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Meet the Faculty

Chris Robe, assistant professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, has a forthcoming article, "Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism," appearing in “Cinema Journal.” His article, "'Because I Hate Fathers and I Never Wanted to Be One': Wes Anderson, Entitled Masculinity, and the 'Crisis' of the Patriarch" will be appearing in the anthology American Movie Masculinity, published by Wayne State University Press.

Caren S. Neile, MFA, Ph.D., was recently elected Southeast Regional Director on the Executive Board of the National Storytelling Network, the professional organization for storytellers. Her three-year term begins in January. Dr. Neile, who received her doctorate in Comparative Studies at FAU, is artist-in-residence in the School of Communication & Multimedia Studies and the School of the Arts, where she directs the South Florida Storytelling Project. Dr. Neile was formerly a board member of the Florida Storytelling Association and the Healing Story Alliance, and she founded the Palm Beach County Storytelling Guild in 2001. A book she edited, I Loved My Mother on Saturdays: The Stories of Roslyn Bresnick-Perry (Ben Yehudah Press), is due out in December.

Ralph Dalleo, assistant professor of English, is coauthor of the book The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature, which has recently received favorable reviews in the journals MELUS and Latino(a) Research Review. For 2008-2009 he has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to pursue research to finish the book Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From Anticolonial to Postcolonial.

Richard Shusterman, the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities has published a new book titled, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics. The book, published in 2008, is available through Cambridge University Press and Amazon.com. Its French version (published 2007) was widely discussed in the French media, including the daily newspaper Le Monde and a 50 minute interview on Radio France.

Andy Furman, professor (English), is the author of the novel, Alligators May Be Present (Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press 2005.), and two works of literary criticism, Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination (SUNY Press 1997) and Contemporary Jewish-American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma (Syracuse University Press 2000). His essays and reviews on Jewish-American literature and culture, the environment, and academia, have appeared in such publications as “Poets & Writers,” “The Chronicle of Higher Education,” “The Forward,” “MELUS,” “Image,” “Tikkun,” “Thought & Action” and the “Miami Herald,” where he is a regular book reviewer. He is currently working on a nonfiction book that examines, through the lens of his high school basketball team, the effort to desegregate the Los Angeles Unified School District in the 1970s and 80s.

Clevis Headley, associate professor in the department of philosophy, and Maria Santamarina, visiting instructor in the School of Communications and Multimedia Studies, were recently appointed by FAU President Frank T. Brogan to co-chair the university’s diversity committee. The president’s diversity committee was formed out of the university’s strategic plan as an expressed goal to build world class academic programs and research capacity by adopting strategies that will institutionalize diversity among the university’s faculty and staff. In their new positions, Headley and Santamarina will develop and implement diversity trainings for the staff and administration in order to build a more inclusive campus environment.