Faculty Activities

Professor Viraht Sahni (Physics) authored Quantal Density Functional Theory, published by Springer in 2004. Sahni's work develops a new insight into quantum mechanics, specifically addressing the many-fermion problem.

Distinguished Professor Lía Schwartz (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, Comparative Literature, Certificate Program in Renaissance Studies) organized sessions for a Modern Language Association in December 2004, on behalf of the Division on European Literary Relations. She also published articles including "Gracián y los cánones grecolatinos del siglo XVII" in Baltasar Gracián IV Centenario (1601-2001); "Linguistic and Pictorial Conceits in the Baroque: Velázquez Between Quevedo and Gracián" in Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age (Bucknell University Press); "La construccion de La Dorotea: entre Séneca y Ovidio," in Anuario Lope de Vega; and "Las elegías de Propercio y sus lectores áureos", in Edad de Oro.

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodríguez (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages) has published La palabra y la pluma en Primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno through the Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Her article, "La mirada femenina y el orgullo novohispano," appeared in the issue of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 655 (January 2005), and her note on "Santa Rosa de Lima (y de Puerto Rico)" was published in Foro, the cultural supplement of the daily El Nuevo Día (San Juan), on 15 May.

Distinguished Professor Morris Dickstein's (English) new book of essays A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World (Princeton University Press, 2005) was favorably reviewed in the June 13-20 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The reviewer noted that "In twenty lucid and insightful essays, Dickstein celebrates the enduring power of the novel.... The essays on Bellow and Fitzgerald are especially fine."

Professor Marilyn Gittell (Political Science) has written a chapter in the new book Bringing Equity Back: Research for a New Era in American Educational Policy, edited by Janice Petrovich and Amy Stuart Wells, entitled "The Politics of Equity in Urban School Reform."

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