Upcoming Department Events
September 12. Jazz, Poetry and the Black Aesthetic: A Celebration of the Life of Saundra Towns. Please join us in remembering our colleague Saundra Towns. Saundra taught in the English Department for 46 years—a period that overlapped with the development of the college itself—touching the lives of countless students through her work in the first-year writing sequence. She was a scholar as well, active in the study of the Black Arts Movement. We will celebrate her memory with an afternoon of music, literature, and memories. BPAC, level 3. 4:30-6:30
October 24. Grace Schulman and Gene Marlow will celebrate their collaboration in their newly released CD “Blue in Green.” Come for jazz, poetry, talk, and reception. VC 14-270. 6:00
November 21. Addison Gayle Lecture in honor of Tuzyline Allan. Please save the date. VC 14-270. 12:30-2:30
Publications & Acceptances
Chris Campanioni recently published “Fixing Being with Likeness: Facial Recognition as the Stage for Global Per-Formance” in Im@go: A Journal of Social Imaginary; “Letters From Santiago: Re-membering the Displaced Body Through Dreams” in IC: Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación, also translated into Spanish; and “How Bizarre: The Glitch of the Nineties as a Fantasy of New Authorship” in M/C: Journal of Media & Culture. His new book, the Internet is for real (C&R Press), which re-enacts the language of the Internet as literary art installations, was published on May 1.
Gray Campbell will publish “An Echo of Hamlet in A Yorkshire Tragedy“ in Notes & Queries in 2020.
Eva Chou published the following in Ballet Review (New York), spring/summer 2019 issue: reviews of The Pennsylvania Ballet’s The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, The Academy of Music, Philadelphia; and a review of Los Angeles Dance Project, dir. Benjamin Millepied, mixed program of pieces by Martha Graham, Justin Peck, Benjamin Millepied, and Ohad Naharin, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA. (Ballet Review was founded in 1965 by Arlene Croce, dance critic of The New Yorker.)
Matthew Eatough‘s chapter “Futures, Inc.: South African Fiction in the Era of the African Renaissance” was published in the volume World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (eds. Share Deckard and Stephen Shapiro; Palgrave).
Stephanie Insley Hershinow‘s book Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July. You can pick it up for 30% off with the code HDPD. A detail from its jacket illustration provides this month’s featured image, a portrait by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Head of a Lady, oil on canvas; private collection, courtesy of Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images.
Adrian Izquierdo published the book Pierre Matthieu en España. Biografía, política y traducción en el Siglo de Oro [Pierre Matthieu in Spain. Biography, Politics and Translation in the Renaissance], Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Madrid, Frankfurt/Frankfurt am Main. His Spanish translation of Jamaica Kincaid’s “Biography of a Dress” (Biografía de un vestido) was also published in Granta.
Laura Kolb has signed a contract for her book Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare with Oxford University Press. It will be out in 2020.
Jessica Lang‘s essay “Gender and Feminism in Contemporary Jewish American Writing” has appeared in The New Jewish American Literary Studies (ed. Victoria Aarons; Cambridge University Press). She was also interviewed and quoted in The Forward, in “Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Debut Novel Is Extremely Jewish,” an article by Matthew Kassel published on August 26.
Mary McGlynn has an article in the Fall 2019 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection: “Parma Violets and Pince-Nez: Dorothy L. Sayers’s Meritocracy.”
Patrick Reilly’s article “Love’s Old Sweet Songs: How Music Scores Memory in the Sirens and Penelope Episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses” will be published in the Joyce Studies Annual (Fordham University Press) in 2020.
Brooke Schreiber‘s article “‘More like you’: Disrupting native speakerism through a multimodal online intercultural exchange” has just been accepted for publication in TESOL Quarterly. Supported by the PSC-CUNY and Faculty Fellowship Publications Program grants, the article describes Brooke’s study on a project in which Baruch students communicated with students in Sri Lanka about different varieties of English.
Michael Staub’s essay “Race, Holocaust Memory, and American Jewish Politics” has appeared in the anthology Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (Wayne State University Press).
Conferences, Readings, Workshops & Presentations
Stephanie Insley Hershinow presented papers this summer at two conferences in the UK: “The Last Man” (on A Journal of the Plague Year and theories of human rights) at the Defoe Society conference in York, and “Personhood and Impersonality” (on legal and poetic models of personhood) at the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Edinburgh.
Chris Campanioni presented “The Glitch of Biometrics & the Error as Evasion: the Subversive Potential of Self-Effacement” at the MIT Media In Transition 10 symposium on May 18; “Based on a True Story: The Fashioning & Effacement of the Refugee” at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies on March 14; and “Re-mapping the Border of the State & the Academy from Within & Without: The Queer Refugee Camp & the Migratory Text as a Space for Alterity & a Site of Critique” at the International Migration Conference in Bari, Italy on June 20.
Eva Chou used ballet-based evidence to make conference presentations on various subjects: “Ballet Clues of Self-Censorship in Films: Zhang Yimou’s 2015 Coming Home and Feng Xiaogang’s 2017 Youth,” Workshop, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic, in March; “Performing Conservation: National Ballet of China’s Crane Calling,”Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College Dublin, in June; and “Making Ballet Chinese: the Heritage and Politics of Culture,” International Conference of Asian Studies, 11th biennial meeting, Leiden, The Netherlands, in July.
Activities, Accolades & Grants
Chris Campanioni was awarded the CUNY Graduate Center Provost Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Eva Chou was named a Resident Fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University, Fall, 2018. The department welcomes her back this semester.
Matthew Eatough‘s essay “African Science Fiction and the Planning Imagination” received the 2019 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award from the African Literature Association. The essay appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
Shelly Eversley was awarded the 2019 Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service in June.
Constantin Schreiber was the recipient of the department’s first annual Teaching Excellence Award in the Writing Program.
Avra Spector was the recipient of the department’s first annual Teaching Excellence Award in Great Works.
Bravi!
Upcoming Deadlines
September 9. Project narratives for the internal Baruch competition for two available nominations to apply for an NEH Summer Stipend are due directly to [email protected] by 5:00.
September 20. Applications from faculty for course activity support from the Paula Berggren Enrichment Fund are due. The required form is available in the front office from Claudye or Gina.
From the Archive
The department’s 1988 yearbook photo.
Have a wonderful September, everyone. Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is October 2.
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