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UPCOMING EVENTS
May 11. Department end-of-year celebration, with student readings, awards, and prizes, Library room 763, 3:30; gathering for faculty to follow in the department, with refreshments, 5:00
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Chris Campanioni‘s essay “Magic Marker,” which explores many of the collaborative writing exercises conducted with his first-year writing students, was published in The Massachusetts Review 64.1.
Sean O’Toole‘s new book, Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive, is now out from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Steven Swarbrick’s new book, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, is under contract with Northwestern University Press in the series “Superimpositions: Philosophy and the Moving Image.”
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado presented research at the Second Annual Faculty Research Symposium, the 5th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory & Criticism Conference, and the International Comics Art Forum conference in Vancouver, Canada. Jennifer also hosted the event “Queer Afro-Latina History Through Comics: Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado in Conversation with Sharon Lee De La Cruz” as part of the Black and Latinx Studies’ Afrolatinidades Symposium.
Eva Chou was in conversation with Jennifer Homans, dance critic of The New Yorker, on her new biography of George Balanchine, Mr. B: Balanchine’s Twentieth Century (Penguin Random House), on April 1, at the Cosmopolitan Club, New York.
Christina Christoforatou was guest speaker in the Spring 2023 History Lecture Series organized by the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and the CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in History. The title of her talk was “Manuscripts, Cultures, and Ideas on the Move: Reflections on the Sinai Palimpsests Project and the Contents of a Manuscript that Traveled from Constantinople to Sinai.” The abstract is available here. She was also an invited discussant in the Annual Inter-University Doctoral Consortium on Medieval Studies on a panel that explored medieval poetics from Dante to Chaucer. The event was hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center Medieval Studies Program, Columbia University, and Stonybrook University.
Allison Deutermann gave a talk, “The Persons of the Play,” at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference, in Minneapolis, on April 1.
Sean O’Toole will be giving a talk on the publication of his new book to the Aestheticism and Decadence Working Group, funded by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, on May 12.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
The English Department Awards Committee is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 recipients of our year-end Excellence in English Awards, given to our most talented graduating seniors:
- The Presidential Excellence in English Award: Brianna Montes
- The Arnold Picker Excellence Award: Sarah Popa and Elizabeth Koyfman
Please join the Awards Committee in extending our congratulations to these remarkable students!
Stephanie Hershinow and Rick Rodriguez will take over the deputy department chair duties from Mary McGlynn and Sean O’Toole, who will be going on fellowship leave in the fall.
Rafael Walker has been awarded Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship Award for the 2023–24 academic year.
Finally, Baruch’s Great Works of Literature Program is proud to announce the launch of Read Great Works, a Blogs@Baruch site that hosts student responses to the prompt: “Do you consider this text to be a ‘Great Work’?” The site has been in the making since 2020, when it was first developed by Seth Graves along with WAC Fellows Sara Deniz Akant, Luke Church, and Maxine Krenzel. It was completed this semester by Madeleine Barnes (WAC) and Molly Mosher. Thanks to the Baruch students and their professors — Laura Kolb, Alexander Lash, Carina Pasquesi, Erica Richardson, Rebecca Salois, Jeanne Stauffer-Merle, Jennifer Sylvor, and Victor Zarour Zarzar — who participated in the Spring 2020 Pilot Program.
Bravi!
Enjoy the summer, everyone, and keep the news coming. Stay tuned for upcoming deadlines!
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HAVE NEWS OR NOTEWORTHY HAPPENINGS TO SHARE?
The English department encourages all faculty to submit stories about their activities and publications of note by emailing [email protected].
Guidelines. It will help greatly if you:
1) Write in third person.
2) Follow MLA guidelines for titles of works:
> Titles of articles, essays, chapters, poems, songs, and speeches are wrapped in quotation marks
> Titles of books, films, periodicals, plays, and databases are italicized
3) Attach any relevant hyperlinks to words or phrases like this (not like this: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/english/index.htm).
Multiple submissions and submissions in multiple categories are welcome!