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 2018). Her new book, Encountering Primo Levi: Reading and Teaching Trauma Narratives, focuses on reading and writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Palgrave-MacMillan 2026). Check out her books in the Cabrillo Library, or access them in e-book format in the Cabrillo Library database.