Licastro, Amanda
Title(s):
Instructional Technology Fellow
Email:
alicastro@gc.cuny.edu
Institutional Affiliations: Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, Macaulay Honors College
Research Interests: Composition & Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, Textual Studies
Amanda Licastro received her BA in English and Creative Writing with a minor in Italian from Loyola College (now University) in Maryland, and an MA in English with a certificate in teaching in two-year colleges from DePaul University in Chicago. She has worked as an adjunct professor in both northeastern Pennsylvania and New York. Amanda is currently working on her dissertation, “Excavating Eportfolios: Digging into a Decade of Student-Driven Data,” in English Program at the Graduate Center and completed her certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy through an independent study involving her work on the Writing Studies Tree (writingstudiestree.org). This year Amanda is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Baruch College, as well as an editor of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/), the former co-chair of the Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Group (https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-comp-rhet-area-group/), and a member of the Digital Humanities Initiative team (https://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/).
