Jill Belli’s Profile
utopian studies, science fiction, happiness studies, writing studies, scholarship of teaching and learning, digital humanities, American studies, cultural studies, medical humanities
Jill Belli, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at City Tech, CUNY.
Her interdisciplinary interests and expertise bridge happiness studies & well-being, science fiction & utopia, self-care & social hope, education & pedagogy, parapsychology, medical humanities, “invisible” illness, healing, grief, trauma, writing studies, digital humanities, critical data studies, storytelling, tarot, astrology, and nature. Her monograph ‘Pedagogies of Expansiveness’ and memoir ‘Beautiful War’ (both in progress) explore these intersections.
At City Tech, she teaches courses in science fiction, utopian studies, self-help literature, freshman writing, and professional & technical writing (including writing with new media & digital storytelling) and co-organizes the college’s annual Science Fiction Symposium. From 2014-2020, Jill served as Co-Director of the OpenLab, the college’s open-source digital platform for teaching, learning, and collaborating. She currently serves as a CUNY Mindset Ambassador.
She is a founding member of the Writing Studies Tree (writingstudiestree.org), an online, open-access, interactive academic genealogy for the field of writing studies, and she serves on the Steering Committee, the Teaching Committee, and as the web developer for the North American Society for Utopian Studies (utopian-studies.org).
When not researching, writing, or teaching, Jill travels, hikes, camps, practices yoga, and plays violin with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.
My Courses
Sandbox course for OpenLab workshops
This is a model course for ENG 1101
This is an online asynchronous course facilitated by Dr. Shauna Chung. The course involves the following: Students complete a 120-hour internship. Class activities provide an opportunity for discussions and electronic portfolio development to enrich the learning experience. Students write weekly status reports, and supervision is by both the faculty and the job supervisor.
ENGL2720 Writing with New Media, Spring 2023
This is Professor Shauna Chung’s course site for ENG 2720, “Writing with New Media.” In this class, students will learn how to leverage the affordances and constraints of new media through critical analysis of texts and online phenomena, hands-on creative production, and collaborative research projects. Students will also use this OpenLab site to share their work and develop an online presence throughout the semester.
This design course will cover a range of urban and architectural design issues. Students will explore both the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of design applied in an urban environment. As an advanced design class, this course will incorporate previous studio and lecture coursework to tie together topics of urban planning, architectural design, environmental sustainability and historic preservation.
My Projects
The Open Road is our place to highlight all that’s possible on the OpenLab. Join now to keep up on OpenLab news, events, and updates. Check our weekly In the Spotlight posts for a glimpse into the incredible work being done by City Tech students, faculty, and staff. Follow OpenLab News for announcements and site updates. And see our OpenLab Calendar for office hours, events, and workshops. You can find our workshop schedule and signup for workshops here as well. The Open Road is also a place for the OpenLab community (meaning you!). We would love your feedback, insight, and comments. Please send along anything on the OpenLab that you love! We are always available for any questions you might have. Email us anytime at openlab@citytech.cuny.edu!
Realizing the value of the research experience at the undergraduate level, this project is committed to fostering research opportunities for City Tech students. Faculty and students can use this project as a place to share announcements about research opportunities, as well as a place to offer information about the experiences students and faculty have had in their research endeavors. A handbook on effective mentoring, developed by the Undergraduate Research Committee, is currently available for download.
City Tech’s Source for Academic Affairs Information
Science Fiction is an important, modern cultural expression that relies on interdisciplinary approaches to explore the relationships between and within humanity, science, and technology. This project connects the individual and collective efforts to leverage science fiction to enrich City Tech’s students’ experiences, deepen classroom learning with archival research, and connect City Tech to the networks of science fiction research around the world.
This is the site of the ESOL Language and Writing Lab. It houses tutoring materials and sites for students who are learners and speakers of English as a foreign, other or second language. The Lab assists students with second language composing, grammar and syntax practice and successful communication workshops.
My Clubs
This is the official website for the PSC CUNY chapter for City Tech aka NYC Tech aka New York City College of Technology.
