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 paper, “Airless Spaces: Schizophrenia and the Relations of Narrative Production,” as part of a Neurodiversity/Neuronarrative panel at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual conference in Toronto, Ontario on November 16, 2018.

Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 42nd Biennial International Conference of the Association of Psychological and Educational Counselors of the Asia-Pacific (APECA), November 14-16, 2018 in Manila, Philipenes.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published Cancelled in Purple: Alice Walker’s Virginia Woolf Calendar in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Volume 3, Cycle 3, on November 13, 2018.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, published an article, A (Virtual) Bridge Not Too Far: Teaching Narrative Sense of Place with Virtual Reality," in Computers and Composition, Volume 50 on November 13, 2018. The article explains how virtual reality (VR) games can help students realize the importance of narrative sense of place and outlines a VR exercise for students to experience immersion as a parallel to how written works transport readers to their environments.

Carol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 18th Annual Convention of the School Counseling Circle of the Philippines, November 13-14, 2018 in Manilla, Philipenes.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in a review of the new album, "Ay Que Boogaloo," from Goldman's Latin music group, Spanglish Fly, in All About Jazz on November 12, 2018. According to reviewer Chris M. Slawecki, "Jonathan Goldman sure seems like one interesting dude. An Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology, Goldman edited the seminal study Joyce and the Law (University of Florida Press, 2017) and leads one of the most famous reading groups for one of Joyce's most infamous works, Ulysses. And as lead trumpet and bandleader for New York's own Spanglish Fly, he's one of the world's leading proponents of the irresistibly liberating rhythms, sounds and beats of Latin soul and boogaloo."

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, organized and presented on the roundtable, "Feminist Designs: Visualizing the Future of Modernist Digital Humanities" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio, November 10, 2018.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, served as a panelist at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's 116th conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham on November 10, 2018. As part of his presentation, "More Than Just Words, Words, Words: Using AR to Illustrate the Context Behind the Text of Hamlet, Misak displayed a prototype of an Augmented Reality application that both he and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, are working on to teach complex humanities texts, like Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Susana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, read from her recently published books and gave a brief talk about William Carlos Williams at the Williams Center for the Arts, Red Wheelbarrow Series in Rutherford, New Jersey. During the fall semester, she was also featured in readings from her books at The Americas Poetry Festival at the Argentine Consulate in NYC, QED in Astoria, Queens, the Cornelia Street Cafe, in New York City, the Annual Poets & Writers on War and Peace Reading at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester, New York, and the One Breath Rising reading series in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, published an article "'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care': Lewis Carroll Studies, 2004-2017," in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 49, No.2 (2018). The article, a comprehensive review of studies from 2004 through 2017 of Lewis Carroll's life and art, was published on November 1, 2018.