January / February 2024

UPCOMING EVENTS

Baruch English Alumni Club on Thursday, February 15th at 7PM in the English Department Lounge.

PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES

Chris Campanioni, “Simulation Game: The Pleasures of Disintegration in Sarduy’s Theater of Bodies,” Latin American Literary Review 50.101 (2023); “Beach Birds: On Broken Forms and Being Born in Translation,” Latin American Literature Today 28 (2023). And you can read the Spanish translation here: https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/2023/12/pajaros-de-la-playa-sobre-sarduy-las-formas-rotas-y-nacer-en-traduccion/; “Seen and Not Seen,” Southern Humanities Review 56.4 (2023)

Safia Jama, “Remembering Our Birds” has been published, along with a short essay, in The Poetry Society of America’s “In Their Own Words” series.

Link: https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essays/in-their-own-words/safia-jama-on-remembering-our-birds

CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

Eva Chou made a presentation, “Hong Kong Ballet’s Romeo + Juliet: Uncovering Political Constraints,” at the conference “Shakespeare et la danse” at the Sorbonne in November. She published in the online dance journal Fjord Review a review of Paris Opera Ballet’s autumn program at the Garnier of Jerome Robbins works. The review is titled “An American Choreographer in Paris.”

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​!