Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was a featured panelist at a public program, "James Joyce's Ulysses - 100 Years Later," held at the New School in New York City on March 14, 2023. Goldman presented a paper titled "Ulysses, Style, and Joyce's Multiverse."

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented Ugh! Not Another Research Paper! Designing and Implementing a Humanistic Interdisciplinary Project at The Conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World on February 20-22, 2023 in Savannah, GA. In her interactive presentation, O’Hara shared details of implementing a humanistic interdisciplinary project that provides undergraduate students with opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research, independent learning, and problem-solving. Drawing from tenets of critical pedagogy, photovoice, participatory action, and intergenerational studies, students engage in scholarly inquiry within fully online and hybrid environments.

Nayoung Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science, published her article, "Integrative Developmental Model for Narrative Supervision," published in the on January 25, 2023. The article was originally published online on May 21, 2021.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published the chapter, “Lyric ‘Unpunctuation’: W. S. Merwin’s Early New Yorker Correspondence,” in the collection Reading W. S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives, edited by Cheri Colby Langdell and published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 2, 2023.

Jennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a new monograph, At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era, with the University Press of Mississippi's Cultures of Childhood series, on December 16, 2022. The book focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological “problem,” all while trying to expand.

Sophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published a paper, "Supersymmetry of the D3/D5 defect field theory," in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the highest-ranked journal in this field of study, on December 9, 2022. The paper, co-authored with Andrew B. Royston of Penn State - Fayette, closes a 20-year gap in the literature surrounding a very commonly used and well-studied system in string theory and paves the way for the study of special mathematical objects called "solitons" in this system.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation on December 6, 2022.

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to serve as the Fulbright Specialist for “Competency Based Curriculum on Blue Economy”’ at the Tom Mboya University College on May 2022, through the U.S. Embassy Kenya, Fulbright Specialist Program. The project commenced on the October 18 and was completed on November 28, 2022.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation titled "Three Short Talks About Ulysses: Publication, Culture, Legacy" at IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15, 2022. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, appeared on an episode of the Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast titled "The Untold Perspective: Writer Lynn Rogoff Discusses Bird Woman, Her Audio Drama Creation On Sacajawea," on November 6, 2022. Rogoff recently produced a shape-shifting Bird Woman®, audio drama multi-episode series based on the Lewis and Clark Native American guide, Sacajawea. Bird Woman®, a magical realism drama, discovers her supernatural shape-shifting powers as a part woman, part eagle, fighting alongside the expedition members.