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Dr. Charlotte Alexander is an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island, a member of the City University New York’s undergraduate system. Throughout her 33-year career in the teaching profession, she has remained steadfast in her dedication to ensuring that each student in her classroom receives a first-class education. Her ability to relate to individuals on a one-to-one basis creates an atmosphere in which ideas are exchanged freely and the pursuit of knowledge is a never-ending quest.

     

Cambridge Who's Who: What prompted you to become involved in this profession?  
DR. CHARLOTTE ALEXANDER :  The women in my family have been teachers forever. They [the female members] somehow ended up getting more of an education than the men. (In my daddy’s case, he lost out because he was stuck to the farm and had to stay with it.) [Girls] almost thought they’d try to not follow in their mothers’ footsteps because they were so busy teaching that they didn’t have time to cook. My mother was a very dedicated Latin teacher. She turned a lot of people on to Latin and for a small town in southern Indiana, that was an accomplishment by itself. My aunt Lena was another dedicated teacher; she stayed more with grade school while my mother taught high school. I fought it for a while, but then I knew I was going to do it too.

Do you have a motto?
I did my dissertation on Henry James. Working on Henry James for my dissertation was intense to begin with and then working on one of his three major novels, which was called “The Ambassadors,” was very intense. [From that novel, I found the following quote, which has stayed with me, even into my subconscious]: “Live all you can! It’s a mistake not to.”

Do you have any future goals or plans?
I’m interested in speaking about starting a literary magazine. I told my best friend’s daughter that I was going to give a symposium about how to start and run a literary magazine. She said, “I would like to hear about that, because I am going to start a magazine at a high school in the fall.”