Leonard Cassuto, PhD, A&S,
professor of English, presided over a panel on “The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market” and participated in a roundtable discussion “On the Emergence of a Teaching-Intensive Faculty Tier” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 9-10.
Anne Fernald, PhD, A&S,
professor of English, presented a paper titled “Looking Again at Spain: Rukeyser, Warner, Woolf” on a panel at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 8.
Christopher GoGwilt, PhD, A&S,
professor of English, spoke at a roundtable discussion on “Comparative Literature and Global Studies” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 7.
Sarit Kattan Gribetz, PhD, A&S,
assistant professor of theology, delivered the lecture “A Matter of Time: The Roman Calendar in Rabbinic Sources” at the Young Israel of New Rochelle on Jan. 12 as part of the continuing series presented by the Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies.
Paul Levinson, PhD, A&S,
professor of communication and media studies, was on a panel for Amazon’s original series The Man in the High Castle at the 4th Annual Philip K. Dick Film Festival on Jan. 16.
Corey McEleney, PhD, A&S,
assistant professor of English, presented the paper “How to Live Together at Grey Gardens,” on a panel titled “Queer Proximities” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 7.
Kevin Mirabile, DPS, BUS,
clinical assistant professor of finance and business economics, published the second edition of his book, Hedge Fund Investing: A Practical Approach to Understanding Investor Motivation, Manager Profits, and Fund Performance (Wiley, 2016), in January.
Robert J. Penella, PhD, A&S,
professor of classics, delivered a paper titled “Declamation and Extempore Speaking as the Hallmarks of Philostratus’s Second Sophistic” at a conference on the Second Sophistic in October at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His paper “Koddaroi and Xuresitauroi in the Letters of Apollonius of Tyana: New Evidence for Tension between Jews and Gentiles in Sardis during the Flavian Period?” appeared in the Journal of Jewish Studies. He has recently contributed reviews to the American Journal of Philology, Classical World, and Rhetorica.
Christiana Peppard, PhD, A&S,
assistant professor of theology, science, and ethics, was elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics at their annual convention in Toronto, which ran from Jan. 7-10.
Rebecca Sanchez, PhD, A&S,
assistant professor of English, spoke on “Embodied Impersonality: ASL Poetics and the Materiality of Language” on a panel titled “Alternative Mobilities” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 7.
Stuart Sherman, PhD, A&S,
professor of English, participated in a roundtable discussion on “The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Stage to Page, Print to Manuscript, Writing to Speech, and Back” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 9.
Jordan Alexander Stein, PhD, A&S,
assistant professor of English, spoke on a panel titled “New Disciplinary Histories” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Austin, Texas on Jan. 10.
Richard Viladesau, STD, A&S,
professor of theology, gave an address on Dec. 3 at the United Nations to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Thomas A. Wright, PhD, BUS,
distinguished professor of management systems, published “Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability: Statistical Analysis Methods and Reporting Recommendations’’ and “The Call for an Increased Role of Replication, Extension, and Mixed Methods Study Designs in Organizational Research” in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Distinguished Scholar Invited Essay entitled, “Reflections on the Role of Character In Business Education and Student Leadership Development” in the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, and “The ‘I’s in Team: The Importance of Individual Members to Team Success” in the journal Organizational Dynamics.
