Staff: Writing Assistants Lauren Sassenoff ----------------------------------- Lauren is a graduate student pursuing an M.A. in English. In her spare time, she reads literature, ranging from Charles Dickens to Philippa Gregory. She is especially interested in historical fiction from the time of the Tudor dynasty. Besides reading, Lauren loves classic movies, such as Wuthering Heights and The Country Girl. he is also a big fan of The Office, and the HBO series Extras. She excels at organizing papers, and once an idea strikes her, a natural fluidity seems to connect mind and paper. She has been known to keep Post-Its on her nightstand in case a good idea hits her at 1 o'clock in the morning, and she wants to add it into her paper! Kempton B. Van Hoff ----------------------------------- Kempton is a student in the Interdisciplinary Master's Program and an instructor in the First Year Writing Program. Though he has been known to grace the Writing Center with the occasional culinary delight, he hopes that his guidance to students who aspire to improve their writing will outshine even his salmon cakes. Gayon Harrison ----------------------------------- Gayon is a vibrant, intelligent, and articulate young lady. She interacts well with her peers and is a dedicated Writing Assistant. She is in her penultimate semester at C.W. Post and is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. She lives in Roosevelt with her mother and one year old daughter; she enjoys shopping and hanging out with her friends. When she's not doing any of the above, she relaxes her mind by watching Nigerian movies. Cristian Marcu ----------------------------------- Cristian hails from the wooded depths of Transylvania. He moved to America about nine years ago to become a lumberjack, but he ended up going to high school instead. He has since then acquired a B.A. in English Literature and is now a graduate student. His foreign background allows him to sympathize with language problems ESL students may be facing. He is now on his way to the blood bank, but when he’s not busy making a withdrawal you can probably find him lurking on the couch in the Writing Center. Kyle Kjellgren ----------------------------------- Kyle is an undergraduate student majoring in Journalism. Not that he’s solely devoted to news writing. Kyle is also interested in a range of media outlets to show off his writing talents. He hopes to share his creativity through film, and post his opinions on various subjects online. In the meantime, Kyle is busy with work and school, but still has enough time to enjoy listening to music and watching his favorite shows on DVD. Daniel Ugenti ----------------------------------- Daniel is a graduate student pursuing a M.A. in English. He graduated from C.W. Post with a B.S. in English Education and also is a certified NY State teacher. He is currently a graduate instructor teaching freshmen composition and Reading & Interpretation. Dan is heavily involved in Student Activities at Post: He has served as Orientation Coordinator, RA, as well as received the Post Pride Award. Dan focuses on excellence as a Writing Assistant, both in face-to-face sessions and online as the Writing Center's online assistant. Brett Kunsch ----------------------------------- Having left CW Post with a degree in Film to pursue a second degree in History at Stony Brook (and abroad in England), Brett is excited to be back at the Writing Center and Post as a First Year Writing instructor and MA student. His many interests include Europe, films, philosophy, literature, and art, which he hopes will all one day coalesce into an undefined dream career. He enjoys working closely with students on their writing, from the subtle discoveries to the breakthrough revelations that take place throughout the writing process. Lisa Lande ----------------------------------- Lisa Lande holds a B.A. in Italian from C.W. Post. She is currently pursuing her M.S. in Adolescent English Education; she is also an instructor of First Year Writing. In addition to working at the Writing Center, she substitutes in English at Saint Anthony's High School in South Huntington, and tutors at the Huntington Learning Center. In her free time (of which there is none this semester), she loves to read Russian literature, keep abreast of Russian politics and refresh her knowledge of the Russian language. She studied and worked in Russia in the mid-nineties and worked as a Russia analyst for the U.S. government. She is married and has one son, and she absolutely loves to laugh. Edmond Niemczura III ----------------------------------- Edmond Niemczura III, with enough letters in his name to construct his own alphabet, usually goes by the simpler “Ed.” He is a former Pharmacy major who found his calling in English, made the jump, and is an English major with an interest in Composition and Rhetoric. He is currently in his senior year, and is looking forward to starting graduate school and later becoming a “lifer” in the academic field. His prior major allows him to empathize with students who feel more comfortable memorizing the bones in the human hand than writing a paper about them. Having spent time in two drastically different majors allows him dual perspectives, and he enjoys finding new ways of presenting otherwise complex subjects and ideas, and breaking them down into easier-to-manage parts. Things he enjoys other than school: singing in a Misfits cover band (CXXXVIII), photography, and his two Chihuahuas (Frankenstein and Zombie). Staff: Director Belinda Kremer ----------------------------------- Belinda Kremer directs The Writing Center, coordinates First-Year Writing, and teaches courses in writing and literature in the English Department. She holds an A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University, and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has hand-produced a number of limited-edition collections, including Blue: Poems for New York (Southside, 2003) and the graphic poem All Begin Guy Walks into a Bar (SugarCity, 2005). Individual poems have appeared in literary journals such as FENCE, Calyx, and Washington Square Journal; poems appear in the current issue of Confrontation. Her chapbooks include “Field(0),” “Chaos & Other Love Songs,” and “Lake Diary,” which is briefly excerpted in a 2007's Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes (Swan, Alison, ed. MSU Press). Among the awards and fellowships she has received are the Rackham Fellowship, the Hopwood Award for Poetry, the Meijer Fellowship in Creative Writing, and a NYSCA Community Arts Regrant. Her current interests in the teaching of writing cluster around rhetorics of “common knowledge" and open-source effects on "common knowledge." "So It Was This Beautiful Night: Infecting the Hybrid," an essay on teaching creative writing, appears in ALT DIS: Alternative Discourse and the Academy, and she is co-editor, with Richard McNabb, and a contributor to, Collide: Styles, Structures and Ideas in Disciplinary Writing (Pearson: 2007). CONTACT: belinda.kremer@liu.edu or (516) 299-2732