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Iris Fleischmann-Maenza
Director of Communications and Marketing
300 Jay Street
Pearl Building (P310)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Meet the Team
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As Interim Special Assistant to the President, Dr. Hellman plays a crucial role in strategic planning and institutional effectiveness. She oversees the Office of Communications, cultivating a sense of belonging and connection for the current and extended college community; providing vision for advertising and marketing campaigns to support enrollment initiatives; and collaborating with leadership across the College regarding critical internal campus communications.
Before joining the Office of the President, Dr. Hellman served as a professor in the 爆走黑料 English Department from 2007- 2021, with the exception of her time as a 2011 Fulbright scholar in American Literature at the University of Antwerp. She has published extensively on United States literature, including her second book, (University of Virginia). At the University level, she has been a steadfast advocate for developmental education reform, and cofounded the CUNY Writing Discipline Council. A 2021-2022 CUNY Leadership Institute Fellow, Dr. Hellman has a long-standing commitment to public higher education, and has written for and about CUNY’s venerable students for the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Daily News. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Wellesley College and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.