Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations and honors.
Assistant Professor Mona Ali (Economics) presented her research on global imbalances and modern multinationals for a panel on “Beyond Globalization: Prospects and Challenges for Sustainable Growth” at Columbia Law School. She presented her paper “The Consigliere: Finance, Power, and the British Balance of Payments” and chaired two panels at the Eastern Economic Association’s 43rd Annual Conference in New York.
Lecturer Larry Carr (English) published the book Threnodies: Poems in Remembrance (Codhill Press) and the poem “Saigon Cinnamon” in the magazine VietNow. A dramatic monologue from Carr’s play The Wakeville Stories was also featured in Best Male Stage Monologues 2016.
Assistant Professor Nathen Clerici (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) published the articles “History, ‘Subcultural Imagination,’ and the Enduring Appeal of Murakami Haruki” in The Journal of Japanese Studies and “Madness, Mystery and Abnormality in the Writing of Yumeno Kyūsaku” in Japan Forum.
Assistant Professor Alexandra Cox (Sociology) received a fellowship to work at Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory as a Research Scholar in Law from January to August 2017.
Professor Victor deMunck (Anthropology) published “Romantic Love in the United States: Applying Cultural Models Theory and Method” in Open Sage and “Using Theory to Explain Ethnographic Descriptions of Change: Strain Stress and Identity Systems in a Sri Lankan Village” in Anthropos. He also has two articles in press: “The Cultural Dynamics of the Lithuanian Kinship System Using Free Lists: A Pragmatic Analysis of Generational Shifts in Conceptualizing Kin” in the Journal of Baltic Studies and “Romantic Love and Family Organization: A Case for Romantic Love as a Biosocial Universal” in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
Associate Professor Heinz Insu Fenkl (English, Asian Studies) translated (with Yoosup Chang) the novella Meeting with My Brother. The novella was first published in Korea in 1994.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Latin American & Caribbean Studies) published the poem “À vau-l’enfance” in the French literary review Filigranes.
Associate Professor Thomas Festa (English) published “Milton and the Stations of the Crux” in Milton Quarterly and “Spenser’s Thaumaturgy: ‘Mental Space’ and the Material Forms of The Faerie Queene (1590)” in The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text. Ed. Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser (Yale University Press).
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) has received international recognition for his Psychology Today blog, Darwin’s Subterranean World. His post, “The Evolutionary Psychology of Divorce,” was translated into Czechoslovakian and published in the Czech media outlet, PsychoLogOn; “Why Love Exists,” was reposted by the Ugandan news source, Uganda Today; “Get Back to Your High School Weight in Three Easy Months!,” was translated into Russian and published in the Russian magazine Psychologies; and “Creepy Clowns and the Science of Deindividuation” was summarized in “Deindividuation, Salah Satu Penyebab Seseorang Bertindak Buruk” for the Indonesian magazine Psikologi Mania. Geher’s research on mating intelligence has been featured in numerous media outlets including the Illinois Times, and his work on marathon running was featured in Women’s Running and Decathlon Sports News, in addition to the BBC World News. A recent article in Runner’s World cited research on the psychology of marathon running conducted by Geher’s Evolutionary Psychology Lab. The article highlighted lab member Harbert Okuti, a Uganda native considered one of the world’s elite marathon runners. Geher also published the article “You’d Never Hire a Behavorist? At least be honest about it” in Times Higher Education.
Professor Giordana Grossi (Psychology) coauthored the paper “Extinction: Possible Interference of Top-Down Information, A Case Study” with Gianna Cocchini (Goldsmiths, University of London). The paper, published in the 2016 December issue of the peer-reviewed journal Acta Neuropsychologica, is a single-case study of a brain-lesioned patient whose performance on a tactile task was influenced by his attentional disorder in the visual modality. Grossi was invited to discuss her critique of the concept of modularity in evolutionary psychology at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS University Lyon in France in October. The title of her talk was “A Module is a Module is a Module: Evolution of Modularity in Evolutionary Psychology.”
Emeritus Professor James Halpern (Psychology) and Assistant Professor Karla Vermeulen (Psychology, Institute for Disaster Mental Health) published the book Disaster Mental Health Interventions: Core Principles and Practices. (Routledge/Taylor Francis).
Vermeulen also authored the forthcoming article “Young Adults’ Security Perceptions: 
Troubling, but an Opportunity for the Response Field” in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Associate Professor Mary Holland (English) published the article “‘By Hirsute Author’: Gender and Communication in the Work and Study of David Foster Wallace,” the first major study of gender and feminism in Wallace’s work, in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. A second article, “David Foster Wallace’s ‘Octet’ and the ‘Atthakavagga,’” published in The Explicator, discovers Buddhist roots in Wallace’s most famous short story.
Professor Peter Kaufman (Sociology) published the article “Critical Contemplative Pedagogy” in Radical Pedagogy.
Three affiliated faculty of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program – Associate Professor Karl Bryant (Sociology), Assistant Professor Meg Devlin O’Sullivan (History) and Associate Professor Heather Hewett (English) – co-authored the article “Unlearning Introductions: Problematizing Pedagogies of Inclusion, Diversity, and Experience in the Women’s and Gender Studies Introductory Course” published in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice.
O’Sullivan also published the articles “Informing Red Power and Transforming the Second Wave: Indigenous Women and the Struggle against Coerced Sterilization in the 1970s” in Women’s History Review and “‘More Destruction to These Family Ties’: Native American Women, Child Welfare, and the Solution of Sovereignty” in The Journal of Family History.
Hewett also published “Vigilance and Valour in the Kitchen: Feeding, Eating, and the Intellectual Work of Motherhood in Food-Allergic Families” in Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives.
Associate Professor Ilgu Ozler (Political Science, Latin American & Caribbean Studies) has been selected to serve as an alternate delegate to represent Amnesty USA for the 2017 Amnesty International Council Meeting. She has been nominated as a candidate for the Board of Amnesty International USA (elections to take place by membership during March-June 2017).
Associate Professor Susan Lewis (History) was interviewed about the history of businesswomen for the family history podcast “Twice Removed,” hosted by A.J. Jacobs. The episode looked into the family history of Abbi Jacobson, the co-creator and co-star of the Comedy Central series Broad City. Lewis talked about how Betsy Ross was a businesswoman (she ran an upholstery business) and how the Kennedy family money in the U.S. started with a tiny shop run by JFK’s widowed great-grandmother (which then funded his grandfather’s saloon, etc.). Though Lewis was originally contacted to speak about how unusual it was to be a businesswoman in the past, she argued that widows had been businesswomen in the United States for hundreds of years.
Associate Professor Heather Morrison (History) published the article “Open Competition in Botany and Diplomacy: The Habsburg Expedition of 1783” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Assistant Professor Jessica Pabón (Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies) published the book chapter “‘Daring to Be ‘Mujeres Libres, Lindas, Locas’: An Interview with the Ladies Destroying Crew of Nicaragua and Costa Rica,” in La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades. She presented “Performing Mami on Social Media: Refusing to Reproduce the Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality” at the National Women’s Studies Association on a panel she organized on “Performing Motherhood: Practices of Decolonization” in Montreal, Canada in November. Most recently, she gave a talk, “‘I am not a Feminist. I am a Graffitera:’ Performing Feminist Community without Feminist Identity,” for the Engaged Liberal Arts and Science Series at Bard College on the invitation of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Historical Studies Program.
Associate Professor Fiona Paton (English) published the chapter “The Beat Movement” in American Literature in Transition 1950-1960 (Cambridge University Press).
Associate Professor Lisa A. Phillips (Digital Media & Journalism) wrote “Getting Close,” a cover story on intimacy in romantic relationships and friendships for the January/February 2017 issue of Psychology Today magazine.
Lecturer Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) published “Refugee Assemblages, Cycles of Violence, and Body Politic/s in Times of ‘Celebratory Fear’” in Women in German Yearbook.
Professor Anne R. Roschelle (Sociology) has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Association until 2020. Roschelle will also serve as Coordinator of the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program beginning in Fall 2017.
Associate Professor Akira Shimada (History, Asian Studies) edited, with Michael Willis, the book Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context.
Associate Professor Hamilton Stapell published “Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Rethinking Americanization, National Identity, and ‘Difference’ in Post-Franco Spain” in the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
Assistant Professor Annie Swafford (English, Digital Humanities) wrote the chapter “Songs of the Victorians: A Digital Edition of Nineteenth-Century British Songs,” which was published in Schriftenreihe des Max-Reger-Instituts. She also gave three invited talks: “Teaching Literature Through Technology: Sherlock Holmes, London, and the Digital Humanities,” (Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts), “Sounding Poetry with Digital Tools,” (University of Guelph, Canada), and “Singing For a Man, Or For Herself?: Parlor Performances in the Victorian Period” for WGBH, Boston’s PBS station, for their Gala in honor of the TV show Victoria.
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English), Associate Professor Jennifer Waldo (Biology) and Instructor Dennis Doherty (English) published the article “Methods and Models for Museum Learning at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art” in the online Journal for Learning through the Arts.
Doherty also published his fourth volume of poetry, Black Irish (Codhill Press).