The recent symposium in honor of bell hooks, organized by Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was highlighted in a story in The Huntington Times.

Amy Patterson, a postdoctoral teaching associate with the Writing Program, was named a Writing Innovation Fellow at the 2022 Writing Innovation Symposium. Patterson is one of two recipients of this award, sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s and meant to encourage the research and development of accessible writing education. As a Writing Innovation Fellow, Patterson will explore the use of multilingual and multimodal pedagogies for local community building and positive social impact.

Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English; Jonathan Benda, Teaching Professor in English; Alison Stephens, Part-Time Lecturer in English; and Cherice Escobar Jones, English PhD student, are contributors to Writing across Difference: Theory and Intervention, published by University Press of Colorado. Writing across Difference offers writing scholars a sustained intellectual encounter with the crisis of difference and foregrounds the possibilities such an encounter offers for collective action toward a more inclusive and equitable society.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Research Director of the Dukakis Center, has co-authored a paper with Richard Paulsen, PhD Economics '19, that was accepted for publication in Education Finance and Policy. Using an experimental design, the authors found that the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) increases on-time high school graduation, and may affect academic outcomes by increasing aspirations to attend college, gaining basic work habits, and improving social skills during the summer.

William Miles, Professor of Political Science, wrote about his personal encounter with anti-Semitism for The Wisdom Daily in the piece "An Encounter with a 'Friendly' Fascist at the YMCA."

Brooke Di Spirito, BA English '21, was featured in News@Northeastern for her work adapting the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Beautiful and the Damned into a musical. After numerous pandemic-related delays to production, the show is tentatively scheduled to premiere on June 30, 2022, at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater in New York.