About the Writing Fellows

The SPS Writing Fellows are CUNY doctoral students trained in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) pedagogy. They will not edit or correct your work for you, but will make suggestions for improvements to structure and content and help you identify and correct errors.  The fellows can provide assistance at any stage of writing from brainstorming and planning to proofreading and editing, and can assist writers at every stage of ability. All of the fellows can assist with APA format, though some may be experts in MLA and Chicago styles as well.

The 2024-2025 Writing Fellows are:

Alix Alto (she/they) is a fifth-year PhD student in Basic and Applied Social Psychology. Her research primarily focuses on how thinking about possibility impacts political ideology and behavior, specifically on the political left. Her other interests include moral psychology, imagination, and political identity. Alix has served as a Teaching Assistant in Research Methods at Baruch for three years and has expertise in tutoring students through the writing process, primarily in the domain of research. She is proficient in APA formatting.

 

Evangeline Athanasiou is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to music and Southern culture at the turn of the twentieth century, Evangeline’s research interests include the relationship between literature and music, and the role of repertoire in music education. Beyond her research, she is excited about archival development and digitization and has recently joined the SUNY Dutchess music faculty. She has served as the instructor of record to over 180 students for Hunter College and, while at the University of Maryland, as a TA engaging with over 300 students across 12 sections. She is most experienced in Chicago formatting in addition to APA.

Ferhat Zabun is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on international relations and comparative politics. He specifically works on the credibility of leaders during conflicts and how we can understand whether leaders lie, bluff or tell the truth. He has taught research methodology, foreign policy and international conflicts courses at Queens College, CUNY. He knows French and Turkish. He is currently working on his dissertation and three separate book projects (one on etymology, one on humans as political animals, and a political novel). 

Kay Healy is a PhD candidate in French at the CUNY Graduate Center. Their current doctoral research focuses on French musical theatre and its unique genre features as distinct from dominant, anglophone musical theatre models. Other research interests include propaganda and state-sponsored art, literatures of moral education, and medieval studies. Kay speaks English and French, with additional, varying levels of familiarity with ASL, German, and Czech. They have served as a French instructor at Brooklyn College, and currently teach at an independent language school in Greenpoint. Kay specializes in Chicago style formatting, but is also experienced in MLA and APA styles.

 

Kiera Bono is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Theatre and Performance program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Their dissertation engages with disability and relationality in performance. Kiera has taught at The City College of New York and is currently teaching at Wagner College. They are most comfortable with the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) and MLA formatting, but they have some experience with APA formatting from their stint as a 2022-2023 CUNY SPS Writing Fellow. They are so glad to be back this year!

Lili Voisinet is a PhD Candidate in Cognitive and Comparative Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a Master’s degree in biological science with a research focus on elephant seal physiology. Her current doctoral work focuses on the vocal learning abilities of bottlenose dolphins. She is interested in applying her research to improving the welfare of marine mammals in human care and the rehabilitation of wild marine mammals. She is most experienced in APA formatting.

Madeline Nickel is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has a Master’s degree in social psychology, and her thesis focused on the psychology of how people perceive racial bias. Her doctoral work is focused on how the intersection of group status and political orientation shapes how people react to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. She has been a TA for several psychology undergraduate courses at universities such as York University, Barnard College at Columbia University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and she enjoys mentoring students. Madeline is highly experienced in APA formatting and style.

Our Writing Center administrators are:

Dr. Erin Heiser (she/her) is the Assistant Coordinator for the Writing Fellows at SPS. She has a Master’s degree in English with a focus on Composition and Rhetoric, and received her PhD in English from CUNY’s Graduate Center in 2024. She previously held a Writing Fellowship at Lehman College, CUNY.  Erin is interested in the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender; and these themes show up regularly in her own writing and on her syllabi at CUNY and NYU where she teaches writing and literature. 

Dr. Kate Moss is a Doctoral Lecturer in General Education and Liberal Studies as well as the Writing Fellows (WAC) and Tutoring Coordinator at CUNY SPS. She teaches Liberal Studies capstones, Digital Literacy (COM 110) and various English and writing courses, and does research on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and modern literature.

This site is organized and maintained by the SPS Writing Fellows. If you have questions about the Writing Fellows program, you can contact Kate Moss, the Writing Fellows Coordinator.