I have been extremely lucky to teach gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, and composition at a variety of wonderful institutions, including Colby College, Queens College, CUNY, Marymount Manhattan College, Georgetown University, and the University of Southern Maine. Before entering academia, I was an English teacher and specialist in academic interventions for struggling students at a public high school in Brooklyn, New York.
Read some of my writing about teaching here. Read an article about my pedagogical approach to free speech and trigger warnings here.
teaching interests
Transhistorical representations of sexual violence, global literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history and development of the novel, philosophy of literature, law and literature, and composition and rhetoric (all levels).
Sample Syllabi
An introductory writing class on the topic of “Women in (and out of) Love”
An upper-level course on the eighteenth-century British novel, entitled “Battle of the Sexes”
Contact me at espampinato@gradcenter.cuny.edu for more information about my teaching.
Image Description: Abstract painting by Philip Guston. Personal Photo. On view at the Smith College Museum of Art.