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David Puretz teaches first-year writing and advanced writing classes at Yeshiva College. He recently became the editorial director at Global City, a publishing collective started by Linsey Abrams in the early 1990s that for the past 25 years has published the literary and cultural journal Global ...

Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, professor of English at Yeshiva College and director of the Wilf Campus Writing Center, presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association at the Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy, from June 12-15, 2019. Her paper, ...

Dr. Rachel Mesch, professor of English and French and chair of the English Department at Yeshiva College, presented at a conference from May 28-29, 2019, titled “Des Revues et des Femmes,” organized by the Sorbonne Université. The two-day colloquium explored the relationship between 20th-century ...

Dr. David Lavinsky, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, gave a talk at the Biennial London Chaucer Conference, organized by the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, from June 28-29, 2019. The conference topic was “Chaucer and Europe,” and Dr. Lavinsky’s talk, ...

On Oct. 5, 2019, Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English Chair, Stern College for Women and division head for humanities, lectured at an invitation-only symposium at Princeton University, “A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror: A Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Literature and…

Dr. Lisa Chalik is an assistant professor of psychology at Stern College for Women. She received both her master’s degree and doctorate from New York University and her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University. She is the director of the Developing Minds Lab at Stern College, where her research ...

Dr. Jannine Lasaleta, assistant professor at the Sy Syms School of Business, received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Her master’s degree is from York University, and her bachelor’s degree is from the University of British Columbia. Her business and research expertise focuses on how ...

Dr. Edward Belbruno Dr. Edward Belbruno’s incredible story of how he discovered a new way of space travel through his art is featured in the documentary Painting the Way to the Moon that will be screened at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Popular astrophysicist and…

Dr. Edward Hoffman, adjunct associate clinical professor in the department of psychology at Yeshiva College, published a paper in September in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, a peer-reviewed psychology journal, titled “ The life-metaphors of experienced teachers: A replication from China…