UPCOMING EVENTS
Dec. 12 at 12:30 pm Wassail Celebration in the department lounge.
Dec. 12 at 7:00 pm Meeting of the English Alumni Club in the department lounge.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Stephanie Insley Hershinow has two new editions out recently, one of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, out from W.W. Norton, and another of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs, out from Smith and Taylor Classics.
Danielle James‘ translation of Tobias Schiffs’ Return to the Place I Never Left (Wayne State UP) is slated to come out in January 2025. Danielle is an English alum.
Dan Libertz, Kamal Belmihoub, Constantin Schreiber, and Lisa Blankenship‘s article “Preparing for a New Paradigm: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Experience in On-Site, Hybrid, and Online Writing Courses” was published as an early release for the March 2025 issue of Computers and Composition.
Sean O’Toole’s new edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray is now available in the Norton Library series. A chapter-length version of the talk he recently gave at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, “States of Exception: Gross Indecency and U.S. Sodomy Law after Dobbs,” was invited for publication in the collection Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State, edited by Joseph Bristow.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Dan Libertz was part of a panel discussion about being a first-generation college student for the Baruch College Honors Program on Tuesday, November 5.
Steven Swarbrick was an invited speaker at the Early Modern Trans Sexualities Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His new book, Negative Life, was the basis for a roundtable discussion hosted by the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he gave an invited presentation. He and his coauthor, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, gave interviews about their book on the New Books in Film and the High Theory Podcasts.
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!