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Eric Rosenblum

Visiting instructor; lecturer,

intensiVe english

B.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; Eric’s

fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Guernica

Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago

Reader. He teaches Freshman English and ESL at Pratt.

Nancy Seidler

director, intensiVe english

Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College; Master of Arts in

TESOL, Monterey Institute of International Studies. She

was an exchange student at the University of Paris and

taught at the Sichuan Union University in China. She

has been working at Pratt since 1999, where, in addition

to administering various aspects of the IEP and CEP,

she has taught in the Intensive English Program and

the English Department and has tutored in the Writing

and Tutorial Center. During all this time, she has learned

a great deal about art, design and architecture,

and has wholly enjoyed working with the international

students at Pratt!

Gloria Steil

lecturer, intensiVe english; Visiting

instructor; tutor

B.A., University of California Berkeley; M.A., New York

University; Gloria received her B.A. in Legal Studies

from the University of California, Berkeley, and MA in

Education/TESOL from New York University. She has

over 8 years of teaching experience. Prior to joining

the English and Humanities and the Intensive English

departments at Pratt, she taught English in Tokyo

for the Japanese Ministry of Education; a summer

intensive course in English literature and composition

in Seoul; and English literature at the College of New

Rochelle, SUNY Westchester, Medgar Evers College,

Hostos Community College, and Borough of Manhattan

Community College.

Humanities and Media Studies

Donald Andreasen

Visiting instructor

M.F.A., New School; Don earned his Masters of Fine

Arts degree in Playwriting from the Actors Studio, New

School University. He has had one-act plays produced

at the HERE Theatre and Access Theatre in New York

City and was co-writer of a short film produced by Fox

Searchlab Pictures. Don has also worked as a voice-over

artist doing various commercial work in addition to

network television.

Saul Anton

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Eleanor Bader

Adjunct instructor

B.A., New York University; M.S.W., Hunter College of

CUNY. In addition to teaching at Pratt, Professor Bader

also teaches at Kingsborough Community College

of CUNY and writes for publications including The

Brooklyn Rail, Lilith, Library Journal, The Progressive,

and New York Law Journal. She co-authored Targets of

Hatred: Anti-Abortion Terrorism (Palgrave Macmillan,

2001) and has received writing awards from both

Library Journal and the Independent Press Association

of N.Y.

Emily P. Beall

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

Professor Beall’s academic interests include 20th- and

21st-century experimental poetry and poetics, with

a focus on experimental writing by women. A poet

herself, she is also interested in the intersections of

poetics and modern dance, and the ways that such

intersections generate concepts of space, meaning,

and the body.

Jonathan Beller

Professor

B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Duke University;

Interests: Media Theory, Marxism, Critical Race Theory,

Cinema, Media Archaeology, Decolonization, Aesthetics

and Politics, Feminism, Third Cinema, Philippine Culture

and Politics.

Caterina Bertolotto

Visiting AssociAte Professor

Laurea in Pedagogia, University of Turin, Italy; Caterina

Bertolotto, a graduate of the University of Turin, Italy,

has received 8 certificates in different language

teaching methodologies in both Italy and in New York,

as well as a Distinguished University Teaching Award

from The New School. She is the author of 4 books,

2 audio and 2 PowerPoint CDs. She has also taught

seminars to language teachers and undergraduates

at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Montclair

State University, Eugene Lang and Baruch College.

Warren Burdine

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Philip Carroll

Visiting instructor

Peter Chamedes

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

Peter Chamedes is a person with ‘60s values and an

abiding love of literature and art. Following a doctorate

in English Literature (poetry), family obligations

redirected him into an extended career in advertising.

This was at last succeeded by a return to scholarship

and pedagogy. His students have ranged from at-

risk adolescents to aspiring artists (including many

remarkable Pratt scholars). His consuming interests

include his two babies, poetry, contemporary art, and

African art.

Priya R. Chandrasekaran

Visiting instructor

Youmna Chlala

Visiting instructor

Ellen Conley

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

M.S., Wagner College; B.A., Penn State; MTMS ASCP,

Jefferson Medical College; Ellen Conley is a published

writer of four books with national reviews:The Chosen

Shore (Univ. of Calif. Press), Bread and Stones (Mercury

House), Soon to Be Immortal (St. Martin’s Press) and

Soho Madonna (Avon Original Fiction).