Jonathan Haynes’ essay “Nnebue: The Anatomy of Power” is reprinted in the current issue of Critical Interventions. The festival of Nigerian films for which he went to Brazil in the Fall, “Bem-Vindo a Nollywood,” was well received and he is now consulting with the organizers about an expanded second edition of the festival in Sao Paulo next November. While he Rio, he launched a research project at the Academia da Cachaca in collaboration with Prof. Fernando Muniz of Fluminense Federal University. He is currently editing his Collected Memoranda Vol. 7: The ARPT Years.
Writing Program Reading/Writing/Research Conversation: The Freshman Composition Project
Attention, English Department Faculty!Please join the Writing Program series of conversations on reading, writing, and research for a session on the Freshman Composition Project.
Tuesday, February 14
10-11 AM
Spector Lounge
Find out what we are doing with all those English 14 exams we collected last semester. An abundance of Hershey's Kisses will be provided in honor of Valentine's Day. Please see flier for more details.
Tuesday, February 14
10-11 AM
Spector Lounge
Find out what we are doing with all those English 14 exams we collected last semester. An abundance of Hershey's Kisses will be provided in honor of Valentine's Day. Please see flier for more details.
Voices of the Rainbow Event: Terrance Hayes
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, including Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in poetry. Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man.
Jon L. Peacock Reads at Book Party
Message from Jon:
"Tonight at 8pm, at the KGB Bar (4th st, between 2nd ave and Bowery) I will be participating in the official reading and book release for the book I contributed to last Oct-Dec: OCCUPYING WALL STREET: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America. Entrance is free, and drinks are cheap! Hope to see you down there!"
Africana Studies Co-Hosts Film Screening: More Than a Month
Please join us for the Brooklyn premiere of More Than A Month, a film by Shukree Hassan Tilghman. This event is being co-sponsored by the Africana-Studies Program. More here.
Faculty Forum (Works in Progress) Event: Louis Parascandola
Professor Louis Parascandola will speak about his project, "A Coney Island of the Mind: Literary and Cultural Readings of Coney Island.”
All students and faculty are welcome!
Refreshments will be served.
Friday, January 27
3:30 to 4:30 PM (immediately after the English-Department faculty meeting)
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor
All students and faculty are welcome!
Refreshments will be served.
Friday, January 27
3:30 to 4:30 PM (immediately after the English-Department faculty meeting)
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor
English Professors to Present Writing Workshops for Brooklyn-Campus Employees
As part of the Provost's Professional & Personal Development Academy, professors from the English Department have been leading workshops for Brooklyn-Campus employees.
Two were held in Fall 2011, and the other two will be held in Spring 2012, as follows:
Grant Writing
with Professor John Killoran
Part 1: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Part 2: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Digital Storytelling
with Professor Deborah Mutnick (Director of the First-Year Writing Program)
Part 1: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Part 2: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
All workshops are 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, in Library Learning Center, Room 515.
Seating is limited.
Please register by calling 718 488 3406 or emailing pppda@brooklyn.liu.edu.
Refreshments will be served.
Two were held in Fall 2011, and the other two will be held in Spring 2012, as follows:
Grant Writing
with Professor John Killoran
Part 1: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Part 2: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Digital Storytelling
with Professor Deborah Mutnick (Director of the First-Year Writing Program)
Part 1: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Part 2: Tuesday, April 3, 2012
All workshops are 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, in Library Learning Center, Room 515.
Seating is limited.
Please register by calling 718 488 3406 or emailing pppda@brooklyn.liu.edu.
Refreshments will be served.
Paumanok Lecture / Voices of the Rainbow Event: Alison Bechdel
6:30 PM, Kumble Theater
Alison Bechdel, internationally-acclaimed lesbian cartoonist, will deliver this year’s Starting from Paumanok Lecture. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.
For twenty-five years Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). She is also the author of the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Time Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, declaring, "The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too….This is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."
Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For have been translated into many languages, and Bechdel, who lives in Vermont, has an ardent international following. She has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta, and her work is widely anthologized.
This year’s event is funded by the John McGrath Fund and the Mellon Fund and is co-sponsored by the LIU Brooklyn English Department’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Voices of the Rainbow reading series (English Department), the LIU Brooklyn Gender Studies program, and Greenlight Bookstore.
MFA Reading Series Event: Martha Southgate
Please join us in welcoming Martha Southgate, visiting writer to the MFA program for the Spring 2012 semester, for a reading and a reception.
Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl From the Left, The Fall of Rome and Another Way to Dance. Her most recent novel, The Taste of Salt, will be available on the night of the reading.FRIDAY
When & Where
Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl From the Left, The Fall of Rome and Another Way to Dance. Her most recent novel, The Taste of Salt, will be available on the night of the reading.FRIDAY
When & Where
January 27, 2012
6-8 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
We will also take this occasion to re-introduce ourselves to one another, meet our new comrades in the program, and discuss upcoming classes with faculty. It's one of the rare chances for all of us to be in the same place at the same time, so let's be there! Copies of Brooklyn Paramount #2 will also be available. There are numerous special MFA events this semester--this is just the beginning. Students in the MA tracks--literature, writing and rhetoric, professional writing--everyone welcome.
6-8 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
We will also take this occasion to re-introduce ourselves to one another, meet our new comrades in the program, and discuss upcoming classes with faculty. It's one of the rare chances for all of us to be in the same place at the same time, so let's be there! Copies of Brooklyn Paramount #2 will also be available. There are numerous special MFA events this semester--this is just the beginning. Students in the MA tracks--literature, writing and rhetoric, professional writing--everyone welcome.
Writing Center Event: A Reading of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
In commemoration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the Writing Center invites the entire LIU-Brooklyn community to a group reading of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Copies of Dr. King’s powerful essay will be distributed.
Light refreshments will be served.
When
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
4-6 PM
Where
Writing Center
H-218
For more information call the Writing Center at 718-488-1095, or e-mail the Writing Center at wcenter@brooklyn.liu.edu.
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