Thomas Fahy
Thomas Fahy is the Director of the American Studies Program and an Assistant Professor of English. He has published nine books, including Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination (2006), Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide (2003), two novels, Night Visions (2004) and The Unspoken (2008), and several edited collections - Considering David Chase (2007), Considering Alan Ball (2006), Considering Aaron Sorkin (2005), Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theater (2003), and Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theater (2002).

Jeanie Attie
Chair of the History Department, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She specializes in 19th-Century U.S. History, Political Economy, Popular Culture, and African-American History. She is also author of Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War.

Jeremy Buchman
An Associate Professor of Political Science and the Faculty Advisor for the Pre-Law Program.

Isaac Cates
Isaac Cates is Director of the Poetry Center and Assistant Professor of English. He has written about American poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is currently writing a book on literary comics called The Graphic Novel: How Comics Grew Up. He also has interests in poetic form, natural history writing, and contemporary nonfiction. He regularly teaches courses on poetry, including "Modern Poetry" and "The Art of Poetry," as well as courses on the graphic novel. He has lived in Austin, Baltimore, Berkeley, and New Haven.

Cara Gargano
Chair of the Theatre, Film, and Dance Department.

Roger Goldstein
Chair of the Political Science Department.

Sara Gronim
Assistant Professor of History, earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1999 in Early American History.  Her work draws on the history of science, medicine, and technology. She is the author of prize-winning articles on colonial astronomy and astrology, and on colonial cartography, and she recently published an article on smallpox in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.  Her book, Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York, will be published in the spring of 2007.

Margaret Hallissy
Margaret Hallissy is a Professor of English. She earned her Ph.D. from Fordham University in Medieval Literature, and one of her teaching interests is Irish and Irish-American Fiction. She is the winner of the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching and Winner of the Trustees' Award for Scholarship for an Individual Work. She is also the author of several books, including Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self, A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows: Chaucer and Medieval Codes of Conduct, and Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature.

Dennis A. Pahl
Professor of English, author of the book Architects of the Abyss: The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville as well as of numerous articles on American literature.  He serves on the editorial boards of Confrontation and The Edgar Allan Poe Review.  He has been a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a National Endowment of the Humanities Scholarship.

Jorge Rosario
Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages Department.

Neal M. Rosendorf
Assistant Professor of U.S. International History, earned a B.A. at Rutgers University, an M.A. at Ohio University, and an A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard University. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations since 1900, modern international relations history, and globalization history and issues. Prior to coming to Long Island University, he taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, at the State University of New York-Plattsburgh College, and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Professor Rosendorf has an ongoing interest in the interplay between American culture and international relations. His current project is a history of the relationship between New York City and the United Nations from the 1940s to the present.

John Scheckter
Professor of English whose specialties include Australian Literature, American Literature, and Post-Colonial Literature. He is the author of the book The Australian Novel 1830-1980: A Thematic Introduction and numerous articles.

Joan Walker
Joan Walker is Assistant Professor of Education in the School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, on the C.W. Post Campus. She has published her research on how people learn in numerous journals including the Journal of Educational Psychology, New Directions in Teaching and Learning, and Teaching and Teacher Education. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University (2003). Prior to joining the faculty at LIU, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at an educational research center funded by the National Science Foundation. She also worked as Senior Research Associate on a 3-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Education, "Parental Involvement in Children's Education: A Path to Achievement." Dr. Walker has taught at Vanderbilt University and at Tennessee State University, an urban land grant institution in Nashville, Tennessee.