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Kristin A Pape
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
Jean-Paul Pecqueur
Visiting instructor
M.F.A., University of Washington; B.A., Evergreen State
College; Jean-Paul Pecqueur is a poet and writing
instructor who has published poems, critical reviews,
and essays in a number of national publications.
He has taught creative writing, critical writing, and
literature courses at The University of Washington and
The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. Jean-Paul
has been teaching Introduction to Literary and Critical
Studies courses at the Pratt Institute since 2006. His first
book of poems, The Case Against Happiness, was the
winner of Alice James Books’ Kinerth Gensler award
in 2006.
Alba Potes
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
D.M.A. in Composition, Temple University; Alba Potes
was born in Colombia. Her compositions have been
performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra,
National Symphony of Colombia, Darmstadt 2000
Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Institute
for New Music in Freiburg, The New York New Music
Ensemble, and by music festivals in Latin-America,
South Korea, Germany, Canada and USA. Connected to
her creative work based on Spanish literature, she has
also taught Spanish in CUNY and Columbia University.
She teaches music at The Mannes College of Music,
College Preparatory Division.
Margaux L R Poueymirou
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
Evan Rehill
Visiting instructor
Eric Rosenblum
Visiting instructor; lecturer, intensiVe english
B.A., Ohio University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; Eric
Rosenblum holds a B.A. in English from Ohio University
and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Syracuse University.
Eric’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Guernica
Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader.
Carole Rosenthal
Visiting Professor
B.A., Penn State; M.A., New York University; M.A.,
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social
Research; Carole Rosenthal is the author of a short
story collection in which characters’ inner lives collide
explosively with external reality. Her fiction has been
translated into eleven languages and dramatized for
radio and television networks, including Italy’s RAI
and South Africa’s Springbok Broadcasting. Widely
anthologized, she teaches modern and contemporary
ideas in literature and film at Pratt. She is also a former
psychotherapist whose art work has appeared in shows
and magazines.
Sandra Ruiz
Visiting instructor
Sydney Scott
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
Sydney Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies
and holds an MA in Communication Studies. Her
philosophies: “Life may be painful, but learning doesn’t
have to be”; “Whoever walks away with the most candy
wins”; and “Love is far more pragmatic than it’s cracked
up to be” (stolen from Ally McBeal). Her interests include
art, theatre, comedy, TV/film, Seinfeld, Knicks, Yankees,
bagels, black coffee, pizza, black and white cookies and
anything else that’s totally New York.
Heidi Singer
Visiting instructor
Heidi Singer holds a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center
(1983) in German Languages and Literatures, an M.A. in
German from Syracuse University (1973), and a B.A. in
Psychology from San Francisco State University (1969).
She has taught at Queensborough College (1981–1991)
and Hunter College (1986–2000) and at The New
School (since 1995) and Pratt (since 2001). She was a
translator for The Rockefeller Archive Center, translated
numerous books and articles, and wrote a book for
Living Languages: German all the Way (Crown, 1994).
Sharon Snow
Visiting instructor
B.A., Vassar College; Master of Arts, French Literature,
Columbia University; spent her junior year in Paris, and
following graduation, received a fellowship to study at
the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. After receiving
her Masters in French at Columbia, she worked at an
art gallery and for the United Nations. She taught at
Manhattan’s Hewitt School for 14 years and is now
visiting instructor at Pratt and at St. Josephs College.
Ethan Spigland
AssociAte Professor
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., New York University; Matrise,
University of Paris VIII; has made numerous films and
media works including: Luminosity Porosity, based
on the work of architect Steven Holl, Elevator Moods,
featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and The Strange
Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, which won the Gold Medal
in the Student Academy Awards.
Gloria Steil
Visiting instructor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A New York
University. Professor Steil has also 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, Medgar Evers College,
Hostos Community College, and Borough of Manhattan
Community College.
Barbara Turoff
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
Ph.D., New York University; Laurea, Universita di Bologna
Suzanne Verderber
AssociAte Professor
B.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania;
Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on
the relationship between subjectivity and power, and
on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval,
Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns.
Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art,
critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.