Full-time Faculty
Paul Arcario
Tel: 718-482-5405 | Room: M-400/A | arcariop@lagcc.cuny.edu
Paul Arcario is currently on leave from his faculty position serving as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College. In that capacity, he works closely with faculty on programmatic, curricular, and pedagogical issues, providing guidance for many of the College's academic initiatives, such as electronic portfolios, outcomes assessment, and First Year Experience programs. Dr. Arcario has a long-standing interest in technology-based pedagogy, having conducted workshops in teaching ESL with video and other media for the Teachers College, Columbia University ESL master's degree program, as well as having produced educational videos for teaching ESL, including the first American English language-teaching video broadcast in The People's Republic of China.
Tel: 718-482-5405 | Room: M-400/A | arcariop@lagcc.cuny.edu
Paul Arcario is currently on leave from his faculty position serving as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College. In that capacity, he works closely with faculty on programmatic, curricular, and pedagogical issues, providing guidance for many of the College's academic initiatives, such as electronic portfolios, outcomes assessment, and First Year Experience programs. Dr. Arcario has a long-standing interest in technology-based pedagogy, having conducted workshops in teaching ESL with video and other media for the Teachers College, Columbia University ESL master's degree program, as well as having produced educational videos for teaching ESL, including the first American English language-teaching video broadcast in The People's Republic of China.
Rashida Aziz
Tel: 718-482-5368 | Room: B-234 HH | azizra@lagcc.cuny.edu
Rashida Aziz teaches in the Academic ESL Program in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. Prior to becoming a full-time faculty member of the Academic ESL Program in September 1979, she was an adjunct teaching ESL and reading in the Academic ESL (The FESL), non-credit (DIP, SNIP, ENIP), and Adult Education programs for a few years. She teaches all ESL courses offered by the program, especially writing, to all levels. Since 1996, she has been actively involved in developing the joint syllabus and theme-based materials and projects in collaboration with Professor Gao for the ESL New Student House, in which she teaches two courses. More detailed information about the ESL New Student House can be found at http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lc/eslnewstudenthouse.htm. She has served as coordinator of the ESL Program and is now coordinator of ESL097 courses. Her professional involvement ranges from attending conferences and making presentations at local CUNY-ESL Council, NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics and international TESOL levels. She has an MA in English literature from the Punjab University, Pakistan, and an MA in TESOL and an EdM in Reading and Learning Disabilities from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also did further graduate work at Teachers College. She holds New York State permanent certification in teaching and a New York City license for ESL.
Tel: 718-482-5368 | Room: B-234 HH | azizra@lagcc.cuny.edu
Rashida Aziz teaches in the Academic ESL Program in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. Prior to becoming a full-time faculty member of the Academic ESL Program in September 1979, she was an adjunct teaching ESL and reading in the Academic ESL (The FESL), non-credit (DIP, SNIP, ENIP), and Adult Education programs for a few years. She teaches all ESL courses offered by the program, especially writing, to all levels. Since 1996, she has been actively involved in developing the joint syllabus and theme-based materials and projects in collaboration with Professor Gao for the ESL New Student House, in which she teaches two courses. More detailed information about the ESL New Student House can be found at http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/lc/eslnewstudenthouse.htm. She has served as coordinator of the ESL Program and is now coordinator of ESL097 courses. Her professional involvement ranges from attending conferences and making presentations at local CUNY-ESL Council, NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics and international TESOL levels. She has an MA in English literature from the Punjab University, Pakistan, and an MA in TESOL and an EdM in Reading and Learning Disabilities from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also did further graduate work at Teachers College. She holds New York State permanent certification in teaching and a New York City license for ESL.
Habiba Boumlik
Tel: 718-482-5160 | Room: B-234 | hboumlik@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Habiba Boumlik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1996. She also holds an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a BA in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Besancon, France.
Dr. Boumlik teaches Arabic and French courses. Her academic background and teaching experience include Arabic, French language and francophone cultures and literatures, Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, Middle Eastern History, and Arab Cinema. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she has taught in France, Hungary, Egypt, and in several colleges and universities in New York.
Her research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity.
Her current research examines the use of new media technologies by Muslim seculars and Berber cultural movements. She is particularly interested in self-conscious practices in social movements where cultural material is strategically used as part of political empowerment by various disenfranchised groups.
Tel: 718-482-5160 | Room: B-234 | hboumlik@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Habiba Boumlik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1996. She also holds an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies and a BA in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Besancon, France.
Dr. Boumlik teaches Arabic and French courses. Her academic background and teaching experience include Arabic, French language and francophone cultures and literatures, Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, Middle Eastern History, and Arab Cinema. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she has taught in France, Hungary, Egypt, and in several colleges and universities in New York.
Her research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity.
Her current research examines the use of new media technologies by Muslim seculars and Berber cultural movements. She is particularly interested in self-conscious practices in social movements where cultural material is strategically used as part of political empowerment by various disenfranchised groups.
Daisy Bustio
Tel: 718-482-5466 | Room: B-206 | dbustio@lagcc.cuny.edu
Daisy Bustio is an educator and administrator with over twenty-five years of experience in higher education and the private sector. She is currently a tenured Senior Laboratory Technician and an adjunct faculty member in Spanish for the Modern Languages and Literatures Program. She is enormously respected by her colleagues and students for her teaching, administrative skills, and hands-on involvement with students' college life. She has served on various committees in the college such as the Personnel and Budget, the Sexual Harassment, the Study Abroad, the Honors Night Award, and the Departmental Faculty Search committees. In addition, she has served as mentor for various student clubs. Bustio has received many awards throughout her career for her dedication and professionalism. She is listed in the 1996 Who's Who Among America's Teachers, having been nominated by the best students. The Dominican Club and the Colombian Cultural Club named her The Most Dedicated Mentor of the Year in 1998 and 2004, respectively. She received an A.A. from LaGuardia Community College and a B.A. from Queens College; she is currently completing her M.A. at Queens College, specializing in Spanish Grammar and Literature/Secondary Education.
Tel: 718-482-5466 | Room: B-206 | dbustio@lagcc.cuny.edu
Daisy Bustio is an educator and administrator with over twenty-five years of experience in higher education and the private sector. She is currently a tenured Senior Laboratory Technician and an adjunct faculty member in Spanish for the Modern Languages and Literatures Program. She is enormously respected by her colleagues and students for her teaching, administrative skills, and hands-on involvement with students' college life. She has served on various committees in the college such as the Personnel and Budget, the Sexual Harassment, the Study Abroad, the Honors Night Award, and the Departmental Faculty Search committees. In addition, she has served as mentor for various student clubs. Bustio has received many awards throughout her career for her dedication and professionalism. She is listed in the 1996 Who's Who Among America's Teachers, having been nominated by the best students. The Dominican Club and the Colombian Cultural Club named her The Most Dedicated Mentor of the Year in 1998 and 2004, respectively. She received an A.A. from LaGuardia Community College and a B.A. from Queens College; she is currently completing her M.A. at Queens College, specializing in Spanish Grammar and Literature/Secondary Education.
Ruhma Choudhury
Tel: 718-482-6098 | Room: B-234 U | rchoudhury@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Ruhma Choudhury received her MA in English Literature from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from California State University, Hayward. Her doctorate in TESOL is from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught a range of courses, including linguistics, teaching methodology, and writing. Her research interests include language policy, teacher education, and critical approaches to language learning.
Tel: 718-482-6098 | Room: B-234 U | rchoudhury@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Ruhma Choudhury received her MA in English Literature from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from California State University, Hayward. Her doctorate in TESOL is from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught a range of courses, including linguistics, teaching methodology, and writing. Her research interests include language policy, teacher education, and critical approaches to language learning.
Florence Diallo
Tel: 718-482-5342 | Room: B-234 CC | fdiallo@lagcc.cuny.edu
Florence Diallo has been teaching at LaGuardia since 1992, first as an adjunct in The English Language Center (TELC) and then as a full-time faculty member since 2003. She has an Msc. from the London School of Economics in politics and government and a Masters in TESOL from Hunter College. Her interests range from Third World development to the connection between language, culture, and identity. She pursues these interests through workshop presentations, a Website she created in 2004 called Global Perspectives (http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/fdiallo/), and her work on Opening Sessions, which she co-chairs. She also serves on several other college-wide committees including Professional Development as Co-Chair.
Tel: 718-482-5342 | Room: B-234 CC | fdiallo@lagcc.cuny.edu
Florence Diallo has been teaching at LaGuardia since 1992, first as an adjunct in The English Language Center (TELC) and then as a full-time faculty member since 2003. She has an Msc. from the London School of Economics in politics and government and a Masters in TESOL from Hunter College. Her interests range from Third World development to the connection between language, culture, and identity. She pursues these interests through workshop presentations, a Website she created in 2004 called Global Perspectives (http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/fdiallo/), and her work on Opening Sessions, which she co-chairs. She also serves on several other college-wide committees including Professional Development as Co-Chair.
Monika Ekiert
Tel: 718-482-6097 | Room: B-234 V | mekiert@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Monika Ekiert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. Her doctorate in Applied Linguistics is from Columbia University. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Columbia University.
Dr. Ekiert has taught ESL for over 10 years and academic writing for over 5 years. She has also taught graduate courses in second language acquisition as well as teaching practica in integrated skills and listening at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to her current role at LaGuardia, Dr. Ekiert served as Assistant Coordinator of the Community Language Program at Teachers College, Columbia University (2005-2010) and Managing Editor of Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics (2005-2007).
Dr. Ekiert's research interests lie at the interface of second language acquisition and second language instruction, including issues of form-meaning connections in second language learning, crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition, and second language learnability and teachability. Her most recent publication "Linguistic Effects on Thinking for Writing: The Case of Articles in L2 English" appeared in an edited volume Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Thinking for Speaking (2010) co-edited by ZhaoHong Han and Teresa Cadierno. Dr. Ekiert is the recipient of the 2010 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) Abstract Award.
Tel: 718-482-6097 | Room: B-234 V | mekiert@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Monika Ekiert is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. Her doctorate in Applied Linguistics is from Columbia University. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Columbia University.
Dr. Ekiert has taught ESL for over 10 years and academic writing for over 5 years. She has also taught graduate courses in second language acquisition as well as teaching practica in integrated skills and listening at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to her current role at LaGuardia, Dr. Ekiert served as Assistant Coordinator of the Community Language Program at Teachers College, Columbia University (2005-2010) and Managing Editor of Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics (2005-2007).
Dr. Ekiert's research interests lie at the interface of second language acquisition and second language instruction, including issues of form-meaning connections in second language learning, crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition, and second language learnability and teachability. Her most recent publication "Linguistic Effects on Thinking for Writing: The Case of Articles in L2 English" appeared in an edited volume Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Thinking for Speaking (2010) co-edited by ZhaoHong Han and Teresa Cadierno. Dr. Ekiert is the recipient of the 2010 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) Abstract Award.
Nancy Erber
Tel: 718-482-5379 | Room: B-234 FF | nancye@lagcc.cuny.edu
Nancy Erber was awarded a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University in 1988. She has also earned an MA in Romance Studies from Cornell, and an MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from the Graduate School of Education at Hunter College, CUNY. She received a BA in French language and literature from Queens College, CUNY, and spent two years studying abroad, engaged in undergraduate and graduate coursework and research in Berlin, Germany and Reims, France.
She has translated Paul Thorez's memoir Model Children (Autonomedia Press). With George Robb, she edited an anthology of essays on Western European cultural history called Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Morality (Palgrave). She has also written articles and reviews on women's autobiography, gay and lesbian history, and contemporary performance art.
Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth Century France" translated, edited and with an introduction by William A Peniston and Nancy Erber, was published by Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press in 2007. An updated French translation "Bougres de Vies: Huit Homosexuels du XIX siecle se racontent" Presentation et notes de William A Peniston et Nancy Erber, was published by Editions Eros Onyx in 2012.
Tel: 718-482-5379 | Room: B-234 FF | nancye@lagcc.cuny.edu
Nancy Erber was awarded a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University in 1988. She has also earned an MA in Romance Studies from Cornell, and an MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL from the Graduate School of Education at Hunter College, CUNY. She received a BA in French language and literature from Queens College, CUNY, and spent two years studying abroad, engaged in undergraduate and graduate coursework and research in Berlin, Germany and Reims, France.
She has translated Paul Thorez's memoir Model Children (Autonomedia Press). With George Robb, she edited an anthology of essays on Western European cultural history called Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Morality (Palgrave). She has also written articles and reviews on women's autobiography, gay and lesbian history, and contemporary performance art.
Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth Century France" translated, edited and with an introduction by William A Peniston and Nancy Erber, was published by Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press in 2007. An updated French translation "Bougres de Vies: Huit Homosexuels du XIX siecle se racontent" Presentation et notes de William A Peniston et Nancy Erber, was published by Editions Eros Onyx in 2012.
Lorna Feldman
Tel: 718-482-5417 | Room: B-234 | lfeldman@lagcc.cuny.edu
Lorna has a BA in linguistics from The City College of New York and an MA and MPhil in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has taught linguistics and English at Queens College, Adelphi University, the CUNY Graduate Center, and LaGuardia. Her research interests include phonetics, dialectology, adult second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. In the latter area, she has written on issues related to expressions of formality, politeness, power and solidarity among Greek-American bilinguals. She speaks Greek, Spanish, French, and some Japanese. Prior to joining the ELA Department, Lorna was the Coordinator of the College Now program. She is excited now to be part of the Modern Languages and Literatures Program.
Tel: 718-482-5417 | Room: B-234 | lfeldman@lagcc.cuny.edu
Lorna has a BA in linguistics from The City College of New York and an MA and MPhil in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has taught linguistics and English at Queens College, Adelphi University, the CUNY Graduate Center, and LaGuardia. Her research interests include phonetics, dialectology, adult second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. In the latter area, she has written on issues related to expressions of formality, politeness, power and solidarity among Greek-American bilinguals. She speaks Greek, Spanish, French, and some Japanese. Prior to joining the ELA Department, Lorna was the Coordinator of the College Now program. She is excited now to be part of the Modern Languages and Literatures Program.
Wen Juan Fan
Tel: 718-482-5371 | Room: B-234 GG | fanwe@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Wenjuan Fan teaches in the Academic ESL Program. She has taught ESL classes clustered with Introduction to Business and Gateway, ESL paired with Group Communication, ESL paired with Principles of Accounting, ESL paired with Introduction to Computers and their Applications, ESL paired with Desktop Publishing, and ESL paired with Math.
Tel: 718-482-5371 | Room: B-234 GG | fanwe@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Wenjuan Fan teaches in the Academic ESL Program. She has taught ESL classes clustered with Introduction to Business and Gateway, ESL paired with Group Communication, ESL paired with Principles of Accounting, ESL paired with Introduction to Computers and their Applications, ESL paired with Desktop Publishing, and ESL paired with Math.
Linda Forrester
Tel: 718-482-6024 | Room: B-234 LL | lforrester@lagcc.cuny.edu
Linda Forrester holds a BFA in Music from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MA in TESOL from Adelphi University. She has been teaching at LaGuardia since the fall of 1999 and has been in a full-time position since spring 2004. She is a classical singer as well as an ESL teacher, and her love of music and the arts infuses her teaching. She is a strong believer in integrative learning, and enjoys collaborative teaching across the disciplines in ESL pairs and clusters. Forrester has contributed articles on ESL learning communities to NYSTESOL Idiom and In Transit. Most recently, she has written a chapter in "Effective Second Language Writing," entitled: "Modern Heroes: From Content to Composition via Critical and Creative Thinking."
Tel: 718-482-6024 | Room: B-234 LL | lforrester@lagcc.cuny.edu
Linda Forrester holds a BFA in Music from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MA in TESOL from Adelphi University. She has been teaching at LaGuardia since the fall of 1999 and has been in a full-time position since spring 2004. She is a classical singer as well as an ESL teacher, and her love of music and the arts infuses her teaching. She is a strong believer in integrative learning, and enjoys collaborative teaching across the disciplines in ESL pairs and clusters. Forrester has contributed articles on ESL learning communities to NYSTESOL Idiom and In Transit. Most recently, she has written a chapter in "Effective Second Language Writing," entitled: "Modern Heroes: From Content to Composition via Critical and Creative Thinking."
Jack Gantzer
Tel: 718-482-5370 | Room: B-234 Q | jgantzer@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Jack Gantzer is Professor of the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from New York University, an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hawaii, an MLS (Master of Library Science) from Queens College, CUNY, completed two years of graduate work in Anthropology, and has a BA in Botany from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
Dr. Gantzer has taught ESL for over 30 years and has also taught graduate courses in linguistics, second language reading, education, and language testing at New York University and City College, CUNY. He also teaches in City College's Master's degree program in English Education in Austria. His research interests include second language reading, reader response theory, writing in the disciplines, learning communities, second language composition theory, and language testing. Dr. Gantzer is currently beginning research on Generation 1.5 students, students who came to the US in their early teens, speak fluent "street" English, but write like ESL students. He hopes to devise a way to distinguish the writing of these students from that of tradition ESL students and to develop curricula to better serve this growing population in US urban colleges and universities.
Tel: 718-482-5370 | Room: B-234 Q | jgantzer@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Jack Gantzer is Professor of the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from New York University, an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hawaii, an MLS (Master of Library Science) from Queens College, CUNY, completed two years of graduate work in Anthropology, and has a BA in Botany from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.
Dr. Gantzer has taught ESL for over 30 years and has also taught graduate courses in linguistics, second language reading, education, and language testing at New York University and City College, CUNY. He also teaches in City College's Master's degree program in English Education in Austria. His research interests include second language reading, reader response theory, writing in the disciplines, learning communities, second language composition theory, and language testing. Dr. Gantzer is currently beginning research on Generation 1.5 students, students who came to the US in their early teens, speak fluent "street" English, but write like ESL students. He hopes to devise a way to distinguish the writing of these students from that of tradition ESL students and to develop curricula to better serve this growing population in US urban colleges and universities.
Jie Gao
Tel: 718-482-5643 | Room: B-234 JJ | gaoji@lagcc.cuny.edu
Jie Gao graduated from Beijing University and Beijing Foreign Language Institute in the People's Republic of China. He holds an MA equivalent. His original major was Polish language and literature. He taught English in China from 1963 and worked in China as a freelance interpreter and translator for many years. He came to LaGuardia Community College in 1990 as an exchange professor, and since then has been teaching ESL. He has served as ESL099 coordinator since 1995. His research interests include comparative rhetoric and methodologies of teaching English to speakers of Chinese. Gao is a major contributor to the book Get It? Got It! (New Century American English Living and Learning in the West), published in China in 2001 and now a bestseller there. He is co-author of the article "Essay of Changes: The Role of L1 in L2 Writing," published in The English Record (Volume 51, Fall 2000). He is a member of the University Affirmative Action Committee (UAAC), CUNY. He has been selected three times for inclusion in Who's Who Among American Teachers. In addition to ESL classes, he is currently teaching courses in Chinese language for heritage speakers and in Chinese literature.
Tel: 718-482-5643 | Room: B-234 JJ | gaoji@lagcc.cuny.edu
Jie Gao graduated from Beijing University and Beijing Foreign Language Institute in the People's Republic of China. He holds an MA equivalent. His original major was Polish language and literature. He taught English in China from 1963 and worked in China as a freelance interpreter and translator for many years. He came to LaGuardia Community College in 1990 as an exchange professor, and since then has been teaching ESL. He has served as ESL099 coordinator since 1995. His research interests include comparative rhetoric and methodologies of teaching English to speakers of Chinese. Gao is a major contributor to the book Get It? Got It! (New Century American English Living and Learning in the West), published in China in 2001 and now a bestseller there. He is co-author of the article "Essay of Changes: The Role of L1 in L2 Writing," published in The English Record (Volume 51, Fall 2000). He is a member of the University Affirmative Action Committee (UAAC), CUNY. He has been selected three times for inclusion in Who's Who Among American Teachers. In addition to ESL classes, he is currently teaching courses in Chinese language for heritage speakers and in Chinese literature.
Judith Gex
Tel: 718-482-5369 | Room: B-234 II | gexju@lagcc.cuny.edu
Judy Gex started teaching ESL at LaGuardia as an adjunct in 1978, becoming a full-time teacher in 1979. Teaching ESL combines many of the things that she likes in life: meeting new people from different cultures, talking about languages, the arts, writing and reading, and traveling. She has two MAs: an MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University, and an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, she has taken many other graduate courses in education and political science/urban issues. The American chair of the English section of the Sino-American Conference on Higher Education since 2001, she has gone to Shanxi Province to do teacher training seven times. She has been the recipient of two Fulbright awards (at the National University of Benin from1993 to 1995, and at Suleyman Demirel University in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2009). The latter was a six-week assignment at an Islamic University. She has done workshops for the U.S. State Department in twelve countries.
Tel: 718-482-5369 | Room: B-234 II | gexju@lagcc.cuny.edu
Judy Gex started teaching ESL at LaGuardia as an adjunct in 1978, becoming a full-time teacher in 1979. Teaching ESL combines many of the things that she likes in life: meeting new people from different cultures, talking about languages, the arts, writing and reading, and traveling. She has two MAs: an MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University, and an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, she has taken many other graduate courses in education and political science/urban issues. The American chair of the English section of the Sino-American Conference on Higher Education since 2001, she has gone to Shanxi Province to do teacher training seven times. She has been the recipient of two Fulbright awards (at the National University of Benin from1993 to 1995, and at Suleyman Demirel University in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2009). The latter was a six-week assignment at an Islamic University. She has done workshops for the U.S. State Department in twelve countries.
Laurie A. Gluck
Tel: 718-482-5378 | Room: B-234 DD | lgluck@lagcc.cuny.edu
Laurie Gluck joined the Education and Language Acquisition Department in 2004 after teaching many years at the LaGuardia English Language Center and other CUNY ESL programs. In addition to ESL teaching, she has trained prospective ESL professionals in the New School University Certificate Program in methods of teaching ESL writing and pronunciation. Her approach to teaching ESL writing and grammar highlights the interaction between sentence grammar and the sound and intonation patterns of spoken English. Through this lens students discover predictable patterns in both listening and grammar that increase their awareness of and enhance their linguistic knowledge. Ms. Gluck also teaches ELL 101, Introduction to Language, an introductory linguistics course for Liberal Arts and Education majors. She wrote the guidelines for the teaching of ELL 101 and maintains a Blackboard site of resources for instructors in this course. She is a second level doctoral student in the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the Second Language Acquisition with a concentration in the role of phonology and prosody in the acquisition of a second language. She completed undergraduate work at Ryerson University in Toronto and received teacher certification at Laval University in Quebec City. She has a MA in TESOL from Hunter College of CUNY.
Tel: 718-482-5378 | Room: B-234 DD | lgluck@lagcc.cuny.edu
Laurie Gluck joined the Education and Language Acquisition Department in 2004 after teaching many years at the LaGuardia English Language Center and other CUNY ESL programs. In addition to ESL teaching, she has trained prospective ESL professionals in the New School University Certificate Program in methods of teaching ESL writing and pronunciation. Her approach to teaching ESL writing and grammar highlights the interaction between sentence grammar and the sound and intonation patterns of spoken English. Through this lens students discover predictable patterns in both listening and grammar that increase their awareness of and enhance their linguistic knowledge. Ms. Gluck also teaches ELL 101, Introduction to Language, an introductory linguistics course for Liberal Arts and Education majors. She wrote the guidelines for the teaching of ELL 101 and maintains a Blackboard site of resources for instructors in this course. She is a second level doctoral student in the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the Second Language Acquisition with a concentration in the role of phonology and prosody in the acquisition of a second language. She completed undergraduate work at Ryerson University in Toronto and received teacher certification at Laval University in Quebec City. She has a MA in TESOL from Hunter College of CUNY.
Leigh Garrison-Fletcher
Tel: 718-482-7028 | Room: B-234R | lgarrisonfletcher@lagcc.cuny.edu
Leigh Garrison-Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of ESL and Linguistics in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, where she focused on second language acquisition. Her research interests include the role of the native language in second language learning, the acquisition of second language literacy, and the assessment of bilingual students.
Tel: 718-482-7028 | Room: B-234R | lgarrisonfletcher@lagcc.cuny.edu
Leigh Garrison-Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of ESL and Linguistics in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, where she focused on second language acquisition. Her research interests include the role of the native language in second language learning, the acquisition of second language literacy, and the assessment of bilingual students.
Mabel González Quiroz
Tel: 718-482-6064 | Room: B-234 K | magonzalez@lagcc.cuny.edu
Professor Mabel González Quiroz holds a BA in English language and linguistics from Universidad de Chile (1991), an MA in Spanish language from Temple University (2000), and a PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures from the CUNY Graduate Center. She joined the ELA Department at LaGuardia in the Fall Semester 2009 as Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Modern Languages and Literatures.
She specializes in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, with a focus on textual scholarship, historical fiction, and censorship. Her research concentrates on the literature that flourished in Latin America as a direct response to Spanish colonialism, especially as it pertains to the Spanish Inquisition. Her interest in rare books and manuscripts has prompted her to collaborate with the Hispanic Society of America in the compilation of its Latin American manuscript database. In addition, she has worked on numerous translations from English to Spanish and is interested in language and translation studies.
Since 2003 she has written bibliographical articles about the academic and literary publications in Chile for the yearly bulletin of the AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas). In May 2009, Professor González Quiroz was a recipient of the Sixth Annual Bibliography Fellowship awarded by the Modern Language Association.
Tel: 718-482-6064 | Room: B-234 K | magonzalez@lagcc.cuny.edu
Professor Mabel González Quiroz holds a BA in English language and linguistics from Universidad de Chile (1991), an MA in Spanish language from Temple University (2000), and a PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures from the CUNY Graduate Center. She joined the ELA Department at LaGuardia in the Fall Semester 2009 as Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Modern Languages and Literatures.
She specializes in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, with a focus on textual scholarship, historical fiction, and censorship. Her research concentrates on the literature that flourished in Latin America as a direct response to Spanish colonialism, especially as it pertains to the Spanish Inquisition. Her interest in rare books and manuscripts has prompted her to collaborate with the Hispanic Society of America in the compilation of its Latin American manuscript database. In addition, she has worked on numerous translations from English to Spanish and is interested in language and translation studies.
Since 2003 she has written bibliographical articles about the academic and literary publications in Chile for the yearly bulletin of the AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas). In May 2009, Professor González Quiroz was a recipient of the Sixth Annual Bibliography Fellowship awarded by the Modern Language Association.
Richard Henry
Tel: 718-482-5366 | Room: B-234 I | rhenry@lagcc.cuny.edu
Rick Henry has an MS in Teaching English as a Second Language from the State University of New York at Albany. He has also studied in doctoral programs in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology. He has been teaching since 1971. His career in education has been varied and rewarding. He has taught in adult education, junior high school and college, arriving at LaGuardia Community College in 1977. Aside from his extensive classroom experience, he has coordinated ESL programs in adult education and in college. His experience also includes teacher training, both in the United States and overseas. He has published articles in the TESOL Quarterly and in other ESL publications. He has also written approved curricula for two ESL programs for the New York State Department of Education, one for adult education and one for vocational training. In addition, he spent a year teaching overseas on a Fulbright Fellowship as a senior lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In his long career in education, he has also taught adult basic education as well as GED and TOEFL preparation and worked with Youth Corps teens. He holds a New York State teaching license and teaches a course in the Education Program at LaGuardia Community College for the preparation of secondary school teachers.
Tel: 718-482-5366 | Room: B-234 I | rhenry@lagcc.cuny.edu
Rick Henry has an MS in Teaching English as a Second Language from the State University of New York at Albany. He has also studied in doctoral programs in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology. He has been teaching since 1971. His career in education has been varied and rewarding. He has taught in adult education, junior high school and college, arriving at LaGuardia Community College in 1977. Aside from his extensive classroom experience, he has coordinated ESL programs in adult education and in college. His experience also includes teacher training, both in the United States and overseas. He has published articles in the TESOL Quarterly and in other ESL publications. He has also written approved curricula for two ESL programs for the New York State Department of Education, one for adult education and one for vocational training. In addition, he spent a year teaching overseas on a Fulbright Fellowship as a senior lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In his long career in education, he has also taught adult basic education as well as GED and TOEFL preparation and worked with Youth Corps teens. He holds a New York State teaching license and teaches a course in the Education Program at LaGuardia Community College for the preparation of secondary school teachers.
Ana Maria Hernandez
Tel: 718-482-5697 | Room: B-234 EE | hernandezan@lagcc.cuny.edu
Ana María Hernández holds a doctorate in comparative literature from New York University, a master's degree in comparative literature from the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, and a bachelor's degree in history/Spanish literature from Queens College. She has specialized in Caribbean and River Plate studies. Her publications have focused on Julio Cortázar, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Herrera y Reissig, José Lezama Lima, Felisberto Hernández and Antonio Benítez Rojo. She has been part of the reviewing staff of World Literature Today since 1977. She received a Focus Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003 to explore "The African Roots of Latin Music." Her recent research has focused on the influence of film techniques on contemporary Latin American fiction. She is a member of the International Association of Scholars of the Fantastic, and a Fellow of the Cuba project at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches Latin American literature and culture at LaGuardia and is the faculty adviser for the Latin American Studies Liberal Arts Option and the Spanish Translation Major. She maintains a Web page for the course in Latin American civilizations at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/hus204; a Web page entitled "The African Roots of Latin Music" at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/afroots; and a Web page for the course in Advanced Spanish Composition at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/hus210. Her recent publications include Fantoches 1926 (Stockcero, 2011) and Las Hortensias y otros cuentos de Felisberto Hernandez (Stockcero, 2011). She is working on an annotated edition of Cirilo Villaverde's 1882 anti-slavery novel Cecilia Valdes, to be published in the Spring of 2013.
Tel: 718-482-5697 | Room: B-234 EE | hernandezan@lagcc.cuny.edu
Ana María Hernández holds a doctorate in comparative literature from New York University, a master's degree in comparative literature from the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, and a bachelor's degree in history/Spanish literature from Queens College. She has specialized in Caribbean and River Plate studies. Her publications have focused on Julio Cortázar, Horacio Quiroga, Julio Herrera y Reissig, José Lezama Lima, Felisberto Hernández and Antonio Benítez Rojo. She has been part of the reviewing staff of World Literature Today since 1977. She received a Focus Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003 to explore "The African Roots of Latin Music." Her recent research has focused on the influence of film techniques on contemporary Latin American fiction. She is a member of the International Association of Scholars of the Fantastic, and a Fellow of the Cuba project at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches Latin American literature and culture at LaGuardia and is the faculty adviser for the Latin American Studies Liberal Arts Option and the Spanish Translation Major. She maintains a Web page for the course in Latin American civilizations at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/hus204; a Web page entitled "The African Roots of Latin Music" at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/afroots; and a Web page for the course in Advanced Spanish Composition at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/ahernandez/hus210. Her recent publications include Fantoches 1926 (Stockcero, 2011) and Las Hortensias y otros cuentos de Felisberto Hernandez (Stockcero, 2011). She is working on an annotated edition of Cirilo Villaverde's 1882 anti-slavery novel Cecilia Valdes, to be published in the Spring of 2013.
Maria Jerskey
Tel: 718-482-5358 | Room: B-234 Z | mjerskey@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Maria Jerskey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. She is a compositionist whose work focuses on addressing the teaching and learning needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations of writers. She teaches writing courses in the Academic ESL Program and introductory linguistics at LaGuardia as well as a graduate writing course at CUNY's Graduate Center. Her current strands of research examine the connection between the writing self-efficacy of student writers using Web 2.0 platforms and the writing and publication practices of multilingual scholars. She is the author of "The Fortunate Gardener: Cultivating a Writing Center" in Making Teaching and Learning Matter: Transformative Spaces in Higher Education (2011), "Meeting the Needs of Advanced Multilingual Writers" in The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development (2009) (written with Suresh Canagarajah), and college writing handbooks including Keys for Writers, 6th Edition (2011), co-authored with Ann Raimes. Dr. Jerskey also coordinates the Literacy Brokers Program at LaGuardia as a means to cultivate a networked community of literacy brokers who support each other's text production and publication. She is co-chair of the City University of New York's ESL Disciplinary Council and a member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Second Language Writing. Dr. Jerskey earned her doctorate in English Education from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University in 2006. Prior to joining the LaGuardia faculty, she taught in the English Department at Hunter College and served as Director of the Baruch College Writing Center. Curriculum Vitae
Tel: 718-482-5358 | Room: B-234 Z | mjerskey@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Maria Jerskey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. She is a compositionist whose work focuses on addressing the teaching and learning needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations of writers. She teaches writing courses in the Academic ESL Program and introductory linguistics at LaGuardia as well as a graduate writing course at CUNY's Graduate Center. Her current strands of research examine the connection between the writing self-efficacy of student writers using Web 2.0 platforms and the writing and publication practices of multilingual scholars. She is the author of "The Fortunate Gardener: Cultivating a Writing Center" in Making Teaching and Learning Matter: Transformative Spaces in Higher Education (2011), "Meeting the Needs of Advanced Multilingual Writers" in The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development (2009) (written with Suresh Canagarajah), and college writing handbooks including Keys for Writers, 6th Edition (2011), co-authored with Ann Raimes. Dr. Jerskey also coordinates the Literacy Brokers Program at LaGuardia as a means to cultivate a networked community of literacy brokers who support each other's text production and publication. She is co-chair of the City University of New York's ESL Disciplinary Council and a member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Second Language Writing. Dr. Jerskey earned her doctorate in English Education from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University in 2006. Prior to joining the LaGuardia faculty, she taught in the English Department at Hunter College and served as Director of the Baruch College Writing Center. Curriculum Vitae
Rebekah Johnson
Tel: 718-482-6096 | Room: B-234 NN | rejohnson@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Rebekah Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She received her Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College in 2011. She also holds an M.A. in TESOL and an Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College. Dr. Johnson teaches writing courses in the Academic ESL Program and introductory linguistics courses at LaGuardia. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she was the Director of the Writing Center at Pace University. She has taught ESL, EFL, academic writing, business writing, English composition, and teacher training courses in TESOL for the past 14 years, in Japan, Thailand, and in several colleges and universities in New York City. Dr. Johnson was selected to be an English Language Fellow (a fellowship through the U.S. State Department) at Khon Kaen University in Thailand from 2001-2003 and created curriculum, trained EFL teachers, and helped to arrange several conferences and workshops in the region during her fellowship tenure. Dr. Johnson served as President of the NYS TESOL (New York State Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) organization in 2011-2012 and currently serves on the NYS TESOL Executive Board as Immediate Past President. She is also the managing editor of the newly launched peer-reviewed journal, the NYS TESOL Journal, with the first issue to come out in 2013. Her research interests include the discursive construction of identity, classroom discourse, family discourse, second-language writing, writing conferencing, technology and education, learning communities, and literacy. [December, 2012]
Tel: 718-482-6096 | Room: B-234 NN | rejohnson@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Rebekah Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She received her Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College in 2011. She also holds an M.A. in TESOL and an Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College. Dr. Johnson teaches writing courses in the Academic ESL Program and introductory linguistics courses at LaGuardia. Prior to her current position at LaGuardia, she was the Director of the Writing Center at Pace University. She has taught ESL, EFL, academic writing, business writing, English composition, and teacher training courses in TESOL for the past 14 years, in Japan, Thailand, and in several colleges and universities in New York City. Dr. Johnson was selected to be an English Language Fellow (a fellowship through the U.S. State Department) at Khon Kaen University in Thailand from 2001-2003 and created curriculum, trained EFL teachers, and helped to arrange several conferences and workshops in the region during her fellowship tenure. Dr. Johnson served as President of the NYS TESOL (New York State Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) organization in 2011-2012 and currently serves on the NYS TESOL Executive Board as Immediate Past President. She is also the managing editor of the newly launched peer-reviewed journal, the NYS TESOL Journal, with the first issue to come out in 2013. Her research interests include the discursive construction of identity, classroom discourse, family discourse, second-language writing, writing conferencing, technology and education, learning communities, and literacy. [December, 2012]
Hyun-Joo Kim
Tel: 718-482-6095 | Room: B-234 M | hkim@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Hyun-Joo Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She holds an M.A. in TESOL, and Ed.M. and Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University, Teachers College. Her area of specialization and research interests include second language assessment, second language acquisition, and second language speaking and writing ability. Dr. Kim teaches ESL writing classes and Korean at LaGuardia.
Tel: 718-482-6095 | Room: B-234 M | hkim@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Hyun-Joo Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia. She holds an M.A. in TESOL, and Ed.M. and Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University, Teachers College. Her area of specialization and research interests include second language assessment, second language acquisition, and second language speaking and writing ability. Dr. Kim teaches ESL writing classes and Korean at LaGuardia.
Carole Lazorisak
Tel: | Room: B-234 XX | carolel@lagcc.cuny.edu
Carole Lazorisak, MA; RID: CDI, RSC; ASLTA: Professional; Master Mentor
Carole holds a BA, Gallaudet University, an MA, New York University, and worked toward a Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a tenured faculty member of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY in Queens, NY. Carole has been an educator, a consultant, an interpreter and a trainer for over 40 years in the following areas: communication, language and cultural studies, interpreting, assessment, and training. New York Cable TV selected Carole as New Yorker of the Week and she was featured in the national arts and entertainment magazine Biography. She was awarded a Humanitarian Award from St. Croix Deaf Coalition, VI for her community work in March, 1999, has worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, and as a Master Instructor/Consultant for the past several years in Puerto Rico. Carole gives presentations regionally, nationally and internationally and serves on Advisory Boards. Her most recent work has been with National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers: Deaf Interpreter work-team. Her book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated with a DVD was published September, 2004.
Tel: | Room: B-234 XX | carolel@lagcc.cuny.edu
Carole Lazorisak, MA; RID: CDI, RSC; ASLTA: Professional; Master Mentor
Carole holds a BA, Gallaudet University, an MA, New York University, and worked toward a Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a tenured faculty member of Education and Language Acquisition at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY in Queens, NY. Carole has been an educator, a consultant, an interpreter and a trainer for over 40 years in the following areas: communication, language and cultural studies, interpreting, assessment, and training. New York Cable TV selected Carole as New Yorker of the Week and she was featured in the national arts and entertainment magazine Biography. She was awarded a Humanitarian Award from St. Croix Deaf Coalition, VI for her community work in March, 1999, has worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, and as a Master Instructor/Consultant for the past several years in Puerto Rico. Carole gives presentations regionally, nationally and internationally and serves on Advisory Boards. Her most recent work has been with National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers: Deaf Interpreter work-team. Her book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated with a DVD was published September, 2004.
Marguerite Lukes
Tel: 718-482-7518 | Room: B-234 | mlukes@lagcc.cuny.edu
Marguerite Lukes, Ph.D, studies issues of educational equity, access and success for immigrant and language minority students in the United States. Dr. Lukes holds a doctorate from New York University, where she conducted research on educational experiences of immigrant high school non-completers and designed professional development for schools serving immigrant students across New York State. Dr. Lukes completed a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany and a Master's Degree in Language, Literacy and Learning from California State University Long Beach. She has taught in and directed programs in English as a Second Language, Spanish literacy and basic skills, and family literacy, and has designed, implemented and evaluated professional development programs for K-12 and adult education teachers and administrators. Dr. Lukes is Chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group on Adult Literacy and Adult Education and a delegate-at-large of the New York Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE). Her scholarly work on immigrant education, literacy development and language policy has appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Latinos and Education, International Multilingual Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Migration Information Source and Rethinking Schools. Dr. Lukes speaks, reads and writes Spanish, English and German.
Tel: 718-482-7518 | Room: B-234 | mlukes@lagcc.cuny.edu
Marguerite Lukes, Ph.D, studies issues of educational equity, access and success for immigrant and language minority students in the United States. Dr. Lukes holds a doctorate from New York University, where she conducted research on educational experiences of immigrant high school non-completers and designed professional development for schools serving immigrant students across New York State. Dr. Lukes completed a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany and a Master's Degree in Language, Literacy and Learning from California State University Long Beach. She has taught in and directed programs in English as a Second Language, Spanish literacy and basic skills, and family literacy, and has designed, implemented and evaluated professional development programs for K-12 and adult education teachers and administrators. Dr. Lukes is Chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group on Adult Literacy and Adult Education and a delegate-at-large of the New York Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE). Her scholarly work on immigrant education, literacy development and language policy has appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Latinos and Education, International Multilingual Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Migration Information Source and Rethinking Schools. Dr. Lukes speaks, reads and writes Spanish, English and German.
Bede McCormack
Tel: 718-482-5460 | Room: B-234 | bmccormack@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Bede McCormack's twenty-five-plus year career in TESOL has included EFL and ESL teaching, EFL program management, and EFL/ESL teacher education courses including methods and materials, second language acquisition theory, and linguistics.
Teaching
Dr. McCormack has taught a wide range of courses including general EFL courses, EAP and content-driven EFL and ESL courses at the college level, as well as TESOL teacher education courses. His career in TESOL began shortly after receiving his Bachelor's in English Literature from Grinnell College, IA, when he moved to Japan, where he lived and taught for fourteen years. His MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Durham, England, provided him with his initial training in the field, and was followed by a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, also from Durham. In addition to teaching at LaGuardia, he has also taught at Hunter College and Teachers College.
Research
Dr. McCormack's research interests focus on the relationship between teachers' understanding of language acquisition theory and how that impacts their classroom practice. This includes the development of speaking and discourse skills, the role of grammar instruction in the L2 classroom, and the integration of language skills in the content-based ESL classroom. One project he is currently involved with is an examination of teachers' knowledge of lexico-syntactic structures and how teacher candidates use that knowledge to identify, analyze, and possibly correct learner errors. Dr. McCormack has also conducted workshops and made conference presentations on TESOL-related topics in Algeria, Austria, Britain, Canada, Japan, Libya, and the United States. Dr. McCormack was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.
Tel: 718-482-5460 | Room: B-234 | bmccormack@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Bede McCormack's twenty-five-plus year career in TESOL has included EFL and ESL teaching, EFL program management, and EFL/ESL teacher education courses including methods and materials, second language acquisition theory, and linguistics.
Teaching
Dr. McCormack has taught a wide range of courses including general EFL courses, EAP and content-driven EFL and ESL courses at the college level, as well as TESOL teacher education courses. His career in TESOL began shortly after receiving his Bachelor's in English Literature from Grinnell College, IA, when he moved to Japan, where he lived and taught for fourteen years. His MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Durham, England, provided him with his initial training in the field, and was followed by a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, also from Durham. In addition to teaching at LaGuardia, he has also taught at Hunter College and Teachers College.
Research
Dr. McCormack's research interests focus on the relationship between teachers' understanding of language acquisition theory and how that impacts their classroom practice. This includes the development of speaking and discourse skills, the role of grammar instruction in the L2 classroom, and the integration of language skills in the content-based ESL classroom. One project he is currently involved with is an examination of teachers' knowledge of lexico-syntactic structures and how teacher candidates use that knowledge to identify, analyze, and possibly correct learner errors. Dr. McCormack has also conducted workshops and made conference presentations on TESOL-related topics in Algeria, Austria, Britain, Canada, Japan, Libya, and the United States. Dr. McCormack was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.
Tomonori Nagano
Tel: 718-482-5484 | Room: B-234 T | tnagano@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Tomonori Nagano is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and his MA in TESOL from New York University. His research interests are second language acquisition, especially computational modeling of cross-linguistic influence (English-Japanese), and Japanese linguistics. Dr. Nagano taught Japanese at various institutions, including Queens College of CUNY. Besides his main research, Dr. Nagano is an active advocate for the GNU Project and has contributed to several open-source programs such as NLTK, R, and LaTeX. See here for his publications.
Tel: 718-482-5484 | Room: B-234 T | tnagano@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Tomonori Nagano is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and Linguistics. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center and his MA in TESOL from New York University. His research interests are second language acquisition, especially computational modeling of cross-linguistic influence (English-Japanese), and Japanese linguistics. Dr. Nagano taught Japanese at various institutions, including Queens College of CUNY. Besides his main research, Dr. Nagano is an active advocate for the GNU Project and has contributed to several open-source programs such as NLTK, R, and LaTeX. See here for his publications.
Burcin Ogrenir
Tel: 718-482-6195 | Room: B-234 J | bogrenir@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Burcin Ogrenir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Early Childhood Education. She holds an MEd. from University of Pittsburgh and BS in psychology from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She previously taught at Brooklyn College, New York University, Long Island University, and Hunter College. Her teaching included a variety of courses including Language and Literacy in Early Childhood, Play, Issues in Early Childhood, and Child Development. Dr Ogrenir also worked in public and private schools in teaching and administrative positions in United States and Turkey.
Dr Ogrenir's research interests are classroom strategies for teaching students with diverse backgrounds; multicultural competency of teachers; innovative approaches to teacher education; heritage education and implications; multilingual education in early childhood; emotional intelligence and teacher effectiveness; parent education focusing on positive discipline methods; emotional intelligence development in children. Dr Ogrenir also designs and conducts innovative educational community projects for children, youth and families including parenting seminars, and enrichment programs facilitating emotional and scientific development of young children.
Tel: 718-482-6195 | Room: B-234 J | bogrenir@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Burcin Ogrenir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Language Acquisition. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Early Childhood Education. She holds an MEd. from University of Pittsburgh and BS in psychology from Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She previously taught at Brooklyn College, New York University, Long Island University, and Hunter College. Her teaching included a variety of courses including Language and Literacy in Early Childhood, Play, Issues in Early Childhood, and Child Development. Dr Ogrenir also worked in public and private schools in teaching and administrative positions in United States and Turkey.
Dr Ogrenir's research interests are classroom strategies for teaching students with diverse backgrounds; multicultural competency of teachers; innovative approaches to teacher education; heritage education and implications; multilingual education in early childhood; emotional intelligence and teacher effectiveness; parent education focusing on positive discipline methods; emotional intelligence development in children. Dr Ogrenir also designs and conducts innovative educational community projects for children, youth and families including parenting seminars, and enrichment programs facilitating emotional and scientific development of young children.
Agnieszka Rakowicz
Tel: 718-482-5126 | Room: B-234 MM | arakowicz@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Agnieszka Rakowicz received her MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University and her PhD in Applied Linguistics/Multilingual Multicultural Studies from New York University.
Dr. Rakowicz has taught a range of courses, including linguistics, grammar and syntax, writing and Polish for high school and college Heritage Learners. She has a long-standing interest in pedagogical issues, having led faculty professional development seminars in the Writing Across the Disciplines program. In addition to teaching and learning with and for students from diverse backgrounds, Dr. Rakowicz's research interests include sociocultural contexts of language acquisition and maintenance, interlanguage pragmatics and language policy.
Dr. Rakowicz is the author of Ambiguous Invitations: The Interlanguage Pragmatics of Polish English Language Learners (2009), which investigates interlanguage behavior and pragmatic competence of English-language learners in multilingual and multicultural contexts.
Tel: 718-482-5126 | Room: B-234 MM | arakowicz@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Agnieszka Rakowicz received her MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University and her PhD in Applied Linguistics/Multilingual Multicultural Studies from New York University.
Dr. Rakowicz has taught a range of courses, including linguistics, grammar and syntax, writing and Polish for high school and college Heritage Learners. She has a long-standing interest in pedagogical issues, having led faculty professional development seminars in the Writing Across the Disciplines program. In addition to teaching and learning with and for students from diverse backgrounds, Dr. Rakowicz's research interests include sociocultural contexts of language acquisition and maintenance, interlanguage pragmatics and language policy.
Dr. Rakowicz is the author of Ambiguous Invitations: The Interlanguage Pragmatics of Polish English Language Learners (2009), which investigates interlanguage behavior and pragmatic competence of English-language learners in multilingual and multicultural contexts.
Max Rodriguez
Tel: 718-482-5467 | Room: B-234 Y | rodriguez@lagcc.cuny.edu
Max Rodriguez holds a BA in French and Spanish from Montclair State University, and an MA and PhD in Spanish literature from New York University. His area of specialization and research is medieval European prose and poetry. He teaches French and Spanish, as well as interdisciplinary courses in the liberal arts and urban studies programs.
Professor Rodriguez is a founding member of the LaGuardia Community College faculty and of the CUNY Council on World Language Study, and he has served on numerous college and university-wide task forces over the years. He was chair of the Department of Humanities (1981-1984) and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (1984-1990). In recognition of his work in higher education, he was selected an Hispanic Leadership Fellow for 1984. Presently, Professor Rodriguez co-leads Making Transfer Connections, a project housed in the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning aimed at encouraging and facilitating transfer between selected CUNY community and senior colleges through the use of electronic portfolios.
Tel: 718-482-5467 | Room: B-234 Y | rodriguez@lagcc.cuny.edu
Max Rodriguez holds a BA in French and Spanish from Montclair State University, and an MA and PhD in Spanish literature from New York University. His area of specialization and research is medieval European prose and poetry. He teaches French and Spanish, as well as interdisciplinary courses in the liberal arts and urban studies programs.
Professor Rodriguez is a founding member of the LaGuardia Community College faculty and of the CUNY Council on World Language Study, and he has served on numerous college and university-wide task forces over the years. He was chair of the Department of Humanities (1981-1984) and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs (1984-1990). In recognition of his work in higher education, he was selected an Hispanic Leadership Fellow for 1984. Presently, Professor Rodriguez co-leads Making Transfer Connections, a project housed in the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning aimed at encouraging and facilitating transfer between selected CUNY community and senior colleges through the use of electronic portfolios.
MariaJose Romero
Tel: 718-482-6050 | Room: B-234 L | mromero@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Mariajosé Romero, Associate Professor and Coordinator for Education Programs, studies the impact of class, race/ethnicity and gender on developmental and educational experiences and outcomes during the early childhood years, with a focus on racial minorities and immigrants in the US. Her research has examined how early pre-school and elementary school processes impact on chronic absenteeism, student engagement, identities and peer cultures in ways that contribute to reproduce broader class, race/ethnicity and gender disparities, as well as whether these school effects may be reversed through infusing a perspective of social inclusion and respect for diversity in education and schools. Prior to joining LaGuardia in the fall of 2009, she was Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, where she developed and co-directed Research Connections, a web-based hub for child care and early education policy and research. A member of the Institutes of Medicine Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhood, and a Fulbright scholar, Professor Romero received her PhD and EdM degrees in sociology of education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a professional degree in clinical child psychology from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She is the author of two ethnographies of preschools and several research and evaluation reports.
Tel: 718-482-6050 | Room: B-234 L | mromero@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dr. Mariajosé Romero, Associate Professor and Coordinator for Education Programs, studies the impact of class, race/ethnicity and gender on developmental and educational experiences and outcomes during the early childhood years, with a focus on racial minorities and immigrants in the US. Her research has examined how early pre-school and elementary school processes impact on chronic absenteeism, student engagement, identities and peer cultures in ways that contribute to reproduce broader class, race/ethnicity and gender disparities, as well as whether these school effects may be reversed through infusing a perspective of social inclusion and respect for diversity in education and schools. Prior to joining LaGuardia in the fall of 2009, she was Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University, where she developed and co-directed Research Connections, a web-based hub for child care and early education policy and research. A member of the Institutes of Medicine Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhood, and a Fulbright scholar, Professor Romero received her PhD and EdM degrees in sociology of education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a professional degree in clinical child psychology from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She is the author of two ethnographies of preschools and several research and evaluation reports.
Jane Selden
Tel: 718-482-5373 | Room: B-234 KK | seldenja@lagcc.cuny.edu
Jane Selden received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to teaching ESL for over thirty years, she has served as an editor on several learner's dictionaries: Longman Dictionary of American English (first edition), The Newbury House Dictionary of American English, and The Basic Newbury House Dictionary, and wrote the exercises and instructor's manual for Counterparts: An Intermediate Reader. She is also the creator of the ESL Writing Committee's Blackboard site, a resource for ESL faculty, and currently chairs the sub-committee overseeing its on-going development.
Tel: 718-482-5373 | Room: B-234 KK | seldenja@lagcc.cuny.edu
Jane Selden received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to teaching ESL for over thirty years, she has served as an editor on several learner's dictionaries: Longman Dictionary of American English (first edition), The Newbury House Dictionary of American English, and The Basic Newbury House Dictionary, and wrote the exercises and instructor's manual for Counterparts: An Intermediate Reader. She is also the creator of the ESL Writing Committee's Blackboard site, a resource for ESL faculty, and currently chairs the sub-committee overseeing its on-going development.
Carolyn Sterling-Deer
Tel: 718-482-5359 | Room: B-234 W | csterling@lagcc.cuny.edu
Professor Carolyn Sterling-Deer joined LaGuardia Community College in 1981 and has been dedicated to serving the LaGuardia student population since then. She holds a PhD in English with a specialization in Composition and TESOL. An additional 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 and was published in 2010 - Liberating Silent Voices: Sociolinguistic Expressions of Dominican Female Identity Online, VDM Verlag Dr.Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2010. Dr. Sterling-Deer has several additional publications. She published an article on the use of technology in online research in her article "Assessing Learning Tools Online: Second Language Writers' Exploration of Web-based Grammar Sites" (invention Online Journal of Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching, Vol. 8, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2006. She published a textbook for second language writers, Basic Sentence Patterns: A Writing Workbook for Intermediate Second Language Learners (Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2000). Her chapter on teaching second language writing with technology, ePortfolio Technology in the Second Language Writing Classroom: Reflections on Praxis was published in Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom, (pp. 295-313), Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2008, T. Carter & M. A. Clayton (Eds.). In 2009, an article on the use of technology in the education capstone "Writing in the Disciplines, Technology and Disciplinary Grounding" was published in a special issue on Writing Technologies and Writing Across the Curriculum in Across the Disciplines 6, an online journal of issues related to WAC pedagogy (http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/technologies/sterlingdeer.cfm). Dr. Sterling-Deer's work at LaGuardia involves teaching courses in linguistics, ESL and education. She has taught ESL, linguistics, and the Education Capstone for education majors. Dr. Sterling-Deer was involved in teaching one of the first ESL learning communities with Introduction to Computers in the early 1990s. She served as the Coordinator of ESL Learning Communities from1992 to 2008 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. Dr. Sterling-Deer has a faculty Web page at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/carolynsd.
Tel: 718-482-5359 | Room: B-234 W | csterling@lagcc.cuny.edu
Professor Carolyn Sterling-Deer joined LaGuardia Community College in 1981 and has been dedicated to serving the LaGuardia student population since then. She holds a PhD in English with a specialization in Composition and TESOL. An additional 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 and was published in 2010 - Liberating Silent Voices: Sociolinguistic Expressions of Dominican Female Identity Online, VDM Verlag Dr.Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2010. Dr. Sterling-Deer has several additional publications. She published an article on the use of technology in online research in her article "Assessing Learning Tools Online: Second Language Writers' Exploration of Web-based Grammar Sites" (invention Online Journal of Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching, Vol. 8, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2006. She published a textbook for second language writers, Basic Sentence Patterns: A Writing Workbook for Intermediate Second Language Learners (Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2000). Her chapter on teaching second language writing with technology, ePortfolio Technology in the Second Language Writing Classroom: Reflections on Praxis was published in Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom, (pp. 295-313), Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2008, T. Carter & M. A. Clayton (Eds.). In 2009, an article on the use of technology in the education capstone "Writing in the Disciplines, Technology and Disciplinary Grounding" was published in a special issue on Writing Technologies and Writing Across the Curriculum in Across the Disciplines 6, an online journal of issues related to WAC pedagogy (http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/technologies/sterlingdeer.cfm). Dr. Sterling-Deer's work at LaGuardia involves teaching courses in linguistics, ESL and education. She has taught ESL, linguistics, and the Education Capstone for education majors. Dr. Sterling-Deer was involved in teaching one of the first ESL learning communities with Introduction to Computers in the early 1990s. She served as the Coordinator of ESL Learning Communities from1992 to 2008 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. Dr. Sterling-Deer has a faculty Web page at http://faculty.lagcc.cuny.edu/carolynsd.
Kenneth J. Yin
Tel: 718-482-6029 | Room: B-234 AA | kennethy@lagcc.cuny.edu
Kenneth J. Yin holds an AB from Cornell University and an MS in linguistics from Georgetown University. His research interests include the English-language learning process of students from China, as well as the Dungan language and literature. His translation of the Dungan folktale "Jondaje the Pheasant Hunter" appears in Esopus, issue 5, published in fall 2005. He has also written for Idiom, a publication of the New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL).
Tel: 718-482-6029 | Room: B-234 AA | kennethy@lagcc.cuny.edu
Kenneth J. Yin holds an AB from Cornell University and an MS in linguistics from Georgetown University. His research interests include the English-language learning process of students from China, as well as the Dungan language and literature. His translation of the Dungan folktale "Jondaje the Pheasant Hunter" appears in Esopus, issue 5, published in fall 2005. He has also written for Idiom, a publication of the New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYS TESOL).
Paula Zimmermann
Tel: 718-482-5230 | Room: B-234 P | pzimmermann@lagcc.cuny.edu
Paula Zimmermann is the Program Assistant for the Education Program. Paula received her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont. She was a History and Secondary Education major. After graduation Paula worked as a Vista volunteer. Vista was the domestic Peace Corps. As a Vista volunteer Paula developed a reading tutoring program. Paula returned to school and completed her Ed. M degree in Reading and Language at Boston University. Paula taught in both public and private schools in Boston. She also worked in an administrative capacity in a peer tutoring program at Suffolk University in Boston. For the past ten years Paula has taught as an adjunct in the Cooperative Education Department. For the past four years she has worked as a Program Assistant in the Coop Department. Paula developed internship sites and coordinated student placement on internships. She is also a volunteer in the English Language Center here at LaGuardia. Paula is very excited to now be working in the Education program. She believes it gives her an opportunity to return to the career field she originally chose for herself.
Tel: 718-482-5230 | Room: B-234 P | pzimmermann@lagcc.cuny.edu
Paula Zimmermann is the Program Assistant for the Education Program. Paula received her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont. She was a History and Secondary Education major. After graduation Paula worked as a Vista volunteer. Vista was the domestic Peace Corps. As a Vista volunteer Paula developed a reading tutoring program. Paula returned to school and completed her Ed. M degree in Reading and Language at Boston University. Paula taught in both public and private schools in Boston. She also worked in an administrative capacity in a peer tutoring program at Suffolk University in Boston. For the past ten years Paula has taught as an adjunct in the Cooperative Education Department. For the past four years she has worked as a Program Assistant in the Coop Department. Paula developed internship sites and coordinated student placement on internships. She is also a volunteer in the English Language Center here at LaGuardia. Paula is very excited to now be working in the Education program. She believes it gives her an opportunity to return to the career field she originally chose for herself.