October 2021

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UPCOMING EVENTS​

Oct 7. “Biraciality as Neuter: Jean Toomer’s Cane“: A Works-in-Progress talk by Rafael Walker. Zoom (TBA) and VC 7-238. 1:00

Oct 21. A Reading and Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Library Building, Room 750. 6:00

 

PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES

Erika Dreifus‘s free newsletter for poets, fictionists, and writers of creative nonfiction (The Practicing Writer) was featured in an article on writers’ newsletters in The Writer magazine.

Ian Ross Singleton published a review of Mona Awad’s All’s Well in the Los Angeles Review of Books in September.

 

ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS

The Awards and Honors Committee is very pleased to announce the recipients of our departmental scholarships for this academic year:

Addison Gayle Jr. Scholarship: Sable Gravesandy

David Loff Scholarship for Excellence in English: Nicole Theodorou  

Sarah Lubin Memorial Scholarship in 19th C. American and/or British Literature: Brianna Montes and Celine Le Gendre 

Bryant Hayes Scholarship:  Edward Austin Stehr

 

Congratulations, all!

 

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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).

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