Teaching in the Riptide: Anchoring Pedagogies for Soulful Practitioners - Softcover

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Adam Wolfsdorf is an original founding member and the Humanities Department Chair at Bay Ridge Preparatory High School in Brooklyn, New York. He is an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Wesleyan's Graduate Liberal Studies Program. Wolfsdorf holds a PhD in English Education from Columbia University, New York, U.S.A., where he served as the Coordinator of the InSTEP Master's program. Wolfsdorf has written two books, Navigating Trauma in the English Classroom (NCTE), and Teaching in the Riptide (Routledge). He has published in Changing English, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, English Education, English Journal, and The Columbia Literary Journal, and has chapters in Humanizing Grief in Higher Education (Routledge) and Deep Reading, Volume 2 (Peter Lang). Outside the classroom, Wolfsdorf has performed professionally for 25 years. He appeared in the national tours of the Broadway musicals RENT (with Neil Patrick Harris) and Grease. He fronts the nationally touring rock band, The Energy (MTV, NBC, ABC, and ESPN). Wolfsdorf received his MA in Psychology and Education from Columbia University, New York, U.S.A., and holds a BA in English from Harvard University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.