BABETTE BABICH, Ph.D., Boston College. A full-time professor of philosophy at Fordham since 1989, Babich has taught a wide range of courses, including ethics, aesthetics, Kant, Nietzsche, existentialism, and technology. Books authored include Words in Blood, like Flowers: Philosophy, Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche and Heidegger; Habermas, Nietzche and Critical Theory; Nietzsche and the Sciences; and Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science.
RENA DOWN, B.A., Hunter College. Down teaches screenwriting and script analysis for New School University and has taught television writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She won an Emmy for her production of Susan Griffin’s Voices and wrote and directed PBS’ The People vs. Inez Garcia. Her television credits include story editor for Nurse, Dallas, and writer/producer for Falcon Crest and five movies for television. Her production of the Trojan Women won a Drama-Logue Award for Best Direction.
ALVIN ENG, M.F.A., New York University. The author of The Last Hand Laundry in Chinatown, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emeror of Flushing, and the editor of Tokens, The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage, Eng teaches in the writing program at Fordham, John Jay College, SUNY at Old Westbury, Elder Share the Arts and the Gotham Writing Workshop. He has taught screenwriting, playwriting, prose and memoir writing, poetry and comic writing.
JOHN ERMAN, B.A., U.C.L.A. Professor Erman has been directing films and television since the early 1960's. He has won an Emmy, two Director's Guild awards, the Christopher, the Peabody and the Humanities Prize. He has worked with stars such as Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland and Marlon Brando. He is perhaps best known for his work on Roots and the first film about AIDS, An Early Frost. He currently teaches in the Graduate Film program at Columbia University.
JULIANA GILHEANY, Ph.D., New York University. Gilheany had been with College at 60 for more than 12 years and is returning after teaching on a full-time appointment at Manhattan College. Her areas of specialization in American studies include foreign relations, Supreme Court cases, women’s history and the Civil War.
LAURA GREENEY, Ph.D., Fordham University. Greeney has combined careers in publishing and teaching, and has taught American and British literatures and composition at Fordham, Elderhostel and the Institute of American Language and Culture since 1988.
KATHRYN JOHN, M.A., New York University. Currently at work on her doctorate on Ludwig van Beethoven, John teaches at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, as well as maintaining a private teaching practice. She has been with the College at Sixty since 1984.
BROTHER EDWARD KENT, M.A., St. John’s University. Recently retired after more than 30 years of teaching in the English departments of St. Francis Prep and St. Francis College, Kent was a recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities for the Great Irish Famine at Trinity College, for W.B. Yeats at SUNY Oswego and for Joyce’s Ulysses at Texas A&M University. He has written and lectured on a wide array of topics on the writings of Joyce and Yeats.
C. HOWARD KRUKOFSKY, M.A., Columbia University. A recipient of Fordham's prestigious Bene Merenti medal, he has been on the faculty for over 35 years, teaching American, Intellectual and European history. He also served for many years as the director of Pre-Professional Programs at CUNY's Hunter College and is a national officer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
BANNON McHENRY, M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Currently at work on her doctorate on the architecture of James Renwick, McHenry has taught as an adjunct at Hunter and Queens Colleges, has lectured widely at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Morgan Library and the Smithsonian, and has published numerous articles and book reviews.
FREDERICK NEGEM, M.A., Tulane University. A former faculty member in English at Catholic University where he taught courses in literature, composition, communication and rhetoric, Negem is the president of Public Affairs International, a consulting company for business and international public affairs. His career in international public relations includes work on the staff of a U.S. Senator in Washington, a U.S. diplomat as Chief Spokesman for the U.S. at the United Nations, and Director of Corporate Communications Worldwide for Korn/Ferry International, the worlds largest executive search firm. As a public relations specialist, Negem continued his graduate and doctoral work in literature with programs at Harvard and Georgetown Universities.
ILONA N. RASHKOW, Ph.D., University of Maryland. A specialist in Comparative Literature, Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, Literary Theory and Women's Studies, Dr. Rashkow has held academic appointments at SUNY Stony Brook, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Alabama and the University of Maryland. She has published several books in these fields as well as numerous articles, chapters and book reviews.
JOHN F. ROCHE, Ph.D., Columbia University. Retired from Fordham, where he has been a faculty member for over 50 years, Dr. Roche remains a vital part of the Lincoln Center campus as a professor emeritus of American history.
MARIE SHEEHAN, Ed.D., Columbia. A recipient of Fordham's prestigious Bene Merenti medal, Dr. Sheehan has been teaching at the College at Sixty since its inception in 1973. She also maintains a private therapeutic practice.
CIRA VERNAZZA, M.A., Fordham University. Currently an associate dean in Fordham College of Liberal Studies and director of the College at 60 Program, she has taught modern European history for many years at Fordham. Her degree specialty is English and European history of the 16th and 17th centuries and is a recipient of the University’s Archbishop Hughes Medal for Service.
