From Letter to Literature: Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao and Late
Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Fiction (Modern Language Notes, vol.
124(1), pp 177-194)
Gabriella RomaniDepartment:
Modern Languages
Modern Language Notes , published by Johns Hopkins Press, is one of the oldest American periodicals specialized in literary criticism. Romani’s article probes the interconnections between the world of real letter-writing and epistolary fiction and analyzes what some critics have defined as “postal culture”--that is, the rise in the nineteenth century of social and cultural practices developed around the letter. The topic of this article is now being expanded into a book forthcoming in 2011.
The College Fear Factor focuses on the perspectives and classroom experiences of community-college students. Based on classroom observations as well as interviews with students and faculty, the book illuminates how students’ preconceptions and understandings can conflict with professors’ expectations, and how traditional college norms can actually pose obstacles to students’ success. Cox’s interest in the topic derives from her own experience as a community-college instructor in Southern California, and she has conducted research at community colleges across the country.
Dr Sharrett’s article on changing images of masculinity in contemporary films was named on the cover of a 2009 issue of Film International. This article focused particularly on revisionist westerns and continues a theme that Sharrett has developed in a recent article in Cineaste, as well (“No Country for Old Men: Comic Dread in the Modern Frontier”). Sharrett has been a frequent contributor to Cineaste, one of the most influential periodicals of film analysis and criticism.
Target Finding Time for Microtubules in a Confined Geometry. (Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 87, pp 691-694)
Mitra Shojania Feizabadi
Department: Department of Physics
Dr. Feizabadi’s research has an emphasis on the interdisciplinary field of biophysics, revolving in a major way around theoretical cell division and microtubule dynamics, as well as the experimental characterization of cytoskeleton filaments through the implementation of optical trapping techniques. An image of microtubules from the Physics Laboratory is shown.
Assistant Professor Yinan He has published a book on the processes that support and impede the reconciliation of historic enemies. Her book was published by Cambridge University Press, generally considered one of the most prestigious academic presses in the world. Her research considers the reasons why Germany and Poland have experienced relative success at reconciliation, a success not yet evident between China and Japan despite years of efforts. The writing of this book received support from the Faculty Development Grants of Seton Hall University, as well as fellowships from the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University and the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program.
Long before the January 2009 gas transit conflict between Russia and Ukraine that left millions of Europeans without gas or heating in the middle of an especially harsh winter, Margarita Balmaceda (Whitehead School) was researching Russia’s use of energy as a foreign policy weapon and the connections between domestic governance, corruption, and energy security in the broader European area. The latest publication in this research campaign was titled “Corruption, Intermediary Companies, and Energy Security: Lithuania's Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe.” Balmaceda’s work in the region has been supported by grants from, among others, the Fulbright Program, Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University, and, most recently, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where she will be a Visiting Fellow this Spring.
Wagdy Abdallah of the Department of the Department of Accounting in the Stillman School of Business recently published Accounting, Finance and Taxation in the Gulf Countries (Palgrave-MacMillan). This text provides insights on differences between business practices and expectations in the Middle East that are critical background for American companies planning to do business there. Dr Abdallah’s past work on this topic has led to articles in the International International Tax Journal of and the International Journal of Accounting, among others.
Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (University of Nebraska Press) Thomas Kavanagh Department: Department of Sociology and AnthropologyThomas Kavanagh of Sociology and Anthropology has published Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie (University of Nebraska Press), the results of years of work. Hoebel, Wedel, and Carlson were among a group of six anthropologists who met with elders of a Comanche tribe in 1933 in an effort to record and memorialize some of the customs, legends, and history of the Comanche. These notes were unpublished for 70 years until Kavanagh’s work, which also includes the field notes of another anthropologist whose expedition ended in 1912.
An article in Sex Roles represented another result of a long and productive collaboration between two departments in Arts and Scences. The article, Training and mentoring of chemists: A study of gender disparity (Sex Roles vol. 58, 235-250) was published by Susan Nolan (Psychology), Janine Buckner (Psychology), Cecilia Marzabadi (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Valerie Kuck (also associated with Chemistry and Biochemistry); all four authors are also part of Seton Hall’s Center for Women’s Studies. This interdisciplinary collaboration has also resulted in articles in Journal of Chemical Education, a book published by Oxford University Press, and a large grant from the National Science Foundation.
