Kathryn Bockino
Lecturer
English
EMAIL: kbockino@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: N-751F
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 776-7253
Katie Bockino received her MFA in fiction from NYU’s Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Barely South Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Rappahannock Review, Bordighera Press, The Satirist, Underwood Press, and Z Publishing House’s New York’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction.
Katie also is a professor and a manuscript consultant who is obsessed with the Byzantine Empire, all things Tudor, and most TV show love triangles.
Expertise
Degrees
New York University
MFA, Creative Writing
Focus on Fiction (2016 – 2018)
SUNY Geneseo
BA, English/Creative Writing,
Minoring in Medieval Studies & Business Studies (2012 – 2016)
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
- Through a combination of reading and writing, this course exposes students to the basics of fiction, poetry, and playwriting from the perspective of the practitioner, rather than the perspective of the critic. The class will read literature in three genres, focusing on the craft of how the pieces are structured, and how they achieve their impact on the reader. No prior knowledge of these genres is required. Through a combination of reflection, imitation, writing exercises, and writing assignments, students will produce craft analyses, their own creative works, and reflections on their own creative process.
- This course provides careful, in-depth readings from Shakespeare's tragedies, histories and comedies. The course examines some of the main characteristics of his work, including his major themes, the development of character and plot, and the special worlds that he creates through his poetic language.
Research and Projects
Publications
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
Additional Information
Website: https://www.kathrynbockino.com/
