Robert Stauffer, Ph.D.
B.A. – New York University (English)
M.A. – Brooklyn College (English Education)
Ph.D. – Arizona State University (Medieval Literature)
Robert Stauffer began working at Dominican University in 2012. His research and teaching interests are in medieval and Renaissance literature, postcolonial studies, science fiction and fantasy literature, and early 20th century writers. He is currently working on editing and writing for a volume for Brill Publishing entitled A Marguerite Porete Companion focusing on Marguerite Porete, a thirteenth-fourteenth century beguine, and her book The Mirror of Simple Souls. His publications include fantasy short stories and baseball biography. He has given several papers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Tara Parrello
Tara Parrello is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology and the Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies. Dr. Parrello has earned two degrees from Fordham University, including a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Sociology. She completed her undergraduate studies at Manhattanville College, earning a B.A. in Sociology.
Her areas of concentration include: criminology, gender, deviance, popular culture, and body modification with a particular concentration in plastic surgery.
Dr. Parrello has shared her expertise at national sociology and criminology conferences, presenting research from her dissertation, Look This Way: The Growth and Diversity of Plastic Surgery in Contemporary America, as well as her studies on juvenile crime and ethnic gangs.