UPCOMING EVENTS
Mar. 27 at 1:00-2:00 Naomi Lee will be giving a Works-In-Progress talk, “How are Heritage Speakers of Wolof in NYC Innovating in their Word Structure & Syntax?: grammatical gender and language change” in the department small conference room (VC 7-238).
Apr. 30 at 5pm The Harman Writer-in-Residence Program celebrates its 25th anniversary with a reading by Bridgett M. Davis, former Harman Director and Baruch Professor Emerita (Journalism). Prof. Davis will be reading from her new book, Love, Rita, at 151 East 25th Street (Room 750).
…and more distantly “upcoming”:
May 8 at 10am – ? A marathon reading of Northanger Abbey will be hosted by Stephanie Hershinow’s Jane Austen class in the department lounge, beginning at 10am. Stop by to read or listen for a few minutes—or the whole day! Snacks and copies of the novel will be available (though visitors are also welcome to bring their own).
May 28 at 9am Baruch will hold its 2025 Commencement Ceremony at the Barclay’s Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Please make plans to attend graduation if you have not done so in the past three years.
Prof. Claude Taylor, whose life and career the department celebrated in a memorial service earlier this month.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Kevin Frank’s essay, “Colonial Catharsis: Romantic-Realism and the Imperial Gaze in Confessions of a Thug,” was published in February in a special issue of Humanities focused on Victorian Realism and Crime.
Stephanie Hershinow contributed a conversation with writer Brandy Jensen to a new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs for new imprint Smith & Taylor Classics.
Peter Hitchcock’s chapter “The Labor of Migrant Subjectivity” appears in the Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature that was published in December.
Mary McGlynn contributed a piece entitled “More of a Question than a Comment: Joe Cleary’s Modernism, Empire, World Literature” to a book forum in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
Mary McGlynn has a chapter, “Keeping Class Visible in Recession-Era Irish Poetry” in the ludicrously-expensive Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature that was published in December. She is happy to share the proofs of the volume.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Evelyn Adler gave a talk, “Permaculture, Potatoes and Peas — Climate And Culture Considerations in Writing 2150,” at the Third Annual Conference on Climate Research, Teaching, and Collaboration.
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado gave a paper, “Sounds of Resistance: Sonic Theory in Comics of Punk and Hip Hop,” as part of the “Deep Listening Panel” at the SPEAKING VOLUMES! A Symposium on Sound & Listening on March 7, 2025, New York, NY, which was a collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.
Erica Richardson and Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, along with Keisha Allan from the Black and Latinx Studies Department, presented their papers at the Black Colloquium’s Works-In-Progress, “A Theory of One’s Home: Reimagining Narratives of Black Women’s Writing,” on March 12, 2025 at Baruch. Prof. Richardson presented her paper, “I’ll Take You There: Reading Autotheory Through Black Feminism”; Prof. Caroccio Maldonado presented her chapter, “Trans Women’s History in the Afro-Latina Graphic Memoir I’m A Wild Seed”; and Prof. Allan presented “Imagining Under Constraints: Writing at the Eye of the Political Storm Under the Duvalier Regime.”
Steven Swarbrick gave an invited lecture in the “Cinema and Extinction” symposium at Indiana University, Bloomington, on February 28.
Rafael Walker participated in a roundtable discussion on Tess Chakkalakal’s A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, hosted by C19 (the Nineteenth Century Studies Association) as part of its ongoing podcast series.
CALLS FOR PAPERS & SUBMISSIONS
Steven Swarbrick asks faculty in English to encourage their students working on environmentally-related projects (research or creative work) to enter the Susan Locke Environmental Sustainability prize competition. The deadline for submissions is May 12. The first-place prize is $500. You can read more about the Locke seminar and prizes here. Please spread the word to faculty in other departments and email Steven ([email protected]) with any questions.
The First-Year Writing and Great Works Programs at Baruch College seek submissions for their online writing teaching journal, Pedagogy in Praxis. We invite researchers, adjuncts, educators, and practitioners to submit their contributions for our upcoming edition. The Spring 2025 issue submission deadline is Friday, March 28th. The Fall 2025 issue submission deadline is Friday, April 25th. 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 editors 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.