This page lists TLC Fellows who have moved on from the program. To see current members of the Teaching & Learning Collaboratory, visit this page.
If you’re a TLC Alum and you’d like your profile added, updated, or removed, please contact Joseph Pentangelo.
Andrés Orejuela
Andrés Orejuela is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation examines techniques in early modern psychology and their overlap with rhetorical and aesthetic theories of the period as they form a basis for the developing idea of interiority in 17th-century English, French, and Spanish literatures. He is interested in poetic and rhetorical theories, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.
denisse andrade
denisse andrade is a PhD candidate in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focuses on the poetics and politics of land, specifically looking at the Black Radical movements in the 60s and 70s. denisse is an educator with experience teaching in institutional and community-based settings. She has held teaching positions at Hunter College, City College, John Jay, as well as in Barnard College, and Pratt Institute, where she currently teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies and Social Science.
Gwen Shaw
I’m in the art history program at the GC, and have worked at Baruch, Brooklyn, and Macaulay Central. I can help with brainstorming ideas for projects or final papers, finding the right tool (digital or analog) for the task, and helping the student and faculty experience reach its potential in the classroom and beyond. In addition to the PhD, I’ve earned doctoral certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies, American Studies, Africana Studies, Critical Theory, and Film Studies. I have experience teaching art history, from survey to non-Western art, American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies.
Liza Shapiro
Liza is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature. Her dissertation focuses on the androgynous poetics, disgust, and new forms of female embodiment in British and Russian modernism. Liza has taught composition, literature, and language courses at the English and Slavic department at Hunter College. She has also worked as a writing fellow at Queensborough Community College and is currently a writing consultant to social work Ph.D students at Yeshiva University. Her work appears in MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture. Liza lives in Queens with two cats and one other human.
