Film Screening: MY BROOKLYN

The English Department and the LIU Brooklyn Library present a screening of Kelly Anderson's documentary My Brooklyn, which "explores the forces reshaping the Fulton Mall and nearby neighborhoods like Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bed-Stuy."
More info.

October 3, 2012
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Kumble Theater

MFA Reading Series Event: Anselm Berrigan

Please join us for this special joint event in the MFA Reading Series.

It's a reading by the Fall 2012 Visiting Writer to the MFA Program, Anselm Berrigan.

It's a book party to celebrate Mimeo Mimeo #7 (The Lewis Warsh Issue). 

Copies of Berrigan's books will be available for purchase, as will discounted copies of Mimeo Mimeo. There will also be food and wine!

6pm-8pm
October 5, 2012Spector Lounge
4th Floor, Humanities Building

Poetry/Arts Journal MIMEO MIMEO Devotes an Issue to Lewis Warsh

From the Mimeo Mimeo website:

"Mimeo Mimeo is a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on artists' books, typography and the mimeograph revolution. This periodical features essays, interviews, artifacts, and reflections on the graphic, material and textual conditions of contemporary poetry and language arts."

Mimeo Mimeo #7 is the magazine issue ever to be devoted to Lewis Warsh, who is the Director of the LIU Brooklyn Creative Writing MFA Program.

More information.

Copies will be available at a discounted price at the MFA Reading Series Event on October 5 in the English Department.

English Department Colloquium Series

The English Department Colloquium Series (formerly the English Department Faculty Forum) is a program of talks by full-time members of the English-Department faculty. The series promotes scholarly activity among the full-time faculty of the Department by providing them with an opportunity to circulate their research among their colleagues. Read more about the series here. 
We are pleased to announce the first event of the new academic year:

Jonathan Haynes (recently back from his sabbatical)
Friday, September 21, 2012
3:30-4:30 PM (right after the English Department Faculty Meeting)

Professor Haynes's talk is called "Nollywood: Some History."

Here is his brief description: "In the last twenty years, Nigeria has created one of the world's largest film industries. This presentation will give an overview of the growth of this remarkable film culture, with special attention to the film that inaugurated Nollywood -- Living in Bondage."

Graduate Student & Faculty Reception

September 27, 2012
5-7 pm
Spector Lounge, 4th Floor
Humanities Building

Please join us at this informal gathering for food, drinks, and opportunities for good conversation with fellow graduate students and faculty. If your graduate class meets during this time, then come for some portion of the event. This is our one opportunity during the year for all graduate students to meet one another and to speak with faculty from across the concentrations in English. Alumni are welcome and encouraged to join the festivities.

Hosted by Patricia Stephens and Srividhya Swaminanthan, Co-Chairs, English.

RSVP: Marilyn Boutwell.

Jonathan Haynes: Sabbatical Activity

Jonathan Haynes has guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of African Cinemas devoted to the Nigerian film industry.  It includes his introduction and a remarkably extensive bibliography of academic work on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films on which he has been working for a long time.  

It is hot off the press and available here:

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2254/.  

Voices of the Rainbow: Fall 2012

For more information, e-mail Professor Maria McGarrity or Professor Louis Parascandola -- or contact them via phone at 718-488-1050.  

Paolo Javier & Irina Reyn
Wednesday, October 3, noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. He is the author of 4 chapbooks and 3 full-length poetry collections, including The Feeling is Actual.

Irina Reyn, born in Moscow, is the author of What Happened to Anna K. The novel has been described by Publishers Weekly as a worthy remake [of Anna Karenina] set among early 21^st-century Russian-Jewish immigrants in New York City.   

Elizabeth Nunez & Kamala Nair

Tuesday, October  9, noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 119

Elizabeth Nunez, a native of Trinidad, has published 8 novels including Bruised Hibiscus (winner of an American Book Award), Anna In-Between, Prospero’s Daughter, and her most recent, Boundaries (a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice).

Kamala Nair was born in London and grew up in the United States. Her debut novel, The Girl in the Garden, has been described as “lovely” and “lush. “Set in the southern tip of India, the story is a part fairy-tale and part coming-of-age novel.”

Martha Witt & Glenville Lovell
Wednesday, November 14, 11 am

Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Martha Witt’s novel, Broken as Things Are, is set in North Carolina, the author’s home state. The novel has been described by Library Journal as “a much-touted debut about a young girl’s close relationship with her autistic and ultimately violently jealous brother.”

Glenville Lovell, born in Barbados, is the author of several prizewinning plays, the literary novels Song of Night and Fire in the Canes and two murder mysteries Too Beautiful to Die and Love and Death in Brooklyn.

New Graduate Course for Fall 2012: Editing (with Professor Michael Bokor)

Need to improve your skills for effective writing, interpersonal communication, and language use?

Take English 519 Editing (3 Credits)

This course includes style/grammar review sessions and emphasizes hands-on editing activities, using the theories and principles of editing. It will: help you learn how to edit texts to suit the needs of specific audiences; help you know how to construct style guides; help you develop the discipline to get work done on schedule; and prepare you for careers in editing in academic and professional writing.

It is suitable for graduate students in all disciplines, especially those interested in improving their grammar and mechanics.

Wednesday, 6:30pm–9pm

For more information, contact Professor Michael J.K. Bokor.
E-mail: Michael.Bokor@liu.edu
Office: H. 446 (Humanities Building, 4th Floor)
Tel: 718–488–1000 Extension 1112

MFA Fall Orientation / Reception

A good time to welcome the new students, talk to your teachers about everything, and reunite with old friends..
 
Friday, September 7, 6-8 
 
Robert Spector Lounge, 4th floor (English Department), H building.

For more information, contact Lewis Warsh, Director of MFA Program in creative writing.
lwarsh@mindspring.com

Jessica Hagedorn at 8th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival

Professor Hagedorn (Creative Writing MFA Program) will be reading at the festival on August 18th.
More information here.





UPDATE (23 August 2012): Photos from the event.