Diana Epelbaum
Title
Director, Academic Writing ProgramAssistant Professor of Academic Writing
Department
Academic WritingPhone
646-393-4112About
Diana Epelbaum is Assistant Professor of Academic Writing and Director of the Writing Program at Marymount Manhattan College. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary, bridging Writing and Rhetoric Studies, Early American Literature, and History of Science. Her current book project, entitled Empire and Ecology: Gender and Place in Women’s Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688-1808, recovers seventeenth and eighteenth-century women naturalists who disrupted imperial modes of knowledge production in order to arrive at alternate visions of the Americas. She has given numerous talks within her research interests, and has published in the fields of education and American literature.
Before joining Marymount’s faculty, Dr. Epelbaum taught at several institutions, including the College of Staten Island, Bloomfield College, Miami-Dade College, and Florida International University. She is a reading specialist and educator trained in a balanced literacy approach, and has spent fifteen years in deep engagement—both in and out of the classroom—with best practices in writing, reading, and thinking pedagogies. In 2009, she was nominated by a student scholar and awarded The New York Times “Teachers Who Make a Difference Award,” for teaching excellence.
Degree(s)
Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
M.S., Literacy Education, Pace University
B.A., English and American Literature, New York University
Recent Work
“‘Little Atlas’: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam.” Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Women Travelers, Ed. Misty Krueger (forthcoming, Bucknell U.P., 2021).
“Knowing Emotion: College Initiation and Self-Confrontation in the ‘Meta’ Writing Classroom.” Preserving Emotion in Student Writing, Ed. Craig Wynne (forthcoming, Peter Lang, 2021).
“Pioneering Kate Chopin’s Feminism: Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons as Patchwork Precursor to The Awakening,” Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches, Ed. Heather Ostman and Kate O’Donoghue. Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
“Multiple Intelligence Assessments Give Insight Into Reading Comprehension Difficulties and Potential,” The International Journal of Learning 14.5 (2007): 243-252.
Research
Diana Epelbaum’s research interests include pedagogy, writing and rhetoric studies, early American literature and cultural history, women’s studies, cultures of Enlightenment science, and the history of science.
Teaching
Fall 2020:
Writ 101: Writing about Writing (linked with NYC Seminar)
AIP 324: Race and Place in Natural Histories of the Americas (CHP)
Fall 2019:
Writ 101: Writing about Writing (QUEST)
AIP 324: Race and Place in Natural Histories of the Americas
Spring 2019:
Writ 102: Writing and Writing
Fall 2018:
Writ 201: Writing About Writing
Spring 2018:
Writ 101: Critical Intersections: Identity in America
Writ 011: Writing Lab
Fall 2017:
Writ 010: Effective Thinking
Spring 2017:
Writ 102: Genres of Discovery
Writ 010: Effective Thinking
Fall 2016:
Writ 101: American Rhetorics, from Early Nationhood to Today
Writ 011: Writing Lab
Professional Experience
CCCCs Writing about Writing Standing Group, Faculty Consultant
XChanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum, Review Board
Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, Review Board