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Hope Parisi

Professor

English

Biography

Hope Parisi is Full Professor of English and has taught at Kingsborough since 1994. Past academic roles include Academic Director of the Reading and Writing Center/ CAWS (1997-2015) and Faculty Mentor for the English Department (2018-2025). She served as the Chair of the English 90’s Committee in the mid to late 90s as the new ESL/ENG 90’s developmental English courses were established. She recently moved from serving as co-editor of The Journal of Basic Writing (2008 -2024) to a consulting editor role (2024-present).

Prof. Parisi is a positive, spirited teacher of college writing, valuing writing’s connections to the vast array of literacies students are acquiring today in new and vibrant social contexts. Her teaching and research interests include Universal Design for Learning, the literature of welcome and belonging, and the many currents of basic writing.

Courses

English 91, 92, 93
English 12
English 24
Graduate Practicum in the Teaching of College English, CUNY PhD Program in English

Education

Ph.D. in English, The CUNY Graduate Center
M.A. English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
B.A. English, Fordham University

Selected Publications and/or Other Resources

Parisi, Hope. “An Emergent Sense: Time and Tensions in the Fallout Zone.”  Access, Equity, and Promises: The Third Current of Writing at CUNY in the 21st Century, edited by Amy Wan, Neil Meyer, and Craig Todd. WAC Clearinghouse (forthcoming).

Parisi, Hope. “Revisiting the Stories We Tell: Postscripting Basic Writing.” Basic Writing in the Twenty-First Century (Studies in Composition and Rhetoric, 24), edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Barbara Gleason, Peter Lang Publishing, 2025.

Parisi, Hope, and Faith Fogelman, “Facing the Mirror: Partnering to Support Struggling College Writers.” New Directions for Community Colleges, no, 195, 2021, pp. 53-64. 

Parisi, Hope. “Inversive Teaching.” Sixteen Teachers Teaching, edited by Patrick Sullivan, Utah State UP, 2020. pp. 153-167.

Parisi, Hope. "Who is the Basic Writer? Reclaiming a Foundational Question for Graduate Students, New Teachers, and Emerging Scholars." Journal of Basic Writing. v. 37, n. 2, 2018, pp. 120-147.

Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants

2025, Two-Year College English Association Northeast (TYCA-NE) Keynote Speaker

2015, The Mark Reynolds Award TETYC Best Article Award

2012-2013, PSC-CUNY Grant: “Writing Through the Academic Looking Glass,” in collaboration with TRiO Support Services (grant co-principal, Faith Fogelman)