Academic Interests

free culture, libraries, science fiction, gender, identity, Wikipedia, queer theory, comic books, Samuel R. Delany, Melvin Van Peebles and Octavia E. Butler

Positions

Instructional Technology Librarian & Associate Professor, Library, LaGuardia Community College

Education

BA, Philosophy & Religion – Hunter College, CUNY; MSLIS, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University; MA, Liberal Studies/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – CUNY Graduate Center

Publications

  • Encyclopedia entries: “Japanese American Internment,” “Gay and Lesbian Asian Americans,” and “George Takei.” In Lan Dong (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Asian-American Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Forthcoming, March 2016.
  • “Happily Ever After”: The Tragic Queer and Delany’s Comic Book Fairy Tale.” African American Review 48.3 (2015): 271-287. [Via CUNY Academic Works, institutional repository]
  • “Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism and the 1972 ‘Women’s Lib’ Issue.” Colloquy 24 (2012). [Via CUNY Academic Works, institutional repository]
  • “The Critical Thinking Skills Initiative: An Information Literacy E-Learning Collaboration.” E-learning in Libraries: Best Practices. With Barbara Carrel, Jane Devine, and Steven Ovadia. Eds. Charles Harmon and Michael Messina. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 
  • CUNY’s Critical Thinking Skills Initiative: Redesigning workforce education through information literacy learning.” With Irene Gashurov. ACRL College & Research Libraries News 74.2 (2013): 70-73.