Jill Belli happily returned this year to the Macaulay community as a third-year Instructional Technology Fellow (ITF) at Baruch College. Along with much enthusiasm, she brings to MHC her experience teaching composition and literature courses at Baruch College, Queens College, & Stern College for Women, working at the Baruch Writing Center, and creating (as the Society’s web developer) a new interactive digital space for the Society for Utopian Studies.

Jill received a B.A. in English & Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the English Program at the The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation explores the intersections among Happiness Studies (cultural representations, scientific research, policy development), pedagogies & educational curriculum, and Utopian Studies (theory, literature, & the “utopian impulse” broadly conceived). In additional to completing doctoral certificates in American Studies and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, Jill also researches and writes about Composition & Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities.