshop in Writing and Thinking for High School Students, Lake Forest College, 1992-93. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Anna Dolan
Central Connecticut State University
Anna Dolan teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at Central Connecticut State University. She leads a workshop in the Young Writer's Workshop at Bard College at Simon's Rock and at Lewis and Clark College. Her recent plays, exploring comedy, magic and the macabre, have been performed in Micronesia-FSM, Ethiopia, Benin, and various theaters in the United States. She wrote a play last year for the Freedom Theater of Jenin in Palestine, and recently taught for two years at COM-FSM in Micronesia. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Yale University and one in Directing from UMASS/Amherst.
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Stephanie Dunson
Williams College
Stephanie Dunson is Director of Writing Programs at Williams College. Former director of the Writing Center at Mount Holyoke and was assistant director of African American Literature and Culture at the University of Rhode Island. B.A., Ohio University; M.A., Ohio University/University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Darlene Forrest
New York University
Darlene Forrest is the director of faculty development for the Expository Writing Program at New York University and co-director of the Tisch School of the Arts Core Curriculum Course. She is a co-editor, along with Randy Martin and Pat C. Hoy II, of the reader for the course:
Writing the Essay: Art in the World: The World Through Art. She is also a co-editor with Pat C. Hoy and Andrea MacKenzie of Mercer Street, a collection of essays from the expository writing program published yearly. She has been an associate with IWT since 1992 and has led workshops in writing and thinking for teachers across the country and in the Virgin Islands. In 2004 she received an Outstanding Teaching Award from New York University. Prior to her work at NYU, she taught ninth-grade English in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Previous publications include “Teachers Reading, Writing, Responding Together: A Story” in
Knowledge in the Making: Challenging the Text in the Classroom. (Heinemann, 1994). Currently she is at work on a book of essays with the tentative title of
Country Girl; City Woman.
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Tonya Foster
Ph.D. candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays that have been published in a variety of journals including
Callaloo, The Hat, and
Western Humanities Review. She is the author of
A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna Press) and co-editor of
Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art. She is currently completing a cross-genre piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance. A recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Magnet Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, she is a currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate Center's English Department at CUNY.
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Madeleine George
Bard Prison Initiative
Madeleine George taught in the Expository Writing Program at New York University for six years, where she won the Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also taught writing, in various forms, at Barnard College, the University of Rochester, the New School for Social Research, the College of New Rochelle, and several New York City public schools. B.A., Cornell University; M.F.A., NYU. Madeleine’s plays have been staged at New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, among other places, and she is a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights’ collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.). Her novel for young adults is forthcoming from Viking. Madeleine has led writing workshops in an alternative-to-incarceration facility operated by the Women’s Prison Association, a pre-trial intervention program for female offenders run by the Brooklyn DA, and Island Academy, a public high school on Riker’s Island, and she is currently site director of the Bard Prison Initiative’s campus at Bayview Correctional Facility for Women in Manhattan.
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Rebecca Granato
Al-Quds Bard Honors College
Rebecca Granato is the coordinator of the Language & Thinking Program at the al Quds Bard Honors College in Abu Dis, Palestine. She received her BA from Bard College, her MA from The City University of New York, and is currently completing her dissertation at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Her research examines the Palestinian Prisoners' Movement in the 1980s, focusing on the informal educational programming within Israeli detention centers. In addition to her dissertation, she just completed a residency at the Qattan Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine, during which time she began a project that traces the experience of Jerusalem-based students who study in the West Bank. Rebecca has been involved in teaching writing since joining the Bard L&T faculty in 2004. She has also taught writing and history in several institutions in New York City, as well as at AMideast in Cairo, Egypt.
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Alfred E. Guy Jr.
Yale College Writing Center
Alfred E. Guy Jr. is R.W.B. Lewis Director of the Yale College Writing Center. He was formerly the director of the Expository Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University and associate director of the Princeton Writing Program. He taught in the English department and was associate director, Expository Writing Program at New York University from 1992-2001. His scholarship includes studies in composition and rhetoric, medieval English literature, and American science fiction. B.A., Harvard; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., New York University. Awards include the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence; Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Jamie Hutchinson
Bard College at Simon's Rock
Jamie Hutchinson is professor of English at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and director of the Bard College at Simon's Rock Young Writers Workshop. A.B., Stanford University; M.A., English, University of Virginia; Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico. Teaching positions at Colorado State University, University of New Mexico, Berkshire Community College, SUNY Albany, and the Language and Thinking Workshop at Bard College (1984-1990). Essays, papers, or book reviews have appeared in
New America: A Review, Western American Literature, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and
The Berkshire Review. He has also presented papers at the annual MLA and NEMLA conventions.
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Vicki A. Jacobs
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Vicki A. Jacobs is lecturer on education, director of Teacher Education Program fieldwork and director of the Field Experience Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At the graduate level, she has taught courses on curriculum development, adolescent literacy and learning, and the teaching of English. She has also taught literature and composition at the undergraduate and secondary-school levels. Her publications focus on the theory and practice of adolescent literacy and on teacher education. B.A. (English), Michigan State University; M.A. (English), University of Massachusetts at Boston; C.A.S and Ed.D. (Reading, Language, and Learning Disabilities), Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Ileana Jiménez
Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School
For the past fifteen years, Ileana Jiménez has been a leader in the field of social justice education. A 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Fulbright Award in Teaching, her research in Mexico City focused on creating safe schools for LGBT youth. Passionate about creating inclusive schools, Ileana believes in transforming education for gender, racial, and economic justice. In 2005, she founded the New York Independent Schools LGBT Educators Group, providing educators professional development and networking opportunities. At the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) in New York City, she offers electives on feminism, LGBT literature, Toni Morrison, and writing memoir. Recently, she appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show to talk about teaching feminism to high school students and to advocate for safe schools. She has written about education issues for Care2, Feministing, Gender Across Borders, the Huffington Post, the Ms. Magazine blog, On the Issues, the Smith Alumnae Quarterly, and the Women’s Media Center. Founder and sole blogger at Feminist Teacher, feministteacher.com, she received her B.A. in English Literature at Smith College, and an M.A. in English Literature at Middlebury College.
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Erica Kaufman
Baruch College
Erica Kaufman teaches in the English Department at Baruch College, works with the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, and serves as a Curriculum Specialist for the Holocaust Educators Network. She has been a visiting writer and visiting professor at Naropa University and Parsons the New School for Design. Her publications include the full-length poetry collection Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) along with seven chapbooks; poetry and prose published inRain Taxi, Aufgabe, Bombay Gin, Verse, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Jacket. Current research interests include: the interstices between contemporary poetics and Composition & Rhetoric; feminism and the epic poem; and intergenerational Holocaust Studies. She earned her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University, her M.F.A. from New School University, and is completing a dissertation in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Madhu Kaza
New York University
Madhu Kaza is a writer and educator based in New York City. She received her M.Phil. in Comparative Literature at New York University where she currently teaches writing. Outside of the academy, she has worked as an instructor with a wide range of constituencies, including prisoners, adult literacy students, underserved teens, schoolteachers, and corporate employees. For nearly ten years she has also served as a director of Witness Tree, a small non-profit organization based in New York City, dedicated to revealing the liberatory force of literature and fostering creative expression in diverse communities.
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James Keller
Bard College
Jim Keller is the director of the Bard College Learning Commons and a visiting associate professor of writing at Bard. He has taught courses in rhetoric, philosophy, American studies, and literature at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook and SUNY Sullivan County. He also taught in the Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University, where he led courses on graphic novels, radicalism in literature, and experimental writing. Palgrave recently published his book, Writing Plural Worlds, a study of philosophical pluralism and multiethnic poetries. Jim has taught in Bard’s Language and Thinking program since 2001. After earning his B.A. in literature and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, he received his Ph.D. in English from SUNY Stony Brook.
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Susan Kirschner
Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR)
Susan Kirschner is Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Lewis & Clark College. Over a period of 40 years, she created and taught numerous literature and writing courses in the English Department, and continues to teach, on an occasional basis, the Creative Nonfiction course she developed more than 10 years ago. Throughout her years at the College she taught in and, for almost a decade directed, the College’s Freshman Core Program. She has published personal essays as well as articles on education, curriculum revision, and the teaching of writing. She wrote and performed “On Listening” at the Brooklyn Bay in Portland, Oregon in 2010. A faculty associate of the IWT since 1985, she has led numerous workshops at Bard, on the West Coast, in Stockholm, Sweden, and in Vienna, Austria.
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Nancy Kline Piore
former director, Barnard College Writing Program
Nancy Kline Piore taught in the English and French Departments at Barnard College, where she directed the Writing Program for 18 years. She has also taught fulltime at Harvard, UCLA, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Wellesley. Her short stories, memoirs, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared widely (for the most part, under the name Nancy Kline). She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Grant, and her work appears in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011. Her eight books include a novel, a critical study of the poetry of René Char, a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, and, most recently, her new translation of Char’s Furor and Mystery and Other Writings (with Mary Ann Caws). She edited and contributed to a collection of essays entitled How Writers Teach Writing. Her translation of Jules Supervielle’s Selected Prose and Poetry (with Patricia Terry and Kathleen Micklow) is forthcoming. She is currently working on a book of creative nonfiction entitled Other Geographies.
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Abby Laber
Concord Academy
Abby Laber has been teaching high school and college English for over 30 years. For the past ten, she has worked at Concord Academy in Massachusetts where she has developed courses on memoir, close reading and the academic essay, and also runs a seminar for new teachers. Abby received her A.B. from Harvard University. Through NEH and with the Calderwood Writer’s Initiative, Abby studied composition theory and memoir; she has been taking part in IWT workshops since the Institute began. Abby has presented her approach to close reading at NEATE and NYSEC, and is working on a textbook about teaching the exploratory essay.
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Mary Leonard
Teacher Consultant, Ulster Co. BOCES
Mary Leonard taught for thirty years at Kingston High School and retired in 2000. While teaching high school English, she was a recipient of three NEH Fellowships to study poetry and a Fulbright to study in Brazil. She has published three chapbooks of poetry: 21st Century Flint at 2River, A Girl at Pudding House and, in 2010, The Sweet and Low Down at Antrim Press. Other recent publications have appeared in Red River Review, Hubbub, The Naugatuck Review and RedOchreLit. She also publishes humor and articles regularly for a local newspaper, About Town. In the summer, she teaches in the Network Program for high school students at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program, 1990-1997.
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Alice Lesnick
Bryn Mawr College
Alice Lesnick is an educator, writer, and painter/poet interested in collaborative learning, kids and communities, feminisms, and change via all of the above. She is Term Professor of Education and Director of the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program, where she was awarded the Rosalyn R. Schwartz Teaching Award in 2004. A faculty associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College since 1993 and a former preschool, elementary, middle, and high school teacher, Alice teaches courses on literacies, qualitative research, technologies, and social justice education, including via partnership with Titagya Schools, an early learning project in Northern Ghana and Parkway West High School in Philadelphia. Alice helps lead the educational website Serendip Studio (serendip.brynmawr.edu). She holds a B.A. from Yale College, an M.A. from St. John's College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Matt Longabucco
New York University
Matt Longabucco B.A., Binghamton University; Ph.D. candidate, English, New York University. He teaches in the expository writing program at NYU.
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Katina Manko
Bard College MAT
Katina Manko is Assistant Professor of History in the Bard College Masters in Teaching Program and site Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities at the Southern Queens Park Association in Jamaica Queens. Katina began her career teaching History at Bard College at Simons Rock, a college for younger scholars, and also spent two years teaching US History at the Bard High School Early College on New York City's Lower East Side. She now trains future Social Studies teachers at the MAT program embedded in the International Community High School in the Bronx. Katina earned her PhD from the University of Delaware with a fellowship in the Hagley Program of the History of Industry and Technology. She is currently working on a manuscript on the history of Avon Ladies, and an extended essay on the history of Mary Kay Ash, Direct Selling, and the Conservative Revival of the 1970s.
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Sharon Marshall
St. John's University
Sharon Marshall B.A., Vassar College; M.A., City College. Assistant Professor in the Institute for Core Studies at St. John's University, NY. She writes fiction and has taught composition, creative writing, reading and ESL at City College of the City University of New York, Hostos Community College, Essex County College, the College of New Rochelle, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also studied writing at the New School, New York University, and Columbia University. Her fiction has appeared in
Essence Magazine. She received a W. K. Rose Fellowship and the Jane Spector Award for Creative Writing. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Tracy McCabe
Lake Forest College (IL)
Tracy McCabe is a lecturer in English and Women's Studies at Lake Forest College, where she directs the summer Writing and Thinking Workshop. She taught for two years at Emerson College. She has published and taught in the areas of feminist literary studies and African American literature. A.B. Princeton University, M.A. and Ph.D. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Myra McLarey
Ensworth High School (Nashville, TN)
Myra McLarey earned an M.A. in history, and completed course work for a doctorate at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has taught both history and English in high schools and colleges. She was on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's Academy for Teachers of Writing for the ten years of its existence. She taught in the Harvard Freshman Writing Program for four years and for ten years was a lecturer at Harvard Extension where she taught fiction and advanced memoir. While at Harvard, she received many teaching honors, including the James Conway Distinguished Teaching Award. She is now chair of the English Department at Ensworth High School, a new skills-based high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Publications include poems, essays, short stories, and a children's book (co-written with her daughter), and two novels. Her first novel,
Water from the Well, was a finalist for the Lillian Smith Award. Her second novel, co-written with Linda Weeks, was optioned by MGM. She has taught for several years in the summer program at Simon’s Rock and continues to lead workshops for IWT.
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Carley Moore
New York University
Carley Moore is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University. Her dissertation, Seventeen Magazine and the Girl Writer, examines the relationship between popular American culture, American political movements in the last forty years, and how teenage girls have responded to these cultural and political changes in writing for Seventeen Magazine. Carley is also a poet whose poems have appeared in The Birdsong Collective, Coconut, Fence, The Blue Letter, LIT, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She is the co-curator of the POD Reading series in Brooklyn. Her young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles, was recently released by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
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Joanne Mulcahy
Lewis and Clark College (OR)
Joanne Mulcahy is an anthropologist (M.A.) and folklorist (Ph.D.), teaches and directs the Writing Culture Program at The Northwest Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island, a biography of an Alaska Native healer. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including
The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West, These United States, and
Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond. She has received fellowships from The Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, the nonfiction award from New Letters, and grants from The British Council, the Alaska Humanities Forum, and the Oregon Council for the Humanities.
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Michael Murray
Princeton University
B.A., George Mason University; M.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Currently teaching at Princeton University, where he runs seminars on interdisciplinary writing focuses on performance studies, ethnography, popular culture and folklore. He is a folklorist who specializes in traditional culture in the American suburb, vernacular art and artists, and public culture studies, and a curator whose work in cultural studies and oral history have been presented at the Hudson River Museum (Yonkers, New York) and the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife.
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Irene Papoulis
Trinity College (CT)
Irene Papoulis is a senior lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College, Hartford. BA Binghamton University, MFA Columbia University, PhD Stony Brook University. She has published articles on the teaching of writing in various collections, including
Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies, The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities, Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices in Composition Studies, and
Writing With Elbow. With Michelle Tokarczyk, she co-edited a collection of essays called
Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides. She has been an associate of IWT since 1991.
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Phil Pardi
Bard College
Phil Pardi is the director of college writing at Bard College’s Academic Resources Center and is a visiting instructor of writing. B.A.,Tufts University; M.F.A., Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas. He is a poet and translator and is the author of
Meditations on Rising and Falling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008); he has published poems and translations in
Gettysburg Review, Best New Poets 2006, Exile Quarterly, Marlboro Review, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod, Seneca Review, others; served as editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (2003–05). He has worked as a human rights activist in El Salvador and as a labor organizer in the Hudson Valley; he has taught writing at Marist College and led poetry workshops at University of California–Los Angeles Writers Program. Recipient, Brittingham Poetry Prize; American Literary Translators Association Conference Fellowship; Adele Steiner Burleson Poetry Award. (2005– )
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Cindy Parrish
Buxton School
Cindy Parrish is an educator, film maker, graphic novelist, playwright, and professional storyteller. Co-founder of Heroic Productionz, an educational media production and consulting company, Dr. Parrish, until recently, taught humanities at the University at Albany's first year program, Project Renaissance. In 2012 she began teaching at Buxton School, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She has been an IWT associate since 1995. B.S., Communication Arts, Cornell University; Doctor of Arts in English, the University at Albany.
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Peg Peoples
Bard College
Peg Peoples B.A., University of Alaska, Fairbanks; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts. Writing Associate, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art (2002-04); visiting assistant professor, writing and humanities, Pratt Institute (2002-04); Adjunct assistant professor, Hofstra University (2001-02). Poems, essays and reviews have appeared in
Verse, Rattapallax, Nidus, New Letters and other journals. Former publishing director of Alice James Books and associate director of the Academy of American Poets. IWT associate (2002-), visiting assistant professor, Bard First Year Seminar & Writing.
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Liz Perry
Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn
Elizabeth Perry teaches high school English and is the Director of Educational Design and Innovation at The Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn. Her courses rotate among American Studies, Satire, Madness in Literature, and Documenting the World (an ethics course pairing nonfiction texts and documentary films). A native New Yorker, Liz has previously taught at a Jesuit school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, an independent school in Boston, and an international school in Brazil. She holds a B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in Women's Studies from Swarthmore College, and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a Lead English Teacher at the Klingenstein Summer Institute, an intensive professional development program for K-12 teachers in independent schools. Liz participated in her first Bard IWT workshop in the summer of 2000 and has been “hooked ever since.”
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Litia Perta
Bard College
Litia Perta is a thinker, a teacher, and a writer who currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Rhetoric Department at The University of California Berkeley, where she emerged exhausted but unscathed and has been rethinking her relationship to pedagogy and academic practice ever since. She has taught in the Language & Thinking program at Bard and has offered courses in critical theory, aesthetics and composition at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Wesleyan University, The New School, and UC Berkeley. Current projects include a memoir; a documentary project on wimmin’s lands in the Pacific Northwest; and a lyrical history of the world’s first female astronomer. She is interested in transformation, and in collaborating with others to develop innovative ways (aesthetic, pedagogical, spiritual) to support the metamorphoses we came here to live through.
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Ray Peterson
Bard High School Early College
Ray Peterson is project director and principal, BHSEC. B.A., Southwestern College; M.A., University of Iowa; doctoral studies at New York University. Director, IWT, 1998–2001. Has taught at Central Missouri State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, California. Professional honors include Coe Foundation Fellowship in American Studies (1967); Bay Area Writing Project Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1979); Carnegie-Mellon Writing Research Fellowship (1980). Has contributed articles to
Before and After (Random House, 1985) and Writing in Australia (Oxford, 1986), among others.
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Kristin Prevallet
New York University
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., SUNY Buffalo. Poet, translator, and author of literary essays and cultural criticism. Author,
Perturbation, My Sister (First Intensity, 1996) and
Scratch Sides: Poems, Documents, and Image-Text Projects (Skanky Possum, 2003). Coeditor, with Tonya Foster, of
Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art and the forthcoming
Fire-Brackled Bones: A Selected Helen Adam (National Poetry Foundation). Lives in Brooklyn and teaches at NYU and at Naropa University. Co-founder of Study Abroad on the Bowery: A Certificate Program in Applied Poetics at the Bowery Poetry Club. Faculty, Language and Thinking Program.
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Neil Rigler
Deerfield High School (IL)
Neil Rigler teaches English and Film Studies at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been teaching there for eight years, after completing Masters degrees in both Education and English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Il. He has been teaching in the Lake Forest College Writing and Thinking summer workshop for the past 8 summers. He has participated in several weekend and summer workshops at Bard. He is a regular presenter at the NCTE (National Council of English Teachers) conference, and recently spoke there about plans for the increased use of various forms of visual media as texts in English classrooms. He is the director of Sofer, a workshop for Jewish writers, held in March at the Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He is also the youth advisor at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL. He is married to Tammy, and has two goofy and adorable sons, Asher and Gideon.
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Eléna Rivera
New York University
Eléna Rivera is the author of The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011), Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL-e Editions, 2010) and Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath was published by Burning Deck Press 2009. She won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation for her translation of The Rest of the Voyage by Bernard Noël, which will be published by Graywolf Press in November 2011. She is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and a 2009 Fundacíon Valparaíso Poetry Residency in Mojácar, Spain. She teaches in the Liberal Arts Program of the School for Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University and with Poets & Writers in New York City.
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Susan Fox Rogers
Bard College
Susan Fox Rogers is visiting assistant professor of writing and first-year seminar at Bard College. B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Columbia University; M.F.A., University of Arizona. Managing editor,
Journal of the History of Sexuality (1991–95); editor for New American Library/Penguin USA. Editor of ten book anthologies including:
Another Wilderness: New Outdoor Writing by Women (Seal Press, 1994);
Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996);
Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel (Sasquatch Books, 1996) and
Going Alone: Women’s Adventures in the Wild (Seal/Avalon 2004). Selected by Antarctic Artists & Writers Program to participate in U.S. Antarctic Program during 2004–05 Austral Summer. Personal essays have appeared in numerous publications. IWT associate since 1993.
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Tyler T. Schmidt
Lehman College, CUNY
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., Columbia University. Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Assistant professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY. Specializations: 20th-century African-American literature; 20th-century American poetry; and race and sexuality studies. His current project,
Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Postwar American Literature, 1945-1955, investigates cross-race writing, interracial sexuality, and queer identity in post-WW II American poetry and fiction. Faculty member, Bard Language and Thinking Program.
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Pat Sharpe
Bard College at Simon's Rock
B.A., Barnard College; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Sharpe has taught in India on a Fulbright grant and at the University of Michigan. She has been awarded a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend summer seminars at Brown and Harvard Universities and at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London. Under NEH auspices, she has offered seminars for teachers, held at Simon's Rock in the summers of 1988, 1990, and 1992, on women and fiction. In 2001-2003 she served as founding Dean of Studies of Bard High School Early College, a collaborative venture with the New York City Public Schools. Her writing has appeared in the
Alternative Review, American Anthropologist, American Behavioral Scientist, American Literary History, the Berkshire Eagle, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, College English, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Critical Exchange, In Print, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, Michigan Quarterly Review, Novel, Phoebe, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and
Signs. Her articles are included in the books
New Research on Women and Sex Roles (Center for Continuing Education of Women Publications, 1976),
Anthropology and Literature (University of Illinois Press, 1993),
Gender and Scientific Authority (University of Chicago Press, 1996),
Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality (University of Arizona, 1998),
International Studies: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998) and
Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (State University of New York Press, 1992), which she co-edited with Frances E. Mascia-Lees. Their coauthored articles are collected in the book,
Taking a Stand in a Post-Feminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism. Cut is in press. (State Univeristy of New York Press, 2000).
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Jane Sprague
Writer and Editor
Jane Sprague's most recent work with the Institute was leading a Writing and Thinking workshop at Paramount Bard Academy in Delano, CA this summer with her IWT colleague Bill Webb. Last summer she led a workshop for Naropa University's Summer Writing Program that explored the possibilities for poetry, publishing and social change.Recent readings of her work include an event at Otis College in Los Angeles with poet Kathleen Fraser. Her work was published in the anthology The Arcadia Project (Ahsahta Press, 2012) and is forthcoming in the journal The Capilano Review, the anthology Kinder-Garde as well as an interview for the online journal full-stop regarding pedagogy and innovation in the writing classroom (full-stop.net). Her books include The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press, 2009), Belladonna Elders Series 8 (with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward; Belladonna Press, 2009), and the collection Imaginary Syllabi, an anthology of innovative, transgressive and fabulist syllabi in the disciplines of writing and art (Editor; Palm Press, 2011). Her essays, reviews, poetry and interviews have appeared in many journals and magazines including The Colorado Review, How2, Ecopoetics,Columbia Poetry Review and others. She has published numerous contemporary poets, including past IWT faculty member Juliana Spahr, and others through Palm Press, the imprint she has edited since 2001 (palmpress.org). Her current writing projects include My Appalachia, a book that examines the histories of inter-generational poverty, legacies of slavery and genocide in Upstate New York where she is from. She lives with her family on a manufactured island in Long Beach, California.
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Robert Tynes
Bard College
Robert Tynes is the Site Director for Eastern Correctional Facility for the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) and a member of the BPI faculty. He also teaches writing for the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. Tynes has taught political science courses at the State University of New York (SUNY)-Albany and SUNY-New Paltz. His research focuses on child soldiers, political violence, African politics, the political economy of oil in Africa, and American foreign policy. Prior to his position at BPI, Tynes served as the Research Director for the Project on Violent Conflict in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at SUNY-Albany. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from SUNY-Albany, an M.A. in communications from the University of Washington and a B.F.A. from New York University.
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Nicole B. Wallack
Columbia University
Nicole B. Wallack is the Director of Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program in the department of English and Comparative Literature. At Columbia, she teaches graduate seminars on writing pedagogy as well as undergraduate writing courses. Dr. Wallack also has been an Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College since 1998. At the Institute, she designs and conducts workshops for educators on the essay, assessment, writing-to-learn practices, writing-across-the-curriculum, academic writing, grammar, and listening as a pedagogical praxis.
Her scholarship focuses on the history and aesthetics of the American essay, rhetoric and composition, teacher education, and knowledge transfer. Her most recent essays include “Revealing Our Values: Reading Student Texts with Colleagues in High School and College,” which appears in Teaching with Student Texts (Utah State University Press, 2010). In this essay, Dr. Wallack reports from surveys of high school and college teachers who have participated in the IWT’s workshops about their expectations for students’ academic writing. Her chapter on creating effective writing prompts appears in the collection Writing-Based Teaching: Essential Practices and Enduring Questions, (SUNY Press, 2010). She is currently writing a book on the intersecting histories of the American essay in schools and the public sphere, and an article on knowledge and skills transfer from high school to college writing contexts.
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William Webb
Bard MAT Program Delano Campus
William Webb has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a M.Th. from Loyola Marymount University. As an IWT associate he has taught writing workshops for teachers and students at Bard as well as through the Monte Sol Writing Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Currently William is Director of Classroom Practices at the Bard MAT Program's Delano campus in California.
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Robert D. Whittemore
Western Connecticut State University
Robert D. Whittemore, professor of anthropology at Western Connecticut State University, has been a faculty associate of IWT since 1987 and, since 1989, director of the Fir Acres Workshop in Writing and Thinking at Lewis & Clark College, a summer residency for young writers. His research interests focus on children as cultural brokers and on peer-to-peer socialization. He has done fieldwork in urban Los Angeles with the developmentally disabled; in urban Portland, Oregon, on crack abuse; with contrasting pedagogies among teachers in a rural Oregon school; and with Mandinka sibling caregivers in Senegal, West Africa. His publications include “Fieldnotes: On Developing an Ethnographic Habit of Mind” in
Field Notes 1 no. 1 (2005); and (with Elizabeth Beverly) “Mandinka Mothers and Nurslings: Power and Reproduction” in
Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10 no. 1 (1996), “Mandinka Children and the Geography of Well-Being” in
Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 21 no. 3 (1993), and “Trust in the Mandinka Way: The Cultural Context of Sibling Care” in
Sibling Interactions Across Cultures (1988); and “Theodore V. Barrett: An Account of Adaptive Competence” in
Culture and Retardation (1985). He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.
