Bio

Dr. Tina M. Iemma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and World Languages at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. She received her BA in English from Plattsburgh State College, SUNY, and both an MA and PhD in English from St. John’s University. Across 26 years, she has acquired extensive writing program administrative experience and teaching experience in the composition and literature classrooms within both secondary and post-secondary education. Tina is also one of the founding members of the Bigger6 Collective. Her professional commitments are situated within writing across communities, equity and social justice seeking pedagogy, and community and dialogic literacies. Her publications can be found in College English, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations, and other peer-reviewed journals.