The Faculty in William T. Daly School of General Studies
Daniel Al-Daqa (2020), Teaching Specialist in Writing & First-Year Studies; MFA in Creative Writing, West Virginia University; B.A. in English, Rutgers University: critical thinking and reading, creative writing, rhetoric, first-year studies.
Harman P. Aryal (2022), Assistant Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Ohio University; MS, Teaching & Curriculum, Syracuse University; M.Ed. & B.Ed., Mathematics Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal: Mathematics Anxiety, Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL), Formative Assessment.
Robert J. Blaskiewicz (2015), Associate Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.A., Saint Louis University; B.A., University of Notre Dame: rhetoric and composition, 20th century American literature, Cold War literature and culture, WWII veterans’ writing, US cultural rhetoric, the rhetoric of extraordinary claims, conspiracy theory, science and critical thinking advocacy.
Frank A. Cerreto (1976), Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ed.D., Rutgers, The State University; M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology; B.S., M.A., City College, The City University of New York: general education mathematics, mathematics education, curriculum development, first-year studies, technology in education, visual literacy.
Joe Cirio (2018), Associate Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.A., Florida State University; B.A., B.S., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania: composition theory, writing assessment, everyday writing, transfer of writing knowledge, rhetorical theory, digital composing, queer rhetoric.
Young Doo (Peter) Cho (2013), Associate Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.S., Molloy College; B.E., Korea University: mathematics education, functions, domain, range and slope.
Jack Connor (1984), Professor Emeritus of Writing; Ph.D., University of Florida; M.A., Seton Hall University; B.A., Franklin and Marshall College: composition, writing about nature, natural history, ornithology, the Pine Barrens.
Judith Copeland (2005), Associate Professor Emerita of Writing; J.D., University of Oregon; MFA, University of Iowa; B.A., Duke University: creative nonfiction, memoir, travel writing, humor writing, spiritual writing, freshman seminars.
Emari DiGiorgio (2006), Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; MFA, New York University; B.A., The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: creative writing (poetry and fiction), contemporary world poetry, why poetry matters, composition, social activism.
Penelope A. Dugan (1976), Professor Emerita of Writing; D.A., State University of New York at Albany; M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton; B.A., LeMoyne College: personal essay, memoir, African American literature, autobiography, composition theory, history of rhetoric.
Marcia Fiedler (2000), Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies; Ed.D., University of Phoenix, M. Ed., New York University; B.A., University of Pittsburgh: Biblical studies, Hebrew, Jewish education, Jewish women, women and Jewish law, Jewish white slave trade, Jewish storytelling, Micro-aggression, Prejudice, and Diversity, Early Childhood & Elementary Education
Lauren M. Fonseca (2015), Tutoring Center Specialist/Coordinator of Academic Support; M.A., Mercy College; B.A., Stockton University: working with students in special populations, first-year writing, fairy tales, hypertext.
Alysia Goyer (2023), Assistant Professor of Mathematics in First-Year Studies/ Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; B.S. California State University, Monterey Bay; mathematics education, early algebraic thinking, instructional technology, pre-service teacher education, first-year mathematics education and curriculum design.
Geoffrey W. Gust (2014), Associate Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., University of York; M.A., Arizona State University; B.A., Drake University: Geoffrey Chaucer and contemporaries, medieval studies, pre-modern history, literary theory, critical thinking.
Jimmy Hamill (2022), Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.A., Lehigh University; B.A. in English, Saint Joseph's University: composition and rhetoric, first-year studies, religious rhetoric, queer theory, anti-racist writing assessment, Universal Design for Learning, multimodality, popular culture, autoethnography.
Carra Leah Hood (2005), Associate Professor Emerita of Writing; Ph.D., M.A., Yale University; B.A., Hunter College, The City University of New York: expository writing and research, digital composing, visual rhetoric, new and traditional media.
Edward J. Horan (2017), Writing Center Coordinator; M.A., B.A., Stockton University: teaching General Studies (First Year Studies, Honors, and EOF).
Aleksondra Hultquist (2017), Associate Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A., San Francisco State University; BFA, Rutgers University: Restoration and 18th century literature and culture, history of emotion, adaptation, women writers, rise of the novel, academic writing, critical thinking.
Mariam Hussein (2018), Teaching Specialist of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; M.S. in Mathematics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; B.S. in Biological Science, Rowan University; A.S. in Chemistry and A.S. in Biology, Atlantic Cape Community College: mathematics, biology, chemistry, and first-year studies.
Marcy R. Isabella (2015), Associate Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., University of Rhode Island; M.A., B.A., State University of New York at Albany: critical pedagogy, writing center pedagogy, writing program assessment, zines, comics, anarchist praxis and poetics.
G. T. Lenard (1984), Professor Emerita of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., Temple University; M.A., B.A., Rutgers, The State University: American studies, 18th century literature, composition, popular culture.
Marcia Sachs Littell (1992), Professor Emerita of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Founding Director of Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Ed.D., Temple University: The Holocaust, Holocaust and genocide education, women during the Holocaust, films of the Holocaust, social studies materials and methods, social foundations of education, Jewish-Christian relations.
Heather McGovern (2002), Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., Texas Tech University; M.A., Clemson University; B.A., College of Idaho: technical and professional writing, assessment of student learning, environmental rhetoric, composition theory, online writing, document design, rhetoric, gender and feminist studies, program administration.
Betsy McShea (2001), Associate Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., American University; B.S., University of Hartford: algebraic problem solving, quantitative reasoning, methods of teaching elementary mathematics, elementary school math, numbers and patterns, sports and math, politics and math.
Richard Miller (2008), Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies; Ed.D., Ed.S., Seton Hall University; M.A., B.S., Hebrew Union College.
Willmaria (Maria) Miranda (2023, Tutoring Center Specialist: Coordinator of Evening Tutoring and Graduate Writing Tutoring. M.A. Writing Studies, Kean University. Tutoring Graduate students, offering general graduate writing support, and supervising evening tutoring.
Francis Nzuki (2008), Associate Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.S., Syracuse University; M.S., B.S., Nairobi University: algebraic problem solving, quantitative reasoning, elementary school math, college algebra.
John O’Hara (2013), Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.A., University of Miami; B.A., Kent State University: American literature, American studies, gender studies, writing, critical and interpretive theory.
Luis E. Peña (2004), Math Center Coordinator; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; B.S., Stockton University: mathematics, quantitative reasoning, tutor training, aerospace engineering, space science, history and policy.
Nancy Reddy (2015), Associate Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.Ed., University of Houston; B.A., University of Pittsburgh: writing pedagogy, extracurricular literacies and writing groups, archival research, creative writing (poetry and nonfiction).
Carol Rittner (1994), Professor Emerita of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies; D.Ed., The Pennsylvania State University; M.T.S., St. John’s Seminary; M.A., University of Maryland; B.A., Misericordia University: women during the Holocaust and other genocides, theological issues related to the Holocaust and other genocides, rescue during the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, genocides in the 20th and 21st centuries, rape as a weapon of war and genocide.
Christopher Roman (2025), Assistant Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., Portland State University; M.S., Emporia State University; Ed.M., Rutgers University; B.A., Rutgers University; A.S., Middlesex College: Mathematics, Mathematics Education.
Emily Ryan (2017), Instructor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; M.Ed., Rutgers, State University; B.A., The College of New Jersey: Mathematics Education, Counseling Psychology, First-Year Studies.
Thierry Saintine (2017), Associate Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., Temple University; M.A., MFA, B.A., City College, The City University of New York: mathematics education, mathematics identity construction, ethnography, urban education, sociocultural foundations of education.
Margarita Rivera Santiago (2022), Teaching Specialist of Critical Thinking and First Year Studies; Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University: M.A, in English Education, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, B.A, in English Literature, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayaguez.
Mimi Schwartz (1980), Professor Emerita of Writing; Ed.D., Rutgers, The State University; M.A., University of California at Los Angeles; B.A., New York University: creative nonfiction, memoir, literary journalism, literature of the Holocaust.
Raz Segal (2016), Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide; Ph.D., Clark University, the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; M.A., Tel Aviv University: Modern European history (with a focus on central and southeast Europe), Holocaust and Genocide studies, Jewish history.
Siobahn Suppa (2018), Associate Professor of Mathematics and First-Year Studies; Ph.D., M.S., University of Delaware; B.S., Rowan University: mathematics education, curriculum studies, continuous improvement, elementary teacher education.
Emily Van Duyne (2014), Associate Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; Solstice MFA in Creative Writing, BFA, Emerson College: feminist theory, poetry and poetics, contingent faculty, and Sylvia Plath.
Lisa C. Youngblood (2017), Assistant Professor of Writing and First-Year Studies; J.D., Widener University School of Law; B.A., Villanova University; A.A., Delaware County Community College: argument, composition, critical thinking, ethics and the law, first-year studies.
