Daisuke Akiba

I received my doctoral training in Experimental Psychology at Brown University, with a focus on cognition, before moving into developmental psychology and teacher education. I am currently Associate Professor in the School of Education where I teach developmental psychology. My current research and teaching mission centers on Computational Thinking and computing/digital literacies as pathways toward greater educational and professional equality. I am especially interested in pedagogical approaches that can reduce barriers and expand meaningful learning opportunities for all.

Sebastian Alvarado

Dr. Sebastian Alvarado is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Queens College (CUNY) and a faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center. He leads the Alvarado Lab, where his research focuses on epigenetic and molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity, social behavior, and environmental adaptation, using aquatic model systems such as African cichlid fish. Dr. Alvarado is also active in science communication and interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging biology with education, technology, and public engagement.

 

Padmini Biswas

Padmini Biswas received her Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University, her master’s degree with distinction from the London School of Economics, a B.S. in civil engineering from the Cooper Union, and a B.A. in English from Vassar College. Dr. Biswas has held various leadership positions in the social justice space. She advanced diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within New York State government, directed an undergraduate human rights education program that took students to Nepal, Jordan and Chile to broaden their perspectives on activism, and served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Biswas is the founding editor of SALT, a South Asian American community-based literary journal funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Dr. Biswas is a 2023 Fellow of the Pulitzer Center ‘1619 Project’ Education Network, a 2024 Queens College AANAPISI Project Faculty Fellow in Asian American Studies, and a 2023-2025 National Science Foundation MakeSTEAM-Q Faculty Fellow. She is the Labor Studies Advisor and teaches courses focused on urban diversity, global cities, diaspora, and labor and globalization.

 

 

Álvaro Fernández

Álvaro Fernández holds a B.A. in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires. From 1989 to 2004, he taught and conducted research at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of La Plata, and other higher education institutions in Argentina, specializing in Spanish literature, literacy studies, composition, and the teaching of literature and film. He earned his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2009 with a dissertation on Spanish Transition literature. He is the author of Recuerdos de Mágina: Una ciudad literaria para la transición española (Madrid, 2015) and has published articles on Spanish and Argentine cultural and political issues, Borges and pedagogy, and film education. Since 2009, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at Queens College, CUNY. His teaching interests include Spanish language and literature, literacy development and pedagogy.

Carrie Hintz

I am a Professor of English at Queens College/CUNY and The Graduate Center/CUNY, where I teach 17th and 18th century literature, utopian studies, life writing, and children’s and young adult literature. In the field of children’s and YA literature, I am the author of Children’s Literature: The New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2020) and the co-author (with Eric Tribunella) of Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction (Broadview Press, 2nd edition, 2019) and Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction (Broadview Press, 2024). I have co-edited two volumes: Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2003) and Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers (Routledge 2013). My research in 17th century literature and culture focuses on women’s writing, life writing, and Protestant nonconformity. I am the author of An Audience of One: The Letter of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54, UTP, 2005. With Andrea Walkden, I am editing the late correspondence (1685-1696) of 17th century theologian and controversialist Richard Baxter for Oxford University Press. I enjoy connecting with scholars over the globe interested in early modern women’s writing, youth culture, and biography and memoir.

Norberto Quiles

Dr. Norberto Quiles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences at Queens College, where he teaches courses focused on exercise and human performance. He directs the Applied Exercise Physiology Laboratory, conducting research on the relationship between cardiometabolic risk factors and physical activity among people living with HIV. Dr. Quiles earned his doctorate in Applied Exercise Physiology from Columbia University in New York City. He is a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist (RCEP) through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Outside of academia, Dr. Quiles enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has achieved the rank of black belt.

Gilad Rabinovitch

Gilad Rabinovitch is an associate professor of music theory at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY. He has published widely on historical improvisation in the classical music tradition and likes to incorporate creative exercises in teaching undergraduate music theory.

 

 

Justin Storbeck

Associate Professor in Social Psychology. I research how emotions influence cognition.

 

 

 

 

 

Fang Sun

I joined Queens College in Fall 2014 as a faculty member in the Department of Accounting & Information Systems. Prior to joining Queens College, I taught at Hunter College after earning my Ph.D. in Accounting from Temple University. My research interests include pension accounting, auditing, executive compensation, capital markets, and loss reserve errors. I have taught courses in Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, and Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting.