Jean Kelly, CETLL (Facilitator)
Jean Kelly has been with CETLL since 2010, providing pedagogical and technical support for faculty in various instructional modes. She helps organize workshops to prepare faculty for teaching online and assist faculty during the transition from Blackboard to Brightspace. In addition, she has created tutorials on Blackboard, Brightspace, Google Classroom; lecture capture; and other educational technologies.
Soniya Munshi, CETLL and Urban Studies (Facilitator)
Dr. Soniya Munshi is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership and an Associate Professor of Urban Studies. She brings two decades of experience working with critical, feminist, and ethnic studies pedagogies. Dr. Munshi has designed and led faculty development seminars, trainings, and workshops that take up questions of belonging, equity, and justice in educational contexts as well as supported faculty with instructional technologies, open educational resources, and related pedagogical needs.
Amy Wan, English (Facilitator)
Amy J. Wan (she/her) is Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on writing, literacy, and pedagogy and is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (Pittsburgh, 2014). She is the recipient of the CCCC Braddock Award (2023) and the Richard Ohmann Award (2012). Her current project analyzes how to create spaces for change and resistance within the global US university through a historical and contemporary study of policies addressing access, diversity, race, and language. She is also the co-PI for a $1.7 million U.S. Department of Education AANAPISI grant awarded to Queens College in 2022.
Lindsey Albracht, English
Lindsey Albracht (she/her/hers) works as the Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction and a Lecturer in the Queens College English department. She also serves as the four-year co-chair of the CUNY Writing Discipline Council. Both her research and teaching focus on literacy, composition, and the teaching of writing.
Claudia Brumbaugh, Psychology
Professor Brumbaugh’s research focuses on uncovering the processes that lead people to experience similar thoughts and emotions across different relationships. The framework of adult attachment theory, coupled with social-cognitive paradigms, has been especially useful in guiding her research.
Ashlyn Cavitt, Design
Ashlyn is a graphic designer in New York City specializing in brand design and art direction.
Antonia Cucchiara, Political Science
Emily Drabinski, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Professor Drabinski’s research is embedded in critical librarianship, an area of research and practice that engages questions of power and the history, present, and future of libraries. I have long been interested in the intersections of critical theory and knowledge organization, particularly in the classification and description from a queer theoretical perspective.
S.E. Hackney, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
S.E. Hackney (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, where they study and teach digital humanities, history of librarianship, and critical information theory. Their research examines the intertwined histories of librarianship and digital computing in the mid-20th century. They live in Brooklyn with their two cats and many plants.
Brandon Jeffries, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Professor Jeffries brings resources, best practices and learned experiences to the students at Queens College Graduate Library Science Program. Leveraging over 17 years of experience in the nonprofit industry including but not limited to: facilitation, direct service, management and executive management in Queens, New York. Professional development, stewardship and career guidance are aspects that I take pride in incorporating into workforce environments while implementing library resources, processes and standards that can support both organization and community next steps. My academic approach reinforces rigor through project based assignments and research principles.
Delaram Kahrobaei, Computer Science
Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is a tenured full Professor in the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments.
Robin Naughton, Library
Professor Naughton is an experienced user-centered researcher, technologist, digital librarian, and educator with over 20 years of experience designing, developing, and managing interactive products throughout all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and across multiple platforms (web, mobile, tablet, interactive whiteboard, etc.), including online courses created for public and state libraries, the transition of print to eBooks, interactive whiteboard products for students and teachers learning and teaching English, and elearning courses for test preparation. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI) and mental models, specifically how to design interactive systems that are useful, easy to use, and enjoyable.
Yael Neumann, Linguistics and Communication Disorders
Yael Neumann, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders at Queens College and the Program Director of the Undergraduate Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research focuses on aphasia, bilingualism, and the brain. Dr. Neumann has presented extensively at national and international conferences and has contributed to numerous publications in the field.
Joshua Rogers, Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Rogers teaches Japanese literature and cinema. Their research situates Japanese writers within early twentieth-century discourse on science and religion. Many influential Japanese writers critiqued religious and supernatural beliefs, while also rejecting aspects of mainstream science. Skeptical of materialism while also anti-religious, these writers worked to conceptualize non-rational forms of knowledge, intuition, and sublime experience. Joshua’s work identifies the impact of this discursive movement on the formation of Japanese literature, philosophy, and politics.
Annalee Roustio, Writing Center
Annalee Roustio is the coordinator of the Queens College Writing Center. Annie has experience in writing center administration, teaching first year composition, and creative writing. Her interests include tutors’ deployment of bravery and empathy, as well as how GenAI impacts writing activities and industries. She has work published or forthcoming in the Writing Center Journal and The Peer Review, and poems published in Rhino, The Shore, and elsewhere.
Holly Weisberg, Psychology
Professor Weisberg is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst. Clinically, she has worked with individuals ranging from 3-70 years old across home, school, community, and workplace settings. Dr. Weisberg’s research has included applications of behavior analysis to teach social and communication skills to children with autism. She has almost a decade of experience in teaching undergraduate psychology courses at CUNY colleges.
