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.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation at the Modern Languages Association in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 10, 2025. Goldman's talk, "Joyce the Opposer," was sponsored by the International James Joyce Foundation.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented “Revising the Poems of Sylvia Plath” at the Modern Language Association Convention, held in New Orleans, La., January 9–11, 2025. At the conference, she also served as a mentor for early career scholars.\n
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article, "The Great Gatsby at – almost – 100: Staging a Troubled Legacy" in The Village Voice on December 17, 2024. Nominally a review of two stage adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the essay is a rumination on the book's complicated relationship to 1920s and contemporary culture.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave an invited lecture on “Editing Sylvia Plath” on December 12, 2024, at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies in Amherst, Mass. The event featured Golden and Karen V. Kukil, with whom she is co-editing a new edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber & Faber, 2026).
Kate E. O'Hara
CAS/Humanities/ Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was the recipient of the Juror’s Award Honorable Mention for her photograph, “After the Race” exhibited at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, December 6 to 27, 2024. O’Hara’s photography and multimedia installations draw from her background in social science and arts-based research. O’Hara describes her work as a phenomenological approach to understanding structures of experience and consciousness with an aim to capture the lived experience of her subjects.
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College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a review essay on November 9, 2024, of "James Joyce and Paul Léon: the Story of a Friendship Revisited" ed. by Alexis Léon, Anna Maria Léon, and Luca Crispi", in James Joyce Quarterly volume 61, number 3-4, pp. 376-379.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, participated in a peer seminar on the 1940s at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Chicago, Ill., on November 7, 2024. Golden's paper, "The New Yorker Archive: Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks," addressed correspondence held at the New York Public Library.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, attended the Modernist Studies Association annual conference and participated in a seminar on November 7, 2024, called "Modernism and its Neighborhoods." Goldman's paper, "Mapping Post-WWI New York City from Above and Other Perspectives," addressed strategies for mapping New York City in the 1920s.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, spoke at “How She Sang: Celebrating the Life and Work of Poet Anne Sexton, 1928-1974," held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., on October 30, 2024.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, wrote a letter to the editor of the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News. The letter, "Reactions: Attrition in science and noncanonical structures for DNA-based computers," was published on October 27, 2024. Gagna responded to an important article written on how double-stranded DNA could replace silicon chips in the future; he suggested that researchers need to think beyond the canonical, traditional Watson-Crick right-handed double-stranded B-DNA, to take advantage of other DNA structures.
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