UPCOMING EVENTS
November 7. Majors/minors fair. Please tell your students to stop by our table. VC 1-107. 12:30-2
November 7. Book launch for Lisa Blankenship‘s monograph Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy. VC 7-205. 1-2:30
November 12. External review committee site visit. Please see email for meeting times and locations. All day
November 12. Student poetry revel. Pizza and refreshments will be served. VC 14-285. 6:00
November 14. Department meeting. VC 7-210. 1-2:30
November 20. “Fugitive Texts, Outlawed Authors, and Black Literary Survival”: A Works-in-Progress Talk by Shelly Eversley. VC 7-238. 1-2:15
November 21. Book launch for Stephanie Hershinow and colleague Abby Anderton (Fine and Performing Arts). Mishkin Gallery. 1:00
NOTE: The Addison Gayle Lecture in honor of Tuzyline Allan, originally scheduled for November 21, will now be held on March 19 and will feature NYU Professor Jennifer Morgan, Professor and Chair of Social and Cultural Analysis. That event will be held from 12-2:30 in room 14-270. Please save the date!
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Lisa Blankenship‘s book Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy was published by Utah State University Press in October.
Brooke Ricker Schreiber‘s article “Reducing transactional distance with an international discussion forum,” co-written with her Sri Lankan research partner, Mihiri Jansz, was accepted for publication in the ELT Journal.
Steven Swarbrick‘s essay “Nature’s Queer Negativity: Between Barad and Deleuze” appeared in the new issue of Postmodern Culture.
Rafael Walker’s essay “Did Howells Give Up on Realism?” appeared in the fall issue of J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Matthew Eatough and Rafael Walker organized panels for and delivered papers at the annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) in October. Matthew’s paper was titled “Es’kia Mphahlele: The Critic as Modernist” and Rafael’s “Realism in Exile.”
Donika Kelly read from The Renunciations, a second collection of poems in progress, in the English department on October 24.
Sean O’Toole delivered a paper titled “‘Terror has no diary’: The Irish Gothic as Decadent Archive” at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Columbus, OH.
Brooke Ricker Schreiber gave a keynote presentation at the Writing Education Across Borders conference on September 28, at Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA, titled “East meets West: Creating and supporting Chinese-American joint degree programs in an era of nationalism.”
Grace Schulman and Gene Marlow celebrated the release of their CD “Blue in Green,” a jazz and poetry collaboration on October 24.
Grace Schulman will also read to Andrew Rudin’s settings of her poems on November 4 at Stella Adler Acting Studio, 65 Broadway, and will be in conversation with Gregory Pardlo on February 3, 2020, also at Stella Adler.
ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS
Jessica Lang ran her 17th marathon in New York on November 3. Way to go, Jessica!
IN MEMORIAM
Our beloved and admired colleague Elaine Kauvar died on October 10. Elaine received her BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She earned her MA in English at Duke University and her PhD Northwestern University. Elaine spent almost 41 years in the English Department at Baruch College and retired in 2014. She was especially fond of teaching Women in Literature and Literature and Psychology. She published primarily on contemporary fiction with a focus on Cynthia Ozick and Philip Roth. She was a devoted teacher to hundreds of Baruch students. And she was a wonderful and committed mentor to many new faculty members who joined the department in the past twenty years.
Elaine’s family has asked that in lieu of flowers, please make donations in memory of Dr. Elaine Kauvar to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of CO, 455 Sherman St., Suite 500, Denver, CO or to Baruch College, City University of New York, One Bernard Baruch Way, 55 Lexington Ave. at 24th St., New York, NY 10010.
UPCOMING DEADLINES
December 2. Leave applications must be completed on Interfolio and “shared” with the Executive Committee.
December 13. Applications for a PSC-CUNY Research Award are due by 5pm. Check the Research Foundation’s website for eligibility requirements, the application link, and other details.
Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is December 1.
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