As the first place winner of the second annual Threesis Challenge and John W. Draper alum, Chris Cappelluti has volumes to speak on his experiences at GSAS and the Master’s College. Chris first participated in the Threesis Challenge in its inaugural year. At the time, he was President of the GSAS Master’s College Program Board and pursuing his M.A. in humanities and social thought, which he said gave him the freedom to explore the subjects that interested him from a scholarly perspective. Building on that foundation, he participated in the Threesis again the following year and won the grand prize for his presentation, “The Dual Ulysses Tradition.”
Now, Chris works at the Expository Writing Program at NYU while also pursing his M.F.A. at Brooklyn College. When asked about his experience in the Threesis Challenge, he explained, “The first year, I only made it to the qualifying rounds; but that was valuable because the experience resembled that of job interviews, and prepared me for the real world in that sense. The next year I was actually a finalist, which I couldn’t believe at the time. I almost couldn’t bring myself to do my presentation,” he confessed. But the supportive atmosphere and energetic leadership of the Threesis encouraged him to “just go out there and say what I had to say. And I did. And now I know that if I can stand up in front of more than a hundred people and explain to them something I had studied all year, then I can give a lesson or deliver a lecture to a group of fifteen freshman when I teach a writing class with confidence. A big part of Threesis is learning how to be prepared. I’m confident that I am prepared to lead a class with certainty.” As he looks forward to teaching, Chris is also working on a novel, Babylon Fading (working title).
Read some of Chris’ work here.
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