Laura Tanenbaum joined LaGuardia in the Fall of 2007, having previously taught composition and literature at New York University, Queens College, and Suffolk County Community College. She completed her PhD at NYU and wrote her dissertation on the relationship between political and social upheavals of the sixties and American Literature, with an emphasis on works by Roth, Pynchon and DeLillo. Her articles have appeared in Open Letters Monthly, Studies in Jewish American Literature, Working Papers on the Web, Phillip Roth Studies, and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Literature. She is also a fiction writer and is excited to be working with LaGuardia's new student Creative Writing Club. Her fiction has appeared in failbetter, SmokeLong Quarterly, and The Steel City Review.

Along with Basic Writing, Composition I, and Introduction to Literature, she has taught the cluster "America in the World," American Literature I, and Art, Politics and Protest.

Schools Attended: Smith College (B.A.), New York University (M.A., PhD).
Areas of Specialization: Twentieth Century American Literature, Composition, Film, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, The Historical Novel.

Favorite Quote about Writing: “It is possible to write about anything in the world, but the slightest story ought to contain the facts of money and blood in order to be interesting to adults.” – Grace Paley

Favorite Authors to Teach: James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Tim O'Brien, Jamaica Kincaid, Studs Terkel.