Mike Bonet I received my MAT in ’11 and I have a BA from ’04. I am a high school English teacher at Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy in the Bronx where I teach senior English and a Film Production class. This is my third year of teaching at the high school level. Previously, I spent 3 semesters at Mount Saint Mary College as an adjunct professor of College Writing (ENG101) and Forms of Literature (ENG102).
Kevin Cavanaugh (MA 2002; PhD, Curriculum and Instruction, UAlbany, 2015) was recently promoted to Full Professor of English and Humanities at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He will also take on the role of Faculty Assessment Leader beginning with the Fall 2019 semester.
Jesse Cersosimo (BA 20009, MA 2011, and MAT 2014) is currently teaching secondary English at Darien High School in Connecticut. He is recently married and expecting his first child in June.
Jeffrey Clark I am the Visiting Teaching Associate of English at Marist College for the past two academic years. I am also the Coordinator of Student Academic Persistence at Dutchess Community College’s Writing Center.
Brian James I am a High School English Teacher at Middletown High School, where I’m in my fourth year at the district. I’m certified through Syracuse University’s Project Advance to teach dual-enrollment classes for college credit at the high school, including College Writing, Class and Literary Texts, and College Learning Strategies. I was also previously an adjunct through SUNY Orange.
Jason Letts (MA 2008) was part of the vanguard of breakout self-publishing stars shortly after Amazon released the Kindle e-reader. In addition to his writing, he founded the ebook advertising platform BookSends, which has become a leader in the industry, working with large publishers like Random House and Simon & Schuster as well as tens of thousands of independent and small press authors to promote their books. Taken by itself, the sales generated by BookSends on a daily basis would put it in the top 1% of bookstores across the country. In his spare time, he’s been working to clean up contaminated and distressed land in his hometown of Saratoga Springs.
Jason Michael I am the territory development manager at Craft NY for Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties. This is my third year with the company expanding our business in the lower territories and working with niche, specialty brands. Previously, I was a brand ambassador for Angry Orchard and an adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz and Marist College.
Ryan James McGuckin (MA 2013) will begin a full-time instructorship at Southern University for 2019–20. In February, he defended his dissertation, “Extreme Measures: Music and the Making of the New Woman” (directed by Benjamin Kahan). In May, he earns his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. In October, at the Modernist Studies Association, he plans to present on irony and racial appropriation in James Weldon Johnson’s musical fiction. Forthcoming from the journal Affirmations: of the modern will be his essay on rhythm, race, and historical poetics in response to Helen Rydstrand’s Rhythmic Modernisms. For 2019–20, an article for the Journal of Modern Literature is in preparation, which is based on his book project manuscript that theorizes how modernist novels represent female musicality to promote a musical style of reading character interiority.
Stephen Sobierajski I am Associate Director of Admissions at the CIA, where I am responsible for the recruitment of international and non-traditional students. I have been here since October 2016. I live in Kingston with my wife, Ashley, and son, Silas.
Kelly Tempest (MA 2011) started teaching high school English at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA this year. Prior to that, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Morocco and then spent 5 years teaching English and chairing the English department at CATS Academy, a boarding school for international high school students in the Boston area.
Goretti Vianney-Benca (MA 2007) has been granted tenure at SUNY ULSTER. In addition to her faculty position in the English Department, Goretti is the Director of Ulster’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
