We are sad to share the news of Dean Faiello’s tragic passing, in late January, due to a car accident. He was 64. During the time we had with him, Dean was a a great member of our community, always generous with his time and attention, always supportive and friendly to everyone no matter what their background. You are welcome to add to this tribute page by sending a note to cpep@cornell.edu
Tributes:
Lucas Whaley: Dean was a founding member of our writing group and was always a serious and generous critic, always with amazing insight and advice. He was always ready with a joke and a helping hand. This is a terrible loss.
Darryl Miller: He was the only guy good enough at crosswords to ask for answers. Literally one of my favorite CPEP students. We started the program together
Angel Torres: 
salutes to the good man!! R.I.P. 
Tess Wheelwright: What a tragic end after the seemingly joyful turn his life had finally taken. I was his English 101 instructor at Cayuga where he would go WAY above and beyond the parameters of assignments, diving into literatures of other cultures as part of personal work to identify his own privilege and “positionality.” I kept in touch with him because he contributed some blurbs – arty brief book reviews – for a catalog Freedom Reads was making. He also gave a guest talk in Heather Furnas’s class at JHU. This is so sad. If there are loved ones of his with whom you guys are in touch, I’d love to send condolences, too.
Betsye Violette: “The pleasure of following the story, the pleasure of living, was all that was left to me.” Elena Ferrante… in keeping with exactly who he was, this is the last book quote that Dean Faiello sent to me—from one of our shared favorite texts, My Brilliant Friend. There are so many things about this quote and this text that illustrate who Dean Faiello was: he truly embodied what it means to be a life-long scholar and lover of learning. Whether it was inside the classroom or an enthusiastic conversation about what books we were reading, I cannot think of another student who so generously and humbly supported his fellow classmates and or cared more about how his soul and spirit manifested through his words. Without fail, Mr. Faiello always sent me a holiday greeting, thank you note, or kind word when he thought I might need one. He was one of the very finest of our fellas and will be deeply missed by his entire CPEP family.