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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.