school of liberal arts and sciences 199
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., New York University; M.F.A., Goddard College;
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont is the author of the
Encyclopedia Of Women’s History In America (Facts On
File, 1996, rev. ed., 2000) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Facts On File, 1992); co-author of Women’s Suffrage
In America (Facts On File, 1992, rev. ed., 2005) and
Women’s Rights On Trial: 101 Historic Trials From Anne
Hutchinson To The Virginia Military Institute Cadets
(Gale Research, 1997); and editor of American Women
Activists’ Writings: An Anthology, 1637–2002 (Cooper
Square Press, 2002). She is currently working on a book
about human trafficking.
Don Doherty
Visiting instructor; tutor
B.A., Hunter College, City University of New; M.A., New
York University; Don Doherty has been an instructor
at Pratt since 1996, teaching Freshman Composition
and Literature and English as a Second Language.
He did Foundation Year at Pratt before moving into a
Liberal Arts program at Hunter College, so Pratt was
his first home-away-from-home. His interests include
writing short fiction, writing and producing music, video
production, animation, collage and drawing. He rides an
Alien Workshop deck with Tensor trucks and Darkstar
wheels. His Youtube account is papakilatube.
Steven Doloff
Professor; lecturer, intensiVe english
B.A., State University of New York At Stony; M.phil.,
City University of New York Graduate Center; Ph.D.,
City University of New York Graduate Center; TESOL
Certificate, Columbia University Teachers College;
Steven Doloff was named a Pratt Institute Distinguished
Professor (2001–02) and received the Institute’s
Student Government Association Faculty Excellence
Award in 1990.
Helen Easterly
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
Laura Elrick
Visiting instructor; lecturer,
intensiVe english; tutor
B.A., 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, culture, 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.Elizabeth Fow
Adjunct instructor; tutor
B.A., University of Waikato, New Zealand; M.F.A.,
Brooklyn College.Sacha E. Frey
Visiting instructorJohn Gendall
Visiting instructorDaniel Gerzog
AssociAte Professor
Daniel Gerzog (B.A. ‘53, M.A. ‘54, A.B.D. ‘58, NYU) is
Associate Professor of English and Humanities and
has been teaching at Pratt since 1959. He is currently
working with his second generation of fledgling artists,
designers and architects, introducing them to the joys
and stimulations of good reading and clear expression.
He also supervises thesis corollary statements in the
MFA program.Elizabeth Grinnell
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
M.F.A., Brown University; B.A., Mills College; E. Tracy
Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir (O
Books, 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001).
She is the founding editor of Litmus Press, a nonprofit
publisher of new American poetry and works in
translation.Amy Guggenheim
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Amy Guggenheim is a filmmaker and writer. Her work
in theater and film focuses on violence, intimacy, and
sexuality, and has been presented internationally with
support from the New York State Council on the Arts,
the American Embassy, Fulbright Foundation, Mellon
Fund, and others. Her work has been published in
American Letters and Commentary, and in the Italian
literary journal Storie. Her 2008 artistic residency in
Japan—in development for her first feature film-
relates to her work as founder of the Center for Artistic
Engagement.Christian Hawkey
AssociAte Professor
Professor Hawkey is the author of three award-winning
books of poetry, including The Book of Funnels (Wave
Books, 2004), which won the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery
Award, HourHour (Delirium Press, 2005), and Citizen
Of (Wave Books, 2007). His poems have appeared in
Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd,
BOMB, Chicago Review, and Best American Poetry. He
has received awards from the Academy of American
Poets and the Poetry Fund, and in 2006 he received a
Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008, he
was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow.Kwame Heshimu
Visiting instructor; tutor
B.A. in English (with a specialization in writing), New
York University; Kwame Heshimu grew in the shadow of
the Blue Mountain. Son of a Cuban expatriate, and with
a mother who was a descendant of Jamaican maroons,
he spent his childhood in one of the most inaccessible
communities on the island. His grandfather, a
saxophonist with dance bandleader Ray Coburn,
frequently accompanied Rastafarian drummers. Kwame
not only became enthralled with the music, but with
the Rastafarian vocabulary, or Iyaric, an intentionally
created dialect of English, reflecting their desire to take
forward language and confront Babylon system. His
romance with word, sound, and power had begun.