Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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


All Recent Accomplishments

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, “Psychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, as part of the Mysterium Humanum Madness Studies speaker series, on April 9, 2019.

Ranja Roy, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, published her article, "Quasi-isometries and proper homotopy: The quasi-isometry invariance of Proper 3-realizability of groups," 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, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented, "Digital Transitions: Recovering Edna O'Brien's Sylvia Plath Screenplay" at the American Conference for Irish Studies 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paper addressed her NYIT students' digital project interpreting the Irish writer Edna O'Brien's manuscripts for her unpublished screenplay about the American poet Sylvia Plath housed in Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, delivered an hour-long talk, "For all those ‘curiouser and curiouser’ about a man and his Alices,” at San Diego State University on March 9, 2019, in conjunction with the semi-annual meeting of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, was interviewed by Dan Schneider on his program Comosetica, on February 28, 2019. The interview highlighted Rogoff's career in "edutainment," including her work as writer, producer, and director on numerous award-winning television series, such as Sesame Street and Big Blue Marble, here in the U.S. and Rechov Sum Sum (the Israeli Sesame Street) in Israel. Also discussed was Rogoff's mobile and PC Endanger Series, which was built by an interdisciplinary team of art, technology, business, and communications students and faculty at NYIT‘s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had six poems published in the Alabama Literary Review, edited by Bill Thompson, on February 2019. The selections include the original poem, “Sweep;” four translations of Heinrich Heine's poems from the German; and a Pierre de Ronsard translation, “In Memoriam for Timothy Murphy,” a poet and hunter who was a friend, adviser, and colleague at The Able Muse.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his edited volume, Joyce and the Law, (U of Florida Press), reviewed in the flagship journal of James Joyce scholarship, The James Joyce Quarterly on February 20, 2019. Goldman's volume was also reviewed in The Review of English Studies on August 31, 2018, by Richard Bowyer, who writes, "Joyce and the Law brings together 15 essays that provide readers with a rigorous examination of the subject matter...expertly woven by the editor."

Terese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her translation of Heinrich Heine's German poem, "In the Dream" published in the Winter 2018 edition of Able Muse on February 15, 2019. The Prufrock Blog also published a link to the online version of the poem.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, gave a talk, "Rewriting the Lyric: Sylvia Plath Annotating James Joyce," at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House on February 1, 2019. She was hosted by the James Joyce Society.

Nicholas D. Bloom, Ph.D., professor of social sciences, gave an interview on the housing crisis to TRT World on January 29, 2019. The media channel serves as the international branch of the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.