New Faculty: Dr. Tina M. Iemma

Dr. Tina M. Iemma is an Assistant Professor of English. She received her B.A. in English from Plattsburgh State College, SUNY, and both a M.A. and Ph.D. in English from St. John’s University. While at St. John’s University, she acquired writing program administrative experience serving as Interim Assistant Director of their University Writing Center and as Assistant Director of Writing Across Communities. These experiences compliment her 22 years of 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 Romanticism Collective (@Bigger6Romantix). Her dissertation, “Rhetoric of Collaboration: Using Ethics of Social Justice and Activism through Writing Communities,” was defended in 2021 and is a qualitative project exploring the ways activist writers, within both literary studies and writing studies, participate in collective dialogic literacies to influence an ethics of collaboration and overall expansion of more public facing, engaged and inclusive research, pedagogy, and scholarship. Both her research and professional commitments are situated in the fields writing center studies, writing across curriculum, writing in the disciplines and the field of writing studies, specifically rhetorical education within social justice-seeking writing communities. Her publications can be found in Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations and various peer-reviewed journals.