Faculty Achievements 2008-2009
Summer 2009
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to present the 2008-2009 collection of "Faculty Achievements in Scholarship and Service" at Marymount Manhattan College. This annual publication celebrates the scholarly achievements and service contributions of our full-time faculty. Scholarship is the creation and dissemination of new knowledge or creative work. The MMC faculty make significant contributions to their fields and often bring our students with them into the community of scholars.
Contributions to Marymount Manhattan College through service are vital to the achievement of our institutional mission. The faculty sponsor student organizations, chair and serve on standing and ad-hoc committees, collaborate on college-wide strategic initiatives, and serve on peer review and search committees. These contributions enhance the College immeasurably.
I am enormously proud of the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and their significant achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. MMC offers students an opportunity to study with faculty who are passionate teachers, active scholars, and devoted members of the academy. Congratulations to each of the faculty members recognized in this publication.
Sincerely,
David M. Podell, Ph.D.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
and Dean of the Faculty
Please click on the links below for each section of the Awards and Achievements page
Tenure and Promotion Awards
Professor Emeritus Awards
Sokol Grants
Faculty Leaves and Fellowships
External Grants and Gifts to Support Academic Programs and Scholarship
Faculty Achievements
Prof. Hallie Cohen
Assistant Professor of Art: promoted to Associate Professor of Art
Prof. Robert Dutiel
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts: granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
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Prof. John Costello
Associate Professor of English: promoted to Professor Emeritus
Dr. Elizabeth Swain
Professor of Theatre Arts: promoted to Professor Emeritus
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List of Award Winners for 2009-2012
Marymount Manhattan College created the Distinguished Chair Award,
funded by This is the Day, the Campaign for Marymount Manhattan,
to be one of the highest honors it can bestow upon a faculty member.
The Distinguished Chair is awarded to faculty whose scholarship has
been widely recognized for its excellence; its purpose is to provide
the time and resources to allow awardees to produce major works in their
discipline.
Dr. Kathleen LeBesco
Professor of Communication Arts: appointed as a Distinguished Chair of Communication Arts for the next three academic years (2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012).
Dr. Jason Rosenfeld
Associate Professor of Art History: appointed as a Distinguished Chair of Art History for the next three academic years (2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012).
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Award Winner for 2008-2009
Dr. Peter Naccarato
Associate Professor of English
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| Dr. Rebecca Mushtare
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| Funding to collaborate on an interdisciplinary performance work incorporating technology, moving image, art installation, dance and music for inclusion in the Fall 2009 Faculty Dance Concert. This is an innovative and exciting project that reflects collaboration between our faculty and advances the Strategic Planning goals of emphasizing interdisciplinary and experiential learning.
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Dr. Adrienne Baxter Bell
Art History
Funding for travel costs to several American museums to directly study the work of Charles Caryl Coleman and to complete Dr. Baxter Bell's third and fourth books, tentatively titled International Aesthetics in the Life and Work of Charles Caryl Coleman and The Noetic Landscape: American Art, Spirituality, and Modernism.
Dr. Jason Rosenfeld
Art History
Funding for travel costs and follow up with an exhibition surveying the Victorian art movement. Over the past several years, Dr. Rosenfeld has been working on mounting a major exhibition of the work of John Everett Millias for Tate Britain; the Millias show was exhibited in 2007 and was a popular as well as critical success. Based on the achievements of that show, Dr. Rosenfeld and his co-curator, Dr. Allison Smith, have been invited by the Director of Tate Britain to mount a new show based on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood school of Victorian Art.
Dr. Kathleen LeBesco
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Funding to help ethnographic research and completion of a manuscript of a new book, Culinary Capital. The project is an expansion of work Drs. LeBesco and Naccarato begun in their ground-breaking book Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meanings (SUNY Press, 2008). Further research requires travel eating events, cooking classes and various types of food businesses.
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Dr. Michael Colvin
Spanish
Funding for travel and lodging expenses to continue Dr. Colvin's research at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. This research relates to his current book project, "Singing for Salazar and Putting on a Show for Franco: The Spanish Civil War, Fado Music, Fascism, and the Death of the Portuguese Talkie," which he plans to complete during the 2009-2010 academic year.
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List of Award Winners for 2009-2010
Dr. Ann Aguanno
Biology
Funding for student support, laboratory supplies and student travel in a continuing project in an undergraduate biology research training program, The role of cyclin dependant kinase 5 (CDK5) in the development of mammalian tissues. Dr. Aguanno has implemented a method of faculty and peer training that has enabled the establishment of an on-going lab. The support offered by this grant will allow the continuous development of student researchers and will keep the lab operating through the summer session.
Dr. Judith Hanks
Biology
Funding to provide equipment for Dr. Hanks' laboratory experiments and to support a student researcher who will develop the protocol to be used in a project Preliminary studies on the antibacterial properties of plant extracts. Dr Hanks is a research associate at New York Botanical Gardens. Her project will provide a student with the opportunity to study and do research in Botany.
Dr. Kelsey Jordahl
Physics
Funding to support a student stipend, travel, and computer upgrades for the continuation and expansion of Dr Jordahl's scholarship prior to and since joining the College on Tectonic fabric of the Pacific Seafloor. Using processing tools that he developed for his last student-faculty research project, he will use existing data to construct new maps of the South Pacific seafloor to describe past motions of tectonic plates of broad geographic scope.
Dr. Benedetta Sampoli-Benitez
Chemistry
Funding for student support and travel expenses for a research project Computational Studies of the fidelity mechanism of DNA polymerase X in the presence of oxidatively damaged DNA. This project is a study of the interaction of DNA polymerase X with damaged DNA through a series of simulations with different incoming nucleotides in the presence of oxoG to understand the behavior of DNA polymerase X when this lesion occurs. Students will collaborate with her on this project and gain experience in the cutting edge field of computational modeling.
SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS
Dr. Susan Behrens
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology, Spring 2010
To work on three related projects: 1) writing and revising a grammar textbook; 2) design a course entitled The Structure of English, for which the new text would be used; and 3) audit a graduate level course and revisions of text. The projects are related and serve to further the mission of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program, as well as the General Education Curriculum. The text fills a gap in the textbook market.
Dr. Peter Naccarato
English, Fall 2009
To continue Dr Naccarato's research and writing a book Culinary Capital, co-authored with Dr. Kathleen LeBesco. This book follows the successful publication of Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning (co-edited with Dr. LeBesco; published by SUNY Press in 2008). In addition to his scholarly work in this field, Dr. Naccarato will team-teaches with Dr. LeBesco a course on food called "Edible Ideologies: The Politics of Food."
Dr. Cheryl Paradis
Psychology, Spring 2010
To work on three areas:
- write an article based on her recently submitted forensic casebook
tentatively titled The Amazing Madman: Case Studies in Forensic Psychology;
- complete two research articles based upon the data collected on isolated
sleep paralysis and competency to proceed evaluations; and
- prepare a new Cultural Studies (COR 300) course based on her recent study of the field of genocide.
Dr. Kenton Worcester
Political Science, Spring 2010
To conduct research on the early history of Anglo-American law. Dr. Worcester intends to organize a symposium, to be published in the quarterly journal PS: Political Science and Politics, on the genesis and legacy of Magna Carta, with special reference to the seventh-century Kentish laws preserved in the Textus Roffensis and the development of English customary law. This project will contribute to an understanding of intellectual foundations of modern law and politics and enhance MMC's course offerings on democratic theory, social movements, crime and society, and conservative political thought.
JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS
Dr. Adrienne Baxter Bell
Art History, Spring 2010
To work on three projects:
- complete a book provisionally entitled International Aesthetics in the Life
and Work of Charles Caryl Coleman. Dr. Baxter Bell's work on Coleman may
also entail curating the first exhibition of Coleman's paintings in America.
The topic is under discussion with curators at several American museums;
- advance work on a second book provisionally entitled The Noetic Landscape:
American Art, Spirituality, and Modernism; and
- advance research and development of ART 271 - Arts of the Americas, an
exploration of major traditions of painting, sculpture, and architecture
from North America, Mexico, and Central and South America.
Dr. Lia Leon Margolin
Mathematics, Fall 2009
To balance two areas of Dr. Margolin's professional activity at the College:
- continue her research fellowship at the Institute of Cybernetics,
Tbilisi, Georgia, leading theoretical investigations in mathematical physics;
- develop two new 300 level curriculum courses. The first course, "Modeling the
Dynamics of Life," will focus on the investigatory teaching of the mathematics underlining
dynamic modeling of environmental, economical, sociological, and physical systems.
The second course, "Mathematics Without Boundaries," will explain how the laws of
mathematics are anchored in human physiology and experience, and how mathematics
provides a rational structure that transcends
geographical, historical, national, philosophical, and linguistic boundaries.
Dr. Magdalena Maczynska
English, Academic Year 2009-2010
To work on her first book on postmodernist fiction and post secular thought.
Dr. Maczynska intends to continue developing her ideas on the question of
contemporary fiction's growing engagement with religious discourses, laying
the groundwork for a book-length project. In addition to her own scholarship,
Dr. Maczynska will make important contributions to the curriculum, both in the
English and World Literature major and the Shared Curriculum.
Dr. MJ Robinson
Communication Arts, Spring 2010
To work on two projects:
- revise Dr. Robinson's dissertation "'Voice of the City?': The Rise and
Fall of WNYC-TV" into a book and pursue its publication;
- design two new upper-level courses for the Communication Arts
Department's new Critical Media Studies concentration: "The
Television Industries: History, Theory and Practice," and
"New York on the Screen: Cop Shows."
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FOUNDATIONS
Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
The Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Achelis and Bodman Foundation
The Achelis and Bodman Foundation awarded $25,000 to the Bedford Hills College Program for general support. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The George I. Alden Trust
The George I. Alden Trust awarded MMC a $90,000 grant in support of the renovation of the Thomas J. Shanahan Library, a project intended to enhance the educational environment for students and faculty, a central initiative of This is the Day.
Booth Ferris Foundation
The Booth Ferris Foundation awarded MMC a $200,000 grant for the Thomas J. Shanahan Library renovation project. The renovation of the Library is part of the College's three-phase renovation of the third floor, a project intended to enhance the educational environment for students and faculty, a central initiative of This is the Day.
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
The Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust renewed its support for the Rose M. Badgeley Scholars Program at Marymount Manhattan with a grant of $10,000. This program supports student-faculty research projects in the Division of the Sciences. Through these projects, MMC students have the opportunity to participate in laboratory-based research activities. Dr. Ann Jablon and Science Faculty.
Bradberry Family Foundation
The Bradberry Family Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Brand Foundation of New York, Inc.
The Brand Foundation of New York awarded a $20,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Chilton Foundation
The Chilton Foundation awarded $50,000 to The William Kavanagh Endowed Scholarship Fund for theatre majors who demonstrate financial need and academic excellence.
The Clark Foundation
The Clark Foundation made a grant of $250,000 for the Bedford Hills College Program endowment. This grant was made as a challenge and awarded after the College raised $50,000 for the Bedford Hills College program endowment. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Downe Foundation
The Downe Foundation awarded a $1,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
Fein Foundation
The Fein Foundation awarded a grant of $1,500 to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust
The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust awarded MMC a $100,000 grant in support of The Lowerre Family Terrace, a 5,000 square foot urban quad joining the College's Main and Nugent buildings.
The L. W. Frohlich Charitable Trust
The L. W. Frohlich Charitable Trust provided a grant of $10,000 to the Madeleine D. Burns Scholarship for non-traditional age female students.
Alana & Lewis Frumkes Foundation, Inc.
The Alana & Lewis Frumkes Foundation awarded a $1,500 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Glickenhaus Foundation
The Glickenhaus Foundation awarded MMC a grant of $50,000 to support scholarships for students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
Joseph C. and Clare F. Goodman Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The Joseph C. and Clare F. Goodman Memorial Foundation awarded a $30,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
Jephson Educational Trusts
The Jephson Educational Trusts awarded MMC a grant of $10,000 to support scholarships to students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need.
The Willis and Nancy King Foundation
The Willis and Nancy King Foundation awarded $5,000 to the Bedford Hills College Program for general support. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Samuel J. & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Samuel J. & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Foundation awarded a $15,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Inc.
The Mortimer Levitt Foundation awarded a $32,500 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Betty and Norman F. Levy Foundation
The Betty and Norman F. Levy Foundation made a grant of $400,000 for the Bedford Hills College Program endowment. This was a challenge grant awarded after the College raised $50,000 for the Bedford Hills College program endowment. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Frederick Loewe Foundation
The Frederick Loewe Foundation gave a grant of $2,500 to the College's Dance Department. Katie Langan.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided a $60,000 grant to help establish the Learning Communities Program. The Program is aimed at improving the First-Year Experience and increasing student retention.
The Henry E. Niles Foundation, Inc.
The Henry E. Niles Foundation, Inc. awarded $10,000 to the Bedford Hills College Program for general support. Dr. Cindy Mercer and Aileen Baumgartner.
The Schiff Foundation
The Schiff Foundation awarded a $2,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
Smart Family Foundation, Inc.
The Smart Family Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to the Writing Center. Lewis Frumkes.
The Starr Foundation
The Starr Foundation made a grant of $50,000 for the C.V. Starr Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund. The Fund, which supports students who demonstrate academic merit and financial need, is the College's largest scholarship fund.
The Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Foundation
The Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Foundation gave a grant of $2,500 to the Antonetta Ferraro Scholarship which supports female students with financial need whose fathers are deceased and/or mothers are heads of household.
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GOVERNMENT GRANTS
United States Department of Education
A congressionally-directed federal appropriations grant of $335,043 is supporting a minority teacher preparation initiative. It includes the recruitment of students to the Teacher Education Program through outreach, a partnership with a local high school, and financial aid. This appropriation is thanks to the support of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).
New York State Department of Education
A grant of $10,000 is supporting the installation of a new Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system in the Thomas J. Shanahan Library. This system allows the College to make its audio-video collection available digitally on the local area network, giving faculty the opportunity to utilize multimedia resources in classroom teaching and allowing students greater access to course materials. This grant is thanks to the support of Assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing (D-NY).
New York State Department of Education
A grant of $5,000 is supporting equipment and software upgrades to the Theresa Lang Center for Producing. The grant helps ensure that current and future students have access to the best possible education in video, graphic design, sound design, and multimedia This grant is thanks to the support of Assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing (D-NY).
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2008/2009
Faculty Achievements in Scholarship and Service
Barbara Adrian
Professor of Theatre Arts
Recent Publications:
Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement. New York: Allworth Press, November 2008.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Voice and Speech Coach, Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw. Marymount Manhattan College: Director David Mold, October 2008.
“Rudolph Laban’s Concept of Shape Applied to Voice, Speech, and Movement.” VASTA Conference 2008: Your Most Sweet Voices: Coaching Shakespeare. Ashland: Oregon, August 2008. Peer reviewed.
“Integrated Voice, Speech, and Movement Explorations Supported by Laban Movement Analysis.” Laban Konferenz 2008: Connecting Past/Present/Future. EuroLab, Akademie der Künste: Berlin, October 2008.
“Exploring Expressive Use of Voice and Speech through Laban’s Lens.” LIMS’ International Symposium: Beyond Body Language International Symposium. Laban Institute of Movement Studies: NYC, November, 2008.
Edna Aizenberg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Recent Publications:
Contemporary Sephardim in the Americas. Co-edited with Margalit Bejarano. Hebrew University.
“Borges, Guimaraes Rosa, Mistral: intelectuales latinoamericanos frente a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto.” Jorge Luis Borges: Politicas de la literature. Ed. Juan Pablo Dabove, IILI, 2008.
“Nation and Holocaust Narration: Uruguay's Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judio.” Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans. Ed. Jeffrey Lesser, and Raanan Rein. University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
“Auschwitz and the ESMA.” The Iconization of Auschwitz. University of Florida Press. Forthcoming.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Lecture: “Holocaust and Latin American Memory.” Northwestern University.
Lecture: “History of Latin American Jewish Literature.” Queensborogh Community College.
“Should We Bury the Jewish Gaucho? A New Gerchunoff for the 21st Century.” Back to Babel Conference. University of Nebraska: Lincoln, April, 2009.
John Basil Giletto
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director: Henry V by William Shakespeare. American Globe Theatre: Manhattan. March & April 2009.
Susan Behrens, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Recent Publications:
Behrens, Susan J. Grammar: A Pocket Guide.Oxon: Routledge Press, 2010. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415493598. 
Behrens, Susan J., and Judith A. Parker, eds. Language in the Real World: An Introduction to Linguistics.New York: Routledge Press. 2010. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415774680/ . 
Behrens, Susan J. and Rebecca Sperling. “Language Variation: Students and Teachers Reflect on Accents and Dialects.” Eds. Susan J. Behrens and Judith A. Parker.Language in the Real World: An Introduction to Linguistics. New York: Routledge. 2010. 11-26.
Behrens, Susan J. “Control/F to a Stronger Vocabulary.” Research and Teaching in Developmental Education 26 1 (2010): 55-57. Behrens, Susan J. “Dishing It Out: Critiquing Your Critiques.”Chronicle of Higher Education,Vol. LVI. 24 (Feb. 26, 2010): A33. Behrens, Susan J., and Cindy Mercer. “The Ambiguous Nature of Bilingualism and its Ramifications for Writing Instruction.”NADE DigestIn press. Behrens, Susan J. “Teaching ‘The Grapes of Wrath’.” Field Notes. In press.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Our Mutual Estate: Grammar in the Classroom.May 25, 2010. Conference for New York City Department of Education Assistant Principals, hosted by MMC. Behrens, Susan J, and Cindy Mercer.What is Native Fluency? A Case Study in the Ambiguous Nature of Bilingualism and its Ramifications for Writing Instruction. Cassola Conference on Teaching Communication. Johnson and Wales University: Providence, RI. April 2009.
Adrienne Bell
Assistant Professor of Art History
Recent Publications:
“Le filosofie di Asher B. Durand.” (“The Philosophy of Asher B. Durand.”) Pittura Americana del XIX secolo: Atti del convegno. Ed. Marco Goldin and H. Barbara Weinberg. Treviso: Linea d’ombra Libri. 2008. 40-56.
“Review of George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, by Michael Quick.” Archives of American Art Journal. 47:1-2. April, 2008. 51-57.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
“Charles Caryl Coleman: Framing Eccentricity.” Symposium: The Transforming Power of the Frame: Makers, Marriages, and Materials: Exploring American Frames and Frames in America. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in conjunction with Initiatives in Art and Culture: New York, September 19, 2008.
Carrie-Ann Biondi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Recent Publications:
“Book Review of Lenn Goodman and Robert Talisse, ed., Aristotle’s Politics Today,” Journal of Value Inquiry. Forthcoming.
“Critical Review Essay of Tara Smith’s Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics,” Reason Papers. vol. 30 (Winter 2008): pp. 91-105.
“Critical Review Essay of Michael Brough, John Lango, and Harry van der Linden’s. ed. Rethinking the Just War Tradition.” Democratiya, vol. 13 (Summer 2008), available online at:
Recent Presentations/Productions:
“Philosophy of Rights,” “Ethical Justifications of Capitalism,” “Critiques of Capitalism: Right and Left,” and “Ethical Entrepreneurship,” presented at the Institute for Humane Studies summer seminar on Moral Foundations of Capitalism. Clemson, SC. June 20-26, 2009.
“Integrating Service-Learning in an Environmental Ethics Course” (with MMC students Genni Lee Hester, Diana Brown, and Julia Cunningham), presented at the First Annual NYMAPS Service-Learning Symposium. New York, NY. May 5, 2009.
“Commentary on Jeff Buechner’s Are There Forms of Rationality Unique to a Family that Can Justify the Concept of “Family Values?” presented at the Third Annual Felician College Ethics Institute Conference. Rutherford, NJ. April 18, 2009.
“Aristotle, Liberalism, and the Common Advantage.” presented at the Second Annual MacIntyrean Philosophy Conference. St. Meinrad, IN. August 1, 2008. and at the New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Conference. Mahwah, NJ. November 8, 2008.
“Protecting Individuals: Multicultural Citizenship versus Freedom of Association.” presented at the 25th International Social Philosophy Conference. Portland, OR. July 17, 2008.
Millie Burns
Director, Hewitt Gallery of Art
Assistant Professor of Art
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Study of Gordon Parks. Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar. Long Island University C.W. Post Campus. Brookdale, New York. July 13 - 17, 2008.
Designer/Animator, Yes and No. Director Kelsy Chauvin. Brooklyn, NY. June 2009.
Giovanna Chesler, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
Recent Publications:
Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV,” (co-authored with Bree Kessler), in Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions, eds. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Stephen Epstein, and Robert Aronowitz (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in press). “Truth in the Mix: Constructing the Observational Microphone in High School.” E. Hohenberger (Ed.). Frederick Wiseman: Kino des Sozialen. Vorwerk 8, 2009: 139-156. Blog writing on film, menstruation art and sound at Re:Cycling and G6 Pix .
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Chesler, Giovanna. “Really? We Can Do That?: Teaching Fair Use for Freedom’s Sake” Copy/right(?) Symposium. ASIS&T @ Pratt Institute. Pratt Institute, Manhattan Campus. 1 May 2010. Chesler, Giovanna. “Fair Use in the Classroom.” University Film and Video Association Conference. The University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. 6 August 2009 “Menstrual Movies: Re-imagining Blood on Screen.” Curated screening, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. 5 June 2009. “Communication and Sexual Health: Service Learning in Creative Media.” with students in COMM 300: Sexual Health and Communication, NYMAPS Symposium Beyond the Classroom: Co-Educating Students in the Service-Learning Partnership. Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies: The City College of New York. 5 May 2009. “Challenging Dominant Health Discourses through Feminist Film Practice: A discussion by Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler.” Invited Lecture. Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. 16 October 2008. “Home Grown Sexual Health Messages: Connecting personal experiences with medical knowledge.” Invited Lecture. Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Center: Ann Arbor, MI. 17 October 2008.
Hallie Cohen
Associate Professor of Art
Art Department Chair
Recent Publications:
Illustrations in Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure and Lessons Learnedby Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press. October 2008. Recent Exhibitions: Wish You Were Here 9, A.I.R. Gallery, July 2010. 6 Artists, Manhattan Borough President’s Gallery, New York, April 2010. Art Department Faculty Exhibit, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, August 31- September 29, 2009. Retrogarde Painters & Guest Artists. Westbeth Gallery: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY. January 16- February 1, 2009. Art Department Faculty Exhibit, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, June 4 - September 19, 2007. Retrogarde Group Show, El Consulado General and the Venezuelan Center, Watercolor paintings, New York City, November 28, 2006 - January 5, 2007. Objects in Mind, The Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 1- June 10, 2006 Three-person show of paintings, drawings and watercolors. Exhibition of Works on Paper, Gregg Gallery, National Arts Club, New York City. April - May 2005; Honorable Mention for Creativity awarded by Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Curator, Art in the Public Eye, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 5 – October 31, 2010. Curator, Hive/Web/Mind: Animal Nests and Human Networks, Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 30 – June 30, 2010. Curator, With or Without Permission: Appropriation, Assemblage and Collage, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 20 - April 25, 2010. Co-Curator with Olga Ast, The Matter of Time, Philoctetes Center, New York City, December 05, 2009 – January 30, 2010. Curator, The Aesthetics of Math, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 07 – November 18, 2009. Curator, On Aggression, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 28 - May 20, 2009. Curator, Typograffica, Philoctetes Center, New York City, January 08- February 04, 2009. Curator, The Body as Image, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 04 - October 28, 2008.
Michael Colvin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Recent Publications:
Colvin, Michael. “Images of Defeat: Early Fado Films and the Estado Novo's Notion of Progress.” Portuguese Studies. Forthcoming.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History.” Guest Lecture at the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. March 12, 2009.
“Re-pensar Lisboa: A Mitologia da Severa e a Renascença do Bairro da Mouraria das Cinzas das Demolições.” Guest lecture at the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains: Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV). April 7, 2009.
Millie Falcaro
Associate Professor of Art
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Interdisciplinary presentation of faculty writing group at Bedford Hills conference: “Write On! A Group Experience.” Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Panel presentation with Cecilia Feilla, Magdalena Maczynska and Michael Backus. October 17, 2008.
Anthony Ferro
Associate Professor of Dance
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Performer/Choreographer, “Under-Friction” - new solo work with score composed by Annie Gosfield: Merce Cunningham Studio. West Village, NY. January 2009.
Performer, “Belasco Duet” - in James Sutton.Anthony Ferro/Dances with score composed by Lionel Belasco and choreographed by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Associate Arts Professor James Sutton: Merce Cunningham Studio. January 2009.
Choreographer, “Red Wagon” - originally conceived in 1981 and re-staged at Midland Festival Ballet, Texas. Medley of songs from 1930’s Big Band era. Ballet was granted Gala status by adjudicator Soili Arvola for Regional Dance America / Southwest performances. Sugarland, TX. March 2009.
Choreographer, “Say April” - new chamber work staged for BA Dance majors at Marymount Manhattan College Dance Department’s Dancer at Work series with score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Great Hall at MMC. April 2009.
Mary Fleischer
Professor of Theatre Arts
Chair, Theatre Arts Department
Recent Publications:
Fleischer, Mary. “D’Annunzio et Rubinstein: La Pisanelle, ou La Mort parfumée.” Ida Rubinstein: une utopie de la synthèse des arts à l’épreuve de la scène. Ed. and trans. Pascal Lécroart. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. 2008: 173-186.
Jens Giersdorf
Associate Professor of Dance
Recent Publications:
Canonization and Practice: Transmission of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A.” Dance Research Journal. Forthcoming. (peer-reviewed journal).
“From Utopia to Archive: A Dance Analysis.” Dance and Memory. Ed. Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera, translated into French and Italian. Forthcoming.
“Dance Studies: An Epistemological Genealogy.” Dance Studies Reader. Ed. Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea. Routledge, London. Forthcoming.
“Unpopulärer Tanz als Krise universeller Geschichtsschreibung oder Wie Yutian und ich lang anhaltenden Spaß mit unseriöser Historiographie hatten.” Original and Revival. Ed. Christina Thurner, Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2009. Forthcoming.
“Dance Studies in the International Academy: Genealogy of a Disciplinary Formation.” Dance Research Journal. 41.1 Summer (2009): 23-44, (peer-reviewed journal).
“Dancing, Marching, Fighting: Folk, the Dance Ensemble of the East German Armed Forces, and Other Choreographies of Nationhood.” Discourses in Dance. 4.2 (2008): 39-58, (peer-reviewed journal).
Co-authored with Cecilia Feilla and Magdalena Maczynska “The Embodied City: Walking and Writing in the Urban Classroom.” Transformation: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. XIX.1 (2008): 118-137. (peer-reviewed journal).
“Von der Utopie zum Archiv: Patricio Bunster und die politische Funktion der Choreographie.” Forum Modernes Theater. 23.1 (2008): 29-36.
“Tanzwissenschaften, Dance Studies, Dance Theory: Vergleichende Untersuchung der Tanzwissenschaft in der internationalen Akademie.” Tanzforschung & Tanzausbildung. Berlin: Henschel Verlag. 2008: 45-52.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Embodiment of the Nation: Cultures of Exercise and Collective Emotions.” University of Hamburg. Germany. May 14, 2009.
“Unpopulärer Tanz als Krise universeller Geschichtsschreibung oder Wie Yutian und ich lang anhaltenden Spaß mit unseriöser Historiographie hatten.” Original and Revival: Geschichts-Schreibung im Tanz: University of Bern. Switzerland. November 18, 2008.
Bradley Herling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Recent Publications:
Deliver Us From Evil. Co-edited with M. David Eckel. Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion. London and New York: Continuum. 2009.
“Ethics, Heart, and Violence in Miller’s Crossing.” In The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers. Ed. Mark T. Conard. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press. 2008.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Panelist and organizer, “Post-Religious? Post-Secular? An Interdisciplinary Panel on the Contemporary State of Religion.” Marymount Manhattan College. March 2009.
Presider and organizer, “John Clayton’s Religions, Reason, and Gods: A Panel Discussion.” American Academy of Religion National Meeting, Chicago, IL. November 2008.
“ ‘Either a Hermeneutical Consciousness or a Critical Consciousness’: Renegotiating Theories of the Germany-India Encounter.” German Studies Association Annual Conference. St. Paul, MN, October. 2008.
James Holl
Associate Professor of Art
Recent Publications:
The Landscape Painter, An Autobigraphy 1974 through 1994. Milan: Charta, August 2009. Forthcoming.
Wides, Susan. Mobile views: Kaaterskill/Mannahatta. Design for photo book proposal. Prestel and the Hudson River Museum, New York, NY. 2010. Forthcoming.
Julie Huntington, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
Recent Publications:
Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Fall 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Répliques à Voltaire et à Paul Éluard: le dialogue intertextuel de Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Conseil International d’Études Francophones annual conference. New Orleans, LA. June 2009.
“Responses to Voltaire and Paul Éluard: The Intertextual Dialogue of Simone Schwarz-Bart.” Constructing Black France, A Transatlantic Dialogue Symposium: Barnard College and Columbia University. New York, NY. April 2009.
“Bridging Divides Between Language and Literature in Foreign Language Classes.” American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages annual convention. Orlando, FL. November 2008.
Katie Langan
Professor of Dance and Chair, Dance Department
Recent Publications:
Langan, Katie. “Working with Ballet Syllabi; The Skinny on Ballet Certifications.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. December 2008: Feature Story 82-84.
A Call to Arms: Dance Education.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. November 2008: Feature Story 96-98.
Finis Jhung, & Jennifer Ringer. “Words of Advice.” Pointe Magazine. Macfadden Performing Arts Media LLC. New York, NY. October/November 2008: 50.
Going Live – a 5, 6, 7, 8!” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. October 2008: Feature Story 118-122.
Rennie Harris – Sharing the Hip-Hip Legacy.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. September 2008: Feature Story 142-144.
Studio For Rent.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. September 2008: Feature Story 120-122.
Contemporary Ballet: Giving Your Dancers A Leg Up.” Dancer Magazine. Dancer Publishing Co., Inc. New York, NY. August 2008: Cover Story 110-117.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Lecturer. "Preparing Your Dancer for College." Broadway Dance Center's Teacher Workshop. Sheraton New York Hotel and Tower. New York, NY. July 7, 2008.
Productions:
Choreographer. “Tides II.” Score Constructed on a Macintosh Centris 650 using Studio Vision 3.0. Arrangement by Sergio Garcia-Marruz, Katie Langan, & Saul Spangenberg. Marymount Manhattan College Faculty Concert: Theresa Lang Theatre. New York, NY, December 4-6, 2008.
Kathleen LeBesco, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
Recent Publications:
Review of Online Social Support: The Interplay of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication, by Antonina Bambina. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 27.3 (2008): 312-314.
Review of Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design, by Jonathan Glover. Disability Studies Quarterly 28.3 (Summer 2008); available online at .
“Weight Management, Good Health, and the Will to Normality.” Critical Feminist Perspectives On Eating Dis/Orders, 146-155. Ed. Maree Burns & Helen Malson. London, UK: Routledge Press, 2009.
“Quest for a Cause: The Fat Gene, the Gay Gene, and the New Eugenics.” The Fat Studies Reader. Ed. Sondra Solovay & Esther Rothblum. New York: New York University Press. Forthcoming.
With Kembrew McLeod. “Using Zines to Foster Critical Communication.” EME: Explorations in Media Ecology. Forthcoming.
“‘Gots to Get Got’: Social Justice and Audience Reception of Omar Little in The Wire.” Down to “The Wire”: Urban Decay and American Television. Ed. Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall. Continuum Press. Forthcoming.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
With Peter Naccarato. “Against Food Snobbery: Resisting Culinary Capital Through the Embrace of ‘Junk.’” Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference: State College, PA. May 29, 2009.
“Culture Jamming and/as Service Learning.” New Jersey Communication Association Conference. Union, NJ. March 28, 2009.
“Expertise, Taste and Authenticity in On-Line Restaurant Criticism.” Crossing Borders 2 Conference. Bedford Hills, NY. October 17, 2008.
“Disability Studies and Pop Culture.” Disability Studies and Media seminar: City University of New York Graduate Center. New York, NY. July 12, 2008.
“Ideologies of Disability in Friday Night Lights.” Society for Disability Studies Conference. New York, NY. June 21 2008.
Alessandra Leri, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science
Recent Publications:
M. Hay, A. Leri, and S. Myneni, “Organosulfur Speciation and Dynamics in Forest Floor Leaf Litter and Dissolved Organic Matter.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta72 (2008): A359.
Leslie Levin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Management
Recent Publications:
Levin, Leslie and Mary Mattis. Stories of Success: Women Entrepreneurs in the United States. International Research.
Handbook on Successful Women Entrepreneurs. Eds. Sandra Fielden, and Marilyn Davidson. Manchester, Canada: The University of Manchester. To be published first quarter 2010.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Levin, Leslie and Mary Mattis. The Role of Case Studies in Presenting Continuing Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs. Academy of Management Annual Conference: Anaheim, CA. August 8-12, 2008.
Corey Liberman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Liberman, C. J. Pivotal moments of development and change: The study of identification as a defining moment in organizational communication studies. Paper presented at the annual Eastern Communication Association conference. Philadelphia, PA. April 2009.
All of social life is a stage: Using video media to teach the basic interpersonal communication course. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New Jersey Communication Association conference. Union, NJ. March 2009.
Communicating effectively in small group settings: Understanding decision-making, conflict management, and leadership through experiential learning. GIFTS panel presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference in Kerhonkson, NY, October 2008.
Birds of a feather flock together, or do they? Understanding the homophily/heterophily debate within the organizational communication context. Paper presented at the annual New York State Communication Association conference. Kerhonkson, NY. October 2008.
Twila Liggett, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Radio Interview with Dallas Anioce, Senior Editor. Kidcaster Radio: United Media Company. Regarding the importance of quality children’s media. March 30, 2009.
“One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education.” North Eastern Regional Conference and Forum. Presenter on the chilling impact of “No Child Left Behind” on learning. November 16, 2008.
David Linton, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
Recent Publications:
“Keeping Secrets.” Grifith Review. Summer 2008-2009, # 22.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
“No Laughing Matter? - From Shame to Humor in Menstrual Product Advertising,” Keynote Address for Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. June 2009.
“Mother/Daughter Relationships in Menstrual Product Advertising.” Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Bedford Hills, NY. October 17, 2008.
“The Public Period: Menstrual Product Advertising as a Marker of Change in the Perception of Women.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Minneapolis, MN. June 15, 2008.
Lia Leon Margolin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Recent Publications:
Margolin, L., S. Tsiklauri, “Ground State Energies and Wave Functions of Few- Electron Quantum Dots in Parabolic Confinement.” Proceedings of the 8-th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields. Honolulu, Hawaii. January 13-15, 2009.
R. Kezerashvili, S. Tsiklauri, “Three Electrons in External Magnetic Field.” Journal of Few-Body Systems. Springer Wien vol.44 (2008): pages 241-244.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Invited speaker. “How to Improve the Quantitative and Analytical Skills of Life Science Undergraduates.” Plenary Session: Incorporating Math into Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Special Symposium sponsored by American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) . Colorado College: Colorado Springs, CO. August 5-8, 2009.
Oral Presentation. “Investigation of the Structure and Decay of Five-Body Hypernuclear Systems with the use of the Hypersperical Function Method.” 19th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics. Bonn University: Germany. August 31 - September 5, 2009.
Invited Speaker and Applied Mathematics Session Chair. “Ground State Energies and Wave Functions of Few- Electron Quantum Dots in Parabolic Confinement.” 8th Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics, and Related Fields. Honolulu, HI. January 3-15, 2009.
David Mold
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Chair of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director, Marymount Manhattan College Senior Showcase: Scenes & Monologues 2009. Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36th Street, New York, NY. May 13 - 14, 2009.
Stage Director, The Yellow Star: A Little Light Dispels Great Darkness, concert version of opera written and composed by Bradley Detrick, presented by the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies: Iona College, Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium. New Rochelle, NY. October 28, 2008.
Director, Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. The Theresa Lang Theatre. Marymount Manhattan College. October 15 - 19, 2008.
Coordinator and moderator for Senior Seminars presented for graduating MMC seniors in Theatre Arts. Seminars focus on the business of the acting profession: Headshots & Resumes with photographer Jeremy Folmer. February 13, 2009; Actors Equity Association with Tom Miller, Education Outreach Coordinator of AEA. March 13, 2009; MMC Theatre Arts Alumni Panel. March 20, 2009; Agents, Managers & Casting Directors with Lisa Gold of Actors Connection. March 27, 2009; and Screen Actors Guild with Bernadine Goldberg: Member Education, SAG. April 3, 2009.
Rebecca Mushtare, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor in Communication Arts
Recent Publications:
Mushtare, Rebecca. "Confessions of a Feminist Cyborg." Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone. Ed. Laura Finley and Emily Reynolds Stringer. Praeger, 2010. Print. Mushtare, Rebecca. "Failing is NOT an Option." Spring 2009: Defining and Promoting Student Success: A National Symposium, Web. http://www.nyu.edu/frn/publications/defining.success/Mushtare.html
Recent Presentations/Productions:
humanities + digital: visual interpretations conference. MIT, Cambridge, MA. Short Presentation, "The Process of Visualizing Data As A Mode of Inquiry." “Spatial Dialogue.” Choreographed by Nancy Lushington. Fall Dance Repetoire, Theresa Lang Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY (December 10 - 12). Digital Media Designer. 6th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities: “Teaching and Learning the Hudson Valley: Building Capacity for Place-Based Education” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Co-Panelist & Co-Moderator with Alessandra Leri: “Environmental Studies and Digital Media” Co-Presenters: Dana Edell and Giovanna Chesler. “Service Learning in Creative Media” Service-Learning Symposium: “Beyond the Classroom: Co-Educating Students in the Service-Learning Partnership.” NYMAPS: City College of New York. New York, NY. May 5, 2009. Selected Recent Exhibitions: Repurposes, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. March 20 - April 18, 2010. Art Daze Teaching Artists, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut. Summer 2009. Pieced Together. Hewitt Gallery of Art. Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 3 – December 2, 2008.
Ellen Orenstein
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Recent Publications:
“Defying Gravity: Physics, Art and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.” (book chapter), Stages to Performance. Scheduled release Summer-Fall 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director, Surfacing (staged reading). Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. New York, NY. June 2009.
Director, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 2008.
Cheryl Paradis, Psy.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Recent Publications:
Paradis, C., S. Friedman, D.E. Hinton, R.J. McNally, L.Z. Solomon, K. Lyons. The Cross-Cultural Assessment of the Phenomenology of Sleep Paralysis: The Sleep Paralysis Questionnaire (SPQ). CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics. Submitted.
---. The Measure of Madness: A forensic psychologist explores the criminal mind. Citadel Press. Expected date of release January 2010.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Paradis C., E. Owen, C. Sembach. “Assessment of Cognitive Functioning in Elderly Defendants Undergoing Competency to Proceed Evaluations.” The New York State Psychological Association. May 1, 2009.
---. E. Owen, R. Peck, D. Kelly, D’Emic. “Malingering and the Competency to Stand Trial Evaluation.” Panel presentation with the assistant director of the Kings County Hospital Forensic Psychiatry Service, an assistant district attorney specializing in psychiatric cases, the mental health expert of the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society and the Judge presiding over the Mental Health Court of Kings County: The Brooklyn Legal Aid Society. April 2009.
---. E. Owen, M. Fullar, C. E. Sembach. “Detecting Malingering of Memory Impairment in a Forensic Population.” Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.
---. J. Jill Mains. “Currents Issues in Psychology and Law: Attitudes Towards Convicted Sex Offenders.” The Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.
---. K. Luongo. “Current Issues in Psychology and Law: The Role of Sexual Orientation in Attitudes toward the Battered Woman Syndrome Defense.” The Eastern Psychological Association. March 2009.
---. K. Luongo, J. Mains. “Currents Issues in Psychology and Law.” Crossing Borders, Marymount Manhattan College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. 2008.
---. G. Venito. “The Women of the Manson Family and the Power of Obedience.” Crossing Borders Conference: Marymount Manhattan College at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. 2008.
Mark Ringer
Professor of Theatre Arts
Recent Publications:
Schubert’s Theater of Song. New York, NY: Amadeus Press. 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
“Gloucester” in King Lear. National Black Theatre. Take Wings and Soar Productions. New York, NY. February, 2009.
Dramaturgy for above production.
Jason Rosenfeld
Associate Professor of Art History
Recent Publications:
Rosenfeld, Jason, Martha Hoppin, Garrett White, and Mark C. Taylor. Stephen Hannock. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press (forthcoming 2009).
---. “J.M.W.Turner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Victorian Studies (forthcoming 2009).
---. “Absent of Reference: New Languages of Nature in the Critical Responses to Pre-Raphaelite Landscapes.” Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: The Textual Formation of a Victorian Avant-Garde. Ed. Tim Barringer and Michaela Giebelhausen. Aldershot: Ashgate Press (forthcoming 2009): 151-70.
---. and Alison Smith. John Everett Millais. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum (Dutch and English editions). 2008.
---. and Alison Smith. John Everett Millais. Tokyo: The Asahi Shimbun. 2008.
---. “John Everett Millais, English Pre-Rapahelite.” Numen Art Magazine (Spain). 5 (November 2008).
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Rosenfeld, Jason. “Not Stokstad-Worthy?: Mainstreams of Modern Art and John Everett Millais.” “Why Victorian Art?” Conference. Department of Art History: CUNY Graduate Center. February 6, 2009.
---. Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of Art, Yale University, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor, Department of the History of Art, Bristol University (UK), and Cassandra Albinson, Assistant Curator, Yale Center for British Art, “Material Culture Sessions: Victorian Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art.” North American Victorian Studies Association Conference: Yale University. New Haven, CT, November 14 and 15, 2008.
Benedetta Sampoli Benitez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Recent Publications:
Sampoli Benitez, B., K Arora, L. Balisreri and T. Schlick. “Mismatched base-pair simulations for ASFV Pol X/DNA complexes help interpret frequent G*G misincorporation.” Journal of Molecular Biology, Dec. 31, 2008, 384(5):1086-97.
Alister Sanderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Arts
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Writer/Producer/Director, on-air programming spots for The History Channel and A&E. June – December 2008.
Writer/Producer/Director, two commercials for Kingsborough Community College: The City University of New York. June 2008.
Film screening
The Four Senses and More of Kirche Zeile (Alister Sanderson, director). Marymount Manhattan College. May 6, 2009.
Sejal Shah, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor of English
Recent Publications:
Shah, Sejal. “Cul-de-sac.” EDNA (forthcoming).
“Utterances, Unkeepables.” IWT Journal: Writing From the Inside Out. Vol. 3 (July 2008): 57-60.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Fiction Reading. Visiting Writers Series. Writers and Books. Rochester, New York. May 14, 2009.
Fiction Reading. Millay Colony Residents Reading. Hudson Opera House. Sponsored by The Millay Colony for the Arts. Hudson, NY. October 18, 2008.
Shah, Sejal. Collaborator/Performer, “Ball's Out: Play to Win.” Sponsored by the Black Earth Collaborative Arts Company. Luther College, Decorah, IA. July 24 - 26, 2008.
Fiction Reading. Kenyon College. Sponsored by The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Gambier, OH. June 19, 2008.
Linda Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Recent Publications:
Solomon, L., with A. Preston, L. Cooper, C. Owen, “Occupational Self-Esteem: Impact on Career Decision-Making." Submitted to the Journal of College Student Development.
---. with C. Paradis, S. Friedman, D.E Hinton, R.J. McNally, K. Lyons. “The cross-cultural assessment of the phenomenology of sleep paralysis: The Sleep Paralysis Questionnaire (SPQ).” Submitted to CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Solomon, L., A. Preston, C. J. Owen, & L. Cooper. “Occupational self-esteem: Impact on career decision-making.” Presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention. Pittsburgh, PA. March 5 – 8, 2009.
---. A. Preston, C. J. Owen, & L. Cooper. “The impact of hardiness on career decision-making difficulties of young adults.” Presented at the Association for Psychological Science Convention. San Francisco, CA. May 21 – 24, 2009.
Jill Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Recent Publications:
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York. Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Series. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
Review of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, ed. Elina Gertsman (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008) Theatre Journal 61, no. 3 (October 2009): 491-2.
Review of Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Theatre Journal 60.3 (2008): 513-4.
Forthcoming Publications:
“Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Archives and Active Learning,” co-authored with Mary Elizabeth Brown, Metropolitan Archivist 16, no. 2 (Summer 2010), forthcoming.
“Review of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play,” Ecumenica: A Journal of Theatre and Performance 3, no. 2 (Fall 2010), forthcoming.
Review of Penny Granger, The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009), European Medieval Drama 15 (2011): forthcoming.
Review of “Oberammergau Passion Play 2010: Performance and Context,” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief 7, no. 2 (July 2011), forthcoming.
“Embodied Enchantments: Cognitive Theory and the York Mystery Plays,” in Reflections on the York Mystery Plays, ed. Margaret Rogerson (under contract with York Medieval Press; projected publication, 2011).
“Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment, and Female Authority in Barking’s Easter Plays,” Barking Abbey: Authorship and Authority, eds. Jennifer Brown and Donna Bussell (under contract with Boydell & Brewer; projected publication, 2011).
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Co-Organizer and Participant, working session entitled “Contaminating Bodies: The Threat of Women on Performative Display,” the American Society for Theatre Research 2010 Conference, Seattle, November 2010.
“Animating Medieval Material Culture with Cognitive Theory,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2010.
“Embodying Female Authority and Community in the Barking Easter Plays,” The Modern Language Association Convention, December 2009 (Organized session).
“Embodying Sacred History: The Creation Museum as Performance,” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2009 Conference, New York, August 2009 (Organized session).
“‘Living in the Blend’ of Medieval Performance: Then and Now,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2009 (Organized session).
“Performance and Cognitive Enchantment,” Symposium on Theatre and Cognitive Studies, University of Pittsburgh, February 27-March 1, 2009.
“Cognitive Crossings between Body and Mind: How Do We Really See Theatre?” 2008 Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York, October 2008.
“Cognitive Theory, Sensual Performance, and Rhythmic Texts,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Haila Strauss
Associate Professor of Dance
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Choreographer, Major Barbara. The Theresa Lang Theatre. October 2008.
Choreographer, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre. November 2008.
Choreographer, She Stoops to Conquer. The Theresa Lang Theatre. April 2009.
Laura Tropp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Arts
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming, Battling the Blues: Representation of Post-Partum Depression in Popular Culture.” Mental Illness in Popular Culture. Ed. Lawrence c. Rubin. McFarland Press. Spring 2011.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
The Fertilization will be Televised. Pregnancy in Popular Culture. Mothers in the Arts, Literature, Media and Popular Culture. Mamapalooza Festival and Conference. New York City. May 20, 2010.
Andrew Warshaw
Associate Professor of Music and Dance, Music Director
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Musical Creatures: How Vertebrate Locomotion Shapes Human Music. The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination. New York, NY. October 28, 2008.
Warshaw, Andrew and William Moulton. Making Music with Developmental Movement Patterns. 15th Annual Conference of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. Florida State University. March 7, 2009.
Jerry Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Recent Publications:
Books:
Williams, Jerry. Admission. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press (forthcoming in late 2009).
Editor. It's Not You It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup and Divorce. New York: The Overlook Press (forthcoming in 2010).
Journals:
Williams, Jerry. “A Burden.” Evergreen Review. Forthcoming.
A Fine Powder.” The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets' University and College Prizes. 1999-2008. Forthcoming.
Bed, Bath, and Beyond.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.
Murder or Suicide in the Father Poems of John Berryman's Dream Songs.” Drunken Boat. Forthcoming.
Review of The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.” Pleiades. Forthcoming.
Truck.” New Ohio Review (No. 5, Spring 2009): 74-78.
Menstruation Blues.” Pleiades (Vol. 29 No. 2, 2009): 19-20.
Truce.” New Ohio Review (No. 3, Spring 2008): 177-178.
The Tonight Show.” Minnesota Review (No. 70 Spring/Summer 2008): 27-28.
Review of No Real Light by Joe Wenderoth.” Pleiades (Vol. 28 No. 2, 2008): 212-215.
Gem City.” Barrow Street (Winter 2008): 219.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Williams, Jerry. Poetry Reading and Interview. Joe Milford Poetry Show. BlogTalkRadio. February 28, 2009.
Poetry Reading. Stella Adler Studio. Sponsored by the Harold Clurman Reading Series. September 25, 2008.
Poetry Reading. Asian-American Writers Workshop. Sponsored by Drunken Boat. August 28, 2008.
Poetry Reading. Barnes and Noble. Sponsored by the Bronx Arts Council. August 15, 2008.
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