Faculty Promotions Announced at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Three faculty members at the College of the Holy Cross have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

Steven Levandosky ‘92, of the department of mathematics and computer science, earned his Ph.D. from Brown University and his B.A. from Holy Cross. Levandosky joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1999.  Interested in partial differential equations and dynamical structures, he has also taught at Stanford University, where he received the Harold M. Bacon Memorial Teaching Award; the University of Texas at Austin; and Brown University, where he was named an honorable mention for the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  In 2001, Levandowsky published a book titled Linear Algebra, and in 2008, with Walter Strauss and Julie Levandosky, a book titled Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction, Student Solutions Manual.

Sylvia M. Schmitz-Burgard, of the department of modern languages and literatures, received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Virginia. She also attended Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Albertus-Magnus-Universität Köln, both in Germany. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2003, Schmitz-Burgard has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, MIT, and the University of Virginia. While at Holy Cross, Schmitz-Burgard has represented the department of modern languages and literatures at the Academic Affairs Council, and has contributed to the Women and Gender Studies program, Studies in World Literature, the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies, and Montserrat. Her research and teaching interests include: 18th -, 19th -, and 20th - century German literature; Austrian and German cultural history; women writers and feminist theory, 18th-century European novels; literary theory; as well as law and literature.  In 2000, Schmitz-Burgard published a book on novels by Richardson, Rousseau, and Goethe, titled Das Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts.  She has a new book due out this year titled Gewaltiges Schreiben gegen Gewalt. She lives in Arlington.

Karen Teitel, of the economics department, earned her Ph.D. and B.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her M.S. from Bentley College. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2004, Teitel is the Accounting Program Coordinator.  She directed the Summer Research Fellows Program in Economics in 2007 and 2008, and has served on the Accounting Hiring Committee and the Academic Affairs Council.  In 2007, Teitel received the Journal of International Accounting Research (JIAR) Outstanding Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association International Accounting Section. She has also published manuscripts in the European Accounting Review and the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.  Her research and teaching interests include external financial reporting by business enterprises, preparation of financial statements and disclosures, and financial reporting policy and regulation. Teitel resides in Hopkinton.