Lori Jirousek-Falls
Title: Associate Professor
Department: English
Campus: New York City
Area(s) of Expertise: American Literature, Immigrant Writers, Business and Technical Communication
Education Credential: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 2000
Lori Jirousek-Falls specializes in American literature, particularly the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries and ethnic and immigrant writers. She regularly teaches courses in contemporary American immigrant writing and literature of work, as well as courses in communication for technical professions and business. Jirousek-Falls also advises the New York Tech chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in English from the Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. in English from the University of Akron.
Publications
- “Mary Antin’s Progressive Science: Eugenics, Evolution, and the Environment.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 27.1 (Fall 2008): 58-79.
- “A New Book of the Land”: Ethnography, Espionage, and Immigrants in Native Speaker.” Modern Language Studies 36.1 (2006): 8-23.
- “Ethnics and Ethnographers: Zora Neale Hurston and Anzia Yezierska.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.2 (2006): 19-32.
- “‘That Commonality of Feeling’: Hurston, Hybridity, and Ethnography.” African American Review 38.3 (2004): 417-27.
- “Spectacle Ethnography and Immigrant Resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 27.1 (2002): 25-52.
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Member, New York City Campus Student Government Association, 2007
- New York Tech Institutional Support of Research Grant for “Ethnic Writers Article Series,” 2006–2007
- New York Tech Institutional Support of Research Grant for “Immigrant Literature Scholarship Series,” 2005
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- ICLT 301: Contemporary American Immigrant Literature
- ICLT 304: Literature and Work
- FCWR 301: Communication for Business
- FCWR 304: Communication for Technical Professions