Suzanne Dell’Orto (she/her) is a practicing artist, designer, curator, and educator. She earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her Master’s Degree in Studio Art from New York University’s Venice Program, and she exhibits her artwork nationally and internationally. As a designer, she works print and digital media and has worked with large and small graphic design firms. Her design firm, Modomnoc, specializes in designing for artists, education, and non-profits. She currently teaches at Baruch College/CUNY, with a focus on the intersection of design-as-craft and the creation of culturally-conscious work with an emphasis on redesigning the ongoing conversation that is our shared visual culture. You can find her more about her work at www.modomnoc.net
OEPI Project: Basic Graphic Design Communication: Baruch College/CUNY a Remixable Intro to Graphic Design Course Resource
Isabel Estrada (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at CCNY. Dr. Estrada is the author of El documental cinematográfico y televisivo contemporáneo: memoria, representación y formación de la identidad democrática española ( 2013), which examines how a selected group of documentaries made since 1995 for both film and television inform the debate centered on the so-called “recuperation of memory” of the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Expanding Spanish Cinema: New Forms of Social Life in the Twenty-First Century. This research project addresses the 2008 financial and political crisis in Spain in order to explain both how the situation has been portrayed by a new generation of filmmakers, and how their practices attempt to create new forms of social life.
Prof. Estrada has published articles in refereed journals such as Modern Language Notes, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Hispanic Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, España Contemporánea, Catalan Review, and Revista Hispánica Moderna. She has also contributed to the volumes World War II and the Holocaust: History and Representation (2020), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martín Gaite (2013), and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Modern Spanish Culture (2009).
Paul Fess is an Assistant Professor at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York). He specializes in American literature, African American literature, and Sound Studies. He is currently working on a book project that examines how music structured the politics and literature of race, enslavement, and citizenship from the U.S. abolitionist movement of the 1840s and 50s to the end of the Civil War. He will serve as a faculty fellow with the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center during the 2022-2023 academic year and an ACLS/Mellon Community College Fellow beginning in July.
OEPI Project: Original Anti-Slavery Songs
Mariya Gluzman is a seasoned educator with over 21 years of teaching experience, most of which has been teaching undergraduate philosophy courses at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She has pursued her interest in pedagogy for many years, more recently turning to digital pedagogy. Mariya is also an instructional designer and a project manager who, in addition to having a Master’s in adult education with a certificate in educational technology, also earned a graduate certificate in Project Management and an ACUE ACE Microcredential in Student-Centered Course Design earlier this year. During the pandemic, Mariya has taught several faculty workshops and presented at CUNY and SUNY conferences on incorporating educational technology and social media into humanities curricula. In addition to teaching, Mariya also serves as an instructional designer at the John Jay College Department of Undergraduate Studies, supporting the redesign of the college’s Justice core.
OEPI Project: PHIL 2101 @ Brooklyn College, CUNY
Cen Liu is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on collecting practices, the history of science and technology, and theatrical culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Through their convergence she investigates the epistemologies about local urban orders and global cultural landscape of the period. She is also interested in how the archives as both repositories of memories and palimpsests of forgetting sway the narratives of history, and how theatre and performance as a site and a methodology can offer new ways of producing knowledge at the interstices. She came to the Open Education and Publishing Institute with an enthusiasm to incorporate critical discussions of archive and historiography into the undergraduate classroom. She is excited about the possibilities that Open Education Resources and Digital pedagogy will bring for her classroom’s time-travel adventures. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Department of Theatre and Speech at City College of New York. She has previously worked at the Morgan Library & Museum as a research fellow.
OEPI Project: Theatre History II – THTR 21200 CCNY
Jennifer Newman is Assistant Professor/English & Humanities Librarian at Hunter College-CUNY, where she teaches research methods and collaborates with faculty in the Departments of English and Romance Languages to incorporate library instruction into the curriculum. Her research interests include information literacy and primary source research in the undergraduate classroom, and book history with an emphasis on early European print culture. Newman holds a PhD in Italian from New York University and a MSLIS from the Palmer School at Long Island University.
OEPI Project: LIBR 100: Information Research
Erica Richardson is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Baruch College and Director of the Baruch Black Studies Colloquium, a working group dedicated to advancing Black Studies scholarship and research. Her research focuses on African American literature and culture, sociology and Black social life in the 19th and 20th century, and gender and sexuality studies. Her book, Empirical Desires: Data and the Aesthetics of the Negro Problem, considers how Black intellectuals and authors transformed prevailing denigrating data and corresponding discourse about Black America through literature and culture to envision alternative forms of Black social life and Black modernity. She teaches various classes in English and Black and Latino studies, including Black Women Writers, Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and African American drama, Great Works II (1650 to present), and Survey of American Literature (1865 to present).
OEPI Project: Survey of America Literature 1865 to Present (Eng 3025)
Ilse Schrynemakers is an assistant professor in the English department at Queensborough Community College and currently serves as the department’s deputy chair. She teaches primarily courses in the first-year writing sequence; her pedagogy and research focus on assisting students with the transition to the college experience. Ilse is a recent recipient of the Teresa Vilardi Scholarship for Bard College’s Writing and Thinking Institute.
Dr. Tyner-Mullings in the primary editor of the Open Educational Resource Ethnography Made Easy which is the textbook for all the first-year students in the required Ethnographies of Work course.
Dr. Alia R. Tyner-Mullings earned a doctorate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she researched alternative educational models and she is now part of the founding faculty at Guttman Community College. Her research interests include the sociology of education, communities, sports, and cultural studies. Dr. Tyner-Mullings is the author of Enter the Alternative School: Critical Answers to Questions in Urban Education (Paradigm Publishers, 2014), an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models. She is also the co-editor of Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform (Information Age, 2012), co-author of Writing for Emerging Sociologists (Sage Publications, Inc., 2013), and The Sociology Student’s Guide to Writing (Sage Publications, Inc., 2016).
OEPI Project: Disney Movies and Representation – Media Studies
Belinda Linn Rincon
