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Introducing new faculty members
The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Paul A. Checchia, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, comes to the School of Medicine from Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (LLUCH), where he specialized in cardiovascular physiology and postoperative cardio-thoracic management. Checchia, a Chicago native, earned a medical degree from Southern Illinois University and a bachelor's degree in English from Northwestern University. He received the Faculty-Teacher of the Year Award in pediatric emergency medicine. His research interests include acute myocardial injury and the postoperative care of children. Joshua B. Smith, Ph.D., joins the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's from the University of Massachusetts in 1994, and a master's in 1997 and a doctorate in 2002, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He studies the interactions of ancient organisms and their environments, particularly the paleoecology of ancient ecosystems that contained dinosaurs and other Mesozoic "lower vertebrates." His efforts are currently largely focused on a sequence of 94 million-year-old rocks in the Bahariya Oasis of Egypt that has produced one of the most enigmatic dinosaur faunas ever discovered, including some of the largest known terrestrial animals. Priya Joshi, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a doctorate with distinction in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1995. Her research and teaching interests include imperialism and its legacies; narrative and postcolonial theory; history of the book; the modern novel; popular Hindi film; and nationalism. Before coming to WUSTL, she taught in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute for Indian Studies. Marina MacKay, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a master's from the University of St. Andrews in 1999 and a doctorate in 2000 from the University of East Anglia, where she was employed as a tutor in literature. Her primary research projects are in modernist and mid-20th-century British fiction. A central contention of her research is that modernism extends well-beyond World War II, and she is interested in the formal and thematic continuities between pre-war and post-war fiction. She also is particularly interested in the relationships between British modernists and continental Europe between the wars, examining the ways in which these writers -- who are simultaneously journalists and travel writers as well as novelists -- respond to international crisis by both interrogating "Britishness" and mythologizing continental nations. |
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