Faculty

The faculty listed here are expected to participate in this fall's program. The list may be altered at the discretion of The CUNY Graduate Center Language Reading Program depending upon enrollment patterns and needs.

• MONICA DUCHNOWSKI received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the CUNY Graduate School. She received her M.A. in French from Washington University in St. Louis and did her undergraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University and at Hampshire College. During the school year she teaches at Rutgers University.
  
  
• RITA FLEISCHER, Administrative Director for Foreign Languages at The Graduate Center, did her graduate and undergraduate work at New York University. She has taught in the classics department of both private and public universities in the metropolitan area as well as in the Foreign Language Institute. Professor Fleischer is the co-author of several texts and has taught in the intensive Latin/Greek Institute of Brooklyn College and the City University Graduate Center.
  
  
• RICHARD GILDER III received his M.A. in classics from The Graduate School of CUNY and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.  He has written two innovative Latin textbooks designed for the beginning and intermediate Latin students of any age:  Via Facilis:  Mastering Latin and Understanding Language and Via Non Difficilior:  Deepening Our Mastery of Latin and Understanding of Language.  Dr. Gilder taught for many years at a school in Orange county, New York.  He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, at CUNY, and in both the basic Greek and upper-level Latin programs of the Latin/Greek Institute of Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center.
  
  
• ROBERT SCIARRONE received his B.A. and M.A. from N.Y.U., studied in Paris and Siena, and is currently a Ph.D. student at Columbia.  He is a professor at Fordham University, having served as Associate Chair and as Coordinator of the Italian Language Program.  He has taught at Columbia, Barnard, and N.Y.U. as well as in France.
  
  
• DIANA TIDMORE, whose training has been both in the sciences and the humanities, received her degrees from Princeton and Fordham Universities and has taught all levels of German at Queens College and at Hunter College.