UPCOMING EVENTS
Game Night! Event Address: English department Lounge
Event Day and Time: Thursday, October 10th, 2024 at 4:30 PM
English Alumni Club Poetry Discussion! Event Address: English department Lounge
Event Day and Time: Thursday, October 10th, 2024 at 7:00 PM
· Serhiy Zhadan, Of All Literature
· Raul Zurita, All of that is in you
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Frank Cioffi had a book entitled Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar & Style published this year by Princeton UP.
Laura Kolb‘s entry on Susanna Jesserson and her sole surviving work, “A Bargain for Bachelors, or, The Best Wife in the World for a Penny” (1675), was recently published in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing.
Michael E. Staub, “Farming with Petroleum: The Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry’s Malthusian Bargain,” Agricultural History 98.3: 349-74.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
On September 30th, Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado hosted a film screening of Sugar (2008), directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, as part of Baruch College’s Latinx Heritage Month: Movie Monday. The film is part of her Eng 3940, Topics in Film course on Latinx Film.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The First-Year Writing and Great Works Programs at Baruch College seek submissions to their online writing teaching journal, Pedagogy in Praxis. We invite researchers, adjuncts, educators, and practitioners to submit their contributions for our upcoming edition. Submissions are rolling, but for the Fall issue they close 10/28/24. The full call for submissions, which include topics of interest and submission specifics, can be found here. We encourage you to reach out to the editor about article ideas at any time at [email protected]
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!