Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave invited lectures about co-editing The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber and Faber, 2026) in the at Columbia University on October 27, 2026, and the at New York University on October 26, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "Gatsby’s Other New York Islands: Incarceration, Segregation, Deadnaming" in The F Scott Fitzgerald Review on September 23, 2026. The article originates from the reference in "The Great Gatsby" to Blackwell’s Island—which, by the time of the novel’s events in 1922, had been renamed Welfare Island, and analyzes the novel in the context of the New York islands and waterways that are in proximity to the narrative but that the text rarely mentions—or mentions in ways that obscure material history.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, organized a panel "From Life to Literature: Exploring Memoir and Autofiction in Contemporary Greek Literature" at the on October 16, 2026, where she presented her research and led a discussion on the theoretical frameworks of life writing.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, was quoted in an October 15, 2026, , titled "New warnings for New York voters about AI-generated misinformation" on the use of artificial intelligence to generate political ads.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, was quoted in a vice.com article, "," on September 27, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, spoke at "" at the CUNY Graduate Center on September 25, 2026. His talk, "Luis Muñoz MarÃn: Boricua Modernism Between Poetics and Politics," drew on both his chapter in the collection "Jim Crow Modernism" (Oxford UP 2026) and his own book, "Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange " (SUNY P 2026).
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a research article, ""Beyond Self-Perception: Exploring School Counselors’ Self-Efficacy and Practical Application of Multicultural Counseling Competence," in the Journal of Education on September 23, 2026.
John Zweck
Department of Mathematucs, College of Arts and Sciences.John Zweck, Ph.D., professor of math, in the College of Arts and Sciences, has coauthored an academic paper, "," in the journal Wind Energy" on September 10, 2026. The authors developed a computationally efficient method that uses sensor data to determine the severity of erosion of a wind turbine blade. This approach could be used in future digital twin models that monitor the structural health of wind turbine systems.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, was interviewed with her co-author by Greg Barnhisel for "Fifteen years, 944 pages: Editing the Definitive Sylvia Plath" in the . The interview was published on September 9, 2026. Golden's work has also been reviewed in a number of literary publications.
Robert Alexander
College of Arts and SciencesRobert G. Alexander, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling, has published an academic article, “,� in the Journal of Eye Movement Research on September 9, 2026.