New faculty profiles for 2017-18: Part 5
The fifth installment in BingUNews' look at new faculty members
Yi Duo, assistant professor of accounting, School of Management
Yi Duo, an assistant professor in the School of Management, will teach Advanced Accounting Theory at Binghamton University.
Duo, from Guangzhou, China, received her bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in accounting from American University. She received her doctorate in accounting from the University of British Columbia.
Her research interests include corporate political connections, audit assurance, financial reporting and political economy.
Duo enjoys playing golf, badminton and tennis; horse riding; hiking; and making her dog happy and healthy.
David LaRocca, visiting assistant professor of cinema, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
David LaRocca, a visiting assistant professor of cinema, specializes in film philosophy, documentary and non-fiction film, American transcendentalism, film and pedagogy, and the work and legacy of Stanley Cavell.
LaRocca, from Buffalo, received his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and received graduate degrees from the University of California-Berkeley, Vanderbilt University and Harvard University.
He has taught at Cornell University, Ithaca College and SUNY Cortland.
LaRocca has written, edited or co-edited nine books, including The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth, and The Philosophy of War Films. As a documentary filmmaker, he produced and edited six features in The Intellectual Portrait Series, and more recently directed Brunello Cucinelli: A New Philosophy of Clothes.
At Binghamton University, he will teach courses such as Transcendental Cinema, Love and Conversation in Film, and Experience, History and Analysis of Film.
LaRocca enjoys spending time with his wife and their two daughters.
Colin Lyons, assistant professor of printmaking, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Colin Lyons, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design, will teach classes on woodcut, monotype and etching at Binghamton University.
Lyons, from Petrolia, Ontario, received his bachelor’s degree in studio arts from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. He received his master’s degree in printmaking from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
He previously served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa.
Lyons’ recent artwork fuses printmaking, sculpture, land art and chemical experiments. His current research considers industrial landscapes through the lens of geo-engineering, planned obsolescence and urban renewal.
His work has been featured in 25 solo exhibitions across Canada and the United States, as well as group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, China and Japan.
Lyons enjoys digging through rubble and playing Lego with his two children.
Kellie Tompkins, visiting lecturer, English Language Institute
Kellie Tompkins, a visiting lecturer at the English Language Institute, will teach classes that focus on academic speaking, listening and writing at Binghamton University.
Tompkins, from Binghamton, received her bachelor’s degree in Christian ministry with a concentration in education from Roberts Wesleyan College. She received her master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) from SUNY Cortland.
She previously served as an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher in Koahsiang, Korea; a lecturer of TESOL methodology at SUNY Cortland; an English as a second language teacher (ESL) at the Binghamton City Schools; and as an ESL teacher at the American Civic Association in Binghamton.
Tompkins specializes in examining the intersection of social work and language teaching.
She enjoys reading, running, hiking and traveling.