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., assistant professor of English, launched the paperback publication of by University Press of Florida at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on November 28, 2018. The event, which included an introduction by Golden and readings by writers Deirdre Coyle, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Briallen Hopper, was live streamed to .
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, served as a panelists at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLA) conference, , November 11-18, 2018, discusing their augmented reality app to teach Shakespeare, "Out of (Shakespeare鈥檚) Mind and into the Classroom: Our Augmented Reality App for Teaching Hamlet.鈥� Misak and LaGrandeur are currently developing and beta testing an Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone application to use in an English classroom to help college-level students experience Shakespeare鈥檚 Hamlet in a more intimate, immersed way.
Elizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her paper, 鈥淎irless Spaces: Schizophrenia and the Relations of Narrative Production,鈥� as part of a Neurodiversity/Neuronarrative panel at the annual conference in Toronto, Ontario on November 16, 2018.
Carol Dahir
College of Arts & Sciences Masters School CounselingCarol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 42nd Biennial International Conference of the , November 14-16, 2018 in Manila, Philipenes.
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College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, published an article, in Computers and Composition, Volume 50 on November 13, 2018. The article explains how virtual reality (VR) games can help students realize the importance of narrative sense of place and outlines a VR exercise for students to experience immersion as a parallel to how written works transport readers to their environments.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Volume 3, Cycle 3, on November 13, 2018.
Carol Dahir
College of Arts & Sciences Masters School CounselingCarol Dahir, Ed.D., adjunct professor and chair of the Department of School Counseling, was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter at the 18th Annual Convention of the School Counseling Circle of the Philippines, November 13-14, 2018 in Manilla, Philipenes.
Jonathan Goldman
Spanglish FlyJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was featured in a from Goldman's Latin music group, Spanglish Fly, in All About Jazz on November 12, 2018. According to reviewer Chris M. Slawecki, "Jonathan Goldman sure seems like one interesting dude. An Associate Professor at New York Institute of Technology, Goldman edited the seminal study Joyce and the Law (University of Florida Press, 2017) and leads one of the most famous reading groups for one of Joyce's most infamous works, Ulysses. And as lead trumpet and bandleader for New York's own Spanglish Fly, he's one of the world's leading proponents of the irresistibly liberating rhythms, sounds and beats of Latin soul and boogaloo."
John Misak
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJohn Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, served as a panelist at Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association's 116th conference at Western Washington University in Bellingham on November 10, 2018. As part of his presentation, , Misak displayed a prototype of an Augmented Reality application that both he and Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, are working on to teach complex humanities texts, like Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, organized and presented on the roundtable, "Feminist Designs: Visualizing the Future of Modernist Digital Humanities" at the in Columbus, Ohio, November 10, 2018.