Suzanne Miller
Chair
Ms. Lily Lam
English Department Office Manager
Bryan Duran
English Department
& ESOL CUNY Office Assistant
BRYAN.DURAN06@citytech.cuny.edu
Megan Behrent
Interim Coordinator, Gender &
Sexuality Academic Minor
Patrick Corbett
Director, Professional & Technical
Writing Program
Scott Dahlie
Program Developer, ESOL
Internship Coordinator, PTW
Anna Do
Program Coordinator, ESOL
Joe Franklin
Director, The Writing Center
George Guida
Department Scheduler/Programmer
Mark Noonan
Coordinators, English 1101Co
Rebecca
Mazumdar
Director, First-Year Writing
Jennifer Sears-Pigliucci
Coordinators, Creative Writing Academic Minor
Daniel Ryan
Interim Editor, City Tech Writer
300 Jay Street
Namm Hall 512 (N-512)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Email: english@citytech.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-260-5392
June 11, 2025
Source: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | In this interview, English Professor Laura Westengard, who has been integrally involved in increasing opportunities for LGBTQ Studies, discusses the Advanced Certificate for LGBTQ Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center which will have its first cohort this fall.
June 6, 2025
Source: Diverse Issues in Higher Education | In this opinion piece, English Professor Caroline Chamberlin Hellman calls for unified action to safeguard and invest in the future of public higher education.
April 2, 2025
Source: Graduate Center’s “The Thought Project” | Laura Westengard, English Professor, Interim Director of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Chair of the LGBTQIA+ Collective, was featured on “The Thought Project,” hosted by Tanya Domi.
March 24, 2025
Source: CUNY TV | Annette J. Saddik, Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Literature, was interviewed on "Theater: All the Moving Parts," hosted by Patrick Pacheco.
February 26, 2025
English Professor Jennifer Sears is the winner of the 2025 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for her short story collection, What Mennonite Girls are Good For, which will be published this fall by the University of Iowa Press. One of two annual awards juried by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, the final judge for this year's contest was the novelist Margot Livesey.
February 25, 2025
We celebrated Mother Language Day 2025 with a diverse mix of about 16 languages, featuring readings, songs, poems, personal stories, and even an a cappella performance. Students and faculty gathered to share, listen, and celebrate language and community. And of course, we can't forget that there was cake and flan!
October 21, 2024
Every semester, Prof. Patricia Hickey takes her students on a journey over the Brooklyn Bridge. As Prof. Hickey puts it, "Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at least once in their lives. Taking the class across the bridge at the start of the semester fosters a sense of community."
July 24, 2024
Prof. Bannett dissects the connection between physical and emotional loss in her new Poetry collection, "Motion Photos".
June 4, 2024
Professor Suzanne M. Miller awarded Scholar on Campus Associate Professor and Chair of the English Dept. Suzanne M. Miller was named Scholar on Campus on May 6, 2024.
March 25, 2024
City Tech Associate Professor of English Jennifer Sears-Pigliucci received the 2024 Annual Fiction Book Award at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 55th Annual Convention held in Boston, Massachusetts on March 7-10, 2024.
November 7, 2023
City Tech has been awarded $42,761 to serve the college's LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff for the 2023-2024 academic year. The funding includes the development and operations of an LGBTQIA+ Student Lounge that officially opened its doors in Room AG-29B last week.
June 27, 2023
Department of English Assistant Professor Patrick Corbett shares the story of two City Tech students from distant lands coming together in the transformative course ENG 2575 - Technical Writing and founding a new immigrant success center. The center’s mission will be to provide educational support and resources specifically designed for immigrants, including asylees and refugees.
April 7, 2023
Dr. Jason Ellis, Associate Professor of English, Director of City Tech's Professional and Technical Writing degree program, and Coordinator of the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, has been recognized by the Georgia Institute of Technology with a 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Literature, Media, and Communication in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts for “outstanding achievements that inspire continued excellence and bring credit to [Georgia Tech]."
February 16, 2023
As a space dedicated to language, the Writing Center looks forward to celebrating International Mother Language Day on Tuesday, Feb. 21st from 1pm-3pm in L-632 (the faculty lounge in the Library Building). This day marks the importance of multilingual education and the value of bringing more languages into public life. To celebrate, we will have a line-up of performances/readings in mother languages by students, faculty, and staff, as well as time for attendees to share if they are inspired to do so. Refreshments will be provided. If you would like to perform, please reach out to writingcenter@citytech.cuny.edu.
February 14, 2023
Come celebrate the new Wriitng Center Space on Valentine's Day with us at 12pm - 2pm in Room G-608. There will be refreshments provided.
December 12, 2022
Gothic literary professor and vampire expert Dr. Laura Westengard reviews vampires in films and television for Vanity Fair Reviews, a series that asks experts to take a look at movie and TV clips and review them for their accuracy.
December 6, 2022
City Tech English professor Rebecca Mazumdar was presented with the 2022-2023 Teacher Recognition Award this month. The Award, which is voted on by members of the Professional Development Advisory Council, recognizes excellence in teaching.
December 5, 2022
City Tech Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Gender & Sexuality Studies Academic Minor Laura Westengard has been awarded a $40,000 grant by CUNY's LGBTQIA+ Consortium to serve City Tech's LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff.
October 25, 2022
Congratulations to City Tech Assistant Professor of English, Joe Franklin, for winning the Council of Writing Program Administration Graduate Research Award for 2022.
October 24, 2022
City Tech Associate Professor of English, Rebecca Shapiro, spoke on the plenary panel at the New York State Bar Association Conference on Wednesday, October 19th, 2022.
June 15, 2022
In Posts from Suburbia, George Guida satirizes the life that most Americans have come to know: the life of lawn care, man caves, shopping clubs, mall cops, gym memberships, murky faith, easy sex in the shadows, cut-rate shrinks, gun-toting postmen, sad cable guys, infinite hobbying, endless holiday decoration, casual bigotry, home improvement, bouncy houses, wedding halls, canned wakes, e-loneliness, ignorant know-it-alls, fridge magnets, yard statues, pool dolphins, trains to nowhere, and moons that won’t give up. At the heart of it all stands Bill, a child of the suburbs who has returned, dumped by his girlfriend, and holding unused degrees from a city university—a still-young man struggling to find a new life among the characters who populate his world, his memory, and his blog.
March 10, 2022
On Thursday, March 24th, join City Tech student writers and award-winning poet Layli Long Soldier to share ideas and creative work at the College's 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival.
February 21, 2022
Dr. Rebecca Shapiro, Associate Professor of English at City Tech, was recently interviewed on the Because Language podcast, which tackles topics such as language change, language and society, and language technology.
December 15, 2021
The sixth annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Access and SF took place on Thursday, December 9, 2021, 9:00AM-5:00PM online as a Zoom webinar. This year's symposium was co-organized by Jill Belli, Wanett Clyde, Jason W. Ellis, Lucas Kwong and A. Lavelle Porter.
November 8, 2021
Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY offers its faculty. Professor Saddik has earned this honor through exemplary dedication to her scholarship, university community and students. The English department is proud to have such an exemplary scholar among its many outstanding faculty.
July 8, 2021
An interview with City Tech English professor, Caroline Hellman, who will discuss Herman Melville's influence on Ta-Nehisi Coates and read from her book, "Children of the Raven and the Whale," this Sunday, July 11, in the historic barn at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, home of The Berkshire County Historical Society. | The Berkshire Eagle
March 29, 2021
Join us on Tuesday, April 13th at 5pm for City Tech's 40th Annual Literary Arts Festival: An Evening of Community and Reflection, Featuring Staceyann Chin and City Tech Students.
November 19, 2020
Please join us on November 19 at 1:00PM for New York Times journalist Annie Correal's visit with the City Tech community. Correal will be discussing her trajectory as a writer and the story behind her 2017 article "Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street."
October 20, 2020
City Tech English Professor Lubie Alatriste is the recipient of New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages' James A Lydon Distinguished Service Award. This award honors a NYS TESOL member who goes beyond fulfilling the responsibilities of an office and represents service in a variety of capacities, demonstrating a distinguished service record to the organization. | NYS TESOL
September 29, 2020
Teaching and Learning across Educational Contexts
May 29, 2020
Notes City Tech Professor Caroline Hellman as one of the CUNY Graduate Center's 2020 Alumni Award Winners. | The Graduate Center
May 6, 2020
In January, City Tech English Professor Megan Behrent was honored with the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions. The award is a prestigious, substantial and highly competitive one, with only fifteen granted this year.
March 9, 2020
Professor Lubie Grujicic-Alatristebook's new book describes the steps undertaken by language researchers to disseminate their findings at sites of practice.
December 10, 2019
Prof. Jason Ellis, Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine editor Trevor Quachri, and Analog magazine's managing editor Emily Hockaday have installed library exhibits for City Tech's 4th Annual Science Fiction Symposium on Thursday, December 12.
November 18, 2019
City Tech Professor of African American Studies, Lavelle Porter, has published a new book, Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual, in which he critically examines fiction produced by black writers.
October 28, 2019
For the second time in five years, Mark Noonan, a Professor in City Tech’s English Department, has won a prestigious and substantial grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to direct a Summer Institute. “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press” is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project that will bring distinguished faculty from diverse fields to New York City for two weeks in the summer of 2020.
October 25, 2019
Professor Robert Ostrom’s third book of poems, Sandhour, has been released by Saturnalia Books this month. The follow-up to Rob Ostrom's award-winning Ritual and Bit, offers a brave and intimate look at the interiors of family, home, place, trauma and childhood. With gravitas and deep concentration, the poems of Sandhour startle and shine.
September 23, 2019
A new book co-edited by City Tech Professors Reneta D. Lansiquot and Sean P. MacDonald, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning, will be published in February 2020. It includes several chapters written by City Tech faculty from a number of different departments and builds on Prof. Lansiquot and MacDonald’s previous book, Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning in Urban Education: Exploring Virtual Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
September 10, 2019
City Tech English Professor Caroline Chamberlin Hellman will be publishing a new book this December examining the ways in which contemporary multi-ethnic writers of the United States have responded to nineteenth- and early twentieth century texts historically central to the American literary canon.
September 4, 2019
English Department Professor Laura Westengard's new book, Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma, has been released by University of Nebraska Press for October 2019.
August 18, 2019
In “Exposing the Idiocy of Videocy”, English Department Chair and Associate Professor Robert Lestón along with his collaborators bring to light the darker side of YouTube culture and the unwilling participants whose lives have literally and metaphorically been swept up and sent “down the tubes”.
March 21, 2019
In celebration of City Tech's 38th annual Literary Arts Festival (LAF), please join us in the College's New Academic Complex Theater at 285 Jay Street, in Downtown Brooklyn, on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30PM for a night of student performances and a reading by poet, educator and performer, José Olivarez. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
May 21, 2018
Professor Emilie Boone of African American Studies has received a prestigious Metropolitan Museum Fellowship for academic year 2018-2019.
November 22, 2017
City Tech congratulates Professor Jennifer Sears, Department of English, on her National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 2018 Creative Writing (Prose) Fellowship of $25,000.
August 26, 2011
Nina Bannett’s poetry chapbook, Lithium Witness, delves into her childhood experiences with a mother who had bipolar disorder. The collection of 26 poems poignantly captures the emotional and psychological effects of living with mental illness, and the impact of her mother’s death from undiagnosed colon cancer. Bannett, a professor at City Tech, hopes her work will foster greater empathy and understanding of mental health issues.