English
About Us: Publications and Honors
The English Department at LaGuardia is committed to writing and research and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. To see individual faculty publications and honors, search by last name:
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Carlos Hiraldo
Heidi Johnsen
Karlyn Koh
Michelle Pacht
Carlos Hiraldo
- Books
- Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American Literary Traditions. New York & London: Routledge, 2003.
- Editorial
- Assistant Editor, Transplanting Your Head and Other Feats of the Future. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
- Assistant Editor, The Highway of Light and Other Engineering Oddities. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
- Co-Editor, SNARK: A Journal of Poetry and Short Fiction, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997-1999.
- Articles
- The Class of Bukowski: Engaging LaGuardia's Working-Class Students with the Novels of Charles Bukowski. In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal of Teaching and Learning Volume 3, Fall 2008.
- Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States, Asian American Law Journal Volume 15, May 2008.
- Class in the Class: Sharing Bukowski's Class with Community College Students, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 35, Number 4, May 08.
- Poems
- Fat People Exercising. Other Poetry. Series III, Number 1, Winter 2008.
- Off Sylvia Plath, Bay of Pigs and I Give You A Song. Still Standen: A Celebration of the Poet's Life. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Other Poetry Editions, 2007.
- Kate Winslet. Miracle & Clockwork: The Best of Other Poetry, Series Two, 2005.
- Conferences and Presentations
- Chaired panel on Race and U.S. Literature and Round Table on Poets and Teaching Poetry for North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference in Buffalo, New York. April 10-13, 2008.
- Guest Lecturer, Identity against the Grain: Caribbean Latino Authors and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 5th 2007.
- Presented Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Race and Nation in the Americas, 47th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 10 – 13, 2005.
Heidi Johnsen
- Articles
- Kate Chopin in Vogue: Establishing a Textual Context for A Vocation and a Voice. Rethinking and Rereading Kate Chopin. Ed. Heather Ostman. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
- Conference Presentations
- The Next Steps in a Difficult Dialogue: Facilitation through a Community of Practice, Society for Values in Higher Education Institute, CT, June 15-20, 2008 (co-presenter).
- Wrestling with Writing: Using ePortfolios to Enhance and Assess Basic Writing Courses, Making Connections: ePortfolios, Integrative Learning and Assessment, LaGuardia CC, CUNY, April 10-12, 2008 (co-presenter).
- The Ethics of High-Stakes Testing in a Basic Writing Class, College English Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 13, 2007.
- A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: The City University of New York and Beyond, Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 22, 2007 (co-presenter).
Karlyn Koh
- Articles
- "Present Memory: Albert Chobg's Imagining The Past." Out of The Archives: Process and Progress, ed. Sarita See. New York: Asian American Arts Center (forthcoming Fall 2009).
- "'glove's dream': A Short Meditation." Aitia 28.1 (2009): 34-38).
- "Networking a Community Out of Fragmentation" (with J. Chaffee and E. Goodman). Honors in Practice 5 (2009): 161-170.
- "Humanistic Mathematics" (with Dr. Marina Dedlovskaya). Mathematics, Information Technologies, and Education, Volume II. Ed. Sergey Gerasimenko. Orenburg, Russia: Orenburg State UP, 2006. 274-7.
- "At the Edge of a Shattered Mirror, Community?" Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen, eds. Eleanor Ty and Donald Goellnicht. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004. 149-69.
- "Speculations and (Dis)Identification: Notes on Asian Canadian Women Writers." New Scholars-New Visions in Canadian Studies 1.1. Seattle, WA: Canadian Studies Center, University of Washington, 1996. [monograph]
- Conference Presentations
- "A Poetics of Betrayal," Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, April 19, 2007.
- "‘glove's dream.'" Rhetoric, Politics and Ethics conference, University of Ghent, Belgium, April 22, 2005.
- "Reading Between Image and Text in Three Works." Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Hartford, CT, October 18, 2003.
- "Figures of Community." 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, May 9, 2003.
- "Community, Love and Friendship." "The Desire for Dimension: Queer Theory and Asian American Studies" panel organized by the Asian American Literature discussion group. Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, 29 December 1998.
- "Asian Canadian: A Name (Un)Bound." 15th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, 26 June 1998.
- Panelist, "History in Asian American Literature: A Roundtable." 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, May 8, 2003.
- Discussant, "Travelling Texts in Contexts: Theorizing the ‘International' in Internationalizing Asian American Literary Studies" panel. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies. Toronto, 30 March 2001.
- Guest lecture, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. New York University, 2 October 2000.
- Fellowships, awards, and grants
- Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, New York Region, Horizon Award for New Advisors, 2007.
- Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Hallmark Paragon Award for Advisors--International Level, 2008.
- PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, City University of New York, Spring 2007.
- PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award, City University of New York, Fall 2006.
- PSC-CUNY 36 Research Award, City University of New York, Fall 2005.
- CUNY Faculty Development Grant (with M. Dedlovskaya), Fall 2006.
- Diversity Projects Development Fund Fellowship (with C. Hiraldo), City University of New York, Spring 2005.
- Faculty Fellowship Publications Program, City University of New York, Spring 2005.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2001.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-8.
- Appointed Offices and Consulting
- Director, Honors Program, LaGuardia, September 2006-present.
- Faculty Contact Advisor, Alpha Theta Phi Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, LaGuardia, February 2006-present.
- Editorial consultant, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
- Exhibitions, openings, and performances
- "Fragmentaries/les Fragmentaires." Laiwan: Livres et Collages, ed. Jack Stanley. Montréal: Gallerie Articule, 1998. 30-43.
- "Yours Truly/La lettre (en)volée. (be) longing, cur. and ed. Mary Sui Yee Wong, trans. Isabelle Chagnon. Montréal: Gallerie Optica, 1998. 9-13, 23-6. Rev. and rpt. as "Yours Truly [II]." West Coast Line 31.3 (Winter 1997-8): 23-7.
- "Preserves." Mixed media installation and poetic text (collaboration with Effie Pow). Earthly Pleasures, curated by Larissa Lai. Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, 14 June-9 July, 1994.
Michelle Pacht
- Books
- The Subversive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America. Cambridge Scholars Publishers, forthcoming 2009.
- Articles
- "Creating Community: Motherhood and the Search for Identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine." Narratives of Community: Women's Short Story Sequences. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007
- Conference Papers
- "Reclaiming the Classroom: Two Year Colleges and Innovative Self-Assessment" presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. April 2008
- "Creating Community: Motherhood and the Search for Identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine" presented at the National Women's Studies Association Conference, St. Charles, IL. June 2007.
- "How to Reform a Racist: Genre as Politics in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman" presented at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. May 2007.
- "Creating Connections: Isolation, Epiphany and the Collective Protagonist in O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge" presented at "O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers: A Scholarly Conference," Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA. April 2006.
- "Framing History: The Short Story Cycle as Political Statement in Hawthorne's Legends of the Province-House" presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. December 2005.
- Elected Offices
- Executive Committee Member, Modern Language Association Discussion Group on the Two Year College