Harry Denny, Assistant Professor of English, joined the faculty
in 2006. With help from Derek Owens and Robert Fannuzi, he
launched in 2006 the first free-standing Writing Center on the
Staten Island campus. Denny also administers the Institute
for Writing Studies initiatives on First Year Writing and Writing
across the Curriculum for the Staten Island campus.
Prior to joining the English faculty, Denny administered the
Writing Center and taught in the Program for Writing & Rhetoric
at Stony Brook University (SUNY), and he served as the Associate
Director of Long Island University.
Denny’s primary work focuses on composition studies, writing
center theory and practice, cultural studies and research
methods. His research has focused on the rhetoric of social
movements and identity politics. Other scholarship has
explored those issues in relation to writing centers, particularly
as sites for community-building and for cross-cultural/disciplinary
dialog. Denny has published on media, governmental, legal and
activist responses to HIV and civil rights, and has produced work
about identity politics in writing centers as well as the
problematics of writing assessment protocol.
He is also in international, regional, and local writing center
professional and community organizations. Denny is currently
an at-large executive board member of the International Writing
Centers Association, a steering committee member of (and past
Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer ) the Northeast Writing Centers
Association, and a planning committee member for Metro-New York
City Writing Center Professionals, a local collective.
Denny is serving as an outside reader on doctoral committees for
students at Stony Brook University and Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, and has reviewed essays and manuscripts for Writing
Center Journal, Signs, and Utah State University Press.