Scott Zaluda
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-6909
Office location: Science Bldg. Room 308
Email: scott.zaluda@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Associate Professor
Department/Division: English
Degree Information:
Ph.D., English Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
Courses Taught:
Holocaust Studies, Contemporary Global Literature, African American Literature, Writing & Research, Writing & Literature
Honors and Awards:
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Humanities grant
- Con-Edison Power of Green grant
Publications and Presentations:
- “Theater and Community: The Significance of Howard University’s 1920s Drama Program” (Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theater of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity, Praeger)
- “Lost Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Writing Assigned at Howard University, 1919-31” (College Composition and Communication)
- “The Secrets of Fraternity: Men and Friendship in Sister Carrie” (Theodore Dreiser, Beyond Naturalism, New York University Press)
- “Sophisticated Essay: Billie Holiday and the Generation of Form and Idea” (College Composition and Communication)
Institution Service or Academic Service:
- Co-Director, Foundations of Excellence Self-Study,
- Founder, First-Year Experience Initiative
- Co-Director, Between River and Sound, a 3-year staff development learning community on sustainability at WCC
- WCCFT Executive Board
- Founding Chair, WCC Sustainability Committee
- Director, Poets & Writers series
- Director, Great Books Forum
- English Department Chair (Interim)
- English Department Asst. Chair