Profile
Professor Greenberg has been a dedicated educator in the department for forty-eight years and has no plans to retire. She loves her work too much, as well as her students, many of whom have invited her to their weddings and their children’s weddings.
Throughout her career, she has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including linguistics, semiotics and semantics, discourse theory, language and gender, language and power, language and identity, the structure and history of English, and media rhetoric. She also played a significant role in shaping Hunter’s academic programs, directing the Developmental and Freshman Writing Program, founding the Reading and Writing Center, coordinating the Writing Across the Curriculum project, and developing reading and writing tests for students applying to the college.
For the past two decades, Professor Greenberg has focused her research and her academic activities on online teaching and learning. She co-directed the first National Project on Computers and College Writing, served as the university-wide Faculty Blackboard Trainer, developed CUNY’s online Faculty Resource Site for Teaching with Blackboard, supervised tutors for the Online Baccalaureate Degree Program, and worked with the team who created the CUNY Academic Commons, the faculty portal for teaching and learning with technology. She has also contributed content for multimedia software for higher education and led training sessions for institutions that adopted these programs.
Her efforts in online education earned her a Sloan Foundation Award for Excellence in Online Teaching, an award from The Online Learning Consortium, and three fellowships at Hunter’s Teaching and Technology Center. Currently, she is working on a book that explores the impact of social networking on college students’ learning. Her research focuses on how students experience working in online communities where collaboration, co-creation, and knowledge-sharing are central to their learning processes. Additionally, she is investigating how AI programs are influencing students’ writing abilities.