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People Notes: January 2015

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Andrew Albin, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Richard Rolle’s Melody of Love: Alliterative Translation and Commentary.

Edward Cahill, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Colonial Rising: Narratives of Upward Mobility in British America.

Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of English, presented a session titled “Teaching, Research, Service: A Close Reading” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which is taking place from Jan. 8-11.

Heather Dubrow, Ph.D., A&S,
John D. Boyd, S.J., Chair in Poetic Imagination and professor of English, moderated a panel she organized on “Song and/in/as/versus Poetry in Medieval and Early Modern Literature” and participated in a roundtable discussion of “The Future of the Seventeenth Century” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which is taking place from Jan. 8-11.

Shonni Enelow, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Emotion After Fascism: Affect, Politics, and the Performing Body in Theater and Film of the 1970s and 1980s.

Christopher GoGwilt, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of English, presented a paper titled “Conrad and Joyce in i-Space” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which is taking place from Jan. 8-11. GoGwilt is also a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Joseph Conrad and Romanization: The Timing and Spacing of English as World Script.

Quamrul Haider, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of physics and engineering physics, published “The Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse” on Dec. 4, 2014 and “The Death of a Rainforest” on Dec. 12, 2014 in The Daily Star. Haider was also interviewed by the weekly magazine HotSpot on Dec. 12, 2014 for his views on the dangers of using nuclear power.

Constance Hassett, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Edward Lear: Genre and Genealogy.

Glenn Hendler, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor and chair of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Buildings on Fire: The 1838 Pennsylvania Hall Riots.

Amir Idris, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of African and African American studies, presented a paper titled “Unpacking South Sudan’s Crisis: History, Identity, and Politics” to Africa Workshop, at the University of Michigan on Dec. 9, 2014.

Corey McEleney, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for More Strange than True: Re-Visions of Shakespeare’s “Dream.”

Fawzia Mustafa, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Intersections of Literature, Film, and Development in Tanganyika and Tanzania.

Robert J. Penella, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of classics, published the chapter “Libanius’ Declamations” in Libanius: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2014), edited by Lieve Van Hoof.

Rebecca Sanchez, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, chaired a panel on “Disability Epistemology” and delivered a paper on “Border Epistemologies: George Washington Gómez and the Geopolitics of Genre” at the 2015 Modern Language Association Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which is taking place from Jan. 8-11. Sanchez is also a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Adomestic Modernity: Homelessness, Migration, and Access to the Private Sphere.

Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for The Grave Marker as Autobiography: The Stone Carver as ‘Ghostwriter.’

Lance A. Strate, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of communication and media studies, published the chapter “The Baby Boom, the Bomb, and Outer Space: Growing Up in a Science Fiction World” in Baby Boomers and Popular Culture: An Inquiry into America’s Most Powerful Generation (Praeger, 2015), edited by Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli.

Dennis Tyler, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Disability of Color: Figuring the Black Body in American Law, Literature, and Culture.

Keri Walsh, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Acting Like a Hustler: Method Acting, Gender, and the Hollywood Film.

Suzanne Yeager, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, is a recipient of Fordham’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year for Tourism, Travel, and Ritual: Premodern Pilgrimage from Europe to the Near East.

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