8:45 a.m.
Welcome
- Claire Pamplin, Chair, Department of English, BMCC, CUNY
- Stephanie Oppenheim, BMCC, CUNY
- Manya Steinkoler, BMCC, CUNY
9:00 a.m.–10:25 a.m.
Keynote Panel Part 1: Teaching Remotely During and Beyond the Pandemic
Chairs: Stephen Brier, professor emeritus, the Graduate Center, CUNY and Mathew K. Gold, the Graduate Center, CUNY
- Luke Waltzer and Laurie Hurson, the Graduate Center, CUNY
10:30 a.m.–11:25 a.m.
Shaking up Shakespeare: Virtual Travels with the Bard
Chair: Angela Florschuetz, BMCC, CUNY
- Katherine DiMarca, Massasoit Community College, “Reimagining the Literature Classroom: Teaching American Literature and Shakespeare through Visual Arts Engagement Strategies”
- Boyda Johnstone, BMCC, CUNY, “Oh Brave New World: Cultural Exchange with an Indian Classroom”
Teaching First Year Writing Online: The Joys and Challenges in Creating Community
Chair: Chris Vinsonhaler, BMCC, CUNY
- Amber West Martin, Rocky Mountain College
- Precious Mckenzie, Rocky Mountain College
We all Dunnit: Reading and Writing Like a Detective
Chair: Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College
- Deirdre Flood, Laguardia Community College, CUNY, “Whodunnit: Using Agatha Christie to Teach Close-Reading in an Online Literature Course”
- Elizabeth Porter, Hostos Community College, “Reading and Writing like a Detective: Designing an Asynchronous Course on the Female Detective Novel”
Turf Wars: Why Literature?
Chair: James Hoff, BMCC, CUNY
- Jacob Bender, Middlesex College, “Literature as Composition as Literature: Re-Integrating Aesthetic Experience Into a Rhet. Comp. Setting”
- Holly Messitt, BMCC, CUNY: “What about the “Core Books” for CUNY: Weighing in Where Menand and Montas Agree”
Reading Together in Virtual Spaces: Critical Reading Instruction in the Time of Covid
Chair: Christina Lam, BMCC, CUNY
- Smita Das, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Sandra Wozniak, Queens College, City University of New York
11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Pandemic Plurality: Challenges of Teaching to Diversity
Chair: Christa Baiada, BMCC, CUNY
- Gayle McCallum, Cabrillo College, “Moving from Surviving to Thriving: Using Memoirs (and Graphic Novels!) by Marginalized Voices and Writers of Color to Decolonize English Courses and Give Hope in Challenging Times”
- Nancy Derbyshire, BMCC, CUNY, “Incorporating Learner Identity and Purpose in a Gateway Composition Course”
- Tisha Ulmer, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, “Cultivating Cultural Humility in the Community College Literature Classroom”
- Enid Stubin, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, “Reading at Point of Utterance: Engaging Students in the College Classroom”
Adjunct Teaching (roundtable)
Moderator: Erin Weinberg, University of Manitoba
- Amy Scott, independent scholar
- Elena Tepperman, independent scholar
- Alex Wagstaffe, McMaster University and the College of New Caledonia
- Melissa Li Sheung Ying, University of Alberta and MacEwan University
We Really Are All in this Together: Virtual Team Teaching and the Covid Classroom
Chair: Carlos Hernandez
- Christina Carlson, Dean Defino, Aaron Rosenfeld, Hugh Short, and Scott Cleary, Iona College
The Welcome Read: Collaboration to Create Community
- Sybil White, Beth Counihan, and Liz Carroll, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
COVID and Students at Risk
Chair: Boyda Johnstone, BMCC, CUNY
- Naomi Edwards, Suffolk County Community College, “Radical Empathy in the Pandemic Classroom and Beyond”
- Jessica Araujo, Community College of Rhode Island, “Student Retention through Student Responsibility in the Time of COVID19”
- Meredith Randall, BMCC, CUNY, “Illiteracy and Engagement: A Case Study”
- Dr. Carla-Elaine Johnson, Saint Paul College, “Reinvention of the Teacher: The Camera as Classroom,”
12:45 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.–1:55 p.m.
Featured Creative Presentation: Love & Peace in Times of Crisis
Introductory Remarks: Margaret Barrow, BMCC, CUNY
- Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Anderson P. Smith, Hunter College, CUNY will read/perform their poetry.
2 p.m.–3:25 p.m.
Keynote Panel Part 2: Archiving the Present
Chairs: Stephen Brier, professor emeritus, the Graduate Center, CUNY and Mathew K. Gold, the Graduate Center, CUNY
- Stefano Morello, Travis Bartley, Nicole Cote, and Zach Muhlbauer, the Graduate Center, CUNY
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.
Invitations to Create: Responding to Literature through the Arts and through Distance
- Nathan Blom, Alabama A & M University
- Adele Bruni Ashley, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Dr. Marcelle Mentor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Screen and Stage: Performing Change
Chair: Jan Stahl, BMCC, CUNY
- Ronald Tyson, Raritan Valley Community College, “The Ups and Downs of Teaching Black Panther and other Woke Cinema/Literature”
- Fred Solinger, BMCC, “Choose your own Adventure: Black Mirror Bandersnatch and the Agency of Reading”
- Thaddeus Nagey, California State University Northridge, “Straw Buried Fields, Forever: A Research and Applied Theater Presentation”
Trauma-informed Pedagogy
Chair: Maria Alvarez, BMCC, CUNY
- Mira Zaman, BMCC, CUNY, “Embedding Self-Care into the Composition Classroom”
- Cheryl Gartsbeyn, Teachers College, Columbia University, “Creatively Yours: Teaching Students about Trauma Through Literature and the Arts”
- Erin Weinberg, University of Manitoba, “Teaching a Christmas Carol as an Approach to Living and Working During the COVID Pandemic”
Course Design during Covid
Chair: Syreeta McFadden, BMCC, CUNY
- Cynthia Williams-Roberson, Coahoma Community College, “Innovative Course Design: Connecting the Dots”
- Adele Doyle, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, “It was a Roller Coaster!”: First Year Community College Students’ Pandemic Experiences, in their own Words”
- Michelle Pacht, Laguardia Community College, CUNY, “Enhancing Student Dialogue Discussion and Engagement in Online Literature Classes”
Pandemic Literature
Chair: Adele Kudish, BMCC, CUNY
- Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Grand Rapids Community College, “Everybody Panic: Teaching Pandemic Literature During the Covid-19 Pandemic”
- Steve Asselin, University of Winnipeg and Brandon University, “Teaching Defoe Before and During COVID-19: A Case Study in the Pedagogy of Plague Literature”
- Kathryn Turley-Sonne, Cypress Community College, “Pandemic Writing from the Embalmer’s Gaze”
4:45 p.m.–5:40 p.m.
Small Screens and Big Streams: Christian Pezhold’s Undine and Life in the Screen
- Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College and Manya Steinkoler, BMCC, CUNY
Empowering Students
Chair: Nancy Derbyshire, BMCC, CUNY
- Chris Vinsonhaler, BMCC, CUNY, “Empowering Student Mindsets”
- Maria do Carmo Eggers-de Vasconcelos, “From Personal and Hybrid to Academic Voices in the Writing Classroom”
The Language of Crisis
Chair: Andrew Levy, BMCC, CUNY
- Bijoyeta Sahoriya Das, Laguardia Community College, CUNY, “ Teaching Covid 19 to Journalism Students”
The Side Effects of Onscreen Learning
Chair: Trisha Brady, BMCC, CUNY
- Dr Laura Gimeno-Pahiss, Universitat de Girona (Spain), “What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Zoom Fatigue’: Reading and Writing about Carver and Others in Times of the Pandemic”
- Joseph Donica, Bronx Community College, CUNY, “Education in an Age of Screens and Envy”
Challenges of Online Teaching
Chair: Dominick Acocella, BMCC, CUNY
- Saidah Henderson, Hostos Community College, CUNY, “Taking a Time In: Teaching Humanities During COVID”
- David Williams-Tortolini, Tidewater Community College, “Using Pandemic Responses to Classroom Issues to Construct Change: An Adjunct’s Approach to Changing the Classroom”
