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Galantucci and Langstein Publish Article

By On February 26, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology, and Benjamin Langstein ’15YC co-authored an article (along with Gareth Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania) titled “Content deafness: When coherent talk just doesn’t matter” in Language and Communication.

The authors begin by saying that common intuition suggests that, when people are engaged in […]

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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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Steinhauer Publishes Article on Genetics

By On October 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Josefa Steinhauer, associate professor of biology, has published an article, along with a number of co-authors, in the prestigious journal Genes and Development, titled “New genes often acquire male-specific functions but rarely become essential in Drosophila.”

In a collaboration among Steinhauer’s lab at YU and scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell […]

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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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Blatner Studies Playwriting in Italy

By On July 31, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Barbara Blatner, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, will attend the La Mama International Playwrights Retreat in Umbria, Italy, led by playwright Erik Ehn, from August 18 to 28.

Blatner will be presenting a play-in-process, “Marilyn Monroe in the Desert, a Dream in Three Parts.”

The La Mama International Playwrights Retreat is […]

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Geyh Edits Volume on Postmodern American Fiction

By On July 27, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Paula Geyh, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, published in April by Cambridge University Press.

This volume offers an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the American fiction of the past 50 years. It examines styles and genres (e.g., metafiction, graphic novel, digital […]

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Galantucci Delivers Keynote Talk on Experimental Semiotics

By On June 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva College, gave a keynote talk at an international conference in Germany sponsored by University of Cologne titled “XPrag 2017,” otherwise known as the Seventh Biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference.

The title of his talk was “Experimental Semiotics: What is it? What is it good for?” […]

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Goldman Publishes Film Review

By On May 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Eric Goldman, adjunct professor of cinema, posted a review of a new Israeli film, “The Wedding Plan,” by director Rama Burshtein, in the Jewish Standard.

In an interview with Goldman, Burshtein said she was tired of seeing film portraits of her ultra-Orthodox Israeli community in a negative light and decided […]

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Galantucci Authors Encyclopedia Entry on Experimental Semiotics

By On May 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Bruno Galantucci, associate professor of psychology, published an entry in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Linguistics titled “Experimental Semiotics” (ES).

Galantucci describes the field as “a burgeoning new discipline aimed at investigating in the laboratory the development of novel forms of human communication. Conceptually connected to experimental research on language use, ES provides […]

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Schwabe Publishes Essays and Interviews

By On August 31, 2016 · Leave a Comment

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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