The Writing at Queens team includes writing program administrators working on First Year Writing, the Writing Center and writing-across-the-curriculum.

Amy J. Wan (she/her/hers) is the Special Assistant to the Provost on Writing and director of Writing at Queens. As a professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on writing, literacy, and pedagogy and is author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (Pittsburgh, 2014).

Amy.Wan@qc.cuny.edu

Christopher Williams (he/him/his) is a graduate of Yale and Columbia University School of the Arts, Christopher John Williams co-directs the First-Year Writing Program in the English Department at Queens College. His work focuses on ameliorating first-year-student disengagement in core courses, fostering multilingual-friendly and affirming instruction and spaces within the university, and researching the role WPAs play in facilitating or countering the adjunctification of writing programs in higher education.

Christopher.Williams@qc.cuny.edu

Lindsey Albracht (she/her/hers) works as the Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction, and also as a faculty member in the English department. Her research and teaching focus on literacy, writing assessment, writing program administration, technical writing, and critical digital pedagogy.

Lindsey.Albracht@qc.cuny.edu

Andrea Efthymiou (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor of English and directs the Queens College Writing Center. Her research explores writing tutor labor and staff education, as well as best practices in supporting undergraduate research. Andrea’s current projects include a collaboratively edited collection on interfaith dialogue in writing centers and a study of the rhetoric of adoption.

Rebecca Suzuki (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the English department and the Multilingualism Specialist for the college. Her teaching focuses on language and literacy, and she is dedicated to developing pedagogy that uplift multilingualism and utilize translation practices. Outside of teaching, she is also a writer of poetry and creative nonfiction and a literary translator from Japanese to English

Jacqui Cornetta is a writer, translator, musician, and sound artist. Their writing and translations from Spanish have appeared in Words Without Borders, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Erotic Review, Circumference, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. Jacqui received an MFA from Queens College CUNY, where they now teach writing and translation and serve as Assistant Director of the First Year Writing program.