Faculty-Staff Achievements

Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, published an essay, ("Confessions of a Non-Dancer") and three poems ("Convalescent Woman in the Time of Plague," "Before the Rain at Nat Mahar," and "The Last Wait") in the volume “From the Finger Lakes : A Memoir Anthology” (Cayuga Lake Books, 2021).  Boyers also has three new poems in the current issue (No. 4) of Liberties Journal: "Staple Lady," "For the Afterlife," and "Invalid Afternoons."  

Aaron Pedinotti, teaching professor of media and film studies, launched a podcast entitled "New Deal Studies." It features conversations with scholarly experts, journalists, and activists about the history and legacy of the New Deal. The guest on the first episode is Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek, author of the book “The Politics Presidents Make.” In it, he and Pedinotti discuss the ways in which the rise and fall of the New Deal social order exemplifies his theories about the cycles of American political time..   

David A. Snider, lecturer of arts administration, published an op-ed in the Times Union, “Commentary: A missed opportunity with federal pandemic arts relief?” Snider also discussed the panels he is organizing for the Arts Administration Program in an interview with WAMC.  

Timothy Wientzen, associate professor of English published a chapter on climate change and modernist literature in the book “Modernism and the Anthropocene” (Rowman and Littlefield 2021). He also published a blog post on his recent book on the Johns Hopkins University Press website.

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