Writing Program Director & Associate Faculty
B.A. Anthropology, Montclair State University, 1974
M.A. English and American Literature, New York University, 1990
Ph.D. English and American Literature, New York University, 1995
June Foley's teaching and research interests are Victorian Studies, especially the novel; the Modernist novel, fiction writing, memoir writing, and writing for young readers; and English (especially writing) for Speakers of Other Languages. Her dissertation, on Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, combines biography, psychological criticism, and comparative analysis of texts, within an historical context. She has published essays on Dickens, Gaskell, and Charlotte Bronte. In addition to teaching at Gallatin since 1994, Foley has been the School's first Writing Program director since 2002. For the Writing Program's Literacy Project, she teaches a writing class to Chinese immigrants at the University Settlement Society and has edited books of their writing, funded by grants from the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence and the NYU office of Community Service; she is founder of and adviser to
The Literacy Review , an annual book edited by Gallatin students that collects the best writing by adults in Basic Education, GED, and ESOL classes throughout NYC; and she is founder and organizer of the annual
Literacy Review Workshops for Teachers of Writing to Adults. She was named Gallatin's Adviser of Distinction in 1999 and won the Gallatin Student Choice Award for Excellence in Public Service in 2003. She won a Literacy Recognition Award from the Literacy Assistance Center of New York in 2008, and the NYU Distinguished Administrator Award in 2009.
