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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).