Robyn DeLuca

Robyn

Robyn Stein DeLuca earned her Ph.D. in Social and Health Psychology, with a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. Her research interests include the psychology of women's reproductive health; specifically determinants of postpartum depression and childbirth satisfaction. Her teaching interests include the psychology of women, social and abnormal psychology, feminist theory, women's health, and women’s interactions in the American healthcare system. Her teaching interests have expanded in the last few years to include women and religion – particularly how women are represented in the sacred texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Dr. DeLuca has served as the Executive Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program and also as the Faculty Director of the Living Learning Center in Human Sexual and Gender Development.

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Publications

Lobel, M. and DeLuca, R.S. (2007).  Psychosocial sequelae of cesarean delivery:  Review and analysis of their causes and implications.  Social Science and Medicine, 64, 2272-2284.

Graham, J.E., Lobel, M., & DeLuca, R.S. (2002).  Anger after childbirth:  An overlooked reaction to childbirth and postpartum stressors.  Psychology of Women’s Quarterly, 26, 222-233.

Stanton, A.L., Lobel, M., Sears, S., & DeLuca, R.S. (2002).  Psychosocial aspects of selected issues in women’s reproductive health:  Current status and future directions.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 751-770.

DeLuca, R.S. and Lobel, M. (1995).  Conception, commitment, and health behavior practices in medically high-risk pregnant women.  Women’s Health:  Research on Gender, Behavior and Policy, 1, 257-271.  

Lobel, M., DeLuca, R.S., Kaminer, A., & Kazes-Garrison, J. (1994).  The Prenatal Health Behavior Scale.  Stony Brook University.

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Department

Brooke Belisle, a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies will join the department next year. "Click here for more info"

Vivien Hartog Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Alexis Chartschlaa and Laura James, winners of the 2013 Vivien Hartog Travel Award.
 
New MA/PhD in Women's and Gender Studies
The Department is pleased to announce that the new MA/PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies has received official certification.

Faculty
E.K. Tan published a peer-reviewed journal article, 華語語系研究:海外華人與離散華人研究之反思 [Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies] in 中國現代文學 [Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (Taiwan)] 22 (Winter 2012): 41-58; and an essay, “Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture” in Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai (Columbia University Press 2013).
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.
Jackie Reich will be speaking at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on Thursday, April 25 and at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY on May 4.  
Ray Guins is a co-organizer of the History of Games conference in Montreal, June 21-23:  http://www.history-of-games.com/
E.K. Tan's new book, "Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World" was published with Cambria Press in January.
 
Students 

 

Sarah Paruolo, gave a paper at ACLA 2013 in Toronto titled "Shadows of Trujillo:Oscar Wao and the Haunting of a People."

Marcus Brock, was admitted into the 2013 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, was invited to moderate the VIP screening and reception for the filmPortrait of Jason, and will give a talk at the Stony Brook LGBTA Spring Retreat.

Celina Hung,  has accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Literature at NYU-Shanghai.  She will be stationed in Shanghai with affiliation with the Comparative Literature Department in the NYU Manhattan campus.
Laine Nooney, has received a Distinguished Travel Award from the Grad School and GSO, a Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, and was selected for the Provost's Lecture Series.
Joana Moura has been awarded a doctoral grant (approximately $16,000 per annum) by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.
Kudos Newsletter
January 2013

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