UPCOMING EVENTS
March 28. A Reading of The Lede to Our Undoing (Saddle Row), a novel by Don Mengay. VC 14-270 at 12:45 pm.
Apr. 2 “Thirteen Writers Counting: A Discourse-Based Interview Study of Public Quantitative Rhetoric.” A works-in-progress talk by Dan Libertz. VC-7238 at 1:00 pm.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Laura Kolb published an essay titled “Wench, Witch, Wife, Widow: The Power of Address Terms in The Witch of Edmonton,” in the edited volume Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama (Palgrave 2023). Her review of Pamela Allen Brown’s The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata appeared in the most recent issue of MLQ.
Andrija Matic published an essay on the parallels between Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and James Thomson’s The City of Dreadful Night in Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century. You can read the essay here.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Patrick Reilly will present a paper entitled “Across the Waters–The Moyles and Moyles of It: Exploring the Myth of The Children of Lir in the Works of James Joyce at the International James Joyce Conference called Across the Waters in Glasgow from June 14-19, 2024.
Rafael Walker has been invited to teach a four-session course this spring (April–May) at 92nd Street Y, Three Books That Changed America.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
Since 2010, the CUNY/Labor Arts contest, Making Work Visible, has been recognizing outstanding art and writing about labor by CUNY students.
This year, Baruch undergraduates won four of the prizes in writing, including the First ($1000), Second ($500), and Third ($250) Place prizes for Non-Fiction, which were awarded to Isaac Tacuri, Thomas Sestak, and Jaysen Guevara, all students in Amy Baily’s Fall 2023 Writing 1 sections, and the first prize in Poetry ($1000) to Karena Rong. The winning submissions have now been posted as part of the online exhibit.
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].
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