Latest Books from Faculty Authors
In A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D., David Borkowski, an assistant professor of English, offers an autobiographical look into his life and transformation from a troubled kid – who is almost killed during a botched holdup – to an English professor. The book looks back at his life in a working class section of Staten Island, and chronicles how he took his future into his own hands and found salvation, and his career, in books.
Student Research and Writing, a new book by Gabe Wang and Keumjae Park, professors of sociology, provides students with a concise, all-in-one guide for carrying out research and writing a paper. Based on their many years of experience answering student questions about the research process, their new book is geared toward any student conducting independent research on the collegiate level.
Della Who, a new volume of poems by Charlotte Nekola, a professor of English, explores the theme of dreams, traveling from Brooklyn to Missouri to Europe. The poems were the basis for Nekola’s selection as Poet Mentor in Residence at the Centrum Center for the Arts in Port Townsend, Washington. Nekola has won numerous awards, including two Fulbright Scholar Awards and a fellowship in poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Martha Witt, an associate professor of English, is the co-translator with Mary Ann Freese Witt, of Henry IV, a play by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian author Luigi Pirandello. The volume also includes one of Pirandello’s lesser-known works, The License. Witt’s translations and short fiction have appeared in multiple anthologies and international literary journals.