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.
Sebastien Marion
LibraryEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, and Sebastien Marion, M.L.I.S., M.B.A., librarian III, virtual services, have published a scholarly article in Dickens Studies Annual, titled, "." The article was published on September 1, 2025.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an essay in "," a collection of selected papers presented at the 2022 International James Joyce Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. The collection was published online on August 18, 2025, and in paperback by Brill on September 4, 2025. Goldman's contribution, "Including Frances Steloff," analyses Steloff鈥檚 influence on Joyce鈥檚 reception in the United States and internationally, and argues that her work emphasized the collective, and often gendered, enterprise of creating a literary legacy.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has been awarded an NIH Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant as principal investigator. The project, , was awarded on August 12, 2025, and it will investigate how radiologists interpret complex medical images when aided by artificial intelligence, using eye-tracking data to optimize how visual cues are delivered. In parallel, the grant supports the Human Factors And Neuroscience Lab鈥檚 student-centered training model as a pipeline for student success.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was named one of by the Long Island Business News, on July 25, 2025. He was honored for his research in developing novel AI clinical pathology diagnostic tools and molecular biological-based research methods in genomics for cancer research.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was interviewed in the Financial Times on the subject of her research on using AI with students. In the July 18, 2025, article, "," she said that "the more novel and unique the proposition is, the harder it is for them to use AI."
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented a paper titled "Gatsby鈥檚 Other New York Islands: Segregation, Incarceration, Abjection" at the in New York City on June 26, 2025. The presentation situated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in the context of New York's carceral populations at the time of the novel's setting and composition.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture and workshop for secondary English teachers on "Mid-Twentieth Century Confessional Poetry" as part of Humanities Texas's "" Teacher Institute held at the University of Houston on June 26, 2025.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, with her in an event hosted by Odyssey Bookshop on June 24, 2025.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesOn July 18, 2025, Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, launched an innovative AI-powered chatbot on the . The project blends animated virtual agents with historical dramatizations to engage students in exploring U.S. history.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, delivered a paper, "Longest Way Round, Yada Yada: Ulysses in the Streets of New York" at , held on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the Embassy of Ireland in Paris, France.