Staff, Affiliated Faculty, and Advisory Board Members

Leadership and Management

Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D
Founder and Executive Director
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Charlotte E. Hunter
Chief of Staff

Director, Development and External Affairs

Amber Magruder
Interim Director, Operations and Literary Programs

Lea Byrd
Executive Assistant
Communications Associate


AFFILIATED FACULTY
Victoria A. Chevalier
Professor of English

Magda Desgranges, PhD
Assistant Professor | African Diaspora Literature
Department of English | Medgar Evers College

Susan Alice Fischer
Professor of English

Donna Hill
Assistant Professor of Professional Writing

Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Associate Professor of English

Lystra Huggins, PhD
Assistant Professor, Academic Advisor

Freshman Year Program/Medgar Evers College

Shelagh Patterson, PhD
Lecturer Doctoral Schedule for
English Composition and Rhetoric
Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York

Mudiwa Pettus
Assistant Professor of English Comp. and Rhetoric

Joanna Sit
Professor of Creative Writing


ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Dr. Dale Allender
English Professor of Language and Literacy
California State University, Sacramento

Paul N. Amann
Key Bank, Business Banking Vice President

Patrick A. Buddington
Vice President, Sales & Publishing | Caribbean Life/Schneps Media Group

Bessie R. Edwards
Real Estate Broker, BR Edwards Associates

Richard Jones Jr.
Executive Dean Emeritus
Medgar Evers College, City University of New York

Dr. Valerie Kinloch
Renée and Richard Goldman Dean
University of Pittsburgh School of Education

Dr. Louise Mirrer
President and CEO, New York Historical Society

C. Zawadi Morris
Founder and CEO of The Original Media Group, LLC
Founder and Publisher of The Brooklyn Reader

Dr. Kareen Odate
Assistant Dean for Advising, CUNY School of Medicine

Lawrence Schiller
President and Co-Founder, Norman Mailer Center
Film producer, Director, Screenwriter

Reverend Dr. Shelia Evans-Tranumn
National and International Education Consultant

Richard Wesley
Playwright, Screenwriter
Department of Dramatic Writing, New York University

John Edgar Wideman
Writer
Messer Emeritus Professor of African American Studies and English, Brown University

Marcia White
Founder and President, Personalized Skincare

Contact Us

Center for Black Literature (CBL)
at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1534 Bedford Avenue | 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11216
(Click HERE for the Postal Mailing Address)

Main Phone: (718) 804-8884
Main Office: info@centerforblackliterature.org

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