Emily LaPadura

Greater New York City Area United States

First-Year Writing Instructor

Education

After graduating with my MA in English Rhetoric and Composition from Colorado State University, I am grateful and excited to be employed as a First-Year Writing Instructor at Manhattanville College. While at CSU, I was a graduate teaching assistant, and discovered the inspiration, challenge, and joy that comes from teaching first-year composition. My thesis consisted of a self-designed curriculum I taught, and then studied, that focused on integrating rhetorical writing strategies, with digital photography on Social Networking Sites, through a social theory based lens- more about that can be found under the "Projects Section."​ where I posted a link to the Wordpress blog I used as the cla.