College of Staten Island English Department
June 2026:
Christina Hagedorn, together with colleagues at the University of Southern California, published an article, “Temporal Patterns in Articulation Underlying Repetitions, Prolongations and Blocks” in the Journal of Fluency Disorders. The study examines the articulatory timing patterns associated with different types of stuttering events, contributing to a growing understanding of the speech production mechanisms underlying fluency disorders.
Christina Hagedorn has been selected as a recipient of Stony Brook University’s 2026 40 Under Forty award (see under “Education”). The award recognizes alumni under the age of 40 who have demonstrated notable professional achievement and leadership in their fields.
Ava Chin is a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (May-June 2026).
May 2026:
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our 2026 Graduates! List can be found on our Program for our May 28th ceremony
Lei Liu has just published the article “Psycholinguistic plausibility of left-corner parsing with Minimalist Grammars” in Journal of Language Modelling. The article proposes a computational model of sentence processing that mimics how humans process sentences. The modeling results suggest that the memory resources required to build sentences structures account for processing difficulties.
Jason Bishop is giving a Keynote at the Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog 2026) in Seoul, May 22-23.
Ashley Dawson is co-curating the Energies of Repair exhibit at the Center for Architecture Lab, Energies of Repair, which opens on May 7 (registration link; 536 LaGuardia Place, NY).
Thomas Fucaloro has been chosen by the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the NYC Commission for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (partnering with Create the Room) as one of 5 poets (one from each Borough) in a program called Map Belonging. Tom and his colleagues have been tasked to create a one-of-a-kind poem that will be recorded and turned into a QR code that will be placed in selected locations around NYC for New Yorkers to scan and listen to. There will also be some special readings and a gallery exhibit showcasing all of the 5 poets who are representing each borough.
Jason Bishop is organizing (and presenting at) Speech Prosody 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 26-29.
April 2026:
Ava Chin presented a public lecture (“The Road to Mott Street”) at the Las Vegas Public Library’s West Charleston branch on April 17.
After an investigative trip to Greenland, Fred Kaufman publishes “Party Time in Nuuk” in Tablet.
Julián Delgado Lopera publishes the novel Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You with Norton.
March 2026:
Ava Chin delivered the 2026 Samuel D. Ehrenpreis Memorial Lecture (“On Exclusion and Belonging”) on March 23rd at Bronx Community College. She was on a panel “Recuperating Collective Stories” with Hess Scholar Russell Jeung for Hess Week at Brooklyn College’s Wolfe Institute on March 18.
CSI English MA student, Amina Selimaj, accepted an offer of admission for the PhD in English at the CUNY Grad Center where she intends to specialize in Rhetoric and Composition.
This year, Linguistics adjunct instructor Joseph Pentangelo is a Teaching Excellence Award recipient. This is an award given across CUNY (by the Office of Faculty Affairs). Joe was honored at an event held on March 12th.
February 2026:
Rosanne Carlo and Harry Thorne published a chapter, “Un-Disciplining Writing: An Education in Empathy for Writing Instructors” in Empathy and the Other: Difference Connection and the Teaching of Writing (edited by Lisa Blankenship and Eric Leake); Utah State University Press.
Olalekan Adepoju publishes Engaging Transnational Writing Assets in the Writing Center: New Pedagogical Directions for Supporting International Multilingual Students in Purdue University’s Writing Center Journal.
Melanie McNulty publishes “Dear Colleague”: Upholding Multilingual Voices and Pedagogies in Writing Centers Against Flattening Forces in Purdue University’s Writing Center Journal (co-authored with English department MA student and Writing Center tutor Amina Selimaj).
Tyehimba Jess publishes the poem “Where is the Shrine to Johnny Shines?” in The New Yorker.
Ava Chin was elected a member of the Society of American Historians, established in 1939 to “promote literary distinction in the writing of history and biography.”
January 2026:
Ava Chin was invited to Colombo, Sri Lanka to work with a group of aspiring writers from Uduvil Girls’ College Jaffna and to give a public reading with the young writers.
Tim Gray publishes Easy. A Hard Look at Soft Rock with University of Iowa Press.
Fred Kaufman heading to Greenland to report on how the local media is handling the present crisis.
December 2025:
Christina Hagedorn and an international team of colleagues have just published “Reevaluating the Classification of Pediatric Speech Sound Disorders: A Ground Truthing Perspective” in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Speech and Language), challenging traditional IPA-based classifications and advocating for instrumentally grounded, motor-focused approaches to pediatric speech sound disorders. Open-access article available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1700505/full
November 2025:
Ashley Dawson has been selected (along with Andrea Johnson) for a residency this Spring 2026 at the Center for Architecture Lab in the West Village. The theme of the residency is Repair: Democracy and Urban Spaces, which will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them.
October 2025:
Steven Monte wins honorable mention in the Able Muse Book Award, which will include publication of Counterclockwise, a collection of poems.
Poetry Magazine publishes a poem by Cate Marvin entitled The Death of the Humanities — a poem that Cate wrote for our department’s 2023 Commencement.
CUNY Graduate Center publishes article on release of Corpus of New York City English (Lead PI, Christina Tortora, funded by the National Science Foundation).
September 2025:
Julián Delgado Lopera has a new interview up in Electric Literature as part of his interviews series with Queer/Trans writers with new books out series.
Janet Dudley’s new book, Popular Culture in Hong Kong After the National Security Law, 2020–2022 (Routledge, 2025) has been published. Open Access to several chapters have also been made available thanks to a PSC Award.
August 2025:
UnHerd publishes Fred Kaufman’s article “John Robison: the first tech bro” on August 28th.
The English department at the College of Staten Island welcomes its two new tenure-track colleagues Julián Delgado Lopera and Lei Liu!
The Academy of American Poets publishes Cate Marvin’s poem “The Truth,” August 25th.
Cate Marvin publishes the poem “Suburban Divorcée” in the August 25th issue of The New Yorker.
Lee Papa has a new play, “Midnight in Nashville,” premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (through August 24).
Jason Bishop returns from an intense two weeks of teaching courses (July 28 – August 8) on Intonational Phonology and Prosodic Phrases at the Eastern Generative Grammar school (EGG) in Zagreb.
July 2025:
Jason Bishop presented one paper and one poster, both on the perception of prosodic prominence, with students Mei-Ying Ki and Chen Zhou at the 6th Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) in Palma, Mallorca, Spain (25 – 27 June, 2025).
