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Adam Floridia
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 Coordinator, College Learning Center &
Adjunct English Instructor
Phone: 860-343-5858
Email: afloridia@mxcc.commnet.edu
Office Location: Chapman Hall 711
Adam Floridia began his full-time job as Learning Center Coordinator in 2010 but has been an adjunct in the English department since 2007. Prior to this full-time position, he worked as a high school English teacher. After teaching high school all day, he would come to Middlesex to teach night courses, and he simply fell in love with MxCC. He cites the drastic difference in students’ intrinsic motivation to learn as his reason for leaving secondary education for higher education.
Adam has an obvious sense of humor and tends to be very outgoing. He says that some of this “showmanship” comes from his time teaching high school where to keep students’ attention he had to first entertain them. Once they were interested, driving the content home was a cinch.
As much as Adam loves teaching and tutoring English, he does list his primary passion as literature. He has read at least fifty books a year for the past four years and claims he’s addicted to the website www.goodreads.com. It’s a place where he can keep track of what he’s reading and what he’s read, write reviews of books, and discover great books he would otherwise miss out on. He says he doesn’t “do Facebook,” but he loves Goodreads. To see what Adam’s reading or to check out his favorite authors, just join the site and get reading!
Travel is another passion of his—if you visit the Learning Center, you will see that he’s decorated it with pictures from his international trips. Currently, Adam lives in Meriden with his wife, Erin, and their dog, Scout (named after his favorite literary character). Soon, he will be the proud father of a baby boy.
A self-proclaimed pedant, Adam graduated magna cum laude with B.A. in Secondary Education and English from the University of Maryland College Park, and he looks back fondly on his time as a Terp. He earned his M.A. at Southern Connecticut State University with a perfect 4.0; his thesis was titled Attacking Apathy, Breaking Down Beliefs, Crusading for Compassion: The ABCs of Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels.
Scholarship
Peer Reviewed Publications
- “Writing with the Masters: Finding Creativity in Copying.” Teaching Creative Writing: Practical Approaches. Ed. Elaine Walker. Wicken, Cambridgeshire: The Professional and Higher Partnership, 2012 (anticipated). Print.
- “Reading Race in Poe’s Pym.” [Inter]sections: American Studies. 3.12. Fall/Winter 2010. http://www.americanstudies.ro/?category=13
- “Unconsciously Completing the Canon: An Argument for The Original of Laura.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 3:3/4. Spring/Summer 2010. http://cpcc.edu/taltp
Presentations
- “Losing Consciousness, Achieving Completion: Nabokov’s Final Work,” 11th Annual English Graduate Conference—Encountering the Text: Reading, Teaching, Theorizing, Writing, Southern Connecticut State University, April 2010
- The Arts of Researching, Speaking, and Teaching: My Humble Experiences,” 2nd Annual Graduate English Research Symposium, Southern Connecticut State University, November 2009
- Attacking Apathy, Breaking Down Beliefs, Crusading for Compassion: The ABCs of Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels,” 9th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Southern Connecticut State University, May 2007 View presentation at: http://www.southernct.edu/departments/utrc/gradfellows07/Floridia.htm
Writing Interview:
http://creativewritingstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/the-creative-writing-interviews-adam-floridia/
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