From the monthly archives: August 2016

Schwabe Publishes Essays and Interviews

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Liesl Schwabe, lecturer in English and director of the Yeshiva College Writing Program, published a personal essay on teenagers and consumerism in Salon, “A Weird, Wonderful, Tiny Place: An Interview with Rufi Thorpe” in Publisher’s Weekly and reviews of Marilynne Robison’s The Givenness of Things and Christine Toomey’s In Search of […]

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Jacobson Publishes Essays

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Dr. Joanne Jacobson, professor of English and associate dean for academic affairs at Yeshiva College, recently published essays from her book-in-process on chronic illness: “If My Disease Were an Animal, What Would It Be?” in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, “Written in Blood” in Southwest Review, and “Mirror Writing” […]

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Shires Publishes Essays, Edits Volume

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Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College, recently edited and wrote the preface for Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher (Ohio State University Press), a volume which offers a new perspective on the publishing career of her husband, a leading critic […]

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Ladin’s Works Receive Recognition

By On August 10, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of the Beren Writing Center, was recently awarded fellowships with National Endowment for the Arts Creative Non-Fiction and with the Hadassah Brandeis Institute for a forthcoming book. She also recently published a poetry chapbook, Answers to the Name “Lucky” (Blue Lyra Press).

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Nissel Leads Suicide Prevention Training in Minnesota

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Dr. Chaim Nissel, dean of students at Yeshiva University and adjunct assistant instructor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, presented four days of suicide-prevention training to mental health clinicians in Minneapolis and Mankato, Minnesota on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Human Services. These mini-courses taught 85 community mental health practitioners and mobile […]

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