Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/HumJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was a featured panelist at a public program, "," held at the New School in New York City on March 14, 2023. Goldman presented a paper titled "Ulysses, Style, and Joyce's Multiverse."
Kate E. O'Hara
CAS/ Humanties/Interdisciplinary StudiesKate E. O鈥橦ara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented "Ugh! Not Another Research Paper! Designing and Implementing a Humanistic Interdisciplinary Project" at on February 20-22, 2023, in Savannah, GA. In her interactive presentation, O鈥橦ara shared details of implementing a humanistic interdisciplinary project that provides undergraduate students with opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research, independent learning, and problem-solving. Drawing from tenets of critical pedagogy, photovoice, participatory action, and intergenerational studies, students engage in scholarly inquiry within fully online and hybrid environments.
Nayoung Kim
College of Arts and SciencesNayoung Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science, published her article, published in the
Jonathan Goldman
cas/humJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk, "The Modernist Super-Individual: Personality, Celebrity, Brand-Names," for Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, on January 5, 2023. The talk focused on changes to the idea of personhood during the late 18th/early 19th centuries, including discussions of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eva Tanguay, Babe Ruth, Edith Wharton, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Harry Houdini, and Superman.
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College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, published the chapter, 鈥淟yric 鈥楿npunctuation鈥�: W. S. Merwin鈥檚 Early New Yorker Correspondence,鈥� in the collection , edited by Cheri Colby Langdell and published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 2, 2023.
Jennifer Griffiths
College of Arts and SciencesJennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published a new monograph, , with the University Press of Mississippi's Cultures of Childhood series, on December 16, 2022. The book focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological 鈥減roblem,鈥� all while trying to expand.
Sophia Domokos
CASSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published a paper, in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the highest-ranked journal in this field of study, on December 9, 2022. The paper, co-authored with Andrew B. Royston of Penn State - Fayette, closes a 20-year gap in the literature surrounding a very commonly used and well-studied system in string theory and paves the way for the study of special mathematical objects called "solitons" in this system.
Jonathan Goldman
CAS/ HUMJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was elected to the of the International James Joyce Foundation on December 6, 2022.
Melda Yildiz
CAS/ EducationMelda N. Yildiz, Ed.D., associate professor of education, received a Fulbright Specialist Grant to serve as the Fulbright Specialist for 鈥淐ompetency Based Curriculum on Blue Economy鈥濃�� 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
CAS/ HumJonathan 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 Ram贸n Fern谩ndez in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15, 2022. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses.