Newsmakers | College of Liberal Arts

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Liberal Arts students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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February 2020

February 6, 2020

The College of Liberal Arts has joined the Central New York Humanities Corridor. The collaboration works to build bridges across member institutions to support activities in the humanities, enabling direct access to resources as well as humanities faculty and students who can network and collaborate on teaching and scholarship. Other member institutions include Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Rochester, LeMoyne College and the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium (Colgate, Hamilton, Hobart and William Smith, Skidmore, St. Lawrence, Union).

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Elisabetta D'Amanda, principal lecturer of Italian in the modern languages and cultures department, had her 2008 film, As Good As Bread, given an Award of Exceptional Merit in the Depth of Focus International Film Festival in January. She made the film as an MFA student at RIT and it continues to be shown in various Italian-American student programs.
January 20, 2020

Jesse Redlo, adjunct faculty member in the School of Communication and the University Exploration program, successfully defended his dissertation on Jan. 14 to earn his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in leadership from the American College of Education.
January 10, 2020

Qing Miao, assistant professor of public policy, has been chosen to be a Fellow for the National Science Foundation-funded Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship Program.

December 2019

December 17, 2019

The College of Liberal Arts/National Technical Institute for the Deaf production of I and You, directed by Assistant Professor Andy Head, has been invited to give three performances at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region 2 on Jan. 14-18 at the University of Maryland at College Park. The production is one of only eight to receive the invitation.
December 9, 2019

Evelyn Brister, associate professor of philosophy, co-authored a piece about “Taking Philosophy in the Field” in the 3 Quarks Daily blog on Dec. 9.

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Sean Grass, professor of English, was featured in a video made by The Dickens Society in which he talks about his recent book and published article about the commercialization of autobiographies in the mid-19th century.
November 18, 2019

Kaitlin Stack Whitney, assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society, has been chosen to be one of 15 people nationally to serve on the Community Engagement Technical Working Group for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). NEON is the largest ecology project ever funded by the National Science Foundation.

October 2019

October 10, 2019

Sean Grass, professor of English, has published The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, with Cambridge University Press. It examines the period during which “identity” became a textual thing during the first half of the 19th century.

September 2019

September 16, 2019

John Edlund, associate professor of psychology, received a presidential citation from the Psi Chi board of directors for his work with the international honor society in psychology. His work leading the Research Advisor Committee has led to numerous resources being developed to benefit students.