Faculty Achievements 2008-2009

Summer 2009

TENURE AND PROMOTION AWARDS

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

PROFESSOR EMERITUS AWARDS

Prof. John Costello

Associate Professor of English: promoted to Professor Emeritus



Dr. Elizabeth Swain

Professor of Theatre Arts: promoted to Professor Emeritus

DISTINGUISHED CHAIR AWARDS

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).

TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD

Award Winner for 2008-2009

Dr. Peter Naccarato

Associate Professor of English

SOKOL GRANTS

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	Dr. Peter Naccarato
Communication Arts	English
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.

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.

Science Faculty Awards

Faculty Leaves and Fellowships

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.


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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."


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Dr. Cheryl Paradis

Psychology, Spring 2010
To work on three areas:
1. write an article based on her recently submitted forensic casebook tentatively titled The Amazing Madman: Case Studies in Forensic Psychology;
2. complete two research articles based upon the data collected on isolated sleep paralysis and competency to proceed evaluations; and
3. prepare a new Cultural Studies (COR 300) course based on her recent study of the field of genocide.

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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:
1. 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;
2. advance work on a second book provisionally entitled The Noetic Landscape: American Art, Spirituality, and Modernism; and
3. 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.

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Dr. Lia Leon Margolin

Mathematics, Fall 2009
To balance two areas of Dr. Margolin's professional activity at the College:
1. continue her research fellowship at the Institute of Cybernetics, Tbilisi, Georgia, leading theoretical investigations in mathematical physics;
2. 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.
   

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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.


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Dr. Mary Jean Robinson

Communication Arts, Spring 2010

To work on two projects:
1. revise Dr. Robinson's dissertation "'Voice of the City?': The Rise and Fall of WNYC-TV" into a book and pursue its publication;
2. 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."
   

External Grants and Gifts to Support Academic Programs and Scholarship

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).

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.




Other Professional Activities

Co-Coordinator: Voice Methods Workshop: Six Day Voice Workshop featuring Phil Thompson, Louis Colaianni, and Nancy Krebs. Hosted at MMC, July 2008.

Mentor: Association of Theatre Movement Educators’ Mentoring Program for aspiring movement specialists, Spring 2009.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Co-vice president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.

Scholar-in-residence for the Jewish Museum study tour to Latin America, March, 2009.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Director: Henry V by William Shakespeare. American Globe Theatre: Manhattan. March & April 2009.



Other Professional Activities:

Master Teacher: Playing Shakespeare, Elon University: North Carolina. September 2008.

Master Teacher: Staging Shakespeare, Columbia Teachers College. November 2008 & March 2009.

Master Teacher: Demystifying Shakespeare, Broadway Classroom Co. April 2009.

Recent Publications:

Behrens, Susan J. Grammar: A pocket guide for students. London: Routledge Press. Anticipated publication date 2011. In contract.

And Judith A. Parker, Editors. Language in the Real World: An introductory textbook. London: Routledge Press. Anticipated publication date 2010. In contract.

And Rebecca Sperling. “Accents and Dialects in the Classroom.” Language in the Real World: An introductory textbook. Ed. Behrens, S.J. and J.A. Parker, London: Routledge. Anticipated publication date 2010.

Being a Lifelong Learner: A response. Field Notes. Publication of the Masters in the Arts in Teaching at Bard College In press.

Writing for Science by Robert Goldbort. Field Notes. Publication of the Masters of Arts in Teaching at Bard College (Winter 2009) IV.3: 28-30.

And Cindy Mercer. What is Native Fluency? A Case Study on the Ambiguous Nature of Bilingualism and its Consequences for Writing Instruction. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2008. Case: .
Teaching Notes:

And Ann Jablon (January/February). “Speaker Perceptions of Communicative Effectiveness: Conversational Analysis of Student-Teacher Talk.” Journal of College Science Teaching. 37.3 (2008): 40-44.

“Make the Conference Come to You.” Chronicle of Higher Education. 2008: A99.

NSTA Recommends. Book Reviews. Investigate series: Animal Characteristics; Animal Needs; Earth’s Resources; Electricity; Life Cycles; Magnets; Plants; Push and Pull; Rocks and Soil; Senses; Sound; Sunlight; Teeth; Water; Weather and Seasons. 2008.

Stress-Free Grammar. Field Notes. Publication of the Masters of Arts in Teaching at Bard College, IV.2 (Fall 2008): 34-36.

The Benefits of Writing a Teaching Philosophy.” Research and Teaching in Developmental Education. 25.1 (Fall 2008): 64-69.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Behrens, Susan and Ann Jablon, Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Conversational Effectiveness. Dialogue In/As Action Conference. Marymount Manhattan College. June 2009.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Service Learning Faculty Fellow, Marymount Manhattan College, 2008.
Participant in Pedagogy Workshop, Revolutionary Grammar, Bard College. December 2008.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Visiting Professor of Art History, Accademia dell’Arte: Arezzo, Italy, August 2008.

Co-chair (with Professor Katherine E. Manthorne, Department of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York). Associates of American Art, 2006-present.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

French Editor for The Philosopher’s Index. 2007-present.

Managing Co-Editor (with Irfan Khawaja) of Reason Papers. 2006-present.

Referee for Polis. 2007-present.

Referee for Teaching Philosophy. 2008-present.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Scholar in Residence, Faculty Resource Network. New York University: New York, NY. June 2009.

Discussant, “NY: VC: Expectations for Obama's Trip to Mexico.” The Americas Society: New York, NY. April 2009.

Panelist, BCAT/BRIC Rotunda Gallery Video Program 2009-2010. Brooklyn, NY. March 2009.

Discussant, “Mexico and the United States: Neighbors, Partners and Friends.” The Americas Society: New York, NY. March 2009.

Production Assistant, THIRTEEN & WLIW21’s 2009 Celebration of Teaching and Learning. New York Hilton: New York, NY. March 2009.

Participant, “Electronic Communications Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment.” Colloquium on Information Technology & Society: New York University: New York, NY. February 2009.

Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop CS3. Adobe Systems Incorporated: San Jose, CA. February 2009.

Visiting Artist, created flag book content with 7th grade students. Lyons Community School: Brooklyn, NY. November 2008.

Speaker, Art Group for GLBT Artists. November 2008.

Professional Development Technical Assistant, Youth Views Teacher Training: The Paley Center for Media: New York, NY. November 2008.

Panelist, “Making Your Work Stand Out on the Web.” The Drawing Center: New York, NY. October 2008.

Evaluator, Posse Foundation: New York, NY. September 2008.

Visiting Scholar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “Mass Media and Its Implications in Our Lives.” July - September, 2008.

Professional Development Consultant, “Behind the Scenes at Madagascar for Artists and Educators.” Wildlife Conservation Society: Bronx, NY. August 2008.

Member, Artist Advisory Board. En Foco, Inc.: Bronx, NY.

Member, Artist Advisory Committee. The Rotunda Gallery: Brooklyn, NY.

Member, “D Stress Programming for Incarcerated Youth” planning team. Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation: New York, NY.

Recent Publications:

I Promised Myself I Would Never Let It Leave My Body’s Memory” Dance Research Journal. Forthcoming. (peer-reviewed journal). Print.

“Dancing Yvonne” Attitude Magazine. Fall 2008: 18-21. Print.

“Gratitude” Attitude Magazine. Fall 2008: 4-5. Print.

“The Reverence of an Iconoclast” Attitude Magazine. Summer 2008: 22-23. Print.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Dancer, Rehearsal Assistant, and Music Consultant, Spiraling Down (2008) and RoS Indexical. (2007). Choreographed by Yvonne Rainer. REDCAT Theatre: Los Angeles, CA. June 25-27, 2009. Sponsored by the Getty Museum.

Dancer, Trio A (1966) choreographed by Yvonne Rainer. Performance Exhibition Series. The Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY. March 7-8, 2009.

Dancer, Rehearsal Assistant, and Music Consultant, Spiraling Down. (2008). Choreographed by Yvonne Rainer. Baryshnikov Art Center: New York, NY. July 18, 2008.

Choreographer, Oh, Love Be Damned. Marymount Manhattan College Faculty Concert: New York, NY. December 4-6, 2008.

Installation: Moving In/To the Neighborhood. Goddard College: Plainfield VT. February 12, 2008.


Other Professional Activities:

Coach/Repiteur, “Chair/Pillow.” (1969). Choreographed by Yvonne Rainer. Montgomery County Community College: Blue Bell, PA. April 6-8, 2009.

Interviewed for “Making Dance, Taking Chances” by Amanda Abrahms. Dancer Magazine. March 2009: 66-68.

Curator/Coordinator, Guest Artist, “Teacher Series.” Dance Department, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts: New York, NY. 2008-2009 school year.

Recent Publications:

Chesler, Giovanna. “Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV.” K. Wailoo, J. Livingston, R. Aronowitz, S. Epstein (Eds.). The HPV Debates. (Forthcoming).

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Recent Presentations/Productions:

Chair, “Menstrual Movies: Re-imagining Blood on Screen.” Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. June 5, 2009.

Co-Chair with Heath Dillaway, “Honoring the Work of Randi Koeske: A Round Table Discussion.” Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference. Spokane, Washington. June 6, 2009.

Panelist with Rebecca Mushtare, Dana Edell and Comm Arts students, “Communication and Sexual Health: Service Learning in Creative Media.” 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. May 5, 2009.

Keynote Lecture, Connecticut National Organization of Women. Annual Convention, Connecticut College: New London, CT. November 15, 2008.

Invited Lecture, “Challenging Dominant Health Discourses through Feminist Film Practice: A discussion by Filmmaker and Web Producer Giovanna Chesler.” Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. October 16, 2008.

Invited Lecture, “Home Grown Sexual Health Messages: Connecting personal experiences with medical knowledge.” Grand Rounds, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical Center: Ann Arbor, MI. October 17, 2008.

Presenter, “Re-Presenting Choice: Tune in HPV.” Locating Risk / Masking Uncertainty Symposium: Rutgers University: NJ. September 26, 2008.

Panelist, “Making Your Media Matter Conference Report.” on the panel “Festivals, Conferences, Centers: Opportunities for Documentary Film Teachers and Students.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Colorado College: Boulder, CO. August 13, 2008.

Panelist, “Tune in HPV: Digital Storytelling from the Classroom.” on the panel “Activist Filmmaking and the Academy: Theory and Practice.” University Film and Video Association Conference, Colorado College: Boulder, CO. August 13, 2008.

Productions:

Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Editor, “Bye Bi Love.” Short narrative film in High Definition Video (24p,) shot on location in Brooklyn, NY. January 25 – 28, 2009. In post-production.

Producer/Web Publisher. “Tune in HPV.” . Web media project – online community and video entertainment site built to educate, entertain and connect people who have human papillomavirus. Continuous work (2008/2009).


Exhibitions

Director/Producer, Period: The End of Menstruation (54 min documentary feature, distributed by Cinema Guild: NY, 2006). Screened at Doc Watchers: Harlem, NY. March 2, 2009, Connecticut National Organization of Women, Annual Convention, Connecticut College: New London, CT. November 15, 2008, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI. October 15, 2008.




Other Professional Activities:

Chair, Faculty Juried Film Competition: University Film and Video Association. Year long process of managing the international competition of faculty film and video work by members of this academic organization, 2008/2009.

Media and Research Fellow, Center for Social Media at American University, 2008-2009.

Board Member, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, 2008-2009.

Co-Curator, Winter Film Follies. Screening event for Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY. December 18, 2008.

Advisor, Youth Media Initiative. Sponsored by the Sasha Bruce Youthwork and the Consumer Health Foundation, Washington DC. October 2008.

Recent Publications:

Illustrations in Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure and Lessons Learned by Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press. October 2008.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Exhibitions:
Retrogarde Painters & Guest Artists. Westbeth Gallery: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY. January 16- February 1, 2009.




Exhibitions
Retrogarde Painters & Guest Artists. Westbeth Gallery: 55 Bethune Street, New York, NY. January 16- February 1, 2009.

Other Professional Activities:

Curator, On Aggression. Philoctetes Center: New York, NY. Works by Joy Garnett, Alexander Gibbons, Joyce Kozloff, Leah Poller, Margaret Roleke, Robin Tewes. February 28-May 20, 2009.

Curator, Typograffica. Philoctetes Center: New York, NY. Works by Christopher Calderhead, Elinor Aishah Holland, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Alexander Norbom. January 8- February 24, 2009.

Consulting curator, The Philippson Bible and Freud’s Imagination. Wood Engravings from the Philippson Bible, curated by Andrew Stein Raftery, Associate Professor of Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, Philoctetes Center: New York, NY. October 31-December 31. 2008.

Curator, The Body as Image. Philoctetes Center: New York, NY. Works by Amy Caron, Katie Commodore, Sol Kjøk, Tarrah Kranjnak, Philip Pearlstein, Wilka Roig, Kristi Ropeleski, Diana Schmertz. September 4 - October 28, 2008.

Interviewed by Bonnie Grice, In the Morning with Bonnie Grice. WLIU fm/88.3 radio. Discussing The Body as Image exhibition at the Philoctetes Center. September 22, 2008.

Curator, The Architecture of Emotion: Interior and Exterio. Philoctetes Center: New York, NY. Works by Vito Acconci, Saul Robbins and Julio Salcedo. June 11 - July 31, 2008.

Advisory Board Member, The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination: 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028. .

Photographer for Dialog, the newsletter of the Philoctetes Center.

Editorial Advisory Committee, Philoctetes: The Journal of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination. Volume II. Number 1. 2008, Volume II. Number 2. Forthcoming.

Founding Member, “Retrogarde.” (An independent artists group).

Member, The College Art Association.

College Service

Program Coordinator, Art Department.

Recruiter, Art Department. Spring 2009.

Member, Enrollment Management Committee. Spring 2009.

Member, Hewitt Gallery of Art Selection Committee.

Member, Sr. Judith Savard Endowed Travel Fellowship Committee.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Translation of Preface (Spanish to English) and copyediting of Balakrishnan, Radhika, et.al. Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective (Why MES and Human Rights II) . N.p: Creative Commons. 2009.

Copyediting of Klimt, Andrea and Kimberly DaCosta Holton. Community, Culture, and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese Americans along the Eastern Seaboard. Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture: Dartmouth, MA. Forthcoming.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

Director, She Stoops to Conquer. Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College’s Department of Theatre Arts. Spring 2009.



Other Professional Activities:

External Reviewer, Collaboration in Theatre: A Practical Guide for Designers and Directors, by Rob Roznowski and Kirk Domer. Palgrave Macmillian. 2009.

Reader/Evaluator, Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Playwriting Contest, Theatre Research Institute: The Ohio State University. May 2009.

External Reviewer, “The Performance of Reconciliation: Armand Volkas and Healing the Wounds of History,” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. April 2009.

External Reviewer, Paul Mitri, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Candidate for Tenure and Promotion, Department of Theatre and Dance: University of Hawai’i at M?noa. October 2008.

Co-Coordinator, with Ellen Orenstein, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. Physical Acting Intensive Workshop with J. Steven Pearson, Robyn Hunt and Peter Kyle. Marymount Manhattan College. June 2008.

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.


Group Exhibitions

“The Lower Eastside Festival of the Arts.” Theatre for the New City: New York, NY. May 16-June 30, 2009.

“14th Annual Member’s Juried Exhibition.” Soho Photo Gallery: New York, NY. April 7-May 2, 2009.

“11th Annual International Krappy Kamera Competition.” Soho Photo Gallery: New York, N Y. March 3-April 4, 2009

. “Small Works.” Tompkins Square Library Gallery: New York, NY. December 3-30, 2008.

“Alternative Process Exhibition.” Soho Photo Gallery: New York, NY. November 6-11, 2008.

“The Photograph Now: An Invitational Exhibition.” Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery: Bristol Community College. Fall River, MA. October 16-November 19. 2008.

“Artistas de Loisaida.” Theater for the New City Gallery: New York, NY. August 27-September 30, 2008.

“Wish You Were Here 7.” A.I.R. Gallery: New York, NY. June 7-July 19, 2008.

Published Photographs

“Cosmos Diptych.” “Red Rose Diptych.” Photographic images featured in The Baster. Forthcoming movie release 2010.

“Hydrangea.” “Whisks.” “Kitchen Tools.” Photographic images featured in untitled Nancy Meyer Project. Forthcoming movie release 2010.

“Eggs,” “Maple Leaf.” Promethean, Volume 36, No. 1. Spring 2009.

“Pink Impatiens.” Cover photograph. Avocet, Spring 2009.

“Winter Berries.” Cover photograph. The Adirondack Review. Winter 2009.

“Pine Cone/Needles.” Cover photograph. Avocet. Winter 2009.

“Red Zinnias.” “Yellow Nasturtium.” “Yellow Grape Leaves.” “Yellow Ginko Leaves.” “Tea Bag.” “Pills.” “Vitamins/Bottle.” “Knife, Fork, Spoon.” “Pink Impatiens.” “Red Cosmos Diptych.” Licensed by Corbis Corporation for publication in the United States, Canada and Italy. 2009.

“Blue Pearls.” Licensed by Workbookstock Brochure. 2009.

“Iris.” Featured in “Lipstick Jungle.” September 2008.

“Pills.” Photolibrary.com/Australia. August 31, 2008.

Untitled works, featured in “What Happens In Vegas.” June 2008.

Published Poems

“Fungi.” “A Snack.” “Moonflower.” Avocet. Summer 2009. “Morning.” Avocet. Spring 2009. “Talk Radio.” Flesh Volume 2. December 2008. “No Peach Pie.” Tapestries. November 2008.

Other Professional Activities

Facilitated and presented at Artistas de Loisaida “Slide Slam.” Tompkins Square Library Gallery: New York, NY. January 28, 2009.

Selected Winter Seminar Participant, “Writing From Experience: The Theory and Practice of Narrative.” New York University Faculty Resource Network: San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 12-16, 2009.

Attended Society of Photographic Educators Mid-Atlantic Conference. Technocracy: Image Producton/Distribution/Consumption, Techo-Lust vs. Technophobia. Pittsburgh, PA. November 7-9, 2008.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Guest Faculty, National Association of Dance and Affiliated Artists, Inc. Northeast Chapter Spring Seminar. Springfield, MA. October 2008.

Guest Faculty, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Dance Department, MFA and BFA Programs. Summer II, June 2009.

Guest Faculty, Ministry of Education and Culture. Harry Mavromichalis, Artistic Director. Limassol, Cyprus. July 2009.

New York University’s Faculty Resource Network: University Associates Program. Semester Courses.

Attended, Film - A Transformative Process: a Vision beyond Technology with Dr. Chitra Neogy. Tisch Open Arts. Fall 2008.

Attended, Comparative Directors: Douglas Sirk/Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Dr. Rahul Hamid, Cinema Studies. Spring 2009.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Committee Member, International Theatre Exchange/USA Committee for UNESCO.

External adjudicator for programs and faculty at several institutions.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Member, Board of Directors, Society of Dance History Scholars. 2005-present.

Co-Chair, Ph.D. Committee, University of Surrey. 2005-present.

Interviewed. Tanzrebellen: The New Dance Group. ARTE European TV Channel, broadcast in German and French. October 2008. TV.

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.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Designed a suite of web sites for Susan Wides Photography, New York, NY, 2009:
Susan Wides
Susan Wides Studio

Represented by Getty Images, an international provider of stock photography and illustrations.

A sampling of commissions for photomontage illustrations.

Editorial, Netherlands. November 2008.

Editorial, Romania. November 2008.

Editorial, USA. November 2008.

Editorial, USA. August 2008.

Web, Corporate, South Korea. September 2008.

Web, Corporate, Austria. July 2008.

Web, Corporate, Australia. September 2008.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

President of Culture SIG. American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). 2009-Present.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Board Member, Parsons Dance Company.

Honorary Board Member, Buglisi Dance Theater.

Master Teacher, Classes for the Performing Arts Center of Connecticut Dance Company. Trumbull, CT. Fall-Spring 2008-09.

Interviewee, “Staying in Shape Over the Holidays.” by Lisa Jo Sagolla, Backstage National Edition. December 11-17, 2009: 12.

Judge. “Dancin’ Downtown at the Joyce Theater.” A Performance & Choreography Competition Benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA). The Joyce Theater. April 20, 2009.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Referee, Palgrave MacMillan Press.

Referee, Routledge Press.

Referee, University of California Press.

Referee, SUNY Press.

Referee, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Referee, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.

Referee, Body and Society (journal).

Referee, Food and Foodways (journal).

Participant, “The Landscape of American Food in the 21st Century” Faculty Resource Network Summer Seminar, New York University. June 2008.

Participant, Academic Publishing panel, sponsored by Faculty Development Committee, Marymount Manhattan College. April 15, 2009.

Interviewed in audio documentary Thinness and Salvation by Sarah Yahm; available online at Third Coast International Audio Festival.

Recent Publications:

Leri, Alessandra, M. Hay, and S. Myneni, “Organosulfur Speciation and Dynamics in Forest Floor Leaf Litter and Dissolved Organic Matter.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta72 (2008): A359.



Other Professional Activities:

Peer Reviewer, Environmental Science and Technology.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Invited to join Editorial Review Board for Gender in Management – An International Journal. Emerald Group: Publishing Limited, UK.

Reviewed “Conditions Determining Success/Failure of Female Entrepreneurship in Wielkopolska” for the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences. Ontario, Canada.

Reviewed three articles for the Religion and Media Interest Group for the 2009 Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) .

Scholar-in-Residence in New York University’s Faculty Resource Network during academic leave. Spring 2009.

Developed and taught first marketing/communications course at Columbia University’s summer program for gifted high school students; course so successful that 50+ students signed up and second section opened. Summer 2008.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Elected Public Relations Coordinator for the New York State Communication Association (NYSCA).

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Invitational conference, “Anticipating Children’s Media Policy in the Obama Era.” Sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Sandbox Seminar, “The importance of play on early childhood learning.” Sponsored by Sesame Workshop. November 5, 2008.

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.

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.

Other Professional Activities:

Created oil paintings as part of a continuing series interpreting three dimensional paper constructions.

Recent Publications:

“Remembering the New Right.” The Public Eye. Forthcoming.

“Operation Rescue Sponsors ‘Summer of Mercy’ ”and “Anti-Communism Groups.” In John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman, eds. Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements. New York: Facts on File. Forthcoming.

“Stages Model of the Policy Process” and “Right to Life.” In George Thomas Kurian, ed., International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2010. Forthcoming.

“Backlash: Race, Sexuality, and American Conservatism.” Polity (April 2009): 256–266.

“Christian Legal Society” and “Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.” In David Hudson, David Schultz, and John R. Vile, eds., Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2008.

Review of The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism, by Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol, eds. Political Studies Review. Forthcoming.

Review of Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests, by Gregory Allen Smith. American Review of Politics 30. Spring-Summer 2009.



Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Coming Out of God’s Closet: Atheism, Communism, and Discourse.” 2009 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. March 19, 2009.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Faculty, Special Studies: Chautauqua Institute. Chautauqua, NY. Understanding Drama. August 18 - 22, 2008.

Acting Basics, workshop on acting technique. Senior Showcase Weekend: Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. Dallas, TX. November 22, 2008.

Directors & Designers in Collaboration, workshop presented with professors Robert Dutiel and Kirche Zeile. Senior Showcase Weekend: Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts. Dallas, TX. November 22, 2008.

Recent Presentations/Productions:

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.

“Failing is NOT an Option.” National Symposium on Defining and Promoting Student Success. Faculty Resource Network: University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. November 21, 2008.NYU Facutly Resource Network.

Exhibitions:

Pieced Together. Hewitt Gallery of Art. Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 3 – December 2, 2008.

It’s Not Easy. Social Environmental Aesthetics. Exit Art Underground. New York, NY. July 24 – August 29, 2008.




Other Professional Activities:

Teaching Artist. Summer Daze. Aldrich Museum. Ridgefield, CT. July 28-30, 2009.

Web Designer. Vibe Theater. New York, NY. Live June 2009.

Web Designer. Serenity Health Arts. New York, NY. Live January 2009.

Member of Advisory Board. NYMAPS. NYC.

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.




Other Achievements:
Participant, The National Congress of Acting Teachers 2008. The Actors Center. New York, NY. June 2008.

Co-coordinator (with Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Kevin Connell), Physical Acting Intensive Workshop with J. Steven Pearson, Robyn Hunt and Peter Kyle. Marymount Manhattan College. June 2008.

Participant, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference, Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement. Denver, CO. July - August 2008.

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.

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.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Public Lecturer, “J.M.W. Turner Exhibition.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. July 1 – September 21, 2008.

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.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Instructor, “The Art of Film” and “The Art of Alfred Hitchcock.” Michael Howard Studios. Courses for 1st and 2nd year acting conservatory students. Spring 2009.

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.


Other Professional Activities:

Scholar-in-Residence, New York University Faculty Resource Network. New York, NY. June 1 - 25, 2009.

Selected Winter Seminar Participant, New York University Faculty Resource Network. “Writing From Experience: The Theory and Practice of Narrative.” San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 12 - 16, 2009.

Judge, University of Rhode Island. 2009 undergraduate short story contest.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Faculty Advisor, National organization of Psi Chi (psychology honor society).

Recent Publications:

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.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Conferences: “‘Living in the Blend’ of Medieval Performance: Then and Now.” International Congress on Medieval Studies: Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2009.

Roundtable participant in session entitled “Pedagogy in Medieval Studies: Making the Transition from Student to Teacher,” the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. March 2009.

“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. NY. October 2008.

Organizer and participant in roundtable entitled “Approaches to Religion and Theatre Pedagogy,” at Difficult Dialogues: The Religion and Theatre Focus Group 2008 pre-conference. Denver, CO. July 30-31, 2008.




Other Professional Activities:

Conference Planner, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Religion and Theatre Focus Group. 2009 and 2010.

Served on selection committee for the 2009 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies.

Organized and chaired panel entitled “Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance: Part Two,” sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, at International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2009.

Organized panel entitled “Cognitive Theory and Medieval Performance,” at International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2009.

Organized and chaired panel entitled “Renaissance Medievalisms in Performance,” sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Modern Language Association convention. December 2008.

Council Representative, The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. 2007-2010.

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.



Other Professional Activities:

Choreographer, several cabaret shows in NYC.

Director and Teacher of “The Special Dance Workshop for Actors and Singers,” NYC.

Quoted in Backstage Magazine “Dance Styles.” November 2008.

Recent Publications:

“Links, Chicks, Blogs, Banners: Using the Internet for Youth Voter Mobilization.” Mosh the Polls: Youth Voters, Popular Culture, Democratic Engagement. Ed. Brian Cogan and Anthony Kelso. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. 2008.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

Panelist, “Pregnancy in New Media Environments.” Media in Transition Conference, MIT: Cambridge, MA, April 24, 2009.

Panelist, “Battling the Blues: Representation of Post-Partum Depression in Popular Culture.” Mothers Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness Oppression and Resistance Conference, New York, NY. May 29, 2009.

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.




Other Professional Activities:

Finalist, Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize ($40,000 “Creativity in Motion” Award) for work on Locomotion-Encoded Musical Patterns (LEMPS).

Completed Act II Libretto, The Sparks, The Ringing (work-in-progress with fiscal sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts).

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.

Recent Publications:

“Toon Town: New York City and Comic Books.” Seaport: New York’s History Journal. Forthcoming.

A Comics Studies Reader, edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester. University Press of Mississippi. 2009.

“The Academy Discovers Comics.” MoCCA Art Festival Program (June 2009): pp. 8-9.

Review of David Hadju, The Ten-Cent Plague. New Politics (XII/2 Winter 2009): pp. 156-158.

“Interview with Kevin Pyle.” New Politics (XII/1 Summer 2008): pp. 157-163.


Recent Presentations/Productions:

“Comic Books and New York City.” Dutchess Community College. April 23, 2009. (Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities)

“Is Comics Studies a Branch of Journalism History?” Keynote address to the Joint Journalism History Conference. Marymount Manhattan College. March 14, 2009.

Panelist, “Graphic Novels and Academic Acceptance.” New York Comic-Con. February 6, 2009.

“Teaching the Graphic Novel at the Undergraduate Level.” Graphica in Education: Fordham University. January 31, 2009.

“Comic Books and New York City.” French-American School. January 30, 2009. (Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities).

“The Republican Defeat.” post-election divisional roundtable. Marymount Manhattan College. November 11, 2008.

“The McCain Campaign.” pre-election divisional roundtable. Marymount Manhattan College. October 23, 2008.

Chair and discussant, “The State of Comix: Cultural Identity, the Nation, and the Visual Politics of American Comics.” American Studies Association annual conference. Albuquerque, NM. October 17, 2008.

“What is the Textus Roffensis?” Faculty Projects Luncheon Series. Marymount Manhattan College. October 15, 2008.



Other Professional Activities:

Program chair, MoCCA Art Festival. New York, NY. June 6-7, 2009.

Outside reviewer of a graduate-level social studies course. Bank Street College. October 2008.

Referee, College Literature (journal).

Referee, Social Science Quarterly (journal).

Referee, PS: Political Science and Politics (journal).

Referee, University of Wisconsin Press.