Faculty for Summer Courses
Summer School Faculty

Rutgers Summer AP English Institute faculty include:

Leslie Abbatiello is a veteran teacher of 17+ years whose areas of expertise are the teaching of reading, writing,and critical thinking. For most of that time, she taught AP Language and Composition or AP Literature and Composition, along with a wide range of English courses. In addition to working now as an Education Specialist with ACES, Ms. Abbatiello is an associate of the Connecticut Writing Project, and is an endorsed College Board consultant.

Vincent Lankewish teaches 11th- and 12th-grade humanities at Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts School. He has directed the Rutgers Summer A.P. English Institute since its inception in 1997. In addition, he has as served as a reader of the A.P. English exams since 1988 and as a workshop consultant for the College Board since 1998.

Raymond J. Ricketts earned his Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, and is currently a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College. He has taught at Rutgers, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Summer Teacher Institute. Dr. Ricketts specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and culture, focusing particularly on nonfiction prose.

Writers House Teachers College faculty include:

Tisha Bender, Assistant Director, The Rutgers Writing Program, author of Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning (2003)

Darcy Gioia, Associate Director in Charge of Scheduling, Placement, and Testing, 098 Coordinator, The Rutgers Writing Program

Michael Goeller, Associate Director, The Rutgers Writing Program, editor of the Instructor's Resource Manual for The New Humanities Reader (2005)

Richard E. Miller, Chair, The Rutgers English Department, author of Writing at the End of the World (2005) and editor of The New Humanities Reader (Third edition, 2009)

Kurt Spellmeyer, Director, The Rutgers Writing Program, author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-First Century (2003) and editor of The New Humanities Reader (Third edition, 2009)

 

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