Carrie Holligan - English Department

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Education

• M.A., State University of New York at New Paltz, English Literature (2005)
• B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz, English Literature and Creative Writing (2003)
• National University of Ireland at Galway

Classes Taught

• Expository Writing, Oral Communication, and Research Techniques (ENG 105)
• Texts and Contexts: Therapeutic Writing and Literature (ENG 106)
• Humanities Seminar: Language and the Self (taught @ Sage College of Albany)
• Humanities Seminar: Language and Community (taught @ Sage College of Albany)
• Technical Writing (taught @ Sage College of Albany)
• Freshman Composition I: Life Writing (taught @ SUNY New Paltz)
• Freshman Composition II: The Therapeutic Benefits of Expressive Writing (taught @ SUNY New Paltz)

Spring 2009 Course Taught @ St. Rose

• Monday & Wednesday 10:25-11:40
• Friday 10:25-11:20

Office Location

Spring 2009 Office Hours

Publications

• Teaching apparatus for Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, 2006.
• “Textual Trauma: The After-Affects of Studying Holocaust Literature.” New York College English Association Conference: “Resistance to Tyranny: Representing the Struggle for Human Rights in Literature,” April 2006.
• “An Interrupted Writer: Etty Hillesum and the Power of Expressive Journaling.” Masters Thesis, December 2005.
• “Charting the Way to Clarity: Psychology and the Therapeutic Writing Classroom.” New York College English Association Conference: “Cartographies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language and Literature,” April 2005.
• “Giving Sorrow Words: The Therapeutic Benefits of Expressive Writing and the Composition Classroom.” State University of New York at Stony Brook English Graduate Conference, February 2005.
• “The Importance of Witnessing: Reading Holocaust Literature.” State University of New York at New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts Conference: “Arts Now, Sites of Conflict: Art in a Culture of Violence,” September 2001.