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UPCOMING EVENTS
November 11. Writing Program Pedagogy Seminar: Responding to Multilingual Student Writing, led by Brooke Schreiber and Kamal Belmihoub. Zoom. 12-1:15
November 17. Donika Kelly will be returning to Baruch to read from her recent book The Renunciations. Mishkin Gallery, 135 E22nd St. 11-12
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Allison Deutermann has had an article accepted to English Literary Renaissance, “Taking Time to Breathe: The Formal Atmospherics of Early Modern Drama” and is co-editing a special issue of Renaissance Drama on early modern affective ecologies, which should be out in print in late 2023.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Chris Campanioni presented on “Diasporic Poetics” at the Archipelago Dreaming conference at New York University on October 7.
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado was a presenter at New York Comic Con. Along with Rebecca L. Salois from the Black and Latino Studies Department, she shared how she used adaptions of the X-Men comics to teach issues of race and gender in film and media on the panel, “Pop-Culture Fandom and Comics in the College Classroom,” on October 6.
A new play by Walter Corwin, “A Short History of Now,” opened on October 13 at the Theater for the New City.
Allison Deutermann has been asked to give the annual Bernard and Gloria Beckerman Lecture for the Columbia University Shakespeare Seminar in December; the lectureship “is intended to highlight the work of scholars who have made crucial contributions to the fields of early modern theater and Shakespeare studies.”
Adrian Izquierdo presented the paper “The Travails of Argenis and the Trials of Translation” at the International Conference Novel Beginnings: Transnational Perspectives on Early Modern Fiction, held at the University of Huelva, Spain.
Safia Jama will read poems for the Center for Book Arts Fall 2022 Broadside Reading Series, which features six writers from various backgrounds and writing disciplines, collaborating with six artists to create a collection of limited edition letterpress-printed broadsides. The launch event is on November 30 at 6:30pm.
Laura Kolb delivered a CUNY Academy Book Talk, on Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (2021), on October 21.
Patrick Reilly gave his talk “The Eye and Identity in the Night Language of James Joyce’s Pomes Penyeac” at the American Society of Geolinguistics on October 29.
A very special tribute to Grace Schulman was held on her retirement and the launch of her new book Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022 in the Baruch Performing Arts Center on November 3.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
Cheryl Smith has been named Interim Associate Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.
A recent production of the classic early modern play Fuente Ovejuna by Teatro Círculo, in New York, featured overtitles in English by two Baruch College students, Mary Abdelmassih and Geoffrey Shamah. Mary and Geoffrey worked on an Independent Studies course with Adrian Izquierdo translating, adapting, and condensing the play for the surtitle screen.
Congratulations, all!
UPCOMING DEADLINES
December 1. Review and verify data migration from Digital Measures to Interfolio.
December 15. PSC-CUNY Research Award applications are due.
Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is December 1.
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