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Deborah Aschkenes is a PhD candidate in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, and an instructor in the University Writing Program. Her projects primarily focus on the nineteenth-century novel and Victorian theories of mind. Prior to Columbia, she was the Director of Learning and Development for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Frederick Bengtsson is a PhD candidate in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, where he works on Renaissance literature, with a particular focus on drama. He taught in the University Writing program for three years, and has also served as a teaching assistant in the English Department.
Robert Brink is a second year MFA candidate in the Film Division in the School of Arts. This is his first year teaching University Writing, and he is a TA for Script Analysis. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia (School of General Studies) in '08, having written regularly for the Spectator and the Eye on Film, Food, and Theater. Before GS, Rob was a story analyst for the Sundance Institute, Sam Goldwyn, Jr., and was Michael Mann's writing assistant. Rob teaches film studies at Trinity College; he coaches engineers and executives on public speaking; and he has taught computer science, high school English, and improvisation.
Jeff Brown is a fourth-year PhD student in English and Comparative Literature, focusing on 20th-century dramatic literature and fiction. He has previously taught two semesters of University Writing and served as a teaching assistant for courses in 20th-century literature and film. He is happy to work with graduate students on extended projects.
Ramon Campos is the former Fiction Editor of Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature. He co-wrote the screenplays for The Damned Band, The Colony (currently in pre-production) and Zombies of Mass Destruction, which appeared in five international film festivals, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington DC. Ramon is currently an MFA candidate studying Creative Writing here at Columbia University, where he also teaches.
Diya Chackos a second-year M.A./ M.S. student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Journalism graduate program, a collaborative dual-degree program co-sponsored by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. She holds a B.A. in Print Journalism from the University of Southern California, along with a minor in Natural Science. Her specialties include science writing and translation both for scientific audiences and for general public audiences.
Gustavo de las Casas is a PhD candidate in Political Science (major in International Relations; minor in Quantitative Methods). Before Columbia, he was a business analyst for Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, and briefly taught international political economy at the undergraduate level. He holds a BBA in International Business and an MA in International Relations. Among other things, his work has been featured in Foreign Policy magazine and the Harvard International Review.
Kevin Etienne-Cummings is a doctoral candidate in the History Department. He is investigating interactions between French and British Empires in the Seychelles, islands in the southwest Indian Ocean, which is also where he was born. He is willing to work with graduate students on dissertation proposals and longer projects. Having worked as a coordinator for the Ronald McNair Scholars Program at the University of Delaware, he has experience working with students preparing an application for graduate school.
Eleni Gage is a fourth year fiction student at Columbia's School of the Arts, and a freelance writer who has contributed articles to publications ranging from The New York Times to The American Scholar to Real Simple. She has been on staff at Allure, Elle, InStyle, and People magazines and is the author of the travel memoir North of Ithaka, which was published in 2005 by St. Martin's Press. She is an instructor in the University Writing program and is currently working on her first novel.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is a third-year MFA student in the non-fiction concentration of the School of Arts. She has taught two semesters of University Writing. She received a B.A. in Cultural Studies and Writing from Eugene Lang College.
Glenn Michael Gordon is a fourth-year MFA candidate in Nonfiction at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught UniversityWriting since Fall 2008. He was the editor-in-chief of ReadersDigest.com and a magazine editor. His writing has appeared in avariety of publications, including New York, Self, Departures, and Seventeen. He wrote regularly on men’s health and sexuality for WebMDand CNN.com. Glenn is currently completing a humorous and humiliating memoir of his body.
Mary Kate Hurley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she specializes in Old English language and literature, as well as medieval literature more generally. She is currently completing her dissertation on "Writing and Rewriting Anglo-Saxon Collectivities in the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries." She taught in the University Writing program for five semesters, and is happy to work with graduate students on extended projects.
Nora Kenworthy is a graduate student in the Mailman School of Public Health, specializing in political science. She also has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Williams College. Her research interests lie at the intersections of politics and health care--examining how health systems reshape citizenship and representation. She plans to conduct her dissertation research on HIV programming in Lesotho, Southern Africa. She has taught University Writing for the past two semesters.
Tabinda Khan is a sixth-year PhD student in the Political Science Department and is currently a preceptor for Contemporary Civilization. Her dissertation examines the political process behind Islamic law-making in Pakistan, particularly how citizens decide on the interpretation of Islam to be embodied in state laws. In the past, she has been a teaching assistant for several political science classes including the senior thesis seminar. Prior to attending Columbia, she was an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2003 with a major in economics and a minor in math.
Alexander Landfair is a third-year poetry student in the School of the Arts and an associate poetry editor at Narrative Magazine. He received a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and in 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright-Hays GPA fellowship to study Swahili in Arusha, Tanzania. Recent poems have appeared in the Spoon River Poetry Review and the Western Humanities Review.
Ben Lyons is a third-year doctoral student in United States History, specializing in slavery & abolition, law and diplomacy in the early Republic. He also holds an MA from Columbia in Regional Studies East Asia, focused on China, where he taught ESL for two years. He is willing to work with graduate students on extended projects.
Quressa Robinson is a fourth year MFA candidate in the School of the Arts, specializing in fiction. She holds a BA with Honors in Modern Literary Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. She taught two semesters of University Writing and has taught an introductory fiction class at Columbia through the School of the Arts. Her interests include novels, short fiction, essays, memoirs, American/Modern/Contemporary English Literature and Theory.
Gordon Sauer is a second year M.F.A. fiction candidate in Columbia's School of the Arts, coming to Columbia after receiving his M.A. in literature from Clemson University. Currently, he serves on the nonfiction board for Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and writes for Columbia College Today. Gordon has taught creative writing in Columbia?s Summer Program for High School Students and is a first-year instructor in the University Writing Program.
Joanna Scutts is a PhD candidate in the department of English and Comparative Literature, focusing on British modernist fiction, war writing, and the culture of commemoration after World War One. Originally from the UK, she holds a BA in English from the University of Cambridge and a Master's in 20th-century Literature from the University of Sussex. At Columbia she has taught University Writing and Literature Humanities, and is keen to work with undergraduate or graduate students on all varieties of writing project.
Michelle Shafer is a PhD candidate in the Theater Program, focusing on Renaissance drama and 20th century performance studies, with additional interest in modernist and postmodern literature. She has previously taught humanities and writing courses.
Lauren Spohrer is a third-year MFA fiction candidate at the School of the Arts. She has taught two semesters of University Writing. Before coming to Columbia, she was a producer with National Public Radio. She's the associate editor of the literary annual NOON. Lauren is willing to work with graduate students on extended projects.
Seema Vora is a fourth-year graduate student at the School of the Arts, where she specializes in fiction-writing. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature in English, Spanish, and Hindi from Brown University. She has served as the personal statement consultant for the pre-professional office and has led creative writing workshops in the Summer Program for High School students. She has also taught University Writing for one year.
Montana Wojczuk is an MFA candidate in nonfiction writing at Columbia's School of the Arts. She is a University Writing instructor and has taught creative writing in Columbia's summer high school program. Her work has been published in Tin House, Bomb Magazine, Paste, Opium, Portland Monthly and elsewhere. She writes an online column for Bomb on independent film and is the editor of the web journal Books That Saved My Life. She has received a Helene Wurlitzer fellowship, Academy of American Poets prize, and has been a finalist for Breadloaf and SLS St. Petersburg fellowships.
Anya Yurchyshyn is a fourth-year MFA fiction candidate at The School of the Arts. She has taught two semesters of University Writing and has taught creative writing in Columbia's Summer Program for High School Students. She received her B.A. from NYU, where she studied urban planning, philosophy and education. She would love to work with students on creative projects and is happy to work with graduate students on extended projects.
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