Involved with WAC since 2005, he worked alongside faculty as a Writing Fellow and co-led faculty institutes as a Faculty Development Associate. Schmidt has worked as a teacher-consultant for the New York City Writing Project and coordinated Pass It On, their summer youth writers’ institute for NYC public school students. His most recent project, Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature investigates cross-race writing, interracial sexuality, and queer identity in post-WWII American poetry and fiction from 1945-1955 and will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in the fall of 2013. Research interests include 20th century African American literature, interracial cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and composition/rhetoric. (office C-397; phone 718-960-8556; e-mail tyler.schmidt@lehman.cuny.edu )