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Faculty Page for Beverly-Lynne Aronowitz, Associate Professor, English
Professional Background
An Associate Professor in English, Ms. Aronowitz has been teaching at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College since 1990. She teaches Preparing for College English, College Composition I and II, and Technical Writing. With a colleague, supported by a VCCS grant, she re-developed and team-taught English 115, Technical Writing, as a course supported with computer applications. Some years back, with another colleague, she developed and team-taught "Women in Literature: Multicultural Perspectives." Ms. Aronowitz sometimes teaches alone but often with colleagues. She believes that course development and team-teaching benefits both students and teachers.
Ms. Aronowitz began her career in 1979, teaching mainly at Monmouth University in New Jersey. From that time, she developed an interest in working-class literature and in the theory and practice of cultural studies. At Monmouth University, she taught writing intensive courses based on literature; she developed and taught courses on African-American literature, "The Harlem Renaissance," and "Literature by and About Women." She also developed and taught an Honors Seminar, "Literature on Topics of Public Health and Medical Ethics." Since 1997 electronic technology has been informing Ms.Aronowitz’s pedagogy, especially the Internet, email, and the Blackboard platform.
Prof. Aronowitz holds three Master's degrees: British Literature, with a concentration
in 17th Century, dramatic literature, from Rutgers University (1975), Queens
College (1995), and an M.Phi. from the Graduate Center, City University of New
York (1997). At The Graduate Center, her concentration was rhetoric &
composition, studying the post-modern classroom and investigating the ideas of
"newness" in teaching and learning.
In addition, her interests and academic preparation in American literature and American studies are strong, including seminars she took in these areas at The Graduate Center, CUNY, during educational leave from the college, 1995-1996. She also holds a certificate in Teaching Technical Writing from the Institute of Technical Writing (1990) of the Southeastern Two-Year College Association. During her years at JSRCC, she has become focused on teaching writing and how the theory and practice of rhetoric and composition have connections with a democratic classroom in a democratic society.
Since 1984, Prof. Aronowitz has published nearly two-dozen articles in professional journals (regional, state, and national) on teaching issues, writing, and literature. She has also presented numerous papers at professional conferences, national, regional, and state. At this college, from 1990 to 1993, she served as a campus facilitator for Project International Emphasis for the VCCS. She also served as English liaison for the Liberal Arts/Transfer Assessment team in the VCCS, 1993-1995. She has served as a Trustee in The New Jersey College English Association (1988-1990) and holds membership in the major professional associations connected to her interests.
Merging Personal and Professional Life
"I consider my experience close to those of my students--working-class adults, renewing their education at the community college. My personal and professional life are closely connected: I began college, part-time, in 1964 at The University of Pennsylvania, earning the B.A. a decade later in a double major, French and English Literature, at Hunter College, CUNY, in 1972. My Master's degree in English at Rutgers University, 1975, was fully supported by a merit scholarship. In 1995, I renewed my graduate studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Students and I structure the classroom through a "power-sharing" project connected to a "Classroom Committee." My critical, democratic pedagogy encourages a phenomenal classroom where students interact through a process of talking, listening, writing, thinking, sharing. Activities emerge from current productions evolving into future writing projects. My classroom encourages students to voice multiple perspectives--thus we are 'multicultural,' and what we produce is 'newness.'"
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Resume updated August 15, 2008
Going Public in English 111 & English 112 (Reynolds' Faculty Development Academy Grant)
Project Overview
and Outcomes
How to Construct a Powerpoint
How to Construct a Powerpoint
(Camtasia)
How to adapt an
essay into a PowerPoint
How
to narrate a PowerPoint with Voiceover
Guidelines for Peer Review
Student Sample:
PowerPoint based on a Researched Essay English 112