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.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, published her chapter, “Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad,” in A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 5, edited by Joyce Huff and Martha Stoddard Holmes. The book was published on February 6, 2020, by Bloomsbury Press.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, “How Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair,” in The Public Domain Review on February 6, 2020. The piece is a result of research for his site New York 1920: 100 Years Ago Today, a project sponsored by a two-year ISRC grant.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was invited to speak at the Ulrich Museum of Art of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas on emerging technology and art on February 6, 2020. In his talk,“Voices from the Vault,” he spoke about Brooklyn artist Lee Adler's artwork and the anticipated the bonding of humans and machines in the 21st century.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her poem, “Hold Me Like You'll Never Let Me Go,” a part of a theatre event, Let Lightning Set Us on Fire, a work of modern love to celebrate Valentine's Day on February 3, 2020 in New York City.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts and SciencesElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to be the “Narrating Disease” panel commentator at the “Feeling DIS/EASE” conference at the Max Planck Institute for Human Behavior, in Berlin, Germany, on January 30, 2020.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was invited to join the Editorial Board of Bloomsbury Academic's Modernist Archives book series on January 27, 2019.
John Misak
New York Institute of TechnologyJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article, “Perchance to Read: Developing an Augmented Reality Game to Increase Student Engagement with Hamlet” in Early Modern Culture Online on January 26, 2020.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was asked to be a referee for the Canadian government's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grants for 2020 on January 16, 2020.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, organized and moderated the session “Scholarly Editing Now” at the annual Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, Washington on January 11, 2020. At the convention, Golden served on the Delegate Assembly as a representative of the Executive Committee for Bibliography and Scholarly Editing.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, guest-edited a peer-reviewed special cluster on “Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities” on January 10, 2020 for the third issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, originally published in 2018. The journal received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the third issue was one of the prize-winning issues.
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