Hello!

As the Fall semester is now upon us, I wanted to send quick welcome back to one and all. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Gavin Hollis and I am subbing in for Jeff Allred this academic year as Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Part of my duties involve maintaining and updating this site, LitHub@Hunter. LitHub@Hunter is a site for faculty in the Hunter English department and a hub (as the name implies) for instructors of a range of multi-section courses. Instructors of those courses–at present, ENGL 252, 280, 285, 304, 306, 307, 320–have private “groups” devoted to their particular courses. Those groups have listserv functionality to allow discussion targeted to those courses, as well as repositories of syllabi and other helpful documents for instructors of those courses.

If you’re not a member of a group whose course you teach, contact me ([email protected]), and I’ll add you.

Part of my duties also involves facilitating meetings across the academic year designed for instructors to come together and discuss (and sometimes disagree on!) matters to do with pedagogy and our curriculum at Hunter. Look for announcements in the coming months. Of course, if you have suggestions for topics and areas of need, please reach out to me.

And finally, part of my role involves being there for my colleagues who are teaching in the undergraduate program should they need someone to talk to informally about issues they may be having in their courses (whether they be curriculum-based or otherwise). I have been teaching at Hunter for sixteen years, observed a great number of teachers, and been heavily involved in the design of our curriculum, and I am happy to put that experience to good use! You are welcome to reach out to me with questions or concerns.

Enjoy looking through the LitHub@Hunter site, and have a wonderful beginning to the academic year.

Cheers!

Gavin

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