Faculty Development Groups

Facilitated by Amy Karp (English)

Embracing LGBTQIA+ Identities & Studies in the Classroom strives to provide an open and safe forum for faculty to discuss texts exploring LGBTQIA+ experiences in the classroom and how tools garnered from these texts can be used in applicable ways at our college to create an even more welcoming and inclusive space for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff.

Learning Goals/Outcomes:

Through participation in this faculty development group and engagement with both the materials and group discussion participants will hopefully find both a safe space to talk about LGBTQIA+ experience at Kingsborough as well as garner new or more tools for approaching LGBTQIA+ students and studies in the classroom. Further, these tools may also be applied in everyday interactions throughout Kingsborough in how LGBTQIA+ identity is framed, encountered, and received. Lastly, this group aims to contribute to furthering LGBTQIA+ inclusiveness at KBCC and also creating more LGBTQIA+ spaces.

Download Embracing LGBTQIA+ Identities & Studies in the Classroom (Faculty Learning Community)) Poster (PDF)

Meetings:

Wednesday, April 2: 2:00pm
Tuesday, April 29th: 2:00pm
Tuesday, May 13th: 2:00pm
Tuesday, May 27th: 2:00pm

All meetings will be held through Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89522019163?pwd=7LYVJebsdcfXn5xtmZNGaH66Aax8OQ.1

 

About the facilitators Professor Amy Tziporah Karp

Amy Tziporah Karp is an Associate Professor of English who specializes in Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Creative Writing. Particularly, her work focuses on the possibilities of the stranger identity as site of resistance to the ways in which assimilation imperatives haunt othered and estranged peoples. In her book Queer Jewish Strangers in American Popular Culture: Life Between Assimilation and Otherness (2024) and journal articles such as “Sarah Schulman’s Empathy, Ties that Bind, and the Possibilities of the Stranger,”and "Jenny Schecter and the Strange Case of the Present Absent Jewish American Woman on the Queer Screen: The Ghostly Failures of Jewish American Assimilation" Karp attempts to unearth what we can learn from those who are are punished for their inability to assimilate and how we might, instead, see them as role models for a future beyond the demands and violences of assimilation imperatives. Karp’s poetry can also be found in journals such as The Quint, Sinister Wisdom, The Brooklyn Review.

For more information or to join our group please contact Amy (Amy.Karp@kbcc.cuny.edu)