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.
Michael Schiavi
School of Arts and SciencesMichael Schiavi, Ph.D., professor of humanities, appears as a film historian in the new documentary, MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 and has since played the Frameline50 Festival in San Francisco and the Provincetown Film Festival. The film is a study of homophobic murders that took place in New York City.
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.
John Zweck
College of Arts and SciencesJohn Zweck, Ph.D., professor of math, in the College of Arts and Sciences, presented a talk on “Spectral stability via the Fredholm determinant of a trace class Birman-Schwinger operator" at the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures at Concordia University in Montreal on May 29, 2026.
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.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, co-edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Karen V. Kukil, released on May 7, 2026. The publisher, Faber and Faber, describes the book as "a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet’s work for scholars, students and general readers." The book has been reviewed in the United Kingdom's The Times and Prospect Magazine. Golden and Kukil were also recent guests on The Spectator's Book Club podcast.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an aticle, "Columbia’s Cooperation With ICE Calls Back to KKK Days," in The Indypendent, a free, progressive monthly newspaper and news site in New York City. The article, dated May 6, 2026, chronicles the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the Columbia University campus in the 1920s and compares it to Columbia's complicity with ICE today.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, has published the book, "Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York From the Suppressed to the Strange," on May 1, 2026. Published by SUNY Press, the book takes a fresh look at New York City in its most iconic decade, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities.