TIM McCORMACK

Assistant Professor Tim McCormack junked a successful career in public relations and marketing to return to academia and teach writing. He has degrees in journalism, fiction writing and composition and rhetoric. Before coming to John Jay College, he taught at the Highbridge Community Life Center in the Bronx, various branches of the City University of New York and at New York University. He is interested in how writers create words on the page, how texts create meaning, and how readers receive meaning from words. His current research focuses on the role of literacy in social, political and economic justice. He is also a certified zamboni driver in search of an ice rink to drive on.