Elizabeth Weaver
Expertise
Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Writing Center Pedagogy
Degrees
Stony Brook University
Graduate Certificate, Composition Studies
Columbia University in the City of New York
MFA (Poetry)
Ohio Wesleyan University
BA, English and Spanish
Universidad de Salamanca
Spanish language, history, and arts
College of St. Rose
Teaching Certification Courses
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
Course Syllabus - Students placed in ENG 100.5 are offered extra support, afforded through additional instructional time. Students completing ENG 100.5 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 texts. Successful completion of this course is equivalent to passing ENG 101.
Prerequisite: English Proficiency Index of 64 and lower or a score of 43-55 on the CAT-W and exemption from ACR 95 or successful completion of ACR 95. This course is not open to ESL students.
Please note: Tuition for this corequisite course is charged by the equated credit (hours) not per credit.
Course Syllabus - 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
Course Syllabus
Research and Projects
Past Presentations
Weaver, Elizabeth. What CAN’T this Technology do?! Student-Centered Knowledge Creation to Teach Critical Thinking and Writing in the Age of AI. BMCC Faculty Development Day. December 1, 2023.
Weaver, Elizabeth. Using Contract Grading Principles to Achieve Learning Outcomes — and to Move Toward More Equitable Student Assessment. BMCC Department of English. April 21, 2023.
Weaver, Elizabeth. Responding to Student Writing: In the Age of Blackboard, Less is Still More. BMCC Faculty Development Day. December 2, 2022.
Lewis, Josh; Stephanie Wade, and Elizabeth Weaver. Creating Justice through Creative Writing Pedagogy. SUNY Council on Writing Annual Conference, SUNY-Plattsburgh. March 27, 2010.
Pushman, Erin; Stephanie Wade, and Elizabeth Weaver. In the Lineup: Creative Writing in College Composition. Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, March 13, 2009.
Farley, David; Marianallet Mendez, Sean Murray, and Elizabeth Weaver. Academic Service-Learning and First-Year Writing Programs: Striving for a Fruitful Fusion. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco. March 11, 2009.
Denny, Harry; Courtney Frederick; Rochell Isaac; Anna Rita Napoleone, and Elizabeth Weaver. (Un)Covering Identities: Theorizing the Construction, Resistance, and Interplay of Minority Identities in a Majority Academy and World, Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City, March 23, 2007.
Publications
Forthcoming: “What Was Left Out.” Plume (2024).
“Pest Control” and “Accidental Landlady.” Epiphany (5 Oct. 2023). Online: https://epiphanyzine.com/features/two-poems-weaver
“psychotic denial of pregnancy,” “Poem for the Children I’ve Chosen Not to Have,” and “Trial and Error.” Heavy Feather Review (October 2020). Online: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/10/21/elizabeth-weaver/
“An Adjunct Among NYC Teaching Paraprofessionals: Class, Gender, and Race – and What it Means to ‘Work in Education.’” Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles, edited by Harry Denny, et al., Utah State UP, 2018, 179-186.
“Electing Hell.” Rattle (March 21, 2016). Online: http://www.rattle.com/electing-hell-by-elizabeth-weaver/.
“Unschooling and the Future of Poetry: A Review of Please Excuse This Poem.” The Chattahoochee Review 35 (Fall / Winter 2015): 212 – 215.
“Motor Vehicles.” Barrow Street (Winter 2014/2015).
“This Isn’t Working.” Dressing Room Poetry Journal 7 (January 2014). Online: http://www.dressingroompoetryjournal.com/this-isnrsquot-working-by-elizabeth-weaver.html.
“Hauntings.” Sweet: A Literary Confection 4.2 (Winter 2012). Online: http://sweetlit.com/4.2/proseWeaver.php.
“The Burning Ghat.” Tattoo Highway 19 (Fall 2009). Online: http://www.tattoohighway.org/19/elwburning.html.
“Isolated Incident.” Karamu (Spring 2008): 31.
“Identity.” The Journal 25.2 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 29.
“Raphe, Between.” Columbia Poetry Review 12 (Spring 1999): 86.
“Utilities.” Path II (1999). Online: http://www.crosspathculture.org/path2/weaver.shtml.
“Two Delicious, With Prawn Sauce.” The Paris Review 149 (Winter 1998): 225.
“The Cocoon.” The Paris Review 149 (Winter 1998): 226.
Alonso, Dámaso, “Dead One” (“Ese Muerto”), trans. Exchanges Translation and Commentary 6 (Spring 1996): 32 – 33.
Alonso, Dámaso, “To a Room” (“A Una Habitación”), trans. Exchanges Translation and Commentary 6 (Spring 1996): 34 – 35.
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
- 2023 finalist, National Poetry Series book publication prize
- Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication
- Member, National Council of Teachers of English
