UPCOMING EVENTS
April
Apr. 10 at 6pm: Join us for this year’s Addison Gayle Lecture: a conversation on histories of race and gender, especially transgender identities, with C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017). NVC 14-266. RSVP here.
Apr. 22 at 12-1:15pm: The Journalism and English Departments, along with REFRACT Magazine and Encounters Magazine, are cosponsoring Baruch’s first R.U.C.k.U.S. (Reading of Undergraduate Compositions and Unpublished Stuff) in VC 14-270.
Apr. 22 at 1-2pm: Our Works-in-Progress series continues with Timothy Aubry’s “Out of Place: Diana Trilling and the 1968 Columbia Uprising,” in the English Department’s small conference room (VC 7-238).
Apr. 24 at 12:30pm: The annual First-Year Writing spring symposium will take place in person (VC 7-238) and online, with Amy Baily, Constantin Schreiber, and Evan Smith presenting on student engagement.
Apr. 24 at 7pm: This month’s meeting of the English Alumni Club will be held in the department lounge. Food and drink will be served, and a pair of poems will be selected for discussion by former Baruch English major Kezia Velista.
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).
May
May 1 at 1:30pm: PIZZA + PRAXIS! Join us for a celebration of Pedagogy in Praxis in the English Department Lounge! Enjoy a slice of pizza in celebration of our wonderful teachers and recent journal issues.
May 2 at 9am-5pm: Hillery Stone will give a TEDx talk, “Where Do Essays Come From?” at the TEDxCUNY conference (Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College). Link to tickets (free for CUNY students and faculty!): 2025 | TEDxCUNY
May 8 at 10am – ?: A marathon reading of Northanger Abbey will be hosted by Stephanie Hershinow’s Jane Austen class in the department lounge. Stop by to read or listen for a few minutes—or the whole day! Snacks and copies of the novel will be available.
May 8 at 1pm: Annual English Department End-of-Year Event. Join us immediately after the department meeting (12:30-1) to celebrate our faculty and students. Awards will be announced and several students will be reading from their work. Location TBD.
May 8 at 6pm: Join us for a talk by John Brenkman, “Democratic Fragility, Liberal Disarray: How Does Max Weber Speak to Our Moment?” (Library, Room H-750). The talk, which will be followed by a reception, kicks off a two-day event hosted by Weissman and The CUNY Grad Center: “Polemos: The Art of Theory, a conference on the work of John Brenkman.”
May 15: Faculty End-of-Year Festivities! Join us as we toast the end of the spring semester (details to follow).
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.
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Julianne Davidow’s Your Creative Spirit: Bring Your Art to Life was published by Caerus Publications (2024).
Allison Deutermann’s “The Persons of the Play: Falstaff and the Thickening of Dramatic Character” will appear in the May issue of PMLA.
Erika Dreifus’s short story “Upon the Hills with Jephthah’s Daughter” appeared in Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, a newly published anthology edited by Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff (Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press).
Peter Hitchcock’s chapter “Labor and Desire” is soon to appear in the edited volume, The Death Drive. His chapter “Land and the Poetics of Postcolonial Pastoral” appears in the edited volume, Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World. His essay “Living the City: On Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue” was published in Women’s Studies Quarterly.
Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado‘s “Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom” was published in Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings (Rutgers University Press, April 2025). The essay is based on her experience teaching Latinx Literature during her first year at Baruch College. Her interview with Brooklyn College’s own Serene Khader about her new book, Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop (Beacon Press, 2024), appeared in Mutha Magazine.
Mary McGlynn’s review of Eoin Flannery’s book Form, Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction: Ireland in Crisis appeared in Vol 20 of Estudios Irlandeses.
Rafael Walker’s forthcoming book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now available for preorder at University of Chicago Press (mesmerizing cover below)!
Jen Whiting’s “AI and Peer Reviews in Higher Education: Students’ Multimodal Views on Benefits, Differences and Limitations,” co-written with G. C. Zapata, B. Cope, M. Kalantzis, A.O. Tzirides, A.K. Saini, D. Searsmith, and R. Abrantes da Silva, was published by Routledge in Technology, Pedagogy and Education.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Allison Deutermann participated in a roundtable, “Early Modern Scale,” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Boston, MA; she also shared a paper (“A Pair So Famous”) at a seminar on personation at the Shakespeare Association of America conference.
Musa Gurnis, Associate Artistic Director of the Private Theatre and founder of the Early Modern Scene Work Collaborative, participated in a panel on actor / scholar collaborations at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Boston, MA (photo below).
Peter Hitchcock gave a lecture, “Constellations and Critique,” at the Winter Theory Institute, Penn State University, in March.
Titcha Ho presented her paper, “Harmonizing Ethics and AI: Remixing Pedagogy for Linguistically Diverse Freshman Year Composition Students,” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Baltimore, MD.
Laura Kolb presented a paper, “Crediting Deceptions in The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed,” at the Renaissance Society of America conference. She also shared a paper titled “All the crafty deceits of women; or, How to Find Real Women in Misogynist Texts” at the Shakespeare Association of America conference.
Naomi Lee gave a presentation on her research for the department’s Works-In-Progress series: “How are Heritage Speakers of Wolof in NYC Innovating in their Word Structure & Syntax?: grammatical gender and language change.”
Brooke Schreiber presented on a panel entitled “Remixing Grammar Instruction for Linguistic Diversity and Rhetorical Agency: Progressive Approaches to Language in Writing Pedagogy” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
Lauren Silberman presented her paper, “The Comedy of Remarriage and the Conversion of the World in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline,” on a Renaissance Society of America panel, “Shakespeare’s Adaptations, Shakespearean Adaptation.”
Steven Swarbrick presented new work at the “After the World” symposium hosted by the University of Georgia in collaboration with the Philosophy Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences. He also presented on the “Private Utterances in Early Modern Drama” panel at the Shakespeare Association of America.
Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago), Barbara Fuchs (UCLA), and Musa Gurnis (Baruch, Private Theatre) at the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Boston, MA.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
Allison Deutermann served as a member of the Shakespeare Association of America’s conference program planning committee, submitting the slate for next year’s conference in Denver, CO.
Laura Kolb won the Shakespeare Association of America’s annual Innovative Article award for “Feminine Performance in The Taming of the Shrew: Final Speech and Missing Soliloquy,” appearing in the journal Renaissance Drama.
Laura Kolb and Dan Libertz were featured in the March 2025 Assessment Spotlight Interview.
Sean O’Toole’s book Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive (Hopkins, 2023) has received several early reviews, including in Studies in the Novel, Victorian Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, which noted: “O’Toole’s book is a tour-de-force of archival research, and it is equally a tour-de-force of formalist argument and brilliantly attentive close reading. It should be considered required reading for anyone interested in Wilde’s novel, and perhaps especially for those of us who teach it regularly in undergraduate classrooms and graduate seminars. It will rightly take its place as one of the most important works of Wilde scholarship to appear in decades.”
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 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.