Faculty Fellows (2025-2026)
Austin Bailey is a Doctoral Lecturer in English at Hunter College. He received his PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2025, and from 2020-2024, he served as the associate co-coordinator of Lehman College’s Writing Across the Curriculum program. Austin’s primary area of research is in nineteenth-century American literature and its intersections with philosophy and cultural theory. Currently, he is working on a monograph called American Becomings: Ontological Thinking in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. Austin also researches in the field of progressive pedagogy and alternative assessment practices, especially ungrading.
Sasha Maceira is a Doctoral Lecturer in the Department of English. She received her MA in English Literature from Hunter College in 2012 and her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2022. Her areas of Interest are Composition and Rhetoric, Expressivism, and Narrative Theory.
Brooke Xavier, MS, is an educator, strategist, and connector with over 20 years of professional experience in higher education, international business, and nonprofit leadership. Since 2022, she has taken on increasing responsibilities at Hunter College (CUNY), beginning as an adjunct professor in Marketing and expanding her role to Interim Director of the Certificate in Business Studies, growing the program to 120 students. As of summer 2025, she now oversees Hunter’s Cooperman Business Center, supporting students’ transition into business careers through experiential learning, professional development, and employer engagement. Her work emphasizes partnership-building and applied learning; she has co-created and led Hunter’s first Marketing Bootcamps and established collaborations with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and corporate sponsors. Brooke’s ACERT Faculty Fellowship project builds on her experience working with generative AI in both the workplace and the classroom. She will examine the post-pandemic and AI-influenced workplace to identify core skills and pedagogical strategies that will enhance student employability. She holds an MS in Strategic Communication from Columbia University and a BA in Art History from Willamette University.
