Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Fellows

A Writing Fellow (WF) is an advanced Ph.D. student from CUNY’s Graduate Center who works 15 hours each week at a campus WAC Program.

The Writing Fellows Program is a CUNY-wide initiative designed to improve the quality of writing instruction across the disciplines and offer support for advanced CUNY doctoral students. For more information about the CUNY Writing Fellows program, click here.

At Lehman, Writing Fellows:

• work as thinking partners with two faculty participants for a full academic year to:
  • assist in the creation of writing assignments;
  • respond to student writing;
  • collaborate on writing workshops for students;
  • facilitate peer-group work;
  • assist in the creation of syllabi;
  • facilitate peer-group work;
  • develop writing goals for the semester
    
• participate in biweekly professional development meetings led by the WAC coordinators;
• participate in workshops with faculty participants;
• attend CUNY-wide WAC workshops;
• work on special projects, such as workshop planning, outreach, assessment, website maintenance, and archiving.

2011-2012 Fellows

Claudia Astorino is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, in conjunction with the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). Her research interests broadly include human osteology and skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, recent human evolution, and sexual dimorphism. Her dissertation will focus on how age and ancestry contribute to sex differences in the bony skull in modern human populations, using 3D geometric morphometric methods. Claudia is currently an adjunct lecturer in Lehman College’s Department of Anthropology, having formerly taught at both Lehman College and Hunter College as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. She is also a Student Executive Committee Representative for physical anthropology for the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a Junior Researcher for Dr. Shara Bailey in the Department of Anthropology at NYU. Claudia has previously interned as a Visiting Researcher in the Forensic Anthropology Unit at the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NY-OCME), and has participated in bioarchaeological fieldwork in Germany and Poland. She holds a B.S. in Biotechnology from Marywood University.

Paula Burleigh is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she specializes in postwar European art and architecture. Paula earned her BA in art history at Emory University, and her MA from Case Western Reserve University. She is presently writing her dissertation, which concerns the tension between technophilic and archaic elements in utopian projects initiated throughout Western Europe in the 1960s. Paula is a frequent lecturer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she holds a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellowship. She taught undergraduate art history courses at Baruch College for three years, and she currently teaches at Bard High School Early College as well as at the Museum of Modern Art.

Agustina Carando is a Ph.D. candidate in her final year in the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She specializes in bilingualism and language contact, with her dissertation focusing on the Spanish productions of Spanish-English bilinguals. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Linguistics and Spanish at William Paterson University in NJ, and served as director of the Center for the Study of Critical Languages. She has also lectured at City College and Queens College in CUNY, and worked as a researcher at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society.

Han-byul Chung is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. He holds a Bachelor of Art degree and a Master of Art degree with specialization in Linguistics from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Prior to becoming a writing fellow at Lehman, he served as a graduate teaching fellow at Lehman College and taught Introduction to Linguistics, Articulatory Phonetics, and Bilingualism to undergraduate students. He specialized in Syntax and his primary research interests are nominal structures, verbal structures and Korean linguistics.

Kerry Greaves is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focuses on avant-garde art practice in Denmark during World War II as a form of cultural resistance and as a link between pre- and postwar vanguard artists’ groups. She has taught as a graduate teaching fellow at Queensborough Community College and New York City College of Technology; she also serves as an adjunct instructor at Hunter College and City College. Her courses range from the introductory survey to modern art. Her forthcoming article on the Artists’ Study School, an alternative art school in nineteenth-century Denmark, will appear in the journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Past Fellows

Last modified: Oct 1, 2012