Jonathan Haynes: Sabbatical Activity

Jonathan Haynes was on the jury of the Zuma Film Festival in Abuja, Nigeria, in early May.  At the opening ceremony of the festival he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Nigerian Film Corporation.  While in Abuja he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Democracy and Development and took part in a training workshop there in relation to a project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.  He is now in Lagos, carrying on with his research.

Awards Ceremony

On May 2, 2012, the English Department held its annual Awards Ceremony, at which the following award winners and graduates were recognized.


SIGMA TAU DELTA inductees


John Casquarelli, MFA; Nicholas Conklin, BA; Theresa Gorella, BA; Rachel Jackson, MFA; Gina Pacheco, BA; Willie Perdomo, MFA; Sarah Reynolds, BA; Katiana Sylvain, BA; Ralph Tolbert



Excellence in English Awards for 2011-2012.
(Eligible: students with graduation dates of September 2011, January 2012, or May 2012.)


Graduate (3.8 GPA or higher): John Casquarelli, Aimee Herman, Tony Iantosca, Rachel Jackson, Willie Perdomo, Jessica Wedge

Undergrad (3.5 GPA or higher): Kadienne Bruinsma-Campbell, Nicholas Conklin, Theresa Gorella, Sarah Reynolds, Ralph Tolbert



Elaine Spielberg Award


Bridget Castro



Louis & Ann Parascandola Graduate Award


Laurel Schumacher



Edward Edelman & Susanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes


Core Literature: Josh Lamore


Upper Division: Jahsel Carmichael


Senior Seminar: Jacquelle Morgan



Esther Hyneman Graduate Awards in Poetry & Fiction


Fiction: Michael Grove


Poetry: Felice Bell & Joey Infante


Cross-Genre Writing: Aimee Herman



Barbara Henning Distinguished Service Award


Sarah Walllen

NYCAAPSE Conference

On Tuesday, May 15th, the English Department is collaborating with NYCAAPSE in a one-day conference that brings LIU teachers, graduate students, and high school professionals together for an extended conversation on Our Common Cores - Theory and Practice. In a series of hands-on workshops, we will be exploring our shared values as well as the distinct expectations our students face as they move from high school to college.

The conference begins at 9 AM with a keynote address from Dr. Peggy O’Neill, Loyola University Maryland. Workshops on topics ranging from Teaching and Technology to Writing Fiction start at 10 AM, and the conference ends with lunch from 1:30-2:30 PM. Registration is free, with a $21 charge for lunch. The English Department will underwrite lunch for graduate students and any faculty who need the subsidy.

Last year's conference was a rousing success, in large part because of a strong presence from our department, and we hope that you will join us to make this year's gathering fruitful for all concerned. See flier has for details and the link for registration. For further information, contact Deborah Mutnick, Sealy Gilles, or Leah Dilworth.

Josh Lamore Wins 2012 Career Services Award

Josh LaMore (sophomore English major, Creative Writing concentration) is the winner of this year's Student Service Award from the Office of Career Services. Congratulations, Josh!

Lewis Warsh at Sidewalk Cafe (with Tsipi Keller)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

6:30 to 7:45 p.m. (starts & ends on time!)

The back room of the East Village's SideWalk Café

94 Avenue A at 6^th Street, NYC

F to Second Avenue, exit at First Avenue

212-473-7373

One drink minimum (or purchase a munchie). No cover charge but we do ask for a generous contribution, which goes to the readers.

Tsipi Keller’s latest novel, The Prophet of 10^th Street, published this March, has been called a literary love story “about” writing itself, about using language—opinionated, fanciful, foolish and inspired—as ways and means to absorb, consume and in a sense outlast the Holocaust. “In elegant, pitch-perfect prose, Tsipi Keller explores what it means to be a writer in a post-Holocaust world. Her evocation of Marcus Weiss—at once tender and wise—lays bare the felt life of the novelist,” wrote Andrew Furman, author of Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination.

Lewis Warsh, best known as a poet, has published two books of stories and four novels, most recently A Place in the Sun, 2010. He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program in creative writing at LIU Brooklyn. About A Place in the Sun, Michael Lally writes: “Lewis Warsh brings his poet's sensibility to a mash up of literary and genre fiction techniques—including constantly shifting perspectives and unexpected interconnections—to create an intriguingly compelling and deeply satisfying reading experience. I loved it.”

MFA Reading Series: Graduating MFA Students

Please join us for a celebratory reading by 2012 graduates of the MFA program in creative writing.

Friday, May 4

6-8 PM

Spector Lounge, 4th Floor, H Building

Alicia Berbenick

John Casquarelli

Aimee Herman

Micah Savaglio

Patia Braithwaite

Uche Nduka

Gulay Isik

Willie Perdomo

Tony Iantosca

Book Party for Uche Nduka

Join Overpass Books for a release party for Ijele, the ninth collection of poems from Uche Nduka (a student in the Creative Writing MFA program), which is now available at overpassbooks.com.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

7:30 PM

Unnameable Books

600 Vanderbilt Avenue

Brooklyn

Deborah Mutnick's Honors Students Host Town Hall

Please join Professor Deborah Mutnick (English) and her Honors elective (HSM 110) students in a Brooklyn Campus Town Hall on student debt. The students have been learning about public sphere theory and tools for engaging in civic dialogue for social change. They chose the topic of student debt, and are excited to be putting theory into practice. 

Lewis Warsh Reading at Launch Party for Joe Brainard's COLLECTED WRITINGS (LOA)

Lewis Warsh (English Department; Director, Creative Writing MFA) will read at a celebration of the Library of America’s publication of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. Its 450 pages present, for the first time, the full range of Brainard’s writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

8:00 pm

Poetry Project
St. Mark's Church
10th Street & 2nd Ave., Manhattan

With Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Michael Brownstein, Bill Corbett, Donna Dennis, Larry Fagin, Ed Friedman, Michael Lally, Keith McDermott, Thurston Moore, Charles North, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, Johnny Stanton, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman, Edmund White. Reading followed by reception. Co-presented with The Library of America and Bomb Magazine.

Jonathan Haynes: Sabbatical Activity

Professor Jonathan Haynes (English) will speak on a panel at the Brown University Africana Film Festival on Friday, April 20, with filmmakers Tunde Kelani and Andy Amadi Okoroafor.

http://brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/events/index.html

In March, Professor Haynes gave a paper called “Kunle Afolayan and the 'New Nollywood': Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Cosmopolitanism” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Boston.