Meet WAC

Shoba Parasram

WAC Coordinator: Student Advising and Writing Intensive Courses, Chair of the Writing Intensive Advisory Committee

Shoba Parasram is currently a Lecturer in the English Department and the WAC Coordinator for WI Courses. She is also a member of the Student Writing Workshop (SWW) Promotion Committee and the Event Planning Committee. Shoba has been with York for about 20 years, first as a student, then an English tutor, then an Adjunct Lecturer, and now a full-time Lecturer. She truly values writing as a mode of discovery – of the self, the world, complex ideas, one’s thinking process, everything! She is excited to take on this new role to help make writing more present in the experience of York students so they can reap all of the wonderful benefits.

Shoba Parasram can be reached at sparasram@york.cuny.edu.

Raquel Coy

WAC Coordinator: Writing Fellows and Assessment, Member, Writing Intensive Advisory Committee

Raquel Coy is a Lecturer in the English Department who specializes in Composition and Rhetoric as well as tutoring center pedagogy and administration. She believes that writing is an invaluable tool that can foster critical thinking in our students. Raquel manages the faculty-fellow collaboration requests and all projects related to the cohort of WAC Fellows. Please feel free to contact her if you would like to work with a Fellow on designing writing assignments, rubrics, in-class writing activities, and/or offering workshops for students on effective writing practices.

Raquel Coy can be reached at rcoy@york.cuny.edu

Alex Viteri

Alex Viteri is a Berlin-based Andean performer and scholar. Viteri is a member of the dance collective MaCA and an ongoing collaborator of the choreographers Juliana Piquero and Marion Budwig. In 2019, they premiered “Fan de Ellas” at the Theater Sophiensaele. Viteri also performed for various iterations of “Apparitions sur le récif ” ICI CCN, Montpellier (2021), and 3bisF, Aix en Provence (2022). In 2021&22, they co-hosted the forum “About Dance” at Lake Studios, Berlin. From 2019 to 2022, they were granted The Saison Foundation Air Partnership, Japan. In September 2022, MaCA premiered its newest work at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. Viteri received a DIS-TANZ-SOLO and RechercheStipendium from the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and is an associate artist at BAS, UdK. They are currently writing their Ph.D. dissertation on the authentic ways mountains, plants, and other living organisms participate in a dance’s meaning-making and composition at CUNY and teaches at York College. 

Fabián Escalona

Fabián Escalona is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation surveys the circulation of theatre and performance in the Latin American Southern Cone during the late colonial/early republican transitional era. He has taught courses in Theatre History, Art History, Human Rights and Oral Interpretation in New York and Santiago, Chile. He also has been a Writing Across Curriculum fellow at CUNY School of Professional Studies and is a Communication fellow at the Baruch College’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). In that institute he is also a facilitator of the Inclusive and Antiracist Pedagogy Seminar, for faculty. As a former theatre critic, he collaborated with theatre journals and magazines in the US, Chile, and France. With a background in Art History and Theory, as well as Latin American Studies, his research interests focus on Latin American Theatre and Performance, Human Rights, and Postcolonial Studies.