CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Clifford Darrow Stetner

150 West 96th Street (9F)

New York, N. Y. 10025

(212) 678-8777

cstetner@phoenixandturtle.net

http://phoenixandturtle.net

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Jan 1999—2003 CW Post College, Brookville, LI

 

Taught two to four sections per semester English I and II

Taught course in World Literature

Taught courses in Study Strategies

Hutton House Lecture Series: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Hutton House Lecture Series: Cult of Elizabeth

Web sites for all courses

 

Sep 2001—Jan 2002 Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

 

Taught Shakespeare Survey course

 

Jan 1997-May 1999 York College, Jamaica, NY

 

Graduate Teaching Fellowship: two sections Academic Computing per semester

 

Sep 1996-Jan 1997 LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY

 

Taught English I

 

Sep 1996-May 1999 CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

 

Ran workshop for ESL Graduate students in writing techniques

“E-tutor” assisting CUNY professors with student essays

Scribe for deaf student

Reader/Scribe for blind student

 

Sep 1995--Sep 1996 Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY

 

Student Teacher: Ninth Grade English class

 

1995 University Settlement

 

ESL tutor for high school students

 

1992-1993 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY

           

Tutor: Writing Center

Tutor: Core Classics

 

EDUCATION

 

City University of New York Ph.D. (exp.) 2006 English Dissertation Title:

“Shakespeare’s Historicism and The Phoenix and the Turtle”

Advisors: Mario Digangi, Jaqueline DiSalvo, Steven Kruger—English Dep’t.

City University of New York Certificate (exp.) 2006 Renaissance Studies

City University of New York M.Phil. 2001 English

Queens College MA 1999 English

Brooklyn College BA 1996 English/Secondary Ed

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"The Tapster's Tale of Mardux and the Snake." Spenser Review 35.2 (Summer 2004) 2-4 (poem).

Major contributor to Unconfirmed Sources: Best of 2004. Cafe Press, 2005 (political satire).

 

HONORS

 

Summa Cum Laude

Phi Bet Kappa

Departmental Honors—English

Golden Key Honor Society

Dean’s List

Spenser Review Stanza Contest Book Prize

Goodman Shakespeare Scholarship at University College of London

Hecht Poetry Explication Award

Coleman Literary Criticism Award

Hintz Philosophy Essay Prize

GRE: 99th percentile

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2004 "Shakespeare's Shrieking Harbinger: Genre and History in The Phoenix and Turtle." WVSARA Huntington WV.

2003 Chaired CUNY Graduate Conference: “Writing at War”

            Paper: “Williams’ Glove: Henry V ‘s Challenge to Imperialism”

1999 “Lions, Wolves and Bears, Oh My: The Rhetoric of Torture in Nietzsche’s Genealogy and Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale.”  CUNY Graduate Conference

 

COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH

 

Composition I & II

Shakespeare

Chaucer

English Literature, Drama, and Poetry from Beowulf to Milton

Contemporary Literary Theory

World Literature to the Renaissance

Mythology

 

SOCIETIES

 

Modern Language Association

CUNY Renaissance Studies Certificate Program 

 

RELATED SKILLS

 

Web site development: MS FrontPage/ Adobe GoLive

Windows Basic programming

Database maintenance: MS Access

Languages: French, Old English, Latin

Dossier:          English Dep’t

          CUNY Graduate Center (4409)

          365 Fifth Ave.

                      New York, NY 10016