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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C. Jason Smith
Gordon Tapper
Ting-Man Tsao
C. Jason Smith
- Books
- Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley. Co-author. New York: Continuum, 2004.
- Articles
- "Body Matters in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games." Reconstruction 6.1 (Winter 2006): n.p. "To See More Clearly and Broadly: Science and the Postmodern Sentiment" Postmodern Science: A Special Issue of Reconstruction 4.5 (Fall 2004): n.p.
- "'The End of Man is to Know': Critical Teleology and the Posthuman Body." Reconstruction 4.3 (Summer 2004): n.p. "Cinderfella: J.K. Rowling's Wily Web of Gender." Co-author. Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays: Praeger, 2003. 192-205.
- "Philosophers, Fools, and Kings: Notes on The Brothers Karamazov and All the King's Men." rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies, 2 (2002): 123-140.
- "Schrödinger's Cat and Sara's Child: John Fowles' Quantum Narrative," Mosaic: the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 32.2 (June 1999): 91-106.
- Awards and Honors
- Games and Simulation Technologies as Pedagogical Tools. Co-recipient. CUNY Collaborative Research Grant Project, 2008-2009.
- Professional Staff Congress of CUNY Research Fellowship. 2008-2009.
- Professional Staff Congress of CUNY Research Fellowship. 2007-2008.
- Enhancing Services for CUNY Veterans. Co-author. 2006-2008.
- Professional Staff Congress of CUNYResearch Fellowship. 2005-2006.
- Salute to Scholars: CUNY Chancellor's Reception, Honoree. For the book Alien Woman, 2005.
- Ray and Pat Browne National Book Award from the Popular Culture Association, 2005.
- West Virginia Humanities Council. Research Fellow. For the book Alien Woman, 2002.
Gordon Tapper
- Books
- The Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body. New York: Routledge, 2006.
- Articles
- Introduction, notes, and bibliography for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007.
- Introduction, notes, and bibliography for Willa Cather's My Ántonia. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.
- "Morton Minsky Reads The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Meaning of Burlesque." Arizona Quarterly. Winter 2000.
- "Thorny Rose." (fiction). MyWays. Ed. Rita McBride and David Gray. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc. and Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.
- Conference Presentations
- "A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: CUNY and Beyond." Delivered at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007.
- "LaGuardia Community College's Difficult Dialogues Project." Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, New Orleans, January 2007.
- "Translation, Invented Victims, and the Social Construction of Authorship: Learning from the Yasusada Hoax." Delivered at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago. November 2005.
- "The Invented Indian of The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Ethnographic Idea of Culture." Delivered at Modern Language Association Convention, December 2000.
- "Directions in Poetics and Theory at the Millennium." Panel Chair, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2000.
- "Hart Crane, Burlesque, and the Indecent Human Body." Delivered at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Penn State University, October 1999.
- Grants
- PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, 2008-2009.
- PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award, 2007-2008.
- CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, Spring 2007.
- CUNY Community College Collaborative Incentive Research Grant, 2005.
Ting Man Tsao
- Articles
- "A Reading of Readings: English Travel Books, Audiences, and Modern Chinese History, C. 1832 to the Present." Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Eds. Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. 47-70, 235-40.
- "When Nursing Meets English: Using a Pathography to Develop Nursing Students' Culturally Competent Selves." Co-author. Building a Diverse Nursing Workforce. Special issue of Nursing Education Perspectives 29.3 (May/June 2008): 151-55.
- "More Than a Case." Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics. Ed. Kimberly R. Myers. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007. 392-401.
- "The Immense Possibilities of Narrating 'I': Developing Student Voice through a Career Research Project." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 34.1 (2006): 84-91.
- "Representing 'Great England' to Qing China in the Age of Free Trade Imperialism: The Circulation of A Tract by Charles Marjoribanks on the China Coast." Political Matters. Ed. David E. Latané, Jr., et al. Special issue of Victorians Institute Journal 33 (2005): 178-95.
- "Don't be Shy of "I": Empowering Student Voice through a Career Research Paper." In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning 1.1 (2005): 59-63.
- "Open Admissions, Controversies, and CUNY: Digging into Social History Through a First-Year Composition Course." The History Teacher 38.4 (2005): 469-482.
- Introduction. "Our Street Ballads, No.4.: Governor Yeh." 1857. Poetry and the Colonies. Ed. David E. Latané, Jr. and Elisabeth Gruner. Special issue of Victorians Institute Journal 32 (2004): 83-85.
- "Ways to Carry a Baby." Writing Macao: Creative Text and Teaching 3 [2005]: N.p. 6 July 2005
- Grants
- 2009-2010: CUNY Fellowship Leave for One Year
- 2007-2008: PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award
- 2006-2007: PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award
- 2006: CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program
- 2005-2006: PSC-CUNY 36 Research Award
- 2004-2005: PSC-CUNY 35 Research Award