Full Time Faculty
Department Chairs
Patricia Sculley - Assistant Professor, Department Chair
MA (English), Fordham; BA (English) St. John's.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman English, Women Writers, Children's Literature.
Linda Stroms - Professor/Assistant Chair
MA (Comparative Literature)
City University of New York; AB (English) Brandeis University.
Teaches African-American Literature, Contemporary Drama, Developmental Writing, Freshman English, ESL
Full Time Faculty
Diane Bliss - Professor
MA (English) Binghamton University; BA (Creative Writing/ Environmental Concerns
& Philosophies) Hartwick College; AAS (Forest Technologies) SUNY College
of Environmental Science & Forestry.
Teaches Freshman English I &
II, Technical Writing (for Occupational Therapy Assisting), Philosophy, Religious
Concepts, and British Literature.
Melissa Browne - Instructor
BA English, Ohio Wesleyan University, MA Teaching of English, Teachers College.
Teaches Basic Writing Skills II, Freshman English I & II, and English Literature: 19th and Early 20th Century.
Deborah Chedister - Tenure Track, Special Asst. to the Chair
BA English, Colorado State University, Master of Science in Second Language Learning, SUNY New Paltz.
Teaches ESL, developmental writing courses, and Freshman English I. Also teaches non-credit ESL classes for SUNY Orange.
Anthony Cruz - Tenure Track
MSED English, Fordham University; MAT Music Education, H. Lehman College (CUNY), BA Music Education, The Graduate Center (CUNY).
Teaches Basic Writing Skills II, Freshman English I & II, and Contemporary Short Story.
Sheila Donnelly - Associate Professor
MA+ (English) SUNY New Paltz; BA (English) Mt.
St. Mary; post-graduate studies in 17th Century British Literature and 20th Century Writers.
Teaches Contemporary Short Story, Contemporary Poetry, American Literature I, Survey of English Literature I, Developmental & Freshman English I & II, Technical Writing for Med Lab Tech, CLEP Preparation, Analysis and Interpretation of Literature, Women Writers, and Understanding Poetry.
Publications include essays on Elizabeth Madox Roberts and William Faulkner. Contributing Editor for The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Quincy Flowers - Tenure Track
PhD Candidate, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston; MA American Literature, NYU; BA English, Kennesaw State University. Publication of short story, "Two Buckets," by Future Plan and Program, 2011.
Teaches Freshman English I and Developmental Writing.
James Givant - Professor
MA (English) University of South Carolina; BA City
University of New York.
Teaches developmental and Freshman English; Philosophy.
Sandra Graff - Tenure Track, Reading
MAT (English Education) Fairleigh Dickinson University; BA (English) SUNY Albany; post-graduate reading work at Jersey City State College and SUNY New Paltz.
Published poetry and a chapbook. Teaches Developmental Reading.
Lynn Houston - Tenure Track
PhD (English) Arizona State University; BA (English) Hartwick College; MA (Humanities) University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Teaches Developmental Writing and Freshman English.
Alex Jakubowski - Associate Professor
MA (English) SUNY Binghamton; BA (English/American
History) SUNY Oswego.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman English I & II, Technical Writing (Electrical Technology), Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction; Journalism: Mass Media and online courses, American Literature I & II.
Kristen Katzin-Nystrom - Instructor
BA in English Literature/minor in Woman's Studies from San Francisco State University; Masters in English Literature/concentration in Medieval anchorites, visionaries and philosophers.
Teaches Developmental writing, English I and World Literature.
Alexandra Kay - Instructor
MA (Print Journalism) New York University; MS (Secondary Education/English) Mount Saint Mary College.
Teaches Basic Writing Skills II and Freshman English I & II.
Abigail Kreitzer - Professor
MA (English) University of California; AB (English)
Cornell University; post-graduate study University of California and SUNY
New Paltz.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman English; African-American, World & American Literature, Journalism: Mass Media and Drama.
Andrea Laurencell -
Instructor
MA (Literary Cultures) New York University; BA (English), Russell Sage College.
Teaches Basic Writing Skills I & II, Freshman English I & II, and Technical Writing (Human Services).
Jina Lee -
Instructor
MA in English from TCNJ; research interests in critical race and gender theory and cultural studies; BA in English (with minor in philopsophy) from Rider University.
Teaches Developmental writing, Freshman composition courses and Creative writing.
Kathleen Malia - Professor
Ph.D. (English) University of Notre Dame; M.A. (English) Gannon University;
B.A. (Speech-Drama) Marietta College.
Teaches Modern Drama, Contemporary Drama, Freshman English I & II, Developmental Writing.
Stephen Meagher -Instructor
PhD, Eighteenth Century British Literature, University of Buffalo; MA Contemporary Canadian Novel, McGill University; BA Drama and Theatre, McGill University.
Teaches Freshman English I and II, Developmental English, Contemporary Short Story and British Literature I (to 1800).
Currently revising his dissertation, Promise in Early, Eighteenth Century England: Reading Hobbes and Addison, for publication. He has presented papers at NEMLA and ASECS conferences on Canadian and British literature.
Donald Parker - Professor
ABD (English) New York University; MA (English) North
Texas University; BA (English) North Texas University.
Teaches Freshman English II, Creative Writing: Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Short Story, American Literature.
Publications include articles, interviews, introductions, reviews, and poems in books and magazines such as The Southern Review; Interviews with Malcolm Cowley; Mathew Arnold, Man of Letters; Contemporary Poetry; Manhattan Mind; Insight. Co-founder and co-editor of several magazines: The Hart Crane Newsletter; The Visionary Company, A Magazine of the Twenties; Espirit; and Wordsmith, A Journal of Poetry and Art. Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1990); Fulbright Exchange Teacher (The Netherlands), 1994-95.
Susan Pendergast - Assistant Professor (Reading)
Master of Science in Special Education (with Reading
coursework emphasis), Mt. St. Mary; Bachelor of Arts in English, Mt. St. Mary;
Associate of Arts, SUNY Orange.
Teaches Developmental Reading and Developmental Writing.
Geoffrey Platt - Professor
MA (English & Comparative Literature) &
MPhil (Philosophy) Columbia University; BA (English) Long Island University.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman
English, Film & Literature, World Literature, American Literature, Intro to Mythology, Philosophy & Ethics.
Publication: Developmental Writing textbook.
Anna Rosen - Instructor
MFA in Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College; MS in Literacy Education, Long Island University; BA in Psychology & Early Childhood Education, CUNY Hunter.
Teaches Developmental Reading, Developmental Writing and Freshman English I.
Anne Sandor - Assistant Professor; Writing Consultancy Coordinator
MFA (Creative Writing) Vermont; BA (English) Vassar; AA, SUNY Orange.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman English, Contemporary Novel, and Creative Writing Fiction, Technical Writing and teaches a number of online courses.
Christopher Slichta -
Tenure Track
MA English, SUNY at Buffalo; BA in English, Rutgers
University; coursework in Advanced Swahili, Buffalo State College.
Teaches Developmental and Freshman English, American Literature.
Amanda Stiebel - Tenure Track
BA (English) Truman State University; MA (English) & MFA (Creative Writing) University of Missouri (St. Louis); ABD (American Studies), St. Louis University.
Teaches Developmental and Freshman English.
Elaine Torda - Assistant Professor; Honors Coordinator
MA (English), Concordia University, Montreal;
BA (English) St. Michael's College; post-grad certificate in TESL, St. Michael's
College; study abroad, Wroxton College, England.
Teaches accelerated Contemporary Novel, Honors Philosophy, Honors Contemporary Poetry, Honors Freshman English, Children's Literature, World Literature II, International Literature (Honors & Regular), Honors Seminars.
Mary Warrener - Professor
ABD, MA (English) SUNY Buffalo; BA (English) Mt.
St. Mary College.
Teaches Developmental Writing, Freshman English, World Literature,
Introduction to Myth, Shakespeare, Technical Writing; online courses
Kathleen Wright - Professor
MS (English) SUNY Buffalo; BS SUNY New Paltz; AA (Orange
County Community College); post-graduate work (English) University of New
Hampshire. Chancellor's Award For Excellence in Teaching (1992), two Fulbrights for Summer
Study Abroad (Mexico & India), and two National Endowment of the Humanities
Scholar Awards.
Teaches English as a Second Language, Freshman English, International Literature, and Contemporary Novel.
Patricia Sculley, Chair
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