Dave Hershinow
Writing Center Director
Dave Hershinow joined the GC community as its founding Director of the Writing Center in the Fall of 2019. They earned their PhD in English at Johns Hopkins University, where they worked at the university’s Writing Center for seven years and served as the center’s Director in their final year of study. Since completing their PhD, Dave has held faculty appointments at Princeton University and Baruch College, CUNY. They are the author of Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller: Confronting the Cynic Ideal (Edinburgh UP, 2019). Dave is excited to bring their experience to bear on the development of the GC’s new graduate writing center, one of the few writing centers in the country whose mission caters solely to the needs of graduate students.
Dave can be reached at dhershinow@gc.cuny.edu
Writing Consultants
Kristie Schlauraff
Kristie Schlauraff earned her PhD in English at Cornell University where she studied 19th century British and American literature, the history of science, and sound studies. She has taught writing at Cornell and Villanova University, and most recently at Columbia University, where she also developed the medical humanities curriculum and contributed to professional development initiatives for new and experienced instructors and consultants. Her current book project, Discordant Bodies: Victorian Selfhood and Scientific Rhetoric argues that Victorian gothic fiction turned to the audible world to undermine emergent scientific definitions of personhood. Recently, her research has expanded to include questions surrounding nineteenth-century museums and spectacle, an interest that prompted her to take courses on decolonizing museums, thing theory, exhibition practice, and visual culture and to volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History. Her work has appeared in publications like Poe Studies and Victorian Network, and she has presented widely on literary studies and composition studies.
Alix Alto
Alix Alto is a PhD student in Basic and Applied Social Psychology at the Graduate Center. Her dissertation explores how people think about possibility on the political left. Specifically, she investigates how leftists (versus liberals) develop radical imaginations, how liberals think about electability, and how leftists and liberals consider political possibility as a normative construct constituting a shared political imaginary. She is pursuing a concentration in Qualitative Research Methods and utilizes content analysis, grounded theory analysis, guided interviews, and auto-ethnography in her work. Previously, she worked as a Writing Fellow at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, where she worked one-on-one with students writing at various stages of their collegiate and graduate studies and facilitated workshops on APA style. Alix has experience writing manuscripts, analyzing text data, and advising on writing in APA.
Jordan Botello-Alcalá
Jordan Botello-Alcalá is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at The CUNY Graduate Center and a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Carribbean (IRADAC). His dissertation involves theorizing conceptual tools to aid analysis of the epistemic environment shaped by the structures and social practices of racial capitalism; and offering philosophical analysis of how this environment produces patterns of ignorance that functionally sustain the unjust racial order. Jordan’s approach is informed trans-disciplinarily and draws heavily on the Black Radical Tradition. He has taught at Texas Tech University, Brooklyn College, Queens College, and at a high school in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Jordan is excited for the opportunity to offer support to students at the Graduate Center in achieving their writing goals.
Sukie Kim
Sukie Kim (she/they) is a PhD candidate in the English program, where they research how disability, queerness, and Asian-ness are (re)imagined in contemporary Asian and Asian diasporic speculative fiction. Both her research and teaching is informed by Black feminist studies, women of color feminism, and queer-of-color critique. They are a bilingual Korean American who grew up in South Korea before moving back to the US nine years ago. Sukie enjoys working with writers at any stage on any project, be it brainstorming, argumentation, organization, research, or more. In their free time Sukie writes poetry and creative nonfiction, and practices yoga.
Past Writing Consultants
Daniel Hengel
Deborah Philip
Anna Carroll
Charles Colwell
Emily Price
Malkah Bressler
Asher Wycoff
Allison Douglas
Daeshin Hayden Ju
Karen Okigbo
Shiraz Biggie
Kate Pendolay
Aaron Botwick
Elizabeth Goetz
Meira Levinson
Erin Garrow
Jared Keel
