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Lori Jirousek-Falls
Associate Professor; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D, M.A.
Expertise: American Literature, Immigrant Writers, Communication for Technical Professions, Communication for Healthcare Careers
Joined New York Tech: 2000
Lori Jirousek-Falls, Ph.D., specializes in American literature, particularly the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries and ethnic and immigrant writers. She teaches courses in literature and medicine, poetry, and American literature, as well as courses in communication for technical professions, communication for healthcare careers, and freshman composition. Dr. Jirousek-Falls is a Faculty Fellow in the Honors College. In addition, she founded and advises the Minor in Literature and Culture. Dr. Jirousek-Falls received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in English from the Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. in English from the University of Akron.
- “Mary Antin’s Progressive Science: Eugenics, Evolution, and the Environment.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 27.1 (Fall 2008): 58-79.
- “Abraham Cahan and Jewish Education: For Men and Women.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 26 (2007): 35-47.
- “A New Book of the Land”: Ethnography, Espionage, and Immigrants in Native Speaker.” Modern Language Studies 36.1 (2006): 8-23.
- “Ethnics and Ethnographers: Zora Neale Hurston and Anzia Yezierska.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.2 (2006): 19-32.
- “‘That Commonality of Feeling’: Hurston, Hybridity, and Ethnography.” African American Review 38.3 (2004): 417-27.
- “Spectacle Ethnography and Immigrant Resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 27.1 (2002): 25-52.
- “Haunting Hysteria: Wharton, Freeman, and the Ghosts of Masculinity.” American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 32.1 (1999): 51-68.
- New York Institute of Technology Honors College Faculty Fellow, 2025-Present
- Outstanding Faculty Member, New York City Campus Student Government Association, 2007
- New York Tech Institutional Support of Research Grant for “Ethnic Writers Article Series,” 2006–2007
- New York Tech Institutional Support of Research Grant for “Immigrant Literature Scholarship Series,” 2005
- ICLT 301: Contemporary American Immigrant Literature
- ICLT 304: Literature and Work
- ICLT 308: Contemporary American Poetry
- ICLT 316: Literature and Medicine
- FCWR 302: Communication for Healthcare Careers
- FCWR 304: Communication for Technical Professions
- Foundations of Writing