Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 18th Annual Convention of the School Counseling Circle of the Philippines, November 13-14, 2018 in Manilla, Philipenes.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in a review of the new album, "Ay Que Boogaloo," from Goldman's Latin music group, Spanglish Fly, in All About Jazz on November 12, 2018. According to reviewer Chris M. Slawecki, "Jonathan Goldman sure seems like one interesting dude. An Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology, Goldman edited the seminal study Joyce and the Law (University of Florida Press, 2017) and leads one of the most famous reading groups for one of Joyce's most infamous works, Ulysses. And as lead trumpet and bandleader for New York's own Spanglish Fly, he's one of the world's leading proponents of the irresistibly liberating rhythms, sounds and beats of Latin soul and boogaloo."

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, organized and presented on the roundtable, "Feminist Designs: Visualizing the Future of Modernist Digital Humanities" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio, November 10, 2018.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, served as a panelist at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's 116th conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham on November 10, 2018. As part of his presentation, "More Than Just Words, Words, Words: Using AR to Illustrate the Context Behind the Text of Hamlet, Misak displayed a prototype of an Augmented Reality application that both he and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, are working on to teach complex humanities texts, like Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, read from her recently published books and gave a brief talk about William Carlos Williams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Red Wheelbarrow Series in Rutherford, New Jersey. During the fall semester, she was also featured in readings from her books at The Americas Poetry Festival at the Argentine Consulate in NYC, QED in Astoria, Queens, the Cornelia Street Cafe, in New York City, the Annual Poets & Writers on War and Peace Reading at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester, New York, and the One Breath Rising reading series in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article "'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care': Lewis Carroll Studies, 2004-2017," in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 49, No.2 (2018). The article, a comprehensive review of studies from 2004 through 2017 of Lewis Carroll's life and art, was published on November 1, 2018.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, published her third book of poems, Why You Can't Go Home Again, a selection of her satire, parody, and humor, by Kelsay Books on November 1, 2018.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, delivered her lecture, “Psychiatric Disability and the Second Wave: The Mad Writing of Shulamith Firestone and Kate Millett,” at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY on October 24, 2018. The event, which included a reception to celebrate the publication of her second book, Literatures of Madness, was co-sponsored by the CUNY Doctoral Program in Music, the Futures Initiative, the CUNY Disability Scholars, and CUNY's Master's Program in Disability Studies.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was interviewed by Allyn West for his article, "Found: Former UH Graduate Students Discover 'forgotten' Anne Sexton poetry," published in theHouston Chronicle, on October 16, 2018.

Robert Feirsen, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of the school leadership and technology program, and Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, led three workshop presentations at 2018 New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYACTE)/New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE) 2018 annual conference, October 11-12, 2018 in Saratoga Springs, NY. The three presentations were titled, "Failing Forward: Teaching Organizational Recovery to School Leadership Candidates;" "Addressing the Challenge to Advocate for Educators using the Design Thinking Approach;" and "Leadership with a 'T': Integrating Teacher Leadership into Leadership Preparation Programs."