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UPCOMING EVENTS
Nov 3. Two Big Differences: A Reading with the novelist Ian Ross Singleton. Register for Zoom link. 7:00
Nov 4. Time-Saving Tricks: A Workshop for English Faculty with Tim Aubry and Kamal Belmihoub. Zoom (TBA). 1:00
Nov 16. Information session #1 for prospective English majors & minors. Zoom (TBA). 2:00
Nov 17. Information session #2 for prospective English majors & minors. Zoom (TBA). 12:00
Dec 2. “Graphic Ideas of the Commune”: A Works-in-Progress Talk by Peter Hitchcock. VC 7-238 and Zoom (TBA). 1:00
PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES
Dan Libertz’s article, “Amplification by Counterstory in the Quantitative Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells,” appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
Ian Ross Singleton published “Only in Her Head: On Mona Awad’s All’s Well” in The Los Angeles Review of Books, “A Story Is a House: An Interview with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry” in Fiction Writers Review, and Two Big Differences with Boston publisher MGraphics.
Rafael Walker published an op-ed in Education Week both condemning and exploring remedies to the bans on Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ history.
CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
Adrian Izquierdo delivered the paper “Traducir e inventar en tiempos de Quevedo” at the Congreso Internacional Quevedo en su contexto poético: la silva, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on October 21. Together with translator Natasha Wimmer, he participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival’s presentation of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists, featuring authors Michel Nieva and Dainerys Machado Vento. The event was moderated by writer and translator Esther Allen and co-hosted by Open Borders Books. On October 22, he interviewed Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans and Fall 2021 Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. The event, “Playing By Ear: Translating Literary Non-Fiction with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,” was co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in English, and the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, and the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rafael Walker delivered a Works-in-Progress talk, “Biraciality as Neuter: Jean Toomer’s Cane,” on October 7.
UPCOMING DEADLINES
Nov 14. Last day of the Library’s free trial of the Digital Theatre+ streaming video platform.
Dec 6. Interdisciplinary Research Grant applications are due.
Dec 15. PSC-CUNY Research Award applications are due.
Keep the news coming. The deadline for the next newsletter is December 1.
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