joshua cabat

Director of English Teacher Education
Humanities 2088
joshua.cabat@stonybrook.edu 
 

• Biography

  biography

  Josh Cabat is the new Director of English Teacher Education here at SBU, where he has served as a Lecturer since 2018. He worked for 13 years as Chair of English 6-12 for the Roslyn Public Schools. For the preceding decade, he taught English and Film Studies at Roslyn High School in Roslyn. Previously, he taught in the New York City public high schools for over a decade. He served on both the National Council of Teachers of English Secondary Steering Committee and the Teacher Advisory Council of the National Humanities Center. He was a founding member of the Folger Shakespeare Library National Teacher Corps, and for nine years was the Teaching Artist for the Young Film Critics program at BAM. He is the co-founder of the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival and the North Shore Student Shakespeare Festival, and is a founding member of Doc Academy, an organization devoted to bringing documentary films into the secondary classroom. He has been a featured speaker at many national conferences, and has published articles on Shakespeare and on film in publications such as the English Journal. He earned an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Columbia University. Connect with him on Twitter @JoshCabat or via email at joshua.cabat@stonybrook.edu.