Name: Carolyn Sterling-Deer
Phone: 718.482.5359
Office: E-200/O
E-mail: csterling@lagcc.cuny.edu

Carolyn Sterling-Deer came to LaGuardia Community College in 1981 and has been at LaGuardia for twenty-five years. She holds a PhD in English with a specialization in composition and TESOL. Her area of specialization is sociolinguistics, the study of social and linguistic bases of language learning and acquisition. Her research for the PhD focused on the expression of identity of Dominican females online. Other research projects include a study of Dominican mothers and daughters and their lives in the American Diaspora, with future research focused on factors of success of Dominican females in CUNY.

Her work at LaGuardia involves teaching courses in the English language and in education. She was involved in teaching one of the first ESL Learning Communities with CIS 100 in the early 1990s and continues to teach this course today. She has served as the Coordinator of ESL Learning Communities for the past fifteen years and has been deeply involved in orienting new faculty to their work in this teaching milieu. More detailed information about ESL learning communities can be found at http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lc/eslpairs.htm. Sterling-Deer has a faculty Web page at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/carolynsd.