Joshua Cabat

Director, English Teacher Education

MA, English Literature
University of Chicago

Josh Cabat has served as Director of English Teacher Education at Stony Brook since 2022, and has taught there since 2018. Until his retirement in June of 2022, he held the position of Chair of English Grades 6-12 for the Roslyn (NY) Public Schools. For the preceding decade, he taught English and Film Studies at Roslyn High School in Roslyn. Previously, he taught in the New York City public high schools for over a decade.

He served on both the National Council of Teachers of English Secondary Steering Committee and the Teacher Advisory Council of the National Humanities Center. He was a founding member of the Folger Shakespeare Library National Teacher Corps, and for nine years was the Teaching Artist for the Young Film Critics program at BAM. He is the co-founder of the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival and the North Shore Student Shakespeare Festival, and is a founding member of Doc Academy, an organization devoted to bringing documentary films into the secondary classroom. He has been a featured speaker at many national conferences, and has published articles on Shakespeare and on film in publications such as the English Journal. He earned an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Columbia University, both in English Literature.

Office: 2088 Humanities Building
Email:Joshua.Cabat@stonybrook.edu