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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightJoey Gould, Center for Academic Success and Achievement (CASA), at Framingham State U...
05/08/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Joey Gould, Center for Academic Success and Achievement (CASA), at Framingham State University, recently had a third book of poetry, transfinity, published by Lambhouse Books. transfinity uses math as an extended metaphor for queerness, love, and life itself. As Rita Mookerjee writes, transfinity "demystifies the trans experience without sacrificing its complexity." Joey, who graduated from FSU in 2007, tutors writing at CASA, and their project started in conversation with math tutors there.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4467709033/transfinity-poems-by-joey-gould?msockid=02b7fab5c2bd6d6328a9eda4c3536c74

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightDr. Lisa Thomas, Professor in the Nursing Department at Framingham State University, ...
04/24/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Dr. Lisa Thomas, Professor in the Nursing Department at Framingham State University, successfully secured a $155,000 Skills Capital Grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education. The grant, written by Dr. Thomas with support from Pamela Melideo, Nursing Simulation Lab Coordinator, will fund updated equipment and expanded pediatric simulation resources. FSU’s nursing simulation program offers graduate nursing students with distinctive preparation in integrating simulation into their teaching—an innovative component not widely incorporated into MSN education programs. As the nurse faculty shortage continues, preparing MSN educated faculty is essential to strengthening the future nursing workforce. This investment enhances both educational excellence and workforce sustainability.

https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-awards-135-million-in-skills-capital-grants-as-stem-week-2025-begins

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Check out our latest CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight: Dr. Ellen Rearick, Associate Professor in the Nursing Departme...
04/10/2026

Check out our latest CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight:
Dr. Ellen Rearick, Associate Professor in the Nursing Department at Framingham State University, has been named to the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA) Evaluation Committee. The NLN CNEA provides accreditation services for nursing programs.

The Evaluation Committee reviews on-site evaluator applications, reviews training programs for all on-site evaluators and committee members involved in the accreditation process and oversees the evaluation process used to evaluate the performance of the on-site evaluation teams and accreditation review committee/sub-committee members.

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightDr. Werner Krings, Visiting Associate Professor in the Marketing Department at Framin...
04/03/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Dr. Werner Krings, Visiting Associate Professor in the Marketing Department at Framingham State University, is an experienced scholar connecting AI, social capital, and international platform eco-systems. He examines how digital transformation and predictive communication intelligence strengthen alignment, cultural intelligence, and decision-making in global business. He contributes to peer-reviewed research and has published book chapters on designing innovative business schools with Dr. Michael Harrison at Edward Elgar and with Dr. Zahra Tohidinia at Springer Gabler, combining academic rigor with real-world relevance. His thought leadership in CEOWorld Magazine and a forthcoming article in Family Office Magazine, grounded in Global MBA research, explores elite education, global mobility, and career readiness for Framingham State students.

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightDr. Lucas Dietrich, Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at Framingham State U...
03/20/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Dr. Lucas Dietrich, Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at Framingham State University, has a chapter forthcoming in African American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920, edited by Shawn Anthony Christian. The volume is part of a series from Cambridge University Press, which contextualizes changes in African American literature across eras. Dr. Dietrich’s chapter, “Imaginative Writing in the Black Press,” explores the role of fiction, poetry, and theatre writing in African American periodicals that emerged in the years leading up to the Harlem Renaissance. The chapter considers W.E.B. DuBois’ The Crisis magazine in comparison to Marcus Garvey’s The Negro World newspaper and the more radically socialist Messenger. In doing so, it shows how literary writing simultaneously reflected and shaped the sensibilities of newly formed organization such as the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Join CELTSS on Thursday, March 26 at 6 PM on Zoom to hear Lucas in conversation with fellow visiting lecturers Bryan Counter and Sally Shafto during the Scholarly and Creative Showcase. Moderated by Lisa Eck, the roundtable will explore how art and thought respond to moments of instability.

Click here to join the Zoom meeting on March 26: https://zoom.us/j/94353050489

To learn more about the book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/african-american-literature-in-transition/A2EBF3CCA5AC74ECEA3A5894D7DBFCC9

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Check out our latest CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight: Sally Shafto, Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Depa...
03/13/2026

Check out our latest CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight:

Sally Shafto, Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Framingham State University, presented last fall at Annotating Bresson, a symposium devoted to Notes sur le cinématographe at Yale University. In 1975, the French filmmaker Robert Bresson—widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern cinema—published Notes sur le cinématographe (Gallimard), a compact book of aphorisms reflecting on film, art, and discipline. This talk reconsidered the Notes by situating the text within an overlooked poetic and intellectual lineage shaped by the poet Pierre Reverdy. Drawing on archival networks linking Bresson, Reverdy, and Gabrielle Chanel, it argues that Bresson’s austere aesthetic and his conception of “thinking in images” were decisively influenced by Reverdy’s poetics and moral rigor. Beyond influence, the talk framed both figures as modern artists who fashioned themselves as mythic heroes—defined by discipline, withdrawal, and vocation—whose resistance to biography paradoxically generates authority and cultural aura.

Join CELTSS on Thursday, March 26 at 6 PM on Zoom to hear Sally in conversation with fellow visiting lecturers Bryan Counter and Lucas Dietrich during the Scholarly and Creative Showcase. Moderated by Lisa Eck, the roundtable will explore how art and thought respond to moments of instability.

Click here to join the Zoom meeting on March 26: https://zoom.us/j/94353050489

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Join us on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM for the CELTSS Scholarly & Creative Showcase – Art in Flux: Modernism, Ci...
03/12/2026

Join us on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM for the CELTSS Scholarly & Creative Showcase – Art in Flux: Modernism, Cinema, and Black Print Culture in France and the United States. This roundtable, moderated by Professor Lisa Eck, brings together three visiting lecturers in Framingham State University’s English Department for a cross-disciplinary conversation about how art and thought respond to moments of instability. From the strange beauty of French modernism—as reflected in Maurice Blanchot’s meditations on literature and Robert Bresson’s ascetic Notes on the Cinematograph—to the politically charged creativity of early twentieth-century Black print culture, these works in progress explore how literary, philosophical, and cinematic forms register uncertainty and transform it into renewal.

Speakers:
• Bryan Counter, Ph.D.
• Sally Shafto, Ph.D.
• Lucas Dietrich, Ph.D.

Click here to join us on March 26: https://zoom.us/j/94353050489

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight: Dr. Kristen Abbott Bennett, Associate Professor in the English Department at Framin...
02/27/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight: Dr. Kristen Abbott Bennett, Associate Professor in the English Department at Framingham State University, has published Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World with Cambridge University Press. This project reveals how Shakespeare reimagines the “theatre of the world” amid shifting cosmologies, as he dismantles inherited hierarchies and prompts fresh thinking about identity and justice. Using a wide range of plays from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Othello, it provides clear contextual frameworks and student-driven explorations that ignite creative, non-linear engagement. The project also includes This Universal Theatre, a short documentary film examining how cosmological change shaped Shakespeare’s world—and continues to shape our own.

To learn more about her book, please click here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/teaching-shakespeares-theatre-of-the-world/D5C9121D7CC799698CF92ADCC45BFFFF

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightDr. Jen Lin, Professor in the Psychology Department at Framingham State University, r...
02/20/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Dr. Jen Lin, Professor in the Psychology Department at Framingham State University, received the Distinguished Faculty and Librarian Award in the category of excellence in scholarship in the 2022-23 academic year for her publications on preventative health interventions, supporting junior faculty, reducing test anxiety, inclusive teaching strategies to better support students of minoritized identities, and creating inclusive spaces in higher education to better support BIPOC women faculty. She recently published two co-authored papers focusing on increasing student learning outcomes through instructor feedback. Her background is in social cognition with an emphasis on the psychology of prejudice.

Click here to read one of Jen’s recently published papers:https://psyencelab.com/uploads/5/4/6/5/54658091/MS132.pdf

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CELTSS Scholarly/Creative SpotlightInés Vañó García, Assistant Professor in the World Languages Department at Framingham...
02/20/2026

CELTSS Scholarly/Creative Spotlight
Inés Vañó García, Assistant Professor in the World Languages Department at Framingham State University, was invited to present her research last November to graduate students in the course Spanish as a Historical Problem within the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) program at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her presentation fostered interdisciplinary dialogue around Spanish as a historical, political, and cultural construct, encouraging critical engagement with language, power, and identity among graduate students and faculty.

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