Laura Tanenbaum is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College where she teaches composition, literature and creative writing. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University in Comparative Literature. Recently she has focused on creative work, publishing poetry and short fiction in a range of journals including Rattle, Catamaran, Aji, Dialogist, Cleaver Magazine, and many others. She has also published numerous book reviews and essays in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Dissent, Jacobin, and elsewhere, with a particular focus on feminist history, memoir, cultural history, and teaching. She has long integrated oral histories and interviews into her teaching and recently became involved in an oral history project at her synagogue, and is interested in deepening her understanding of the practice of oral history and how to meaningfully engage students in its creation. She also serves as the chapter chair of LaGuardia's chapter of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY's union of faculty and professional staff.