Carolyn A. Sofia

Job Title: Full-Time Lecturer

Phone: (631) 632-4213

E-mail: csofia@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Office Location: H-2102

Office Hours

Education: M.S.W., Adelphi University, 1976; Ph.D. (ABD) in English, Stony Brook University.

Courses Taught (Stony Brook University):

• Topics in Composition and Writing Seminar (WRT 614): Material Sciences 
• Writing in the Disciplines: Business Writing Intermediate Writing Workshop (WRT 201)
• Intermediate Writing Workshop (WRT 102)
• Introductory Writing Workshop (WRT 101)

Professional Interests: Composition and Rhetoric; Creative Nonfiction; 19th and 20th Century American Fiction; Business Writing.

Presentations:

• SUNY Council on Writing, Stony Brook University, "Terms of Engagement: Writing Without a Map," a paper presented on metaphors in teaching practice (April, 2008).
  
  
• Faculty Discussion Group Leader, Stony Brook University. "Teaching Students with Disabilities." (March, 2007).
  
  
• Faculty Discussion Group Leader, Stony Brook University. "Bloom's Taxonomy in the Writing Classroom." (October, 2003).
  
  
• Faculty Advisor/Lecturer, Long Island Center for Jewish Studies, 1993-1997.

Publications and Awards:

• Sofia, Carolyn. "Daphne Merkin." Contemporary Jewish American Authors. Ed. Michael Taub. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
  
  
• Kessner, Carole S. and Carolyn Sofia. "Selected Bibliography of Literary Criticism on American Jewish Fiction and Authors." Jewish Book Annual (vol. 50). NY: Jewish Book Council, 1992.
  
  
• Sofia, Carolyn. "After a Talking Cure That Didn't." (Poetry) Finalist 2005. Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society. Stony Brook Univeristy Health Sciences Center.
  
  
• President's Award for Teaching Excellence/Graduate Student Award; SUNY/ Stony Brook, 1995.