![Atefeh Akbari](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Atefah-7678.jpg?h=82f92a78&itok=eA5ixy6U)
Faculty & Staff
FYS Co-Directors
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Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the Writing Program, Director of the Speaking Program, Co-Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
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Lecturer in First-Year Writing; Interim Co-Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
FYS Administrative Staff
![Atefeh Akbari](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Atefah-7678.jpg?h=82f92a78&itok=eA5ixy6U)
![Meredith Benjamin headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Meredith%20Benjamin.jpg?itok=zUeGdlQb)
![Benjamin Breyer headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Benjamin%20Breyer.jpg?itok=oFPkvOyy)
![Kristin Sánchez Carter](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/IMG_4134_0.jpeg?h=d0470b75&itok=tu7POHtd)
![Pamela Cobrin](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Cobrin_Pam.jpg?h=a82907fc&itok=Y4A0bxI7)
Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the Writing Program, Director of the Speaking Program, Co-Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
Department:
English, First Year Foundation, Speaking Fellows, Theatre, Writing Fellows
![white woman with shoulder length hair looking into camera](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2021-09/TSQ_6888.jpg?h=3a0355c6&itok=l8hAquwV)
Term Lecturer in Comparative Literature, English, and First-Year Seminar
Department:
Comparative Literature, English, First Year Foundation
![Vrinda Condillac](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/vrinda.jpg?h=89aecc28&itok=aTQ32sGe)
Lecturer in First-Year Writing; Interim Co-Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
Department:
English, First Year Foundation
![Patricia Denison](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2024-01/Patricia-Denison-edited.jpg?h=d59ba084&itok=LNOBA0t_)
Associate Chair of the Department of English, Senior Lecturer in English, English Department/Theatre Department Liaison
Department:
English, First Year Foundation, Theatre
![Peggy Ellsberg](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/peggy.jpg?h=c1fcdecf&itok=OM0DILu9)
![Barnard College logo with "B" inside a circle of laurel leaves](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2022-10/FacultyHeadshot-filler.png?h=2c4e73f8&itok=vv7Vubab)
W 4-6pm
![Gorelick](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2022-07/N_Gorelick_Headshot.jpg?h=0df1b9a1&itok=RxiCGj0A)
![Jayne Hildebrand](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Hildebrand%20new%20faculty%20photo.jpg?h=2f222c92&itok=UhQRHW_l)
![Jama](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2022-09/Safia_Jama%20photo%20for%20Barnard.jpg?h=73cab511&itok=ABJpjgEM)
![a Black man with natural hair looking directly at the camera](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2021-09/Quincy%20Scott%20Jones%20%28photo%20by%20Dominique%20Sindayiganza%29.jpg?h=82e97bbe&itok=mMMeNLQM)
![Cecelia Brun Lie-Spahn headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Cecelia%20Brun%20Lie-Spahn.jpeg?itok=GL8hDCcF)
Lecturer, English; Associate Director of the First-Year Writing Program, Director of the First-Year Writing Workshop Program
Department:
English, First Year Foundation, Writing Fellows
![an image of Andrew Lynn in front of a bookcase](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2021-02/IMG_0772.jpeg?h=d0470b75&itok=eT4PleTe)
![Linn Cary Mehta headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Mehta_Lynn.jpg?itok=UYdg2-Lx)
![Penelope Meyers Usher](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2024-01/PMUsher.jpg?h=4fb4935c&itok=CL2sD2Yb)
Lecturer in First-Year Writing and First-Year Writing Workshop
Department:
English, First Year Foundation
![Ellen Morris headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/Morris_Ellen.jpg?itok=A1WIykKS)
Professor of Ancient Studies,
Chair of Columbia University's Classical Studies Graduate Program
Department:
Classics and Ancient Studies, First Year Foundation
By appointment
![Francesca Ochoa](/sites/default/files/styles/3_4_600x800_m/public/2021-09/Ochoa-opt.jpg?h=b400ae44&itok=bS0vrTQV)