Faculty

Alyson Bardsley Professor Bardsley’s research interests include cognitive literary studies; disabilities, particularly neurodivergence, in literature and culture; feminism, and feminist pedagogy. She primarily teache Read more..

Maria Rice Bellamy Professor Bellamy’s passions are challenging her students to engage ideas and perspectives different from their own and facilitating their development of the critical thinking and oral and written com Read more..

Jason Bishop Jason Bishop is a linguistics professor in the English Department at CSI, with an appointment in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Director of the CSI Speech Laboratory in 2S-216a, he specializ Read more..

Mary Boland Mary Boland is a Full Professor in Composition and Rhetoric, and has directed CSI’s Writing Program since 2019.   Across her career, she has been strongly concerned with the institutional treatme Read more..

Matt Brim Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at the College of Staten Island and an affiliate faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies M.A. Program at the CUNY Graduate Cent Read more..

Rosanne Carlo Dr. Rosanne Carlo is an Associate Professor specializing in rhetoric and composition at CSI. Her research interests include rhetorical theory, ethos and voice, material rhetorics, and place-based writ Read more..

Ava Chin Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023), an American Library Association Notable Book, and the award-winning Eatin Read more..

Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center / City University of New York. His latest books include Peo Read more..

Lewis Dimmick Lewis Dimmick specializes in teaching first-year writing, working to engage beginning college students in meaningful and equitable writing instruction. Inspired by Paulo Friere’s assertion that “educa Read more..

Maryann S Feola Maryann S. Feola received her Ph.D. at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she pursued her interests in the various cultural aspects of the Renaissance. Her research includes Read more..