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Andrew Barnes

deAn of the school of liberAl Arts

And sciences

Gloriana Russell

AssistAnt to the deAn

Intensive English

Erich Kuersten

AcAdeMic AdViseMent coordinAtor

Intensive English

Natasha Dwyer

AssistAnt to the director

Rachid Eladlouni

coMPuter-Assisted lAnguAge leArning (cAll)

coordinAtor; lecturer, intensiVe english

B.A. Ibn Tofail University (Morocco); M.A. Hunter College.

Cynthia Elmas

lecturer, intensiVe english

Master of Arts in TESOL Hunter College, B.A. in French

Literature from Rutgers University, where she also

studied Art History at the graduate level. She has over 15

years experience of teaching ESL to adults in New York

and was also Assistant Editor for the multi-disciplinary

journal, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics for 8 years.

In addition to ESL, she is also a dancer who performs

regularly in the New York area.

Laura Elrick

Visiting instructor; lecturer,

intensiVe english; tutor

B.A., Arts Rhetoric and Communication, University of

Southern California; Laura Elrick teaches in the English

and Humanities Department and the Intensive English

Program. She has published two books of poetry and

numerous essays on contemporary literature and

politics, and regularly performs her work nationally.

She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from

the University of Southern California and is currently

pursuing a Masters in Liberal Studies at the CUNY

Graduate Center in Manhattan. Her interests include

the intersection between poetics and the production of

social space, spatiality and scale.

Dana Gordon

ceP coordinAtor; lecturer, intensiVe english

M.A., University of California Berkely; Nada Gordon

has two decades of experience teaching English as

a Second Language, including eleven years in Tokyo,

Japan. She is the author of Folly (Roof Books); Are

Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night Swollen

Mushrooms? (Spuyten Duyvil), foriegnn bodie (Voces

Puerulae); V. Imp (Faux Press); and with Gary Sullivan,

Swoon (Granary Books).

Thomas Healy

lecturer, intensiVe english

M.A., University of Ireland; Thomas has an M.A. in English

Literature from the National University of Ireland, and

a certificate in TEFL from the Galway Language Centre,

Ireland. He has studied at the Takabijustu School of Art,

Tokyo and the Massachusetts Institute of Art, Boston. He

has taught English in Ireland, Japan and the U.S. Since

1992, Thomas has worked on a number of curriculum

development projects, involving English for Academic

Purposes in Japan and Korea, English Language Training

for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008, and in middle

schools in the People’s Republic of China. He has

conducted in-service teacher training in Japan, Korea,

Taiwan, Thailand and Brazil. With Ken Wilson, he is the

author of First Choice, an integrated skills coursebook

published by Oxford University Press.

Helen McNeil

lecturer, intensiVe english

Master of Arts in TESOL. New York University Helen

earned her ESL certificate from the New School in

Social Research in 1990. She taught in the summer

program at Nanjing University, China in 1993. She won

her MA in Tesol from New York University in 1998 while

teaching in their intensive English program. She has

also taught in Columbia University and La Guardia

Community College. She has been teaching in the IEP

for the past six years at Pratt. She is currently singing in

a chorus which performs in Carnegie Hall in 2007.

Jennifer Ostrega

lecturer, intensiVe english

Bachelor of Arts Theater Arts, Rutgers University,

State University; Master of Arts English as a Second

Language, Hunter College; Publications: “Using Role

Play as a Metacognitive Tool for Writing,” NYS TESOL

Idiom Magazine Winter 2007–2008. Conferences:

2008 National TESOL conference, “English for Artistic

Purposes;” 2007 NYS TESOL Applied Linquistics

Conference and NYS TESOL Technology Conference;

Corporate: Facilitator and Consultant of Social

Dynamics Workshops Through Improvisational Theater:

Pfizer Inc., Columbia University Awards:National

Endowment of the Arts, Southern Council, and PSNBC

grants for Writing/Performance.”

Liberal Arts Faculty

Left: A year-end student reading