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Department: English

(Division of Humanities and the Arts)

Professor Daniel Gustafson, Chair • Department Office: NA 6/219 • Tel: 212-650-6302

General Information

The City College offers the following master’s degrees in English:

MA in English

MFA in Creative Writing

MA in Language and Literacy

Activities

Publications

•    Fiction, edited by Professor Mark Mirsky, is published at The City College, and anyone is welcome to submit material.

•    Promethean, the official City College journal, publishes the prose, poetry, and art of students, faculty, and alumni.

•    Basic Writing Electronic (BWe) journal, edited by Professor Barbara Gleason, is published at The City College of New York.

•    Basic Writing Electronic (BWe) journal, edited by Professor Barbara Gleason and sponsored by the Council of Basic Writing, publishes essays and webtexts focusing on basic writing curriculum and teaching.  Submissions from graduate students and faculty are welcome.

Readings

The MFA Program presents the Kowald Reading Series featuring contemporary writers. A monthly reading series highlights the work of students, faculty, and alumni of the MFA and MA Programs. Additional readings by prominent authors are presented throughout the year.

Professional Series

A monthly Masters Series provides students with the opportunity to learn from and network with established writers, academics, and publishing professionals.

Advisement

Director of the MA in Literature Program

Professor Andras Kisery

NA 6/247; 212-650-6315

akisery@ccny.cuny.edu

Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program

Michelle Valladares, Lecturer

NA 6/210: 212-650-6340

mvalladares@ccny.cuny.edu

Director of the MA in Language and Literacy Program

Professor Barbara Gleason

NA 6/333A; 212-650-6329

bgleason@ccny.cuny.edu

Awards

Creative Writing Awards

•    The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing

•    The David Dortart Prize in Creative Writing

•    The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing

•    The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship

•    The Goodman Fund Grants

•    The Graduate Children’s Writing Award

The Irwin and Alice Stark Awards

•    The Stark Award in Drama in Memory of Ross Alexander

•    The Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize

•    The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson

Essay Awards

•    The Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature

Awards for General Excellence

•    The Albert Friend Award for Excellence in Medieval Studies

•    The Lillian Feder Scholarship

•    The Marilyn Sternglass Writing Award

•    The Marilyn Sternglass Overall Merit Award

Teaching Awards

•    The Norman Levine Outstanding Teaching Award

•    The Teacher-Writer Award

Faculty

Salar Abdoh, Professor
B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.A. City College

Doris Barkin, Lecturer
B.A., Queens College; M.A., CUNY; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center

Carla Cappetti, Professor
B.A., Torino; M.A., Univ. of Wisconsin; M. Phil., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

Mikhal Dekel, Professor
Tel Aviv School of Law; M.A., The City College; Ph.D., Columbia University

Lyn Di Iorio, Professor
B.A., Harvard Univ.; M.A., Stanford Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. Of California (Berkeley)

Grazyna Drabik, Lecturer
M.A., Univ. of Warsaw; M.A., Columbia Univ., M. Phil.

Keith Gandal, Professor
B.A., Amherst College, M.A.; Ph.D., Univ. of California (Berkeley)

Barbara Gleason, Professor
B.S., Univ. of Missouri (Columbia); M.A., Oklahoma State Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Southern California

Daniel Gustafson, Associate Professor
B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Yale University, Ph.D.

Robert Higney, Associate Professor
B.A., Boston College, M.A. Johns Hopkins Univ., Ph.D. 

Laura Hinton, Professor
B.A., Univ. of Arizona, M.A.; Ph.D., Stanford Univ.

András Kiséry, Associate Professor
M.A., Univ. of Bristol (U.K.); M.Phil., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

Pamela Laskin, Lecturer
B.A., Harper College, M.A.

Elizabeth Mazzola, Professor
B.A., Univ. of Virginia, M.A., New York Univ., Ph.D.

Renata Kobetts Miller, Professor
B.A., Princeton; M.A., Indiana University, Ph.D.

Mark Jay Mirsky, Professor
B.A., Harvard Univ.; M.A., Stanford Univ.

Paul Oppenheimer, Professor
B.A., Princeton Univ.; M.A., Columbia Univ., Ph.D.

Václav Paris, Assistant Professor
B.A., University College London; M.Phil. Cambridge Univ.; Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania

Thomas Peele, Associate Professor
B.A., New York Univ.; M.A., City College of New York; Ph.D., Univ. of South Florida

Emily Raboteau, Professor
B.A., Yale Univ.; M.F.A, New York Univ.

Gordon Thompson, Professor
B.A.,The City College; M.A., Yale Univ., Ph.D.

Michelle Valladares, Lecturer
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College

Harold Aram Veeser, Professor
B.A., Columbia Univ., M.A., Ph.D.

Melissa Watson, Associate Professor
A.A., American River College; B.A. San Diego State Univ.; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse Univ.

Kedon Kevin Willis, Assistant Professor
B.A., Ithaca College, NY, MFA in CW, Virginia Tech, VA, Ph.D., Univ. of Florida, FL

Professors Emeriti

Linsey Abrams

Marcia Allentuck

Ilona Anderson

Nathan Berall

Felicia Bonaparte

Saul N. Brody

David P. Buckley

Arthur K. Burt

Gladys Carro

Alice Chandler

Morton Cohen

James de Jongh

Barbara Fisher

Byrne R. S. Fone

Arthur Ganz

Robert Ghiradella

Arthur Golden

Frederick Goldin

Ralph Gordon

Theodore Gross

Leon Guilhamet

Marilyn Hacker

Jo-Ann W. Hamilton

James Hatch

Mary V. Jackson

Leonard Kriegel

Valerie Krishna

Patricia Laurence

Daniel Leary

Karl Malkoff

Jane Connor Marcus

Charles T. Mark

Philip Miller

Robert K. Morris

Stephen Merton

Geraldine Murphy

Nathaniel Norment, Jr.

William L. Payne

Beatrice Popper

Fred Reynolds

Irving Rosenthal

Earl Rovit

Paul Sherwin

Robert Silber

Frederic Tuten

Geoffrey Wagne

Michele Wallace

Barry Wallenstein

Barbara Bellow Watson