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.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, exhibited her photograph, Opening the Canopy, at the "Do One Thing to Make to the World a Better Place" benefit at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY on May 4, 2019. O鈥橦ara's current scholarship explores the use of photography as a research method. She will be leading a fall 2019 course, IDSP 300 鈥撀�Lived Experience in a Multimedia World, based on the field of phenomenology, a philosophical approach to understanding how human beings experience the world, which will use multimedia artifacts, including photographs, narratives, and personal stories as tools for research.
\nLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, discussed autofiction in relation to Amanda Michalopoulou's Baroque on May 2, 2019, at a salon at the home of the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York City. The event, which included a reading by the author, was a collaboration between the German and Greek consulates in New York.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, had his book, Lewis Carroll: Worlds of His Alices (Writers and Their Contexts), published by Edward Everett Root on April 30, 2019. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the creative works of Lewis Carroll.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, on the Modernism/modernity Print+ page on April 29, 2019. The essay analyzes recent invocations of James Joyce's Ulysses by US presidential hopefuls.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, recently had two video interviews posted on the Vlog on April 26, 2019. One interview (Episode 10: "Robots in Ancient Times") is based on his book Artificial Slaves, while the second (Episode 11: "Technological Unemployment") is based on his book, Surviving the Machine Age. The Vlog is run by Dr. Francesca Ferrando, a philosopher working at NYU, and features interviews with different philosophers, scholars, artists, and scientists whose works revolve around the topic of the posthuman—the convergence of humans and AI. The interviews are recorded at the Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City.
\nSusana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, was awarded a (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the poetry category on April 10, 2019, for her book, Drugstore Blue, published by Five Oaks Press.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was awarded a Research Travel Grant from the Modernist Studies Association on April 9, 2019, for her project, "The Margins of the Lyric: Gwendolyn Brooks Annotating Modernism."
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, 鈥淧sychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,鈥� at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, as part of the Mysterium Humanum Madness Studies speaker series, on April 9, 2019.
\nRanja Roy
College of Arts & Sciences MathRanja Roy, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published her article, in the journal, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, on April 4, 2019. The article, which was co-authored by colleagues from the University of Seville Mathematics Department, was first published electronically on December 12, 2018.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented, "Digital Transitions: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Screenplay" at the in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2019. This paper addressed her NYIT students' digital project interpreting the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's manuscripts for her unpublished screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.