Prof. Gokcora is an Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Upon receiving a Fulbright scholarship, she came to the U.S. and completed an M.A. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. degree in Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota. She worked as a faculty developer...
Jennifer B. Delfino is Assistant Professor of Academic Literacy and Linguistics at Borough of Manhattan Community College and Distinguished CUNY Scholar at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on language and racialization. Jennifer’s book, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American...
Alister Ramirez Marquez, a Professor of Spanish Language and Hispanic American Literature in the BMCC Modern Languages department, is the author of a fictional memoir, My Emerald Green Dress, which chronicles Colombia’s turbulent 20th Century and is a winner of the 2005 Best International Literary Prize by the Art Critics Circle of Chile. Professor...
Professor Rebecca Garte leads courses on the psychological foundations of early childhood education and other subjects through the Teacher Education department at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY. Her grant-funded research has focused on social development among children in Head Start, and the relationship between social development and academic achievement from pre-school through elementary school. She...
Born and raised in New Zealand, Elizabeth Fow immigrated to the U.S. in 1990 and has been teaching at BMCC since then. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College with a concentration in Playwriting but these days mostly writes fiction. Links to her creative work can be found at eafow.com. She is...
Christine Priano received a B.S. in Biology from Fordham University and earned M.A., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics and Development from Columbia University. As a molecular biologist, she conducted research at Columbia University and Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, focusing on the role of RNA secondary structure in bacteriophage...