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UPCOMING EVENTS
Nov. 16. A Works-in-Progress talk by Frank Cioffi, Siliconsciousness, in the department’s conference room VC – 7238, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Allison Deutermann‘s co-edited special section of the journal Renaissance Drama, “Early Modern Affective Ecologies,” is forthcoming in December 2023, with essays from Jean Feerick, David Landreth, Kristen Poole, Adam Rzepka, and Tiffany Werth. Her review essay on early modern audiences studies will be in print with MLQ this winter. Another essay, “Taking Time to Breathe: The Formal Atmospherics of Early Modern Drama,” is forthcoming in January from the journal ELR (English Literary Renaissance).
Kamal Belmihoub‘s co-authored book chapter on professional development and writing in English as a foreign language in Algeria is scheduled to be published in March 2024. You may find more information about the book in the publisher’s, Multilingual Matters, website.
Rafael Walker’s new critical edition of Nella Larsen’s 1929 Passing was released on October 31st of this year. Over the summer, after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, he published an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education proposing a new, fairer way for college-admissions offices to maintain diverse student bodies. Two of his other past essays in The Chronicle were recently selected for republication in two different composition textbooks—Pearson’s next edition of Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings and the next edition of The Norton Reader.
Chris Campanioni published “Bloodsport,” The Adroit Journal 46 (2023); “Reading Community in the Age of Platform Capitalism,” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2023); “Neither Subject nor Object but Reader,” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2023); “Made in My Image:Co-Produced Fantasy and the Politics of Play,” in Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media, eds. James Dalby and Matthew Freeman (New York: Routledge, 2023), 112–129.
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado published the article “Mixtec Pictography and Immigrant Labor Resistance in the Comic Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight” in the June 2023 issue of The New Americanist.
Safia Jama‘s Crowded House has just been published with Beltway Editions and is available for purchase here.
Steven Swarbrick discussed his first book, The Environmental Unconscious, on the High Theory podcast. He conducted a second interview with Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates about Genesis and climate catastrophe for the University of Minnesota Press podcast.
Michael Staub published “Snake Oil and Gaslight: How the Petroleum Industry Got in Touch with Nature,” in the most recent issue of Environmental Humanities, an open access journal from Duke University Press. A further article on the early history of corporate greenwashing, “Farming with Petroleum The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry’s Malthusian Bargain,” has been accepted for publication in Agricultural History (also from Duke) and will appear next year.
Eva Chou made two presentations over the summer. She was invited to present a seminar entitled “Orientalism in Ballet: Le corsaire from Byron to 2023” on May 25 at Centre de recherches historiques, ÉHÉSS (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris; and she presented a paper entitled “Hong Kong Ballet’s Romeo + Juliet: A Case Study of Transcultural Adaptation” on the panel “Shakespeare and Dance,” at the biennial conference of European Shakespeare Research Association, July 6–9, Budapest, Hungary. She also published three reviews of dance over the summer, all in the online dance journal Fjord Review : at Paris Opera Ballet in May, Wayne McGregor’s new full-length work, The Dane Project, and a program of three short works by Maurice Béjart, pub. June 19; “Lucinda Childs/Robert Wilson, ‘Relative Calm’ (1981/2022)” in July in the 40th ImpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Volkstheater, Vienna, pub. Aug 6; and “New York City Ballet’s Summer Residency,” Saratoga Springs, NY, in July, pub. Aug 27.
Andrija Matic‘s novel Istanbulski mozaik (French: La Mosaïque d’Istanbul) has been published by Serge Safran Editeur from Paris. More information can be found here. The article “Knowledge and Understanding: Education in Aldous Huxley’s Short Stories” has appeared in Short Fiction in Theory & Practice. Follow this link to read the article.
Caitlin McDonnell‘s poetry was recently featured in a new anthology STAINED, out from Querencia Press. Links to purchase it, along with her books of poems and other anthologized works can be found here. Caitlin had a couple poetry readings in September: 9/10 as part of the A Persistence of Cormorants Series at the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club at 1:30 and on 9/27 at Highbury Pub at 8 as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
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