For the coming school year of 2011-12, we five will be planning, preparing and promoting AGSE events that help to enhance your experience here at CSUN. Read our bios and get to know us better. If you see us in the halls say hello or ask about our next event. We hope to serve you well this year.
Dr. Ranita Chatterjee- Advisor
Dr. Chatterjee is the Graduate Director and professor in the English department here at Northridge. She teaches various interesting courses in British Romanticism as well as the core theory classes for the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to all this she is our advisor for AGSE. As our guiding light, she supervises our work and provides an professional bridge between us (students) and the academic world with her vast knowledge and experience.
Corri Ditch-President
I have a tendency to greet people, even those I have just met, with a hug. I was born and raised in Hawaii and this is one of the many ways in which we express our Aloha Spirit. I inherited my work ethic from my great grandparents who immigrated to Hawaii from the Philippines. I am interested in British Romanticism, Poststructuralism, Feminist Theory, and Queer Theory. I am a proud member of the CSUN English Department; I recognize the exceptional faculty and staff that I am fortunate enough to study under, and work with. I am thrilled to be the 2011-2012 AGSE President, and to have the opportunity to work with an amazing group of accomplished and dedicated officers. It will be a very productive year and very fun year – I simply insist on it!
Norma Aceves- Vice President
My name is Norma Aceves, I am the AGSE Vice President this year. I am currently a Literature option, but I may switch to Rhetoric and Composition. I am also a teaching associate, supplemental instructor, and EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) Academic Mentor for the commuter bridge program. My recent casual reading selections tag me as part vampire and muggle, but I also enjoy the entanglements of Judith Butler and Helene Cixous. My current mission in life is to find a bridge between critical theory and composition studies, while single-handedly defeating Voldemort and Sue Sylvester.
Fariba Maleki- Treasurer
Fariba Maleki is the treasurer and a first year of graduate student majoring in English, Creative Writing option. Born in Iran,Tehran, the third of the four children of the family. From early on in her life she was deeply influenced with the artistic tone that ruled her home land and by the age of nine she wrote her first interpretation of the world in which she lived and called it “Night Guards.” Before the age of thirteen she had written other short stories entitled “Laundry Woman” and Windows of Tomorrow,” which were all published in Cinema Star magazine, the premier entertainment publication of Iran.
Margeaux Gamboa-Wong- Secretary
I am Margeaux Aegel Gamboa-Wong – Secretary, currently an English Graduate Student in Literature and a Teaching Associate. As a teaching associate, I teach Freshmen Composition, helping young minds understand rhetoric, genre and audience. As a literature student, I study different literatures, often gravitating to American Lit. But my real love is the Gothic, fascinated by how gothic literature historicizes the anxieties of a culture and by the seductive nature of monstrosity. My ironic love for the gothic and for the monster is the reason why I also love theory, especially Bakhtinian theory. For me, Mikhail Bakhtin makes possible a temporal and spatial understanding of all things that translates easily to the analysis of monstrosity and otherness. After receiving my Masters in English, I plan on going for a Doctoral degree in Queer Studies; an area that I think will help further my delving into things that the dominant society misunderstands.
Yollotl Lopez- Press Secretary
My name is Yollotl Lopez (jajolt) and I will be your Press Secretary this year. This is my second semester of grad school here at CSUN and I am in the Literature option. Though born and raised in Mojave, I live in Palmdale and commute to CSUN. I also work as an ISA and SI Leader helping students to enhance their writing skills. Though I love all literature, I love studying popular culture and film in order to see the fun ways in which it connects to classic works. Someday I hope to obtain a PhD and be able to teach, edit and write creatively.
Dr. Ranita Chatterjee- Advisor
Dr. Chatterjee is the Graduate Director and professor in the English department here at Northridge. She teaches various interesting courses in British Romanticism as well as the core theory classes for the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to all this she is our advisor for AGSE. As our guiding light, she supervises our work and provides an professional bridge between us (students) and the academic world with her vast knowledge and experience.
Corri Ditch-President
I have a tendency to greet people, even those I have just met, with a hug. I was born and raised in Hawaii and this is one of the many ways in which we express our Aloha Spirit. I inherited my work ethic from my great grandparents who immigrated to Hawaii from the Philippines. I am interested in British Romanticism, Poststructuralism, Feminist Theory, and Queer Theory. I am a proud member of the CSUN English Department; I recognize the exceptional faculty and staff that I am fortunate enough to study under, and work with. I am thrilled to be the 2011-2012 AGSE President, and to have the opportunity to work with an amazing group of accomplished and dedicated officers. It will be a very productive year and very fun year – I simply insist on it!
Norma Aceves- Vice President
My name is Norma Aceves, I am the AGSE Vice President this year. I am currently a Literature option, but I may switch to Rhetoric and Composition. I am also a teaching associate, supplemental instructor, and EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) Academic Mentor for the commuter bridge program. My recent casual reading selections tag me as part vampire and muggle, but I also enjoy the entanglements of Judith Butler and Helene Cixous. My current mission in life is to find a bridge between critical theory and composition studies, while single-handedly defeating Voldemort and Sue Sylvester.
Fariba Maleki- Treasurer
Fariba Maleki is the treasurer and a first year of graduate student majoring in English, Creative Writing option. Born in Iran,Tehran, the third of the four children of the family. From early on in her life she was deeply influenced with the artistic tone that ruled her home land and by the age of nine she wrote her first interpretation of the world in which she lived and called it “Night Guards.” Before the age of thirteen she had written other short stories entitled “Laundry Woman” and Windows of Tomorrow,” which were all published in Cinema Star magazine, the premier entertainment publication of Iran.
Margeaux Gamboa-Wong- Secretary
I am Margeaux Aegel Gamboa-Wong – Secretary, currently an English Graduate Student in Literature and a Teaching Associate. As a teaching associate, I teach Freshmen Composition, helping young minds understand rhetoric, genre and audience. As a literature student, I study different literatures, often gravitating to American Lit. But my real love is the Gothic, fascinated by how gothic literature historicizes the anxieties of a culture and by the seductive nature of monstrosity. My ironic love for the gothic and for the monster is the reason why I also love theory, especially Bakhtinian theory. For me, Mikhail Bakhtin makes possible a temporal and spatial understanding of all things that translates easily to the analysis of monstrosity and otherness. After receiving my Masters in English, I plan on going for a Doctoral degree in Queer Studies; an area that I think will help further my delving into things that the dominant society misunderstands.
Yollotl Lopez- Press Secretary
My name is Yollotl Lopez (jajolt) and I will be your Press Secretary this year. This is my second semester of grad school here at CSUN and I am in the Literature option. Though born and raised in Mojave, I live in Palmdale and commute to CSUN. I also work as an ISA and SI Leader helping students to enhance their writing skills. Though I love all literature, I love studying popular culture and film in order to see the fun ways in which it connects to classic works. Someday I hope to obtain a PhD and be able to teach, edit and write creatively.
