Dr. Maryanne Vent
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-6928
Office: Science Building, Room 303
Email: maryanne.vent@sunywcc.edu
Title: Professor
Department/Division: English Dept.
Degree Information:
- Fordham University, Ph.D. in English
Courses Taught:
- Writing and Research
- Writing for College
- Short Story
Honors and Awards:
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- WCC Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching
- CUNY-Mellon Fellowship in “Arts and Society”
- Sears Fellowship in College Teaching and Academic Leadership, Teachers College/WCC Partnership.
Publications and Presentations:
- “The Fall of Man and the Poetry of Love in Paradise Lost,” Division on the Literature of the English Renaissance, MLA Convention, Los Angeles;
- “Images of the Italian American Male in Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete,” American Italian Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
- “The Arthurian Revival in England, 1859-69,” Mid-Hudson MLA.
- “A Preface to the Research Paper: The Student Seminar Approach to Literature.” Insight.
- “A Passage to Fiction: Using Non-Fiction in the Literature Elective,” Alternative Approaches to Teaching Literature, Northeast Regional Conference for English in the Two-Year College.
- “An American Humorist: James Thurber.” Yonkers Public Library.
- “History as Literature: A Study of Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete, CUNY Graduate Center.
Institution Service or Academic Service:
- Adjunct Coordinator for the English Department
- English Studies Committee
- Search and Screen Committee for English Faculty (8 searches)
- Chair and member
- Central Committee
- Chair and member
- Senate Personnel Policies Committee
- Faculty Senate; Transparency Committee (WCCFT)
- Adjunct Faculty Advisory Council
- Search and Screen Committee, Modern Languages Dept.