Frank Cioffi

Frank L Cioffi

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: frank.cioffi@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, Indiana University

M.A., English, Indiana University

B.A., English, Northwestern University

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2025ENG3001Crafting Stronger Sentences: C
Spring 2025ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2024ENG4760Science Fiction
Fall 2024ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2024ENG3001Crafting Stronger Sentences: C
Spring 2024ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2024ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2023ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2023ENG4745Horror Fiction
Spring 2023ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2023ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2022ENG3001Naked English
Spring 2022ENG4440Currents in the Modern Novel
Spring 2022ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2021ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2021ENG3025Surv American Lit II
Spring 2021ENG3025Surv American Lit II
Spring 2021ENG2150HHonors - Writing II
Spring 2021ENG3001Naked English
Fall 2020ENG2150HHonors - Writing II
Fall 2020ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2020ENG3820The American Short Story
Spring 2020IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2020ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2020ENG3001Naked English
Fall 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2019ENG2150HHonors - Writing II
Spring 2019ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2019ENG4500Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2018ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2018ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2018ENG3950Topics in Literature
Spring 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2018ENG3820The American Short Story
Spring 2018ENG3001Naked English
Fall 2017ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2017ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2017ENG3001Naked English
Spring 2017ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2017ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2016ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2016ENG5001Independent Study English II
Fall 2016ENG4500Currents Literary Expression
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2016ENG3950Topics in Literature
Spring 2016ENG4510The American Novel
Spring 2016ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2016ENG3001Naked English
Fall 2015ENG3001Naked English
Fall 2015ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2012ENG4510The American Novel
Spring 2011IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2010ENG3001Naked English
Summer 2010ENG4440Currents in the Modern Novel
Fall 2009ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2009ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2008ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2008ENG2150Writing II
Fall 2007ENG2100Writing I

Books

Cioffi, F. L. (2018). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2017). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ; Oxford, England, USA and UK, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2015). One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Guide. (p. 355). Princeton, NJ, U.S., Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (1982). Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940.. Westport, CT, London, Westport Ct and London Greenwood Press.

Journal Articles

Cioffi, F. (2015). "La Jetee at Fifty-Two". Raritan, XXXIV(3). 37-56.

(2009). "Junk Sculptors, Fetishists, Cultural Collectees: Don DeLillo's Collectors." . Beyond Philology, 5.

Cioffi, F. (2006). Egghead Blues: The Life in the MInd in the Land of Things. Symploke, 14( 1-2). 7-29.

Cioffi, F. (2005). Argumentation in a Culture of Discord. The Chronicle of Higher Education Review,

(2001). Paradoksy Humanistyki [Paradoxes in the Humanities], Interiority Blurrings in Eraserhead and Pi. University of Gdansk Press,

Cioffi, F. (2000). An Anguish Become Thing: The Disturbing Performance of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Narrative, (Spring 2000).

Cioffi, F. (2000). The (Im) Possible Worlds of Robert Coovers’s The Public Burning. Critique,

Cioffi, F. (1999). Post-Millennial Postmodernism: On the Profession of Literature in the Centrifugal Age.

Cioffi, F. (1999). Style, Postmodernism, Etc.: An Interview with Ihab Hassan. Style, 33(3). 357-71.

Cioffi, F. (1998). The Phenomenology of the Disturbing Text. LIT,

Cioffi, F. (1988). The Audience Within the Object: The Implied Teacher in Composition Textbook Advertisements. Written Communication,

Cioffi, F. (1987). Towards a Deep Structure of the Reading Process. Zeszyty naukowe Wydzatu Humanisticznego Uniwersytety Gdanskiego: Filologia Angielska [Scholarly Publications of the University of Gdansk’s College of Humanities: English Philology], ,

(1984). The Composition Textbook Advertisement and Its Promise of Potency. Oklahoma Historical Society,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Teaching Humanities Courses in Prison. Alternative Higher Education,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Gilbert Sorrentino’s Science-fiction World in Mulligan Stew. Extrapolation,

Cioffi, F. (1980). Science Fiction on Campus…and in Prison. Journal of English Teaching Techniques,

Cioffi, F. (1980). Across the Great Divide: Breaking Away.

Book Chapters

Cioffi, F. L. (2020). Defamiliarizing the Most Familiar of Poets, Robert Frost. In Heuston, S. (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (p. 11 pages). New York, NY,USA. Modern Language Association.

Cioffi, F. (2015). "Solipsism and Utopia: Fredric Brown, Charles Yu, Ludwig Wittgenstein". Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection (pp. 133-148). Farnham, Surrey,UK. Ashgate.

Cioffi, F. (2011). "Teaching, Interpretation, and the 'Potential'". Terra Incognita (p. 27 pages). Gdansk,Poland. Gdansk University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2010). "Graphic Fictions on Graphics Subjects: Teaching the Illustrated Medical Narrative" in S. Tabachnick (ed), Teaching the Graphic Novel. Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel (p. 10 pages). New York, NY,USA. MLA Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Postmodern Return: Theory-Travel Writing - Autobiography, Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow Ontological Hesitation and Biography. In Stierstorfer, K. (Ed.), The Postmodern Return: Theory--Travel Writing--Autobiography Germany. University of Heidelberg Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2001). The Language of Comics: Word and Image, Disturbing Comics: The Disjuntion of Word and Image in the Comics of Adrzej Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, a Art Spiegelmannd. In Varnum, R., & Gibbons, C. T. (Eds.), The Language of Comics (pp. 97-122). Jackson, MS,United States. University Press of Mississippi.

Media Contributions

Cioffi, F. (1979). Teaching Behind the Walls.

Other Scholarly Works

Cioffi, F. (2014). "New Jersey Winter: 2014". p..49.

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Cioffi, F. (2011). "A Personal Introduction". Thirty Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship. 9-22.

Cioffi, F. (1993). The Ones Who Walk.

Cioffi, F. (1993). Train-Car Romance. (Fall-Winter 1993),

Cioffi, F. (1981). "Intrusion".

Reviews

Cioffi, F. (2015,September 26). Readers Writing : Strategy Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text. New York, NY,U.S.: Teachers College Record.

Cioffi, F. (1983,October 1). Review of Channels of Desire. Milwaukee, WI,USA: Sub-Stance.

Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award (research)Scripps College2006For published articles and book
Marie McSpadden Sands Faculty Award for Excellent TeachingScripps College2005For excellent teaching
Summer SeminarNational Endowment for the Humanities1988Summer seminar held at CUNY Graduate Center and led by Professor Morris Dickstein
Fulbright Senior LecturerCouncil for International Exchange of Scholars1984Teaching American literature and culture at the University of Gdansk, Poland, ,1984-87
Summer SeminarNational Endowment for the Humanities1982Participation in summer seminars sponsored by NEH and held at University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Graduate Fiction PrizeIndiana University--Bloomington1979For best fiction written by a graduate student

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Professional Staff Congressdelegate to the AssemblyPresent
executive committeeCommittee Member5/31/2014

University

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Dissertation committee Committee Member5/1/20146/30/2015