Gillian Paku received her PhD from Harvard University and began teaching at SUNY Geneseo in 2008. She teaches courses primarily in 18th-century literature and literary disability studies, and has recently published articles for Oxford University Press Handbooks Online and Eighteenth-Century Life. She received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013, the 2012-2013 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Innovative Course Design Prize, the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Community Contribution Award in 2011, and a Folger Institute / American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship in 2008.
Paku co-coordinates Geneseo’s First-Year Critical Writing and Thinking Program, INTD 105, and chairs the working group on an antiracist writing curriculum. She is the director of the Geneseo Writing Learning Center as well as the faculty sponsor for Geneseo’s chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.
Classes
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ENGL 427: Lit Representations-Disability
A study of selected works seen within the context of disability studies. Prerequisites: ENGL 203 or permission of instructor.
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INTD 106: Conventions of College Writing
This asynchronous self-directed course introduces first-year students to the principles of standard English in a format that allows them to proceed at their own pace through the material and to understand themselves as active participants in their own learning. The course's content describes directly the key rhetorical and academic concepts that shape successful college writing. This course includes information and suggestions about online learning, and contextualizes effective writing skills as foundational to a public liberal arts education.