UPCOMING EVENTS
Feb. 13 at 5:00 pm Department Happy Hour at Sunday’s Well (360 3rd Ave).
Feb. 20 at 3:30-5:30 Memorial for Claude Taylor in VC 14-266.
Feb. 27 at 7:00 pm Meeting of the English Alumni Club in the department lounge.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Claire Grandy has a chapter recently published in Screens and Illusionism: Alternative Teleologies of Mediation from Edinburgh UP, titled “’Amid the moving pageant’: Wordsworth’s Photographic Encounters.”
Laura Kolb‘s essay “From the Literary Annals of Women’s Deceit” was recently published in Book Post.
Steven Swarbrick’s co-authored book, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, will be the focal point of a cluster of essays published in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. The essays derive from a symposium held at UC Berkeley in November 2024, where Steven was a guest speaker.
Rafael Walker’s Amazon Audible Original series, James Baldwin: The Man and His Work, will be available on February 6th.
Pedagogy in Praxis has released its Fall 2024 Issue! You can access the articles here. Thank you to the issue’s contributors Eugene Marlow, Iuri Moscardi, Nathan Nikolic, Isabel Ortiz, and Stephanie Ramlogan.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Christina Christoforatou was guest speaker in a round-table discussion that addressed academic jobs in medieval studies and the state of the discipline at Fordham University. She also participated in a sponsored panel that addressed publishing and translation opportunities for medievalists at CUNY Graduate Center. This spring, she will be joining Brooklyn College’s faculty group LAMEM with a talk titled, “Romancing Power in Byzantium.”
Steven Swarbrick organized and chaired “Freud’s Ecology” at the MLA convention in New Orleans. He gave an invited lecture in the Sex in Theory speaker series at McGill University.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
Christina Christoforatou was reelected vice president of the Byzantine Studies Association of America at its annual convention in New York City. She was also elected to the executive board of CARA, a standing committee of the Medieval Academy of America. Starting next month, at MAA’s centennial conference in Cambridge, MA, she will help stir the Academy’s initiatives as it enters its second century.
Laura Kolb has been awarded a Beinecke Library short-term research fellowship for work on her book-in-progress on women’s tricks in early modern drama.
Naomi Lee’s research project “How are Heritage Speakers of Russian, Wolof, and other languages in NYC Innovating in their Word Structure & Syntax?” has been selected for an ExCEL Faculty/Student Research Grant, consisting of a $5000 Faculty Research Award and $4000 for supporting Student Research Assistants. Naomi and her students will collaboratively document and analyze new case studies of language change in heritage languages spoken by Baruch students and their community members.
Hillery Stone has received a 2025 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant to finish her memoir. A student in her First-Year Writing class (ENG 2100), Michael Dejesus, won 2nd place in the Harman Student Writing Contest, sponsored by the Weissman School’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program.
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