Humanities and Justice Faculty
Erica Burleigh is an assistant professor in the English Department. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins, and taught at Gettysburg College before arriving at John Jay. Her professional interests include earlier American literature, the transatlantic eighteenth century, American studies, maritime studies, law and literature, women's studies, Barbary captivity narratives, and pirates.
Professor Carbonell received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American literature at New York University. Her research and teaching interests include: the relationship between narration and ethics in the representation of American history; narratives of conquest, resistance and transcendence; cultural activism through literature and other art forms; and museums and American culture. She published Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (Blackwell Publishing) in 2004 and is now working on a book-length study of ethical inquiry in the American novel.
Mary Gibson’s research focuses on the history of crime, criminology, women, and sexuality in modern Italy. Her publications include Prostitution and the State in Italy (1986) and Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology (2002). She has translated, with Nicole Hahn Rafter, the two major works of Lombroso: Criminal Man (2006) and Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman (2004). At John Jay College she offers courses on the history of crime and punishment in Europe, women and crime, and comparative criminology as well as required courses in the Justice Studies major. She also teaches in the History Program and the Criminal Justice Program at the Graduate Center of CUNY.
Ann A. Huse, Assistant Professor of English, received her BA at Amherst College and her MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, where she benefited from a literature and history program. With a specialty in British and Anglo-Irish seventeenth-century literature, she has published articles on Dryden's French mistress in The Huntington Library Quarterly and a chapter on the Earl of Rochester's poetry about "the French pox" (syphilis) in Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (Brill, 2005). She has two forthcoming essays on Katherine Philips, the Anglo-Welsh poet and translator who was the most widely admired woman writer of the century; in addition, she is currently at work on a book about early modern British poets as French teachers. She also holds a credential for teaching English and social studies at the secondary level and has won several teaching awards, including a citation in Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2005). Her other academic interests include World War I and the Vietnam War, Graham Greene and the literature of espionage, the colonial Americas, historical fiction for young adults, and Midwestern writers such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Twain. At John Jay, she teaches writing-intensive sections of "Classical Literature" and "Medieval and Early Modern Literature," as well as "Gender in the Western Literary Traditions," "Reading and Writing Children's Literature," an Independent Study on "Women's Literary History," and the introductory course for the Justice Studies major.
Allison Kavey received her PhD from the Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University in 2004. She entered the History Department at CUNY John Jay in 2005, having previously taught at Gonzaga University, Drexler University, and The Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include early modern natural philosophy, print history, historical constructions of gender, sexuality, and desire, and ideas about memory, imagination, and belief in occult philosophy. Her first book, Worlds of Secrets , will be released by the University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2006, and she has an essay on the mutability of gender and sexuality in seventeenth century English alchemical texts in an edition released by Routledge and edited by Kenneth Borris (McGill University). She is currently working on two new projects: a book on the place of desire and imagination in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and a collection of essays she is editing with Lester Friedman (Hobart William Smith College, Department of Media Studies) about the cultural appropriation and meanings of Peter Pan . The latter is under contract with Rutgers University Press. Her teaching interests emphasize her belief in the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities. She has offered surveys on world, western, and American history, and seminars on the history of modern medicine, the history of the scientific revolution, and gender, knowledge, and power in popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present.
Kyoo Lee, currently a Resident Mellon Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay, CUNY, where she is also affiliated faculty for the Justice Studies and Gender Studies Programs; as of Fall 2010, she will also teach for the Women’s Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center. With a dual doctoral training in Continental philosophy and literary theory, she writes in the intersecting fields of aesthetics, Asian American studies, comparative literature/philosophy, Continental philosophy, gender studies, poetics, post-phenomenology and translation. Her articles have appeared in Angelaki, the Comparatist, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Thought, How to Talk to Photography, Mythos and Logos, A New Kind of Containment, Parallax, Philosophical Writings, Poetry Review, Race and Nationalism Reader, SOAS Literary Review and Social Identities; some of the forthcoming pieces concern Asian American irony, Descartes & Princess Elizabeth, and a phenomenological reading of Xuanpin (the dark female animal) in Daodejing. Presently, while finishing a book on Cartesian alterity, she is working on a project on familial alterity.
Amie Macdonald is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College/City University of New York. Her research, scholarship, and teaching are focused on issues of racial democracy and gender justice in higher education. Professor Macdonald is a member of the Coordinating Team of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project - a consortium of scholars and academic institutions with a primary interest in minority identity, education, and social transformation (http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu/index.htm). She is the co-editor (with Susan Sanchez-Casal) of 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (NY: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2002).
Andrew Majeske, associate professor of English, received his doctorate from the University of California Davis, where he specialized in the intersection of law and literature in the English Renaissance. He also holds a law degree from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Masters degree in literature from Duquesne University. He was a practicing attorney from 1986 to 1997, first in Chicago, and later in Pittsburgh. In 2006 his book entitled Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser was published by Routledge Press. He is currently coediting a book of essays on legal issues in English Renaissance Drama, in which his essay on Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" will appear. He teaches the early literature survey course, and is on tap to teach Shakespeare, and various law and literature offerings. Those students interested in going on to law school will be interested to know that in addition to his experience practicing law and teaching, he spent two years as one of the writers of the LSAT, and he has taught legal writing and appellate advocacy at the law school level.
Dr. David Munns comes to Justice Studies from the History Department. He works on a wide variety of topics related to Global History, international technological transfer, and is especially interested in the formation of systems of knowledge and their justification. His recent project concerns issues related to the scientific and technological basis of global food provision, and the social justice related to the tension between global human rights and the law of the nation state. His next article will appear in the peer-reviewed journal 'British Scholar' vol. 3 (2010), entitled: "Controlling the Environment: the Australian phytotron, the Colombo Plan, and postcolonial science".
My scholarly interests are quite broad; my philosophical orientation could be termed historical and humanist. My publications have been on African American philosophy and also on Marxism. An anthology I edited, African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions appeared in 1997. The Blackwell Companion to African-American Philosophy , which I coedited with Prof. Tommy Lott, appeared in 2003. My most recent publication is "Y'all Niggaz Better Recognize": Hip Hop's Dialectical Struggle for Recognition," in Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason , edited by Derrick Darby and Tommie Shelby (Chicago: Open Court, 2005).I enjoy teaching in the Justice Studies program and what used to be called the Thematic Studies program (now Interdisciplinary Studies), as well as in the Department of Art, Music, & Philosophy. I'm a CUNY PhD, awarded in 1989 for a dissertation on Marx's Capital and Ethical Theory . Before that I did a BA at CCNY in maths (I started in physics, but balked at all the lab work). I attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School when it was just "Music & Art," perched atop Harlem at 135th street. My mother is proud of my public education; so am I.
Philosophy courses I have taught that are part of the Justice Studies disciplinary (Part II) courses are PHI 310: Ethics and Law, PHI 326: Main Currents of Modern Thought, and PHI 340: Utopian Thought.
Margaret Tabb,Chair of English, received her MA and PhD at the Universities of Toronto and Connecticut respectively, specializing in Renaissance English literature. Her research involves early modern literature and gender. Her recent publications include an edition of Juan Luis Vives's The Instruction of a Christen Woman (University of Illinois Press, 2003), a sixteenth-century best-selling conduct book for women. She also co-edited a book of essays, Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women (Associated University Presses, 2003) and published "Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances" in Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide (Praeger Publishers, 2005). She is currently working on a study of gender in Hamlet . Along with a variety of required courses, she teaches a Shakespeare course featuring traditional textual analysis along with performance readings of plays by students. She also teaches the Justice Studies core courses and advises students who are writing senior theses on the early modern period.
Professor Tung received her MA and PhD from Columbia University, respectively, in Comparative Early Modern and Medieval Literature. Her specialty is French and German Medieval Romances. Her 2005 dissertation, on Chrétien de Troyes, is the basis for a book project, and her other research interests include Augustine, 12th century historian-theologians, and Latin influences. Before coming to John Jay, she taught at New Jersey City University and worked for more than a decade at a top-tier New York law firm, where she did legal editing and research. At John Jay, she is committed to the pre-law programs and has a strong interest in developing law and literature, and other interdisciplinary, courses. With a global orientation, she has done extensive research in medieval Indian and Tibetan literature, and has written and lectured on a seminal 14th century Buddhist philosopher. After studying with Buddhist scholars, she published a translation of a Tibetan verse biography of an 8th century saint and is now collaborating on a verse and prose translation of the biography of a contemporary spiritual teacher.
