Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published a review of Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness, by Dale Barleben, in James Joyce Quarterly on June 25, 2019.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was interviewed on WBAI's "Radio Free Eirann" on June 23, 2019. Goldman discussed the history of Bloomsday, the date devoted to celebrating James Joyce's novel Ulysses, and the "Bloomsday on Broadway" production at Symphony Space, for which he wrote the script. His portion of the show starts at about 24:30 of the broadcast.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, did a reading of her translations of the poems of Pierre de Ronsard, Heinrich Heine, and Jorge Luis Borges as part of the “Share Fair” at the CESTEMER Conference on June 21, 2019, at the New York City campus of New York Institute of Technology.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, created the script for the 38th annual "Bloomsday on Broadway" at Symphony Space in New York City, a celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses. The script, an adaptation of Ulysses billed as a "whirlwind tour" of the novel, was performed by a cast of professional actors including Malachy McCourt and John Douglas Thompson in front of a packed house on June 16, 2019.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented a paper as part of a panel, "Joyce's Popular Afterlives," that he organized for the 2019 North American James Joyce Symposium, in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, on June 15, 2019. The paper, "Ulysses as Gift in Popular Narratives," analyzed works of narrative fiction that portray characters giving Joyce's novel Ulysses as a gift.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, “Identity Crisis” published in Maintenant 13, a magazine of Dada and surreal poems. The launch party for the magazine took place at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City on June 13, 2019.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published a review of Robert Spoo's Modernism and the Law, (Bloomsbury, 2018) in The Review of English Studies (Oxford UP), on June 10, 2019.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, discussed her book, Drugstore Blue in a mutual interview, with Lynn McGee (Tracks on the North of Oxford website. In the article, "Two Poets, Straight and Queer, Find Common Ground in Femme ID and Content," the two authors share a conversation about their recent books, their approaches to writing, and the ways in which femme content informs their work and their lives.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had four poems published in UCity Review on May 30, 2019. The poems are from his book in-progress, Fishing for Family.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had two songs included in the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Netflix series She's Gotta Have it (Season 2), which dropped on May 29, 2019. Goldman composed, played trumpet on, and produced both songs for his Latin band Spanglish Fly. "New York Rules" (featuring Joe Bataan), a celebration of the diversity and resilience of New Yorkers as seen during a subway stoppage, is heard in Season 2 Episode 1. "Coco Helado" (featuring Rowan Ricardo Phillips, whose poem inspired the song) is about the icey carts ubiquitous to the New York streets; it is heard in Season 2 Episode 3.