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.
CUNY Writing Fellows program description [PDF]
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.
2018-2019 Fellows
Paul Celentano
Paul Celentano is a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Political Science department. Previously, he has worked as a Lecturer at Queens College (2018-2019) and an Adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College (2015-2018). Aside from his WAC Fellow activities, he also works as an immigration consultant at the American Federation of Musicians and is the Chief Investment Officer at Proteus Asset Management. His research primarily focuses on refugees, asylum seekers, and immigration policy.
Verónica Guimarães
Verónica Guimarães is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology/Medieval Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests include troubadour song and lyric, Arab-Andalusian music and poetry, film music, and music perception. Her dissertation investigates the genesis of the musical tradition of the troubadour using algorithmic analysis and evolutionary theory.
Michael Rumore
Micheal Rumore is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY working in the fields of postcolonial studies, African diaspora studies, and Indian Ocean studies. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in venues such as the edited collection Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere, Social Text Online and Studies in the Fantastic. In addition, he has taught literature and writing courses at Lehman College, LaGuardia Community College, and Queens College, CUNY.
Zoë Slutzky
Zoë Slutzky is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include French, Italian, and Anglo-American literature from World War II to the present; spatial form in the novel; travel and mobility; and critical theory. She teaches literature and writing at Hunter College.
Carly Tocco
Carly Tocco is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a focus on Neuropsychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has been teaching as an adjunct at Queens College and Lehman College for the past four years in subjects of Abnormal Psychology, Personality, Contemporary Psychotherapies and Intro to Psychology. Her research interests focus on emotional, neuropsychological and social side effects of antidepressants.
Anna Zhelnina
Anna Zhelnina is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focuses on urban social movements and housing-related mobilizations in Moscow, Russia. Anna is also a W.R. Hearst Graduate Fellow at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and a Board member of the Research Committee 21 of the International Sociological Association. She has taught “Social Movements” at Hunter College, CUNY, as the Graduate Teaching Fellow.
Past Fellows
| 2017-2018 | 2007-2008 |
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| 2016-2017 | 2006-2007 |
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| 2015-2016 | 2005-2006 |
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| 2014-2015 | 2004-2005 |
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| 2013-2014 | 2003-2004 |
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| 2012-2013 | 2003-2003 |
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| 2011-2012 | 2001-2002 |
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| 2010-2011 | 2000-2001 |
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| 2009-2010 | 1999-2000 |
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