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.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, delivered her lecture, 鈥淧sychiatric Disability and the Second Wave: The Mad Writing of Shulamith Firestone and Kate Millett,鈥� at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY on October 24, 2018. The event, which included a reception to celebrate the publication of her second book, , was co-sponsored by the CUNY Doctoral Program in Music, the Futures Initiative, the CUNY Disability Scholars, and CUNY's Master's Program in Disability Studies.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published an article, "Feminist Digital Pedagogy" in (Spring/Summer 2018): 42-43. The piece addresses a workshop Golden led for the Jane Marcus Feminist University Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center in the fall of 2016, and is part of a segment devoted to the event.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was interviewed by Allyn West for his article, published in theHouston Chronicle, on October 16, 2018.
Robert Feirsen
College of Arts & Sciences Masters Educational Leadership & TechnologyRobert Feirsen, Ed.D., assistant professor and director of the school leadership and technology program, and Hui-Yin Hsu, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education, \nled three workshop presentations at 2018 New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYACTE)/New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE) 2018 annual conference, October 11-12, 2018 in Saratoga Springs, NY. The three presentations were titled, "Failing Forward: Teaching Organizational Recovery to School Leadership Candidates;" "Addressing the Challenge to Advocate for Educators using the Design Thinking Approach;" and "Leadership with a 'T': Integrating Teacher Leadership into Leadership Preparation Programs."
\n\nAmy Bravo
International and Experiential EducationAmy Bravo, M.A., senior director of international and experiential education, and Jim Martinez, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented a workshop, "How to Grow Your Community Project Developmentally: A Conversation About the Challenges of Scaling Up!" at the in New York City on September 22, 2018. Bravo and Martinez discussed their projects, ranging from the creation of STEM-focused service-learning environments with one elementary school to a large scale multidisciplinary campus-wide initiative in Harlem, as well as the successes and challenges of bringing development and community engagement to the NYIT.
Susana Case
College of Arts & Sciences Behavioral SciencesSusana Case, Ph.D., professor of behavioral sciences, had her translations of five poems from The Splintered Face: Tsunami Poems, by the Sri Lankan poet, Indran Amirthanayagam, published by on September 18, 2018. Case translated the poems from English into Italian.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, edited a peer-reviewed cluster on for the third issue of the journal, Feminist Modernist Studies, published on September 7, 2018. She also co-wrote the introduction to the cluster with the journal's editor, Cassandra Laity (University of Tennessee, Knoxville).
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, had an interview published in the German magazine, Next on September 6, 2018. The article, written by Sonny and Gabrielle Klawitter, discusses survival strategies for surviving this era of rapid technological change.
Terese Coe
English Dep't, Manhattan campusTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had her poem, published by miCRo, the Cincinnati Review's website for short poems, on September 5, 2018.
Terese Coe
Manhattan campus of NYITTerese Coe, M.A., adjunct instructor of English, had two poems, "First Child," and her translation of Heinrich Heine's "Shame" (Wie schändlich du gehandelt), published by Measure Press on September 5, 2018.