John F. Sorrentino is a PhD Candidate in French Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation title is Gide in the First Person: The ‘I’ of Religion and Same-Sex Sexuality. Publications include “Portrait of a Giant” in the French Interdisciplinary (Vishma Press 2002) as well as what hopes to be a forthcoming article in the Bulletin des amis d’André Gide entitled “Imagining Madeleine.” Interdisciplinary work includes writing and instructional technology pedagogy, through which he developed an online Art History Course that is now part of the charter curriculum for the new CUNY Online Baccalaureate. He has taught French Language courses at Hunter and York Colleges, was a Writing Fellow at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, and a University Research Foundation Fellow in the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs.
After working for three years at Brooklyn College as an Instructional Technology Fellow for the Macaulay Honors College, he joined the Macaulay central team as a Senior IT Fellow and Multimedia/Technology Associate.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Gide Studies
- 19th and Early 20th Century French Novel
- Queer, Gender and Race Studies
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Instructional Technology; Writing Across the Curriculum & Writing in the Disciplines; Foreign Language Acquisition)
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- CUNY Senior Instructional Technology Fellow: Macaulay Honors College 2009-Present
- CUNY Instructional Technology Fellow: Macaulay Honors College/Brooklyn College, 2006- 2009
- CUNY Writing Fellow: Hostos Community College of CUNY, 2003-2005 Graduate Teaching Fellow: York College of CUNY, 2002-2003
- René Taupin Fellowship, Hunter College of CUNY, 2000: Provided for four month stay in Paris for master’s thesis research
- Henri Peyre French Institute Fellowship, a two-year fellowship for outstanding entering students, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 2000-2001
- Member of Pi Delta Phi: French Honor Society, Montclair State University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Association des Amis d’André Gide (AAAG; Gide Studies)