Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation on December 6, 2022.

Melda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to serve as the Fulbright Specialist for “Competency Based Curriculum on Blue Economy”’ at the Tom Mboya University College on May 2022, through the U.S. Embassy Kenya, Fulbright Specialist Program. The project commenced on the October 18 and was completed on November 28, 2022.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a presentation titled "Three Short Talks About Ulysses: Publication, Culture, Legacy" at IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan Ramón Fernández in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15, 2022. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, appeared on an episode of the Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast titled "The Untold Perspective: Writer Lynn Rogoff Discusses Bird Woman, Her Audio Drama Creation On Sacajawea," on November 6, 2022. Rogoff recently produced a shape-shifting Bird Woman®, audio drama multi-episode series based on the Lewis and Clark Native American guide, Sacajawea. Bird Woman®, a magical realism drama, discovers her supernatural shape-shifting powers as a part woman, part eagle, fighting alongside the expedition members.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, presented his digital humanities project, "NY1920s: When We Became Modern," at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference on October 29, 2022, in Portland, OR.

Jonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, delivered his paper, "Cutesy Modernism: Rose O'Neill's Nonbinary Empire," at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference on October 28, 2022 in Portland, OR.

Sophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, was an invited speaker at a recent workshop, From holography to machine learning: novel takes on dense matter, hosted by the University of Helsinki on October 24-26, 2022, in Helsinki, Finland. The workshop brought together experts in string theory's holographic duality, like Domokos, with experts in nuclear physics and neutron stars. Holographic duality is one of the most promising tools we have to understand the behavior of dense matter inside neutron stars.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on "Editing Sylvia Plath" on October 23, 2022, as a part of the Sylvia Plath Festival, held in Hebden Bridge, England.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Listening with Our Eyes: Taking Action through Photovoice" at the virtual Photovoice Worldwide International Conference: 30 Years of Photovoice, on October 20, 2022. In her interactive presentation, O’Hara shared the design and implementation of an undergraduate student research project, based on a Photovoice framework. Through the philosophical lenses of relational and critical pedagogy, student examples were shared. The presentation also addressed aspects of Photovoice as a method to inform the fields of both qualitative and quantitative research, countering privileged scholarship, and centering marginalized voices.

Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of English in the Department of Humanities, published his “review” of George Eliot’s Middlemarch “Middlemarch at 150,” in the Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, Vol. 53, no. 2, 2022, pp. 299-303. The article, published on September 1, 2022, celebrated the occasion of the novel's 150th anniversary of publication. Guilano's Lewis Carroll: The Worlds of His Alices was reviewed earlier in the year by Jan Susina in Victorian Studies, Spring 2022 (64:3), 499-502.