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.
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 and SciencesAmanda 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 and SciencesAmanda 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 and SciencesAmanda 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.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented a “Hamlet with Augmented Reality: An AR Application for Understanding Shakespeare” for the Modern Language Association's 2020 conference on January 10, 2020.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was selected as one of the artists in the juried show, “Renewal” at the Upstream Gallery, in Hastings-on Hudson, New York on January 5, 2020. O’Hara’s photographs, Scaling and Perspective, draw from her background in social science, and arts-based research in particular. During the opening reception, O’Hara explained her use of photography as a phenomenological approach to understanding structures of experience and consciousness.
\nJonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, launched a website, New York 1920: 100 Years Ago Today (When We Became Modern) on January 1, 2020. The website displays archival materials from the city 100 years ago and will be updated throughout 2020.