Faculty-Staff Achievements
April Bernard, professor of English and director of creative writing, published in the new anthology 鈥�Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America鈥檚 Poets Respond to the Pandemic鈥� (Knopf). The poem was first published in The New York Review of Books in July.
Gwen D'Arcangelis, associate professor and associate director of the Gender Studies Program, published a new book, 鈥�鈥� Published by Rutgers University Press, the book critiques an understudied dimension
of the war on terror 鈥擴.S. focus on bioterror and germ threats. The book examines
the post-9/11 mobilization of bioscience and public health fields to this effort,
alongside narratives of Arab/Muslim terror, U.S. vulnerability, white femininity,
technoscientific progress and pandemic preparedness.
Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, participated in a forum about his books 鈥淟uigi Pirandello,
studi e ricerche鈥� (Metauro Edizioni: Pesaro, 2017) and 鈥淯n amore primaverile, Inediti
di Luigi Pirandello e Jenny鈥� (Firenze: Pagliai-Polistampa, 2019). The Nov. 26 seminar
was hosted by the Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani in Rome. The Pirandello scholar
Elio Providenti and Annamaria Andreoli, president of the Istituto, led the book presentations
and discussion of Faustini's scholarly contribution to Pirandello studies. Faustini
also participated in the discussion.
June Paul, assistant professor of social work, was chosen as a Periclean faculty leader by
Project Pericles, a national consortium of colleges and universities that promotes
civic engagement within higher education. The award provides funding for Paul to incorporate
new civic engagement strategies within the Social Work Social Policy and Social Justice
course she teaches in the Department of Social Work while building connections with
other faculty across the country.
The Times Union has posted a review of the exhibition 鈥�,鈥� which is organized by Rachel Seligman, Malloy curator, and Minita Sanghvi, assistant professor in the Department of Management and Business. The reviewer describes the exhibition as "Overwhelming. It dazzles, ever-changing and aesthetically relentless. Color, surface, size, framing, detail and content take off in every direction. The show is multi-everything, from what to say and how to say it, and ambitious."
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