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.
Robert Feirsen
College of Arts & Sciences Masters Educational Leadership & TechnologyRobert Feirsen, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of the school leadership and technology program, and Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, \nled three workshop presentations at 2018 New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYACTE)/New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE) 2018 annual conference, October 11-12, 2018 in Saratoga Springs, NY. The three presentations were titled, "Failing Forward: Teaching Organizational Recovery to School Leadership Candidates;" "Addressing the Challenge to Advocate for Educators using the Design Thinking Approach;" and "Leadership with a 'T': Integrating Teacher Leadership into Leadership Preparation Programs."
\n\nAmy Bravo
International & Experiential EducationAmy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, and Jim Martinez, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented a workshop, "How to Grow Your Community Project Developmentally: A Conversation 雅伎著 the Challenges of Scaling Up!" at the in New York City on September 22, 2018. Bravo and Martinez discussed their projects, ranging from the creation of STEM-focused service-learning environments with one elementary school to a large scale multidisciplinary campus-wide initiative in Harlem, as well as the successes and challenges of bringing development and community engagement to the NYIT.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her translations of five poems from The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems, by the Sri Lankan poet, Indran Amirthanayagam, published by on September 18, 2018. Case translated the poems from English into Italian.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, edited a peer-reviewed cluster on for the third issue of the journal, Feminist Modernist Studies, published on September 7, 2018. She also co-wrote the introduction to the cluster with the journal's editor, Cassandra Laity (University of Tennessee, Knoxville).
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, had an interview published in the German magazine, Next on September 6, 2018. The article, written by Sonny and Gabrielle Klawitter, discusses survival strategies for surviving this era of rapid technological change.
Terese Coe
English Dep't, Manhattan campusTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, published by miCRo, the Cincinnati Review's website for short poems, on September 5, 2018.
Terese Coe
Manhattan campus of NYITTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had two poems, "First Child," and her translation of Heinrich Heine's "Shame" (Wie schändlich du gehandelt), published by Measure Press on September 5, 2018.
Anthony Dimatteo
College of Arts and SciencesAnthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had three poems published in the international literary journal on September 1, 2018, in an issue regarding the perils and pleasures of translation.
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, published a research article, in Computers and Composition on August 28, 2018. The article discuses how virtual reality can be used to teach writing and literature.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, recently edited the book, , published by Palgrave Macmillan on August 13, 2018. The book brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to create an intersectional community of scholarship in literary disability studies of mental health. The volume addresses the under-representation of madness and psychiatric disability in the field of disability studies, which traditionally focuses on physical disability, and explores the controversies and the common ground among disability studies, anti-psychiatric discourses, mad studies, graphic medicine, and health/medical humanities.