Who are the tutors?

The Writing Center is staffed by three full-time English faculty members and six student tutors, who are enrolled in the Honors Program.

Liya Li joined the English faculty at SUNY Rockland Community College in 1995. Before coming to RCC, she taught English Composition and Basic Writing as an adjunct assistant professor at two CUNY colleges for three years. She will always remember the first day she met her students at RCC. Some of them were completely taken by surprise that their English professor was a Chinese woman! In fact, one of the students, who happened to be Chinese-American, asked why she was not a math professor, instead. She was amused by his question since her undergraduate major in China was electrical engineering and she never dreamed that one day she would be teaching English in the United States. Liya Li received her Master's and Ph. D degrees from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. She enjoys teaching and working with students tremendously and looks forward to helping each student who visits her in the Academic Writing Center of RCC.

Office: Room 8310
Phone: 845-574-4733
Email:lli@sunyrockland.edu

Martha Rottman began her career teaching high school English in a suburb of Chicago. She and her family moved to Argentina where she spent ten years teaching in a variety of situations; among her students were young people preparing for the TOEFL as well as teachers, doctors, scientists, psychologists and others interested in improving their English skills. While living there she also worked as a translator with a professional chamber music group. Upon returning to the States she began teaching ESL with the Ladies Garment Workers’ Union as well as the Consortium for Worker Education; these organizations held classes in factories and churches. She then taught ESL at Bronx Community College for several years. Upon moving to Rockland County, she began teaching English at RCC. She has an M.A. from Queens College in English/Creative Writing. In addition to working in the Writing Center, she teaches English 101 and English 102, international sections of English 101 and 102 and English 284, On Poets and Poetry.

Office: 8309
Phone: 574-4166
Email:mrottman@sunyrockland.edu