Danielle Bacibianco
Currently, Dr. Danielle Bacibianco (she/her) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor for CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, for the English Department, teaching courses: ENG 101, ENG 201, and ENG 311, as she continues her autoethnographic work. Dr. Bacibianco graduated from St. John’s University with a Ph.D. in English in May of 2021, for her research “Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A.”
In the past, Dr. Bacibianco was an Adjunct Associate Professor at St. John’s University, courses: ENG 1006, ENG 1040, ENG 1100c, and ENG 2300. Dr. Bacibianco has also taught at CUNY College of Staten Island, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor, for the English Department, courses: ENG 111 and ENG 151.
Expertise
Research/Teaching Interests: Autoethnography, Community Literacy, Addiction Recovery Literacy/Studies, Queer Rhetoric, Public Rhetoric, Writing Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Degrees
St. John’s University
Ph.D. in English
CUNY College of Staten Island
M.A. in English
CUNY College of Staten Island
M.S. Ed. in Secondary Education English
St. John’s University
B.A. in English
Courses Taught
- English Composition is the standard freshman writing course. The course introduces students to academic writing. By its conclusion, students will be ready for English 201 and for the writing they will be asked to do in advanced courses across the curriculum. Students completing ENG 101 will have mastered the fundamentals of college-level reading and writing, including developing a thesis-driven response to the writing of others and following the basic conventions of citation and documentation. They will have practiced what Mike Rose calls the "habits of mind" necessary for success in college and in the larger world: summarizing, classifying, comparing, contrasting, and analyzing. Students will be introduced to basic research methods and MLA documentation and complete a research project. Students are required to take a departmental final exam that requires the composition of a 500 word, thesis-driven essay in conversation with two designated texts. Prerequisite: Pass the CAT-R and CAT-W or Accuplacer tests
- This is a course that builds upon skills introduced in English 101. In this course, literature is the field for the development of critical reading, critical thinking, independent research, and writing skills. Students are introduced to literary criticisms and acquire basic knowledge necessary for the analysis of texts (including literary terms and some literary theory); they gain proficiency in library and internet research; and they hone their skills as readers and writers. Assignments move from close readings of literary texts in a variety of genres to analyses that introduce literary terms and broader contexts, culminating in an independent, documented, thesis-driven research paper. By the conclusion of English 201, students will be prepared for the analytical and research-based writing required in upper-level courses across the curriculum; they will also be prepared for advanced courses in literature. Prerequisite: ENG 101
- The objective of this course is to sharpen students' creative writing skills in the genres of the short story, poetry and drama, depending on students' interests and ability. Pre-Requisite: ENG121 or ENG201
Research and Projects
2021 – Ph.D. English, St. John’s University, Dissertation: Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A., https://scholar.stjohns.edu/theses_dissertations/237/
Publications
“Alcoholics Anonymous and Its Homosexual Imagination” in “The Homosexual Imagination: A Fifty-Year Retrospective,” College English, July 2024 issue.
“Queerstory of Recovery” to Writers: Craft and Context, vol. 5, no. 1, forthcoming.
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
Awards
2022 – CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Dissertation Award, for dissertation “Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A.”, Conference on College Composition & Communication
2016 – Sigma Tau Delta, National Honor Society, English Department, St. John’s University Chapter
2015-2017 – Doctoral Fellowship, English Department, St. John’s University
Professional Memberships
Rhetoric Society of America
National Council of Teachers of English
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Additional Information
In 2021, a former student wrote about Dr. Bacibianco’s course (ENG 1100c at St. John’s) in a College Magazine article, “10 Classes That Make Your St. John’s University Experience Even Better.”
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