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UPCOMING EVENTS
October 6. Writing Program Pedagogy Seminar: Writing Faculty Optional Check-In, organized by Brooke Schreiber. Zoom. 1-2:30
October 13-14. The inaugural Black Futures Symposium: Black Ecologies, organized by Erica Richardson and the Black Studies Colloquium. Register on Zoom here.
October 20. A Reading and Conversation with Harman Writer-in-Residence Carmen Maria Machado. Library Building, Room 750. 6:00, reception at 5:00
October 21. CUNY Academy Book Talk by Laura Kolb, on Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (2021). Zoom (passcode 083788). 4:00
November 3. Save the date for a very special tribute to Grace Schulman on her retirement and the launch of her new book Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022. BPAC, lower level. 6:00
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
John Brenkman (emeritus) has published “Lyric” in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, et al. “Voix et temps,” Anne Birien’s translation of “Voice and Time,” appears in the French edition of Optional-Narrator Theory, ed. Sylvie Patron. He has posted an essay on Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy.” And in response to the nearly fatal attack on Salman Rushdie he has posted excerpts on The Satanic Verses from essays that appeared in 1999 and 2007.
Chris Campanioni‘s article “Documenting disappearance: self-forgery and dissimulation as a means of mobility” was published in a special issue of Social Identities on transnational mobilities. Chris has also received a contract from Northwestern University Press for the spring 2024 publication of a poetry collection titled Windows 85.
Gray Campbell published an interview with the outsider artist Bonewoman, “The Deep Truths of Bonewoman, Spirit Painter”, in brutjournal.
Daniel Libertz published a chapter about a central concept in his research on quantitative rhetoric called “statistical framing.” The chapter’s title is “Evaluating to Persuade in Statistical Framing: A Conceptual Tool for Rhetors and Audiences” and it was published in the book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion , edited by Jeanne Fahnestock and Randy Allen Harris (released September 30, 2022).
Mary McGlynn‘s new book Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Fiction will be officially released on October 17, with a book signing at the American Conference for Irish Studies Midatlantic Meeting in Philadelphia on October 15.
UPCOMING DEADLINES
October 15 (for priority). Provost’s Research Travel Mini-Grant applications are due.
October 19. Weissman Conference Travel applications are due. (Note: Link only works on campus unless you run Baruch’s VPN system, Global Protect.)
October 31. Review and verify data migration from Digital Measures to Interfolio.
Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is November 1.
Featured image: Miho Hatori, “Do Whales Dream of Electric Human?” Video still, 2022. Mishkin Gallery. Courtesy the artist.
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