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 Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, contributed a chapter to the volume edited by Robert Spoo and Simon Stern and published on January 21, 2025. Goldman's chapter, "Trademark," traces the interaction of trademark and branding with the literary culture over the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Jonathan 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, 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 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 Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article, "" 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 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, 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 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 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 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 in Waltham, Mass., on October 30, 2024.