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.
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
School of Architecture & Design ArchitecturePablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, had his peer-reviewed article, "Data and Politics of Information: Rezoning New York City through Big Data" included in Data, Architecture and the Experience of Place, edited by Anastasia Karandinou and published on November 12, 2018. In his essay, he discusses the neoliberal model of city planning with regard to the current environmental crisis, issuing a call to action with radical futuristic proposals that can be implemented today through information-based surveying data gathering processes that can inform participatory city growth in an interactive real-time process through an interface application project.
Jonathan Goldman
Spanglish FlyJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in a review of the new album, "Ay Que Boogaloo," from Goldman's Latin music group, Spanglish Fly, in All About Jazz on November 12, 2018. According to reviewer Chris M. Slawecki, "Jonathan Goldman sure seems like one interesting dude. An Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology, Goldman edited the seminal study Joyce and the Law (University of Florida Press, 2017) and leads one of the most famous reading groups for one of Joyce's most infamous works, Ulysses. And as lead trumpet and bandleader for New York's own Spanglish Fly, he's one of the world's leading proponents of the irresistibly liberating rhythms, sounds and beats of Latin soul and boogaloo."
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, served as a panelist at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's 116th conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham on November 10, 2018. As part of his presentation, "More Than Just Words, Words, Words: Using AR to Illustrate the Context Behind the Text of Hamlet, Misak displayed a prototype of an Augmented Reality application that both he and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, are working on to teach complex humanities texts, like Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, organized and presented on the roundtable, "Feminist Designs: Visualizing the Future of Modernist Digital Humanities" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio, November 10, 2018.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, had her collection, This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton, published in paperback by the University Press of Florida on November 9, 2018.
David Nadler
NYITDavid Nadler, Ph.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Technology and Sustainability, presented "Translating Agency-Collected Data to Inform Policy" as a panelist at the New York City Town+Gown Construction Data Analytic Symposium, presented by the NYC Department of Design and Construction on November 9, 2018. Along with other panelists from the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and NYU, he spoke about the horizontal and vertical logistics city agencies face during the implementation of new local environmental laws.
Naomi Frangos
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureNaomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, published her article “Knit Nature: Anticipated Incarnations of Jenny Sabin Studio’s LUSTER,” in The Architect’s Newspaper on November 9, 2018. In the article, Frangos reflects on “dynamic archetypes” in nature and technology, and morphology relationships between generative and computational design and digital fabrication.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, read from her recently published books and gave a brief talk about William Carlos Williams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Red Wheelbarrow Series in Rutherford, New Jersey. During the fall semester, she was also featured in readings from her books at The Americas Poetry Festival at the Argentine Consulate in NYC, QED in Astoria, Queens, the Cornelia Street Cafe, in New York City, the Annual Poets & Writers on War and Peace Reading at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester, New York, and the One Breath Rising reading series in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Terese Coe
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, published her third book of poems, Why You Can't Go Home Again, a selection of her satire, parody, and humor, by Kelsay Books on November 1, 2018.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article "'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care': Lewis Carroll Studies, 2004-2017," in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 49, No.2 (2018). The article, a comprehensive review of studies from 2004 through 2017 of Lewis Carroll's life and art, was published on November 1, 2018.
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