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UPCOMING EVENTS
February 7. Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Interfaith Initiative: A Zoom diagloue on antisemitism and anti-Judaism. Register here. 6:00
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Steven Swarbrick’s book chapter, “The Clamor of Things: Moffett’s Gnats, Spenser’s Complaints,” appeared in the edited collection Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance (Penn State UP). He also published an essay in Parapraxis, an online magazine of psychoanalytic criticism.
Rafael Walker’s essay, “Faculty Workloads Are Unequal. That Must Change,” appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on January 25, 2023.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Christina Christoforatou will be giving a presentation at CUNY Graduate Center’s Medieval Studies Program on February 10. The title of her talk is “Making Space for Byzantium’s Imaginative Poetics: New Discoveries and Turns in Literary Studies.” The abstract is available here. The event brings together four scholars from different disciplines in Byzantine Studies to discuss new research, methods, and approaches to questions and topics that are central in the field.
Steven Swarbrick presented “‘Our dungy earth alike’: Love’s Labor’s Rot in Antony and Cleopatra” at the MLA Convention in San Francisco.
Rafael Walker presented on two roundtables at this year’s MLA convention—one roundtable titled “Jean Toomer’s Cane at One Hundred: The Centennial of Black Modernism’s Wonderful Year,” the other “Changing the Terms of Service: Rethinking What Counts as Intellectual Labor.”
HONORING GRACE SCHULMAN
Baruch Performing Arts Center, November 3, 2022
Photos by Glenda F. Hydler
UPCOMING DEADLINES
February 10. Faculty Research Symposium proposals are due.
February 14. Spring Verification of Enrollment forms are due on CUNYfirst.
March 2. Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship applications are due.
Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is March 1.
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