Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave two talks about The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new edition that she co-edited with Karen V. Kukil. These events were held at the Exeter Library and Ledbury Poetry Festival, in England, on June 25, 2026. She also gave a lecture on Sylvia Plath and the poet Dylan Thomas at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales, on June 27, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation to New York City's Village Preservation Society on June 25, 2026. Goldman focused on historical material about 1920s Greenwich Village and NYC generally drawn from his new book Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation to New York City's Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group on June 23, 2026. Goldman focused on material about the West Side of Manhattan, drawn from his new book Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper titled “A Black Coney Island, Erased” at the third annual New York History Conference in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on June 12, 2026.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
College of Arts and SciencesChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a paper, "Gravitomagnetic plasma battery II: Impact of vertical disk structure on seed magnetic field generation," in Elsevier’s Fundamental Plasma Physics journal, on June 9, 2026. The article explores how magnetic fields are born around rotating black holes.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented "Autofiction in Children’s and YA Literature: Does It Exist?" at the Children's Literature Association Conference, in Pittsburgh, on May 29, 2026. The paper and presentation explored memoirs and fictional autobiographies in children's and young-adult fiction that complicate the conventions of storytelling.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper, "New York's James Joyce: Multiculturalism and the Irish Cultural Diaspora," at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, in Chicago, on May 23, 2026. The presentation analyzed James Joyce's historical reception in New York City.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published three articles in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on May 20, 2026. One, co-authored with Michael Nizich, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of computer science and director of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), was titled "A Novel Omics Platform for Nucleic Acid Structural Spatial Genome Organization (“Genomesorganizomics”)." Two others were titled "Structural Spatial Transcriptomics: A Conformation-Resolved Omics Framework for Mapping RNA Structural States During Active Transcription in Intact Cells and Tissues" and "STRuCT-GENE: Structural Transition Characterization of Genes through Integrated Prediction of Noncanonical DNA Conformations to Reveal Structure-Encoded Regulatory and Genomic Instability Signatures."
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, was interviewed for “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Writing Must-Have? Stolen Pink Paper,” published in The Independent on May 19, 2026.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, spoke at the May 16, 2026, Sylvia Plath Society's launch event for The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a work she recently co-edited. The book was also reviewed in the Financial Times on May 13, 2026.