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Wachtell Publishes Article in Tikkun

By On May 30, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Cynthia Watchtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Stern College for Women, published an article in Tikkun titled “Conscientious Objectors and Draft Registration: A Timely Lesson from WWI.” Through the biography of her paternal grandfather, Benjamin Wachtell, […]

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O’Malley Edits Books of Essays

By On February 26, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Seamus O’Malley, assistant professor of English, will publish two volumes of essays he has co-edited: The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (with Sara Haslam and Laura Colombino, Routledge, 2018) and A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (with Tahneer Oksman, University of Mississippi Press, 2018).

He has […]

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Ladin Publishes Ninth Book of Poetry

By On February 26, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center at Stern College for Women, recently published her ninth book of poetry, The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press). Her memoir, Through the Door of Life, was […]

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Shires Will Address Thomas Hardy Conference in July

By On February 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, chair of the English department at Stern College for Women, and head of the humanities division, will give a plenary address at the 23rd international Thomas Hardy Society Biennial conference in Dorchester, England on July 17, celebrating Fifty Years of the Society. […]

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Ladin Publishes Poetry

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Joy Ladin, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and director of The Beren Writing Center, published her eighth poetry collection, Fireworks in the Graveyard, this September. Her ninth, called The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something, will be out in December. In addition, Ladin completed The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God […]

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O’Malley Speaks at Four Conferences

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Seamus O’Malley, assistant professor of English, is presenting at three conferences and serving on a panel at a fourth this fall.

His talks include “Populist Propaganda in Emily Lawless’s Hurrish” for The American Conference for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; “Yeats and the Languages of Populism” for […]

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Nachumi Publishes and Presents at Conferences Focused on 18th Century Studies

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Nora Nachumi, associate professor of English, presented a paper in March entitled “Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and the Impact of Form” on a panel entitled “The Eighteenth Century on Film” at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. That paper grew out of a chapter she is writing on Whit Stillman’s film, “Love and […]

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Stewart Publishes Two Essays

By On October 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English, recently published two essays. The first, “Michelangelo’s Last Pietà,” appears in the Autumn 2015 edition of The Lacanian Review: Hurly Burly, published under the aegis of The New Lacanian School and The World Association of Psychoanalysis. The second, “Hannah Arendt and Biopolitics” appears in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Core Texts in […]

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Miller Named Walt Whitman Initiative Board Member

By On August 17, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Matt Miller, associate professor of English at Stern College for Women, has been named a board member of a new nonprofit group called the Walt Whitman Initiative, an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Whitman’s writings.

On July 15, the Initiative held its first event, a celebration of Walt Whitman and […]

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Stewart Presents at Sixth World Congress on Polish Studies

By On July 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, presented a paper at the Sixth World Congress on Polish Studies Conference in Krakow, Poland, June 16-18, 2017.  The conference was co-organized by  The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, The Polska Akademia Umiejętności and The University of Gdańsk.

The paper, titled […]

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