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Dr. Gillian Steinberg, associate professor of English at Yeshiva University's Yeshiva College, will deliver a Wertheim Study lecture on the life and works of Thomas Hardy at the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwartzman Building on January 13, 2015 at 1:15 p.m. Titled "Thomas Hardy's ...

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, has essays forthcoming on self-illustrated literary works of Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling. An essay titled “Matter, Consciousness, and the Human…

Four Yeshiva University faculty presented at the recent international conference, "The Jewish Community Confronts Violence and Abuse" in Jerusalem, Israel. The three-day conference, held on December 1-3, 2014, was spearheaded by Tahel – Crisis Center for Religious Women and Children, an Israeli non…

The international bestseller, The Sistine Secrets: Michaelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican, written by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and co-authored by Roy Doliner, is set to be featured as a documentary television episode on Discovery ...

Dr. Ari Mermelstein, assistant professor of Bible at Yeshiva College, recently published a book on the relationship between time and history in Second Temple literature. Titled Creation, Covenant, and the Beginnings of Judaism: Reconceiving Historical Time in the Second Temple Period (JSJ ...

President Richard M. Joel, Bravman Family University Professor and Rav Hershel Schachter, Nathan and Vivian Fink Distinguished Professorial Chair in Talmud, will be participating in the Orthodox Union’s National Convention which will take place December 26-28 in Tarrytown, NY. At this biennial ...

Matthew Miller, associate professor of English at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, published an essay, "Getting the Joke in 'Of Being Numerous': George Oppen's Response to Walt Whitman" in the current issue of Resources for American Literary Study. He has another article forthcoming in…

Dr. Emil Prodan, professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, recently published an article in Physical Review B. Titled “ Effect of strong disorder on three-dimensional chiral topological insulators: Phase diagrams, maps of the bulk invariant, and existence of topological…

Professor Steven Chan, assistant professor of marketing at Sy Syms School of Business, recently contributed to the study “Not All Fakes are Created Equal: Cultural Differences in Considering Counterfeits,” together with Professor Nelson Amaral of the Kogod School of Business at American University…

Dr. Linda Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and chair of the English department at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, has book reviews forthcoming in Victorian Studies, Victorian Institute & Journal, and Novel. Her essay "Conrad's Theater of Masculinities" will…