Patrick Russell

Patrick Russell
Staff Instructor
Email: prussell@pace.edu

Patrick began his teaching career in Taipei, Taiwan where he taught English as a Foreign Language after graduating with a BFA from the University of Kansas. After Taiwan, he moved to New York City, obtained an MA in TESOL from the New School and has continued to teach English as a Second Language to people from around the globe. He is passionate about providing students with lessons centered around language-learning strategies that incorporate real-world material (videos, reading texts, photos, corpus websites, etc.). He has given numerous presentations on this topic at various TESOL and teacher training conferences. Patrick works full-time at Pace as an ESL instructor and academic advisor while also helping to develop ELI’s curricula and assessments. Outside of work, Patrick loves riding his bike around NYC, taking photographs, going to concerts, seeing art and eating pizza.