Upcoming Department Events
May 2. The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center‘s annual day-long conference: “Poland and the Jews.” Beginning at 10am, with a keynote lecture by Art Spiegelman at 6pm. Engelman Recital Hall.
May 6. Work-in-progress talk by Amina El-Annan, “Postcolonial Futures.” 2:00. VC 7-238.
May 7. Brown bag lunch with assistant professors, on writing and publication schedules, teaching schedules, and all things time related. 12:15-1:15. VC 7-238.
May 8. The second installment in our Great Works Speakers Series: Prof. Yoon Jeong Oh of NYU will be delivering a talk entitled, “The Politics of Love and Translation in Modern Korean Literature.” Prof. Oh will be talking about incorporating modern and contemporary Korean literature and film into a great books course. 2-3:30. VC 12-245.
May 9. Department meeting, 1-2:30, VC 7-210; and end-of-the-semester celebratory drinks, 4:30, at a local watering hole (TBA).
Publications & Acceptances
Adrian Izquierdo published the article “Paráfrasis y experimentación poética en el Anacreón castellano de Quevedo,” in Docta y sabia Atenea. Studia in honorem Lía Schwartz, edited by Sagrario López et al., Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain. The book was presented on April 30 at the Cervantes Institute of New York.
Brooke Schreiber‘s co-authored article “’Nameless faceless professors’: How other teachers’ expectations influence our pedagogy” is now out in Composition Studies.
Grace Schulman has published “Remembering W.S. Merwin,” a collection of anecdotes and quotations from letters, in the Paris Review Online; and a poem, “The Movie,” in Reel Verse, edited by Harold Schechter and published by Knopf/Everyman. Two more new poems will soon appear in The Eloquent Muse, edited by Elise Paschen, in press at Persea. Additional work in progress includes a completed draft of a new collection of poems, The Sand Dancers. Wish her luck, she says. Surely no luck will be needed at her induction, on May 22, to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, “considered the highest form of artistic merit in this country.” Congratulations again!
Michael Staub has published the essay, “Wrestling with Politics,” as a chapter in The New Jewish American Literary Studies, edited by Victoria Aarons, and published by Cambridge University Press. He has also had an essay accepted for publication in Boston Review, which is scheduled to appear in early May. The essay is adapted from The Mismeasure of Minds, which was recently featured on the Graduate Center’s CUNY SUM website.
Steven Swarbrick‘s essay “Nature’s Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze” was accepted for publication in Postmodern Culture.
Conferences, Readings, Workshops & Presentations
The department held its annual marathon reading, a highlight of the Weissman Art-a-thon, on April 11. This year’s text was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Students, faculty, and Dean Romero kept the reading going with gusto, under a projection of the 1974 film. Kudos to Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Mary McGlynn, and Erica Richardson for organizing and to everyone who attended and helped make this such a memorable event.
Sean O’Toole will present “‘Terror has no diary’: The Irish Gothic as Decadent Archive” at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Columbus, Ohio, in October.
Patrick Reilly will explore “The Unbounded Universe of Finnegans Wake,” at the 2019 James Joyce International Symposium, its topic this year being Joyce Without Borders. The conference will be held in Mexico City at UNAM and UAM from June 12-16.
Rebecca L. Salois presented “Vereda tropical: Choteo and Change in Special Period Cuba” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on April 11.
Grace Schulman held a series of readings in California last month: at Pegasus Books, in Berkeley, on April 26; at East Bay Books, in Oakland, on April 28; and at City Lights, in San Francisco, on April 29. Other readings are forthcoming, all free and open to public, including: at Amagansett Library, Amagansett, NY, on Saturday, August 3, at 6pm; and at Casa Italiana, NYU, 24 West 12th St., NYC, on October 23. All current readings are from her memoir, Strange Paradise, published this past August by Turtlepoint.
Activities, Accolades & Grants
The department’s Awards Committee is very pleased to announce the graduating senior awards for this academic year: the Presidential Excellence in English Award will go to Victoria Merlino, and the Arnold Picker Excellence Award will be awarded to Benjamin Wallin. Hearty congratulations are in order.
Timothy Aubry will step down as deputy department chair in the fall, to be replaced by Sean O’Toole. Many thanks to Tim for his years of dedicated service and all best wishes for his next projects.
Brooke Schreiber and Steven Swarbrick were awarded Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowships. Bravi!
Upcoming Deadlines
May 1 is the deadline for faculty to update their Digital Measures profiles. Associate Provost Price reminds everyone to be sure to change the status of any items to “published” and to indicate whether a journal article was “peer reviewed” by using the drop-down menus to indicate this; otherwise, they will not be counted.
May 3 is the deadline for full-time faculty to apply for a spot in the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Fall 2019 Hybridization seminar.
Stay tuned for the deadline for the internal Baruch competition for two available nominations to apply for an NEH Summer Stipend (usually at the very beginning of the fall semester). The two Baruch nominees, who must now be tenured or tenure-track according to the NEH, will then submit their applications by September 25.
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Have a wonderful summer, everyone. Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is September 1.
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