Sharon Marshall
Assistant Professor of Writing, Institute for Core Studies
First-Year Writing Program, Institute for Writing Studies
marshals@stjohns.edu
M.A. in English, Creative Writing 1993
The City College of the City of New York (CUNY); Columbia
University
B.A. English, Vassar College
Sharon Marshall is an assistant professor who teaches First Year
Writing and has taught Business Writing and Literature in a Global
Context at St. John’s. She did her graduate work at Columbia
University and The City College of the City University of New York
and her undergraduate work at Vassar College. She holds a M.A. in
English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Literature,
including African-American and World Literature. For over eighteen
years she has taught writing and methods for using writing to read
to a great many undergraduate students. She has led writing
pedagogy workshops for teachers at diverse institutions. Her
research interests include composition pedagogy, teacher
development, student engagement, 21st century literacies, and Soka,
or value-creating education. At the upcoming conference of the
National Council of Teachers of English, she will present
strategies to help students read and engage with difficult
texts.