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Geraldine DeLuca

Professor   Department: English   Location: 2161 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-4288   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - 1973 (ENGLISH, GENERAL) M.A., NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - 1969 (ENGLISH) B.A., WASHINGTON SQUARE COLLEGE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - 1967 (ENGLISH) Books and Publications "Looking for Dr. Nick," short story, Wreckage of Reason: Anthology of Experimental Prose by Women Writers. New York: Spuytem Duyvil Press, 2008. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 "Personalizing the Anti-Plagiarism Campaign." Co-authored with, Micha Tomkiewicz, Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication and Falsification 2(6): 1-15, 2007. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 "Headstands, Writing and the Rhetoric of Radical Self Acceptance," Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning. (JAEPL, 11, Winter 2005-2006, 27-41) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 "Two Classes," The Notebook. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn College, 2002. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 "I felt a Funeral in My Brain: The Fragile Comedy of Charles Schulz," The Lion and The Unicorn, Spring 2001. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 "Libraries and Ambivalence," Libraries in Tears, New York, NY: McFarland Press, 2001. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 Co-editor with Len Fox, Mark Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen, Dialogue on Writing: Teaching Basic Writing and Freshman Composition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2001 "Mr. Herzog," (flash fiction), In Praise Of Pedagogy: Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Essays on Composing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Elena Cornaro Award sponsored by the New York State Sons of Italy to and Italian-American women who has made significant contributions to scholarship and the community, June 2, 2007. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Contemplative Practice Program Development Fellowship to establish a program in contemplative practice and teaching at Brooklyn College. American Council of Learned Societies in conjunction with the Fetzer Institute and the Center for Contemplative Mind. For 2005-2006. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 PSC-CUNY Travel Grant, 2004-2005: to travel to Naropa University, the Center for Contemplative Mind, the Fetzer Institute to do research on contemplative practice in higher education. (Awards and Honors) 2005 Faculty Citizenship Award, Brooklyn College, May 2005. (Awards and Honors) 2004 PSC-CUNY Grant with Mark Patkowski, 2002-2003: to evaluate Brooklyn College's program in writing across the curriculum. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003 Fall 2000: Full-pay, half year sabbatical, Brooklyn College, CUNY, to travel and to write a memoir on growing up Italian-American. That memoir is going through final revisions. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002 PSC-CUNY Travel Grant, 2000-2001: to travel to Italy to do research on my grandparents' homes for a memoir, in progress. (Grants and Fellowships) 2001 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Co-led (with David Forbes and Rick Repetti) a workshop on the use of contemplative practices in teaching, CUNY General Education Conference, Queens College, May 4, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Led a faculty workshop on the uses of contemplative practices in teaching, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, March 26, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Organizer, "Why Do We Bother with This Life: Conserving the Core and Other Matters," Core Curriculum Conference, Brooklyn College, June 1, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Organizer, Core Samplers and Core Conversations, Spring 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Closing speaker, Brooklyn College Faculty Day, May 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 Co-organizer, "Mindful Learners: Contemplative Practices in Teaching," CUNY Graduate Center. Co-sponsored with the Center for Contemplative Mind, April 7, 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 With David Forbes, presentation of our work as Contemplative Practice Fellows at Brooklyn College. We spoke about our courses and the principles behind them. Faculty Day 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 Led a panel on Teaching Peace with colleagues Elaine Brooks, David Forbes, Len Fox, Roni Natov, and Peter Taubman. Faculty Day, May of 2004. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 Professional Leadership Appointments Committee, English Department, 2005-2009 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Core Curriculum Committee, 2006-2007 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 Master Planning Committee, Brooklyn College, 2005-2006 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 CUNY-wide Coordinators' Committee, Writing Across the Curriculum, 1999-2004. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2004