Profile Anthony Alessandrini

Anthony Alessandrini

Professor

English

(718) 368-5610
Anthony.Alessandrini@kbcc.cuny.edu
D-113, D Cluster

Courses

Literature and Film (ENG 65)

Poetry (ENG 42)

Short Fiction (ENG 40)

Classical and Biblical Literature (ENG 31)

Introduction to Literature (ENG 30)

Freshman English II (ENG 24)

Freshman English I (ENG 12)

Developing Competence in Writing (ENG 93)

Developing Fluency in Reading and Writing (ENG 91)

Education

PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2000

Women鈥檚 Studies Certificate, Rutgers University, 2000

MA, Near Eastern Studies, New York University, ABD

MA, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1994

BA with Honors, English Language and Literature, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1991

College Teaching

Assistant Professor of English, 911爆料 Community College/CUNY, Fall 2005-present. Co-Chair of the Department of English Literature Committee.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2006.

Assistant Professor of English, Kent State University, 1999-2002. Member of the PhD in Literature Committee, the Women鈥檚 Studies Program, and the LGBT Studies Program.

Visiting Professor of English, New York University, 2001.

Teaching Assistant, English Department and Women鈥檚 Studies Program, Rutgers University, 1995-1999.

Selected Publications and/or Other Resources

Books: Editor, Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Selected Articles:

鈥淔rantz Fanon, Jamaica Kincaid, and the Futures of Postcolonial Literature,鈥� forthcoming in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47 (2011).

鈥溾€楨nough of This Scandal鈥�: Reading Gilroy through Fanon, or Who Comes After 鈥楻ace鈥�?鈥� forthcoming in Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy, ed. Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

鈥淎merican Innocence and Its Victims: The Pakistani Edition,鈥� in Jadaliyya (October 2010).
Part 1 | Part 2

鈥淕uilty of Being Muslim,鈥� in Jadaliyya (October 2010).

鈥溾€楽ensitivity鈥�: The New Islamophobia,鈥� in Dissident Voice (August 2010).

鈥淭he Humanism Effect: Fanon, Foucault, and Ethics Without Subjects,鈥� in Foucault Studies 7 (2009).

鈥淒arwish鈥檚 Revenants,鈥� in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 9.4 (2009).

鈥淭he Violation of the Global Anti-War Movement,鈥� in The World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War, ed. M眉ge G眉rsoy S枚kemen (New York: Olive Branch Press, 2007).

鈥淭he Great Debate About Aroma Coffee,鈥� in CounterPunch (4 September 2006).

鈥淭he Evil of Banality,鈥� in CounterPunch (13 June 2006); reprinted in Critical Moment 17 (2006).

鈥淭he New State of Poetics,鈥� in Arab Studies Journal 15 (Winter 2006).

鈥淏low Up,鈥� in Arab Studies Journal 13-14 (Spring 2006).

鈥淩eading the Future,鈥� in Cultural Studies 17 (2003).

鈥淢y Heart鈥檚 Indian for All That鈥�: Bollywood Film between Home and Diaspora,鈥� in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10 (2003).

鈥淩eading Bharati Mukherjee, Reading Globalization,鈥� in World Bank Literature, ed. Amitava Kumar (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003).

鈥淢oral Silences,鈥� in Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo) (11-17 December 2003).

鈥淚raq Reconstruction Tracker鈥� (co-authored with Elizabeth Rosenberg and Adam Horowitz), in Middle East Report 227 (2003).

Selected Poetry:

鈥淰illage St. Paul,鈥� in Sixth Finch (Spring 2010).

鈥淪hadow and Sun鈥� and 鈥淐ontrol Room,鈥� in Splash of Red (Winter 2009).

Two poems [鈥淣ight falls.鈥� and 鈥淣ew Jersey Transit, Easter Evening,鈥漖 in Splash of Red (Summer 2009).

Four poems [鈥淧assed through a cemetery coming here,鈥� 鈥淎 Note on the Type,鈥� 鈥淪ilence,鈥� and 鈥淭he Eye鈥漖, inMARY Magazine (Fall/Winter 2008).

鈥淔our Ways to Remove a Wall (A Field Guide),鈥� in Tin House 32 (2007).

Research Interests

My areas of interest include postcolonial literature and film, Middle East culture and politics, and critical theory. Articles in progress or under consideration include two essays on Frantz Fanon, a review essay on the study of Turkish cinema, and an article dealing with the Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi. I am working on several book projects: an edited collection on Turkish literature and film in a global context; a book of essays dealing with the work of Frantz Fanon; and a critical study dealing with the use of the concept of 鈥渃ritical thinking.鈥� I am also working on two poetry chapbooks.

Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants

PSC-CUNY 40 Research Award, City University of New York, Summer 2009.

Mellon Faculty Fellowship (Topic: 鈥淭he Sacred and the Secular鈥�), The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center of 911爆料, 2008-2009. Project Title: 鈥溾€楧o They Have a Different God in Europe?鈥� Islam, Secularism, Nationalism, and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Work of Orhan Pamuk.鈥�

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Anthony Alessandrini

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