Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, contributed a chapter, "Frankenstein, Young and Old: An Interview with Mel Brooks," to the book Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley’s Creation, edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller, and published by Pegasus Books in January 2018.

Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, and Shiang-Kwei Wang, Ph.D., professor of education and associate dean, published a chapter titled "Gaming Literacies and Learning" in the book Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy. Hsu and Wang also published an article titled "Rethinking Language Learning: Using audioblogs with English Learners" in the November/December 2017 Issue of Literacy Today, the bimonthly member magazine of the International Literacy Association.

Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, received a featured book review in the December 2017 edition of the Queens Gazette, for his book, The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York.

Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, served as moderator of a panel with HUD regional administrator Lynne Patton at the New York Housing Conference's annual awards event in December 2017. The panel was also featured in an article, "NYCHA Chair Olatoye Calls Lack of Policy Guidance from Ben Carson 'Almost Unconscionable'," in The Real Deal, a New York real estate news journal.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented the paper "'Different from what it is': Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems," and chaired the session "Teaching and Learning in Sylvia Plath Studies and Women's Studies: Community Engagement, Digital Humanities, and Service Learning" at the Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words, and Fragments Conference held at the University of Ulster, in Belfast, UK in November 2017. As part of her paper presentation, Golden also displayed a previously unseen photograph of Sylvia Plath.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, had his new book, Joyce and the Law, published by the University Press of Florida in November 2017. The book is a collection of insights by "a tremendous group of scholars, critics, and legal practitioners" who are "[m]aking the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, [offering] new insights into Joyce's most important texts. They analyze Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Giacomo Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake in light of the legal contexts of Joyce's day."

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., assistant professor and chair of the Department of Instructional Technology, co-authored the book, Promoting Global Competencies Through Media Literacy, published November 2017. It is an advanced reference publication featuring the latest scholarly research on transdisciplinary and transformative assessment practices from primary-level to university-level educational settings.

Nicholas Bloom, Ph.D., associate professor of social sciences, had his work cited in "Thinking Small," an article about the future of so-called micro-units published in the political journal Jacobin in November 2017. In that same month, Bloom was quoted in an article in the Gotham Gazette entitled, "De Blasio's Record on NYCHA."

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, gave a presentation on the use of gaming technology in contemporary art entitled, "Game-ification of Art and the Posthuman," at the annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, held in Phoenix, AZ, November 9–12.

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, delivered a presentation, "Using Virtual Reality to Illustrate Sense of Place for Student Personal Narratives," at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 115th Annual Conference, November 10-12, 2017, in Honolulu, Hawaii.