My classroom is an assimilative space where rigorous study, scaffolded writing, and continuous self-reflection lead students towards engaged citizenship and lifelong learning.

Research in the Classroom

My courses are designed to be independent research opportunities for students at all levels of undergraduate and graduate study. My assignments ask students to focus on addressing academic, professional, or non-academic audiences in their particularities, mediating writerly voices to bring their learning to different venues.

In 2020-21 and 2022-23, I designed and ran two Anglophone poetry-focused student research projects through the CUNY Research Scholars Program: “Poetry Then and Now” (2021) and “Brooks, Rich, Walcott… and Eliot” (2022). Although this is a STEM-focused university initiative, we were allowed to take advantage of its resources and Guttman students won several awards for their work with this program.

In 2019-2020, I was awarded a MLA Course Development Grant and the CUNY Pressing Public Issues award for my work with student writing for a 200-level English course, “Colonialism in Twentieth Century Literature & Film.”

Courses Developed and Taught