Academic Experience

St. John’s University  (2000-Present), New York City. Assistant Professor of English.
 
New School for Social Research (Spring 2002), New York City.  Visiting Faculty,  MFA Writing Program.
 
Lesley University (1999-2001), Cambridge, MA and nationwide. Adjunct Faculty, Creative Arts in Learning Masters Degree Program.

University of Maine at Orono, (February, 2001)  Poet in Residence.
 
Barnard College (Fall 1999), New York City. Visiting Poet

Bard College (1997-Present), Annandale-on-Hudson. Associate, Institute for Writing and Thinking; Teach critical and creative writing in intensive Language & Thinking program for all Bard freshmen; Lead weekend workshops on Writing & Thinking for secondary and college teachers; Develop new strategies for the teaching of writing such as a course on Personal Dictionaries; Serve on plenary committee for conference: Poetry & Pedagogy (June 1999).

Columbia University (Summer 1998), New York City. Faculty, High School Creative Writing Summer Program
Conducted daily Workshops and Seminars on poetry, fiction and playwriting for intensive, month-long Creative Writing Program; Coordinated Publishing Elective for the student literary magazine, Quixotic.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative (1997-Present), New York City. Artist-in-Residence; Teach poetry & writing residencies throughout the New York City Public School System; Edit and produce anthologies representing each students’ work;

Received NBC Residency Grant for Teaching the Classics.

Featured Writer, T&W Website (twc.org).

Long Island University  English Department, (1996-2001), New York City. Adjunct Faculty; Taught Composition & Literature courses.

Served on editorial board for Downtown, the University Literary Magazine.

St. John’s University, Notre Dame College, Staten Island Campus, (Fall 1996-1998), New York City. Adjunct  Assistant Professor of English; Courses: Composition & Literature, Applied Linguistics, Post-1945 American Literature, Modern Drama and Creative Writing.

Just Buffalo Literary Center (October 5-7, 1997),  Buffalo, NY. Lannan Foundation Writer at Work; Led workshop for 90 Buffalo Middle School students, gave featured reading (with Susan Howe), and radio interview.

The Naropa Institute, Department of Writing & Poetics(1991-Present), Boulder, CO. Visiting Faculty; Taught Graduate Course in MFA Program on Multicultural Women’s Writing  (Spring 96); Guest lectured in courses:  The New Long Poem and Contemporary Literary Theory. Directed independent studies with MFA students; Taught in Summer Poetics Program as Workshop Leader, Featured Poet, Panelist; 1999: Workshop: Present Tense: Writing in the Moment; 1995: Workshop: How to Read, How to Write: Planning a Long Term Project; 1994: Workshop: Deep Gossip: New York School Occasional Poetry; 1993: Workshop: A Pleasurable Grammar: Gertrude Stein & the Oulipo; 1992: Lecture: Math & Poetry in the Fourth Dimension; 1991: Workshop: Small Press Publishing.

Hostos Community College, City University of New York   (Fall 1996-Spring 1997), New York City. Adjunct Faculty; Taught in English as a Second Language Intensive Program; Served as certified reader of City-wide CUNY Writing Assessment Test (WAT).

University of Rhode Island. Art Department (Fall 1994-Fall 1995), Kingston, RI. Visiting Lecturer; Taught courses in Filmmaking and Video Art; Participated in Sophomore Review Committee; Led Marjorie Keller Memorial Film Study Group in collaboration with English Department. Presented collaborative poetry and collage gallery show, Altered Dressers; Participated in two Faculty Group Shows, Main Gallery.

Community College of Rhode Island, English Department(Fall 1994-Spring 1995), Warwick, RI. Adjunct Faculty; Taught Composition & Literature courses.

Brown University, English Department (Fall 1992 - Spring 1993), Providence, RI. Graduate Instructor; Taught Beginning and Intermediate Undergraduate Workshops in Poetry and Poetics; Taught two sections of an interdisciplinary, conceptual Math course designed by Professor Thomas Banchoff on “The 4th Dimension”; Chosen as Graduate Participant in Year-long Seminar on Art in the Age of Difference, sponsored by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, (1992-1993); Guest lectured in undergraduate course, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetries, taught by Steve Evans, (Fall, 1992); Completed Harriet Sheridan Center for  College Teaching Certificate Program; Spoke on panel on Careers in Writing for the Pembroke Center Alumnae Forum; Staffed the Brown University Writing Center (1994); Curated Writing, Film & Video Festivals in collaboration with the Modern Culture & Media Department, (1993 & 1995).