M.A. English Language and Literature | June 1999

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.F.A. Creative Writing of Poetry | Feb 2009

The City College of New York

B. A. English | summa cum laude | June 1996

University of California at Davis

City College of New York (Fall 2003-present):

• Introduction to Literary Studies
• World Humanities 101 & 102 (surveys of world literature)
• Critical Reading and Writing (poetry)
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Writing for the Humanities
• Prose Workshop
• FIQWS (content & writing), “The Modern American Short Story”
• FIQWS (writing), “Understanding Physics Through Understanding the Universe.”
• FIQWS (writing), “Law and Literature”
• FIQWS (writing), “Blues Aesthetic”
• FIQWS (writing), “Hip-Hop and the Beat Movement”
• Composition, Honors Composition

Medgar Evers College (Fall 2011-Spring 2015):

• World Literature
• Introduction to Literary Studies

Hostos Community College (Summer 2012):

• Technical Writing for Engineers

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Fall 1997-Spring 1999):

• Beginning and Intermediate Composition