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New Biography Examines the Legacy of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University’s director of the Labor Studies Program and professor of rhetoric, will be giving a talk about her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (Rutgers University Press) at the Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Monday, August 18.

Writing Studies Prof Celebrates New Publications

Gayl Teller, adjunct associate professor of writing studies and rhetoric and past Nassau County Poet Laureate (2009-2011), celebrated the publication of her poems in a variety of publications this year including “In the Nestle of Neighbors” in The Seventh Quarry, Swansea Wales, Summer/Autumn 2025, Issue 42 and “Grief” in Literature Today, June 2025.

“The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife in Literature”

Dr. Linda Reesman, adjunct associate professor of writing studies at Hofstra, published The Social Imagination of the Romantic Wife in Literature: Marriage, Virtue, and Friendship (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2025).

Zarb Alum Author’s First Book First in Line A Tale of Resilience, Leadership, and Public Health Advocacy

Dr. Sandra Lindsay ’16, vice president, public health advocacy at Northwell Health, has released her first book titled First in Line now in presale. The book highlights her journey as an immigrant from Jamaica, a critical care nurse, the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and her current role as an executive at Northwell Health.

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Professor Revisits Her Childhood in New Memoir

In her memoir, The Girl in the Yellow Poncho (Duke University Press, August 2023), Kristal Brent Zook, professor of journalism, media studies and public relations, recalls growing up biracial and the painful search for her white father while being raised by two generations of black women, her mother and grandmother. It speaks to the rapidly exploding multiracial population, and to a daughter’s story of faith, forgiveness, and redemption.

Book Launch and Conversation: A History of Silence by Cynthia J. Bogard

Four women, unknowingly bound together by one man’s violent past. A lost love, a secret life, a mother’s longing, — and a murder….

Johnny Wharton is a history professor and descendant of a Texas “planter family” – a legacy that’s followed him all the way to 1985. Tough-girl Jenny (Johnny’s daughter), runs away to Madison, blotting out her past with distance, drugs, and sex. Her loner lifestyle is upended by her new roommate’s scary insistence on friendship. Emotionally damaged Jane (Johnny’s new graduate student) gives Johnny’s offer of an affair a try, thinking she might manage if it’s furtive and part-time. Maddie (his lesbian colleague) is grief-stricken; her longtime Black lady love Roz left her – inexplicably. Conservatively raised Liz (Johnny’s wife) is desperate to reconnect with her estranged daughter. She’s beginning to realize that Johnny’s past has left unspeakable scars on her family’s present.

As the lives of these four women intertwine in unexpected ways, each learns the past can’t be conquered until it’s confronted, and its secrets revealed – and shared.

Cynthia J. Bogard has reinvented herself as a novelist after a successful career as a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Hofstra University in New York. Author’s book will be available for purchased and book signing.

Thursday, March 30, 2023 1-2:25 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus