Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, organized and moderated the session “Scholarly Editing Now” at the annual Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, Washington on January 11, 2020. At the convention, Golden served on the Delegate Assembly as a representative of the Executive Committee for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, guest-edited a peer-reviewed special cluster on “Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities” on January 10, 2020 for the third issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, originally published in 2018. The journal received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the third issue was one of the prize-winning issues.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a “Hamlet with Augmented Reality: An AR Application for Understanding Shakespeare” for the Modern Language Association's 2020 conference on January 10, 2020.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was selected as one of the artists in the juried show, “Renewal” at the Upstream Gallery, in Hastings-on Hudson, New York on January 5, 2020. O’Hara’s photographs, Scaling and Perspective, draw from her background in social science, and arts-based research in particular. During the opening reception, O’Hara explained her use of photography as a phenomenological approach to understanding structures of experience and consciousness.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, launched a website, New York 1920: 100 Years Ago Today (When We Became Modern) on January 1, 2020. The website displays archival materials from the city 100 years ago and will be updated throughout 2020.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, appeared on National Public Radio's “Tiny Desk” series, on December 31, 2019. Goldman played trumpet and led his Latin band, Spanglish Fly. He also wrote or co-wrote all three songs: "Bugalu pa' mi abuela," "Los niños en la frontera," and "Boogaloo Shoes."

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an article “How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year's Eve 100 Years Ago,” in the Gothamist on December 31, 2019. The article described the looming effects of prohibition and the Red Scare over New Yorkers' New Year's Eve.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had his poem, “Next Door to Nowhere,” published in The American Journal of Poetry on December 26, 2019.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had his poem, “Duties Include (Ars Poetica),” published in Cimarron Review on December 10, 2019.

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had an article, “Membrane filtration with multiple fouling mechanisms,” published on December 3, 2019 in the Physical Review Fluids. The article, written in collaboration with Linda J. Cummings, professor of mathematical sciences, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, details their simplified mathematical model which characterizes membrane internal pore structure via permeability or resistance gradients in the depth of the membrane, accounts for multiple membrane fouling mechanisms (adsorption, blocking, and cake formation), defines a measure of filter performance, and for given operating conditions, is able to predict the optimum permeability or resistance profile for the chosen performance measure.