English

J. Elizabeth Clark

Conferences

"Rhetoric in the 21st Century: The Digital Imperative," The International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida (14-18 April 2008).

"Wrestling with Writing: Using ePortfolios to Enhance and Assess Basic Writing" with Professor Marisa Klages, Dr. Heidi Johnsen, and Dr. Kenneth Monteith at the Making Connections ePortfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment Conference, LaGuardia Community College (10 April 2008).

"Introduction to ePortfolio," a half-day workshop for the Making Connections ePortfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment Conference with Dr. Max Rodriguez and Professor Nancy Gross, LaGuardia Community College (10 April 2008).

"Reclaiming the Classroom: Two Year Colleges and Innovative Self-Assessment" with Professor Marisa Klages, Professor Linda Chandler, and Dr. Michelle Pacht at the College Composition and Communication Conference, New Orleans, LA (3-5 April 2008).

"First-Year Academies: Facilitating Engagement and Success in the First Year of College: An Update," with Dean Paul Arcario at the 2008 Community College Futures Assembly, Orlando, Florida (26-29 January 2008).

"Do Portfolios Really Need the 'e'?" National Council of Teachers of English Convention (NCTE) ISTE Session, New York City, NY (16 November 2007).

Awards

2008 Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology. International Conference on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Fl.

Consultations

"ePortfolio Faculty Development Workshop," Long Island University's Writing Program (28 May 2008).

"Local Practice, Global Impact: ePortfolios and the Emerging World of Digital Rhetoric," AAC & U's Staff Development Program, Washington, D.C. (26 February 2008).

Richard Dragan

Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers

"Falling Men: Realistic and Postmodern Terror and Wonder in DeLillo and McEwan’s Recent Fiction and James Marsh’s Man on Wire." Don DeLillo in the Twenty-First Century Conference, Don DeLillo Society, Louisville, KY, February 2009.

"Close Reading Matters: Explicating American Literature by Urban Community College Students." Close Reading Conference, NYCEA, St. Bonaventure University, Buffalo, NY, October 2008.

"Darwin on the Balloon: Reading Evolutionary Science in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love." Revolution and Literature / Evolution and Literature Conference, NYCEA, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, April 2007.

"Leaving the Bronx: Don DeLillo's Modern and Postmodern Cities in His Early Fiction." Literature and the City Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 2006.

"Mind-Body Problems: Science and Triangulating Desire in the Work of Richard Powers and Jeanette Winterson. " Locating Love Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 2004.

Contributing Editor

PC Magazine

Thomas Fink

Books of Poetry

Clarity and Other Poems. East Rockaway, NY: Marsh Hawk Press, 2008.
No Appointment Necessary. Chicago: Moria Poetry, 2006.
After Taxes. East Rockaway, NY: Marsh Hawk Press, 2004.
Gossip: a Book of Poems. New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2001.
Surprise Visit. New York: Domestic Press, 1993.

Books of Criticism

"A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. (Includes analysis of the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Melvin Dixon, Denise Duhamel, Martin Espada, Carolyn Forche, Joseph Lease, Stephen Paul Miller, Thylias Moss, and John Yau.)

The Poetry of David Shapiro. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. Co-Ed. with Joseph Lease. "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. Co-Ed. with Tuzyline Jita Allan. Literature around the Globe. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1994.

Poetry Chapbooks

Generic Whistle-Stop. Brooklyn, NY: Portable Press at YoYo Labs, 2009.
Staccato Landmark. Chicago: Beard of Bees, 2006.

Articles

"David Shapiro." Contemporary Jewish American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 542-8.

"Ammons: Garbage." 11-2; "Mark Strand." 703-5. Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Eric L. Haralson. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

"Between/After Language Poetry and the New York School." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. (2002): 23-26.

"Joseph Lease and Thomas Fink: Narrative and Critique." The Possum Pouch (Fall/Winter 2002-2003). 38.2 (Summer 2003): 89-92.

"David Shapiro's 'Possibilist' Poetry." Jacket 23 (November 2003).

"Poetry, Charm, and More: Billy Collins and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 27 (Winter 2003): 100-107.

"'No Other Sentence Could Have Followed This': Ron Silliman's Tjanting." Titanic Operas, Folio Two (2004).

Entries on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (42-43), Robert Creeley (107-109), Denise Duhamel (139), and John Yau (534-535). The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Checkmark Books, 2005.

"Interview with Sheila E. Murphy." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 73-87. Originally published on-line, Mar. 2005.

"Interview with Stephen Paul Miller." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 203-229. Originally published on-line, Oct. 2005.

"Interview with Michael Heller." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Second XV Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 27-36. Originally published on-line, Jan. 2006.

"Andrew Joron's Fathom." 26 E (2006): 221-230.

"Interview with Denise Duhamel and Nick Carbo." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Second XV Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 243-52. Originally published on-line, Sept. 2006.

"On Geoffrey O'Brien's Red Sky Café." Denver Quarterly 41.1 (2006): 19-22. With Crag Hill. "Interview" (of Tom Beckett). In Tom Beckett. Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978-2006. St. Helena, CA: Meritage Press, 2006. 162-179.

"Transgression, Confession, and Flagrant Multiplicity in the Poetry of Timothy Liu." Slope 24 (Winter 2007).

"Interview with Joseph Lease." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (August 2007).

"Uncanny Narrative in Shapiro's A Burning Interior." "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 123-137.

"Interview with Noah Eli Gordon.". E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S (Oct. 2007).

"The Poetry of Questions." Jacket 34 (Oct. 2007).

"Poetry Interrogating Itself: Sheila E. Murphy's The Case of the Lost Objective (Case)." Critiphoria 1 (Feb. 2008).

"Interview with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs." Galatea Resurrects 10 (July 2008).

"The Poetry of Mark Young." In Mark Young, Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008. Ed. Thomas Fink. St. Helena, CA: Meritage, 2008. 17-36.

"Introduction." Jack Lynch, Manhattan Man and Other Poems. New York: Reed & Quill P, 2008. 1-5.

Interview

Tom Beckett. "Interview with Thomas Fink." E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI Interviews. Ed Tom Beckett. Rockhampton, Australia: Otoliths, 2007. 29-47. Originally published online, Jan. 2005.

Poetry Anthology Inclusions

The First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Ed. Jean Vengua & Mark Young. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, 2005. 27-28.

Collaborative poems with Timothy Liu in Saints of Hysteria: A Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Ed. Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull P, 2007. 246-247.

Long Island Sounds Anthology. Ed. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan. Southampton, NY: North Sea Poetry Scene P, 2007. 119-120.

The Best American Poetry. Ed. Heather McHugh and David Lehman. New York: Scribner's, 2007. 35.

Collaborative poem with Tom Beckett in >2: An Anthology of New Collaborative Poetry. Ed. Sheila E. Murphy and M.L. Weber. Colorado Springs, CO: SugarMule.com P, 2007. 208-211.

The Second Hay(na)ku Anthology. Ed. Jean Vengua & Mark Young. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, forthcoming, 2008.

Kristen Gallagher

Poetry Chapbooks

Poems Got Watching the News, with Christopher Alexander, New York: Cheap Art (2008).

Our National Catastrophe, with Christopher Alexander, New York: Cheap Art (2007)

No Goal, Chicago: Rubba Ducky (2006).

Articles

"Affective Labor: Teaching Writing in the New Economy," with Christopher Alexander, In Transit 3 (October 2008).

"Some Limits of Ratio; or, Aesthetic Has No Goal," Crayon 5 (September 2008).

"Neoliberal Poetry," with Christopher Alexander and Matthias Regan, Crayon 5 (September 2008).

"Pairing Freire: Teaching 'The Banking Concept of Education' with the History of Open Admissions at CUNY," Journal of the Paulo Freire Institute Online, Winter 2007, Vol. 2. Issue 2. http://web.gseis.ucla.edu/~pfi/Journal_PFI/

"Book As World: A Brief History of handwritten press" HOW2 (poetry and poetics), Special Issue: Small Press Forum (2006).

Interviews

"Conversation with Kristen Gallagher," CA Conrad, Philly Sound (September 2008).

"A Conversation with Harryette Mullen,"Kristen Gallagher, Farah Griffin and Michael Magee, Combo 1:1 (1998).

Poetry Inclusions in Magazines and Journals

Featured Poet, Primary Writing (January 2006).

Poems have appeared in Model Homes (November 2008); LaGuardia Women’s Studies Newsletter (Spring 2008); Ecopoetics 4 (2007); Combo 16 (2006); Chain Arts 15 (2005); Mirage 4 Periodical (October 2005); Antennae 8 (May 2004); Combo 14 (May 2004); Art Voice (30, October 2003); Combo 12 (2003); Mirage 4 Periodical (April 2003); kenning 12 (2002); Kiosk 1 (2002); Boog City (2001); Combo 8 (2001); Combo 4 (1999); Ixnay 3 (1998); American Poetry Review 46 (3), (1998); Combo 1 (1998).

Editor

WIG: Writing at Work, periodical, 2004-present. handwritten press (poetry chapbooks), bi-annual, 1999-present. http://handwritten.org

Rust Talks Newsletter (poetry and correspondence), bi-monthly, 1999-2004.

The Form of Our Uncertainty: a Tribute to Gil Ott (festschrift), Chax Press, 2000.

Ximena Gallardo C.

Books

Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley. Co-author. New York: Continuum, 2004. Winner of the 2005 Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Association Book Award.

Articles

"Happily Ever After: Harry Potter and the Quest for the Domestic." Co-author. Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays. Ed. Giselle Liza Anatole. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009.

"The Alien Film Series." Co-author. Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vol. II. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008: 3-5.

"Feminism." An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett. Ed. Andrew M. Butler. Oxford: Greenwood, 2007. 149-152.

"Sexism." An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett. Ed. Andrew M. Butler. Oxford: Greenwood, 2007. 331-333.

"Alien: The History of Xenosex." Den of Geek. Dec. 19 2007.

"Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, and Alien Love: An Interview with Marleen S. Barr." Co-author. Fem-scape, a special edition of Reconstruction. 5.4 (Winter 2005). n.p. 5 pp.

"How the Online Classroom Changed the Way I Teach." In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning 1.1 (Fall 2005): 23-27.

"'Who Are You?': Alien/Woman as Post-human Subject in Alien Resurrection." Post.human.ous, a special edition of Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 4.3 (Summer 2004). n.p. 13 pp.

"Cinderfella: J. K. Rowling’s Wily Web of Gender." Co-author. Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Ed. Giselle Liza Anatole. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. 191-205.

Editions

Fem-scape, a special edition of Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 5.4 (Winter 2005).

Post.human.ous, a special edition of Reconstruction. Co-editor. Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Research Community 4.3 (Summer 2004).

Websites

LaGuardia Community College's 2007-2008 Common Reading Companion Website to An Inconvenient Truth. Content manager. LaGuardia Community College. 2007-2008.