Professor Engel teaches undergraduate Computer Science courses in web programming, database technologies, and related areas. She created an undergraduate semester-long course on Computing in the Humanities and the Arts as an elective within the Computer Science Department's Web Programming Minor in order to better serve students in the Humanities and the Arts fields. She also taught a graduate seminar on Digital Literary Archives for NYU's English department in the fall, 2011 semester. Professor Engel holds both an M.A. in Comparative Literature (SUNY-Binghamton, 1982) and an M.S. in Computer Science (New York University, 1999).