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UPCOMING EVENTS​

February 9. Department Happy Hour. Sundays Well. 5:00

Coming soon…. A staged reading of Uncle Vanya, as part of the Joel Segall Great Works Staged Reading series, the week of April 17. TBA

And a Works-in-Progress talk by Matt Eatough, after spring break. TBA

PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES

John Brenkman (emeritus) has published “Rhetorics of Affect: Notes on the Political Theory of the Passions” in the Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory, edited by Dilip Gaonkar and Keith Topper. He has also posted an essay on Russia’s war on Ukraine as well as excerpts from earlier essays on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. 

Adrian Izquierdo‘s Spanish translation of the first chapter of Eric Darton’s forthcoming novel I, Lazzaro. Being the True, Complete, Authentic & Uncensored Account of My Youth, Education, Amores, Combats, Voyages & Traffiques, Written Freely in My Own Hand has just been published by Granta español.  

Laura Kolb‘s article “Feminine Performance in The Taming of the Shrew: Final Speech and Missing Soliloquy” was recently published in Renaissance Drama‘s fiftieth anniversary volume. 

Daniel Libertz, Lisa Blankenship, and Constantin Schreiber gave a presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in February. The title of their talk was “Lessons Learned and Hopeful Ways Forward for Online, Hybrid, and In-Person First-Year Writing Instruction and Writing Program Decision Making.” Kamal Belmihoub also contributed to the data analysis for the presentation.

Steven Swarbrick’s essay, “Epicures in Kissing: Asexuality in Venus and Adonis,” was accepted for publication by differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. His book The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton is out this month from the University of Minnesota Press.

CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

John Brenkman and Sorin Radu Cucu (LaGuardia) have organized a three-session seminar on Aesthetic Agonisms for the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, March 16–19, in Chicago. 

Shelly Eversley gave a Friday Forum talk titled “Black Studies,” in the English program of the CUNY Graduate Center, on March 3.

As an associate member of the research group REMELICE (Réception et Médiation de Littératures et de Cultures Etrangères et comparées) at the University of Orléans, Adrian Izquierdo was invited to present “La traduction comme transcréation, à la Renaissance et aujourd’hui,” on Februray 9. He was also invited to present his current research project, Transnational Argenis and Its Progeny: Printers, Translators and Readers, in the Department of History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, on January 14.  

Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is April 3.

Featured image: Photo by Chermel Porter on Unsplash

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