Humanities and Arts Curriculum Team

Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

Elizabeth Hun Schmidt has a Ph.D. in American literature from New York University and a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University. She has taught literature and writing at The Children’s Storefront School in Harlem; The New School; Sarah Lawrence College; and Barnard College, Columbia University, where she developed and taught The Literature of the Middle Passage, a senior seminar and exchange program that brought Barnard and Columbia students and scholars to Ghana and Ghanaian scholars to New York as part of an in-depth study of the legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade. While at Barnard she also helped revamp Reinventing Literary History, the required first-year Great Books writing course. Schmidt has published poetry, journalism, and scholarship on American and world literature widely in literary and academic publications; and she was an assistant literary editor at the New Yorker and poetry editor at the New York Times Book Review. She is the editor of Poems of New York (Knopf/Everyman) and The Poets Laureate Anthology (W.W. Norton).

Anissa Bazari

Anissa Bazari is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in New York University’s creative writing program. She is an international editor for Washington Square Review and teaches creative writing at NYU Medical Center through the Starworks Fellowship. She has taught tenth- and twelfth-grade English language arts (ELA) and global arts at Discovery High School in the Bronx, and ninth-grade ELA at Bronx Theatre High School. She received her Master of Science in secondary English education from Lehman College, and her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in English literature, with a concentration in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures.

Elizabeth Milch

Elizabeth Milch is a candidate for a master's degree in secondary English education at New York University.  As a student teacher, she taught eighth-grade ELA at Ronald Edmonds Learning Center in Fort Greene and tenth-grade ELA at New Design High School on the Lower East Side.  She received her bachelor's degree from Yale College in English literature.