New Faculty
This article was originally printed in the October 1999 issue of CLASnotes.
Miklos Bona
Miklos Bona, assistant professor of mathematics, earned his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Bona conducts research in enumerative, bijective and algebraic combinatorics, involving the study of permutations, partitions, graphs and partially ordered sets. He teaches Introductory Combinatorics and Business Calculus. His outside interests include fine arts, classical music, literature, and ball games.
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Rena Torres Cacoullos, an assistant professor in romance languages and literatures, just received her PhD in Spanish linguistics from the University of New Mexico. She's interested in language variation and change, language contact, and Spanish in the US. Her current projects include a comparison of grammatical innovations in Puerto Rican and Mexican Spanish and the role of word frequency in sound change. She teaches courses in Spanish, general linguistics and sociolinguistics. Torres Cacoullos' outside interests include reading literature, watching films, listening to music and talking to friends.
Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson, an assistant professor of classics, taught at Baylor for five years before coming to UF this fall. He completed his PhD work in classical philology at the University of Illinois in 1993. He works in Greek lyric poetry, Roman poetry of the Augustan period (especially Horace), and Roman historiography. Johnson is currently writing a book-length study on exile poetry in the Augustan period. He teaches courses in Roman comedy, Roman satire, Roman history and New Testament criticism. In his spare time, Johnson enjoys carpentry, gardening and playing soccer with his daughter.
Kathrin Koslicki
Assistant professor Kathrin Koslicki completed her PhD in philosophy at MIT in 1995. After three years as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, she held an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics and philosophy at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of language and ancient Greek philosophy. Kathrin is currently working on a classical problem in metaphysics known as "the problem of constitution," which concerns the relation between a thing and what it is made of. In addition to philosophy, she enjoys riding her motorcycle, playing volleyball, reading and playing guitar.
Sergei Pilyugin
Assistant professor of mathematics Sergei Pilyugin comes to UF from Georgia Tech and Emory where he held a joint postdoctoral fellowship after receiving his PhD from Emory in 1997. His research involves ordinary and partial differential equations, mathematical biology and mathematical modeling. Pilyugin's current projects include designing theoretical modeling of immune memory and the cell cycle. Academia aside, Pilyugin enjoys outdoor activities, especially sports and mountaineering.
Blake Scott
Assistant professor of English Blake Scott just received his PhD in English, rhetoric and composition from Penn State University, where he taught business, technical, and scientific writing courses. Scott's research interests include the rhetorics of science and technology, rhetorical theory, and professional writing. He is currently working on a book-length rhetorical and cultural study of HIV testing in the United States. In addition to teaching undergraduate writing courses and graduate courses in composition theory and rhetoric, Scott will further develop the English Department's writing internship program. His interests include running, hiking, reading, and volunteer work.
