Brooke Schreiber is Director of First-Year Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Baruch. She earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Pennsylvania State University and joined Baruch’s faculty in 2016. She teaches ENG 2100T and ENG 2150T, as well as linguistics courses such as the Globalization of English and Macaulay Honors Seminars focused on the languages of New York City. She enjoys helping students see the value and potential in the multiple languages and dialects they speak, and exploring ways to bring those language resources into students’ academic writing. Her research focuses on linguistic justice, writing and language teacher education, and World Englishes.
Laura Kolb is Director of Great Works of Literature and Associate Professor of English at Baruch, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare, drama, and women’s writing as well as ENG 2800 and 2850. In the Great Works classroom, she loves reading individual texts deeply and collaboratively and, as the semester progresses, tracking patterns than emerge across works from a range of times, places, and cultures. She is also interested in how translation and adaptation operate as interpretive tools and grant unique critical insights. Her current research focuses on gender, power, and trickery in early modern drama.
Daniel Libertz is Associate Director of First-Year Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Baruch. Professor Libertz earned a PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies, with a focus in Rhetoric and Composition, at the University of Pittsburgh. Since joining the English faculty at Baruch in 2020, he regularly teaches ENG 2100, ENG 2150, and upper-level courses in writing and rhetoric. Professor Libertz enjoys helping students use their personal experience and questions that interest them as the foundation of their writing and to then use that writing to progress toward larger interconnected projects. His research focuses on quantification in activist and advocate rhetoric, public writing pedagogy, assessment, and online writing instruction.
Kamal Belmihoub joined Baruch College in August 2017 after completing a PhD in Second Language Studies/ESL at Purdue University. He is interested in writing studies and world Englishes. He taught English as a second language and developed curricula for intensive English programs, and taught linguistics and introductory/professional writing.
Claudye James is the Department Administrator in the English Department. She joined Baruch College about 15 years ago as a CUNY Office Assistant, after transferring from BMCC where she worked as a College Assistant assisting the director of the College Now Program. She earned her Associate degree from BMCC majoring in Liberal Arts, and both her children earned their Bachelor’s degrees at CUNY, one of them at Baruch.
Jason Arty is an Office Assistant in the English Department. He joined Baruch College in the summer of 2022, after working as an Early Learning Educator in schools throughout Queens. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Queens College in the summer of 2019, majoring in Psychology.
Molly Mosher is Program Manager for First Year Writing and Great Works of Literature. She is also an instructor in the program, teaching Writing 1 & 2 and Great Works of Literature.