Department of English

 

Patricia J. Sehulster, originally from Connecticut, possesses a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in English and Secondary Education and a minor in Psychology from Saint Joseph College, a Master of Arts degree in English from Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Fordham University.  For twenty years, she taught English to public school students in grades seven through twelve in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York and then served as an adjunct instructor at Empire State College and Pace University and as a teaching fellow at Fordham University.  She came to SUNY Westchester Community College in September 2006.

Dr. Sehulster maintains a focus on nineteenth-century women and minority writers and voices of the diaspora.  She has published mainstream nonfiction and fiction as well as scholarly work.