Dr. Lee Manion, assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, recently published “The Loss of the Holy Land and Sir Isumbras: Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse,” Speculum 85.1 (January 2010): 65-90. His essay “Sovereign Recognition: Contesting Political Claims in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Awntyrs of Arthure” will be forthcoming in January 2012 [...]

Dr. Joy Ladin, the David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women, recently published Transmigration: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, Fall 2009). She has also published a number of poems and other pieces, including: “The God Thing” in Prairie Schooner, 83.4 (Winter 2009): 55-7; “The Velveteen Woman” in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol [...]

Dr. Linda Shires, chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, recently published Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in 19th Century England. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009). A review of Erik Gray’s Milton and the Victorians will soon appear in Victorians Institute Journal. Her essay “Conrad’s Theatre of Masculinities” is forthcoming from Palgrave in [...]

Rev. Frederick J. Streets, the Carl and Dorothy Bennet Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, appeared on NY1′s recent coverage on the counseling services offered to family members of victims of the Haiti earthquake. Rev. Streets, a former chaplain of Yale University and senior pastor of the University Church at Yale from 1992-2007, has specialized [...]

Dr. Eric E. Bouhassira Professor of cell biology and of medicine and the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Albert Einstein College of MedicineBlood Protein Offers Help Against Anemia ScienceDaily, Jan. 27, 2010 Dr. Mary E. FabryProfessor of medicine, Albert Einstein College of MedicineBlood Protein Offers Help Against [...]

Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, assistant professor of sociology at Yeshiva College, recently published an article entitled, “Is There a Career Penalty for Mothers’ Time Out? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden and the United States” in Social Forces, a leading sociology journal. The article focuses on the three countries and their distinct policies toward motherhood and work and investigates [...]

Orthodox Jews in America by Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, has been selected as a finalist of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies. The book was selected by a panel of three judges who are all authorities in [...]