I have been teaching in the English Department at LaGuardia Community College for 36 years. My Ph.D. is in Comparative Literature and my fields of specialization have ranged from post-colonial literature and women’s literature to writing and pedagogy. I founded the LaGuardia Writing Center and have directed it for over 30 years. In that time the Writing Center has grown from a small operation with 8 tutors to a major college support service with nearly 30 tutors and a computer laboratory. I am currently very involved in faculty development at LaGuardia. I direct the CUNY Writing Fellows program, co-direct the Writing in the Disciplines program and I am a faculty leader of the Designed for Learning program, a program of faculty seminars on integrating technology into the curriculum.