Welcome to University Hall! The building is home to four Faculty Fellows-in-Residence – Professors John Halpin, Margaret Mandziuk, Cyrus Patell, and Deborah Williams — who will be conducting a variety of different programs and activities for hall residents during the coming year. We are fortunate to have a Faculty Affiliate, Molly Martin, who will be directing our World Cultures Explorations Floor.

Professor John Halpin is a Clinical Professor of Chemistry at NYU.  He came to NYU as an undergraduate, stayed through graduate school, and then joined the faculty.  His primary interest is chemical education.  Prof. Halpin is the main lecturer for the General Chemistry program.

Professor Margaret Mandziuk is Clinical Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Her areas of research are Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Professor Cyrus R. K. Patell is Associate Professor of English at NYU New York and Associate Dean of Humanities for NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology (Duke, 2001). A revised version of his section on the “Emergent Literatures” for The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 7, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, is forthcoming from NYU Press. His research and teaching interests include U.S. Literature, with an emphasis on emergent (minority) traditions; theories of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism; and intersections of literature and political theory.The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City, edited with English Department colleague and Broome Street Faculty Fellow Bryan Waterman was published early next year. He will be teaching Writing New York with Professor Waterman this spring. You can find out more about him at his websites patelldotorg and ahistoryofnewyork.com.

Professor Deborah Lindsay Williams is a master teacher in the Liberal Studies Program at NYU. She is the author of Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Authorship (Palgrave). This year she is teaching Cultural Foundations III and Writing I. She and Professor Patell are co-editing the eighth volume of the forthcoming Oxford History of the Novel in English, which covers American Fiction after 1940.

Molly M. Martin is a Master Teacher in the Liberal Studies/Global Liberal Studies Program.  She received a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.A. from Middlebury College, and an M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D.from Columbia University. Previously, she taught at Columbia University, most recently as a Post-Doc Teaching Fellow in the Core Curriculum. Professor Martin’s scholarship centers on sixteenth century Italian women writers, widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, and Giovanni
Boccaccio’s literary opus. Dr. Martin is currently working on a book project entitled Veronica Gambara: Complete Poems in Translation.