Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, discussed autofiction in relation to Amanda Michalopoulou's Baroque on May 2, 2019 at a salon at the home of the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York City. The event, which included a reading by the author, was a collaboration between the German and Greek consulates in New York.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, had his book, Lewis Carroll: Worlds of His Alices (Writers and Their Contexts), published by Edward Everett Root on April 30, 2019. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the creative works of Lewis Carroll.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, "Joyce & the Dems: Ulysses, Politics, and Cultural Capital," on the Modernism/modernity Print+ page on April 29, 2019. The essay analyzes recent invocations of James Joyce's Ulysses by US presidential hopefuls.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, recently had two video interviews posted on the Vlog "Posthumans" on April 26, 2019. One interview (Episode 10: "Robots in Ancient Times") is based on his book Artificial Slaves, while the second (Episode 11: "Technological Unemployment") is based on his book, Surviving the Machine Age. The Vlog is run by Dr. Francesca Ferrando, a philosopher working at NYU, and features interviews with different philosophers, scholars, artists, and scientists whose works revolve around the topic of the posthuman—the convergence of humans and AI. The interviews are recorded at the Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, was awarded a Bronze "IPPY" Award (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the poetry category on April 10, 2019, for her book, Drugstore Blue, published by Five Oaks Press.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was awarded a Research Travel Grant from the Modernist Studies Association on April 9, 2019, for her project, "The Margins of the Lyric: Gwendolyn Brooks Annotating Modernism."

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, as part of the Mysterium Humanum Madness Studies speaker series, on April 9, 2019.

Ranja Roy, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published her article, "Quasi-isometries and proper homotopy: The quasi-isometry invariance of Proper 3-realizability of groups," in the journal, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, on April 4, 2019. The article, which was co-authored by colleagues from the University of Seville Mathematics Department, was first published electronically on December 12, 2018.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented, "Digital Transitions: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Screenplay" at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2019. This paper addressed her NYIT students' digital project interpreting the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's manuscripts for her unpublished screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, delivered an hour-long talk, "For all those ‘curiouser and curiouser’ about a man and his Alices,” at San Diego State University on March 9, 2019, in conjunction with the semi-annual meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.