Professor Cheryl Chaffin teaches English composition, rhetoric, literature, and creative writing courses at transfer level. She currently serves as Director of Cabrillo's Honors Transfer Program. She is passionate about teaching, sharing knowledge and building writing, critical thinking, and research skills with students. She works with students to grow their reader and writer identities for personal, academic, and professional success. She has travelled to Poland on fellowship with Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows. As a result of that trip, she wrote and published After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo Levi (Common Ground Press). Her upcoming book, Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives, focuses on reading and writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and will be released by Palgrave-MacMillan in March 2026.