A Reading From New Books by Barbara Henning & HR Hegnauer

Professor Barbara Henning (English Department) invites you to a double book-launch party to celebrate the publication of her new book, A Swift Passage (Quale Press), and the new book from HR Hegnauer -- Sir (Portable Press).

Friday, November 22, 2013
7:30 PM

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Maria McGarrity to Deliver 9th Annual Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecture in Africana Studies at Villanova University

Professor Maria McGarrity (LIU Brooklyn English Department) will deliver this year's Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecture in Africana Studies at Villanova University. The title of Professor McGarrity's lecture is "Framed Forever in the Last Century: James Joyce and Dublin Museum Culture in Derek Walcott's Omeros."

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Thesis Meeting for MFA Students

All Creative Writing MFA students should review the Graduate Thesis Manual and have any questions or concerns ready for a mandatory meeting per request of the Director of the MFA Creative Writing program.

When & Where
Friday, November 15, 20133:00 PM
Spector Lounge, Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

Grant Writing Workshop with Deborah Mutnick

As part of the Provost’s Professional & Personal Development Academy, Professor Deborah Mutnick (English) will lead this workshop, in which participants will learn the basic steps in proposal development. 

When & Where
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 PM
Library Learning Center, Room 515

Specific objectives include:

• Identify potential funding sources.
• Identify the common elements of a proposal.
• Write an effective problem statement.
• Learn how to link elements of the proposal.
• Develop goals and objectives.
• Identify at least three possible funding sources for a project idea.
• Learn basic facts about grant making and granting agencies.

A light lunch will be served.


RSVP to bkln-pppda@liu.edu, or call 718-488-3406.

Voices of the Rainbow: Naomi Replansky & Edward Field

When & Where
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
12:00 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Naomi Replansky was born in the Bronx in 1918. Her poetry and translations from German and Yiddish have won numerous awards. Her Collected Poetry was given the 2013 William Carlos Williams Award by the Poetry Society of America.

Edward Field, born in Brooklyn in 1924, has written prize-winning poetry, fiction, and memoirs. Recent work includes After the Fall: Poems Old and New.

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Voices of the Rainbow: Roger Bonair-Agard & Jesus Papoleto Melendez

Roger Bonair-Agard, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, is a poet and performance artist. He is a former Cave Canem Fellow who has performed his work internationally. His latest volume of poetry is Bury My Clothes (2013).

Jesus Papoleto Melendez (commonly known as Papo) is one of the founders of the Nuyorican Movement. Papo’s poetry is marked by narrative, melody, and the use of "Spanglish."

When & Where

Thursday, November 7, 2013

12:00 PM

Library Learning Center, Room 124

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English Department Faculty Forum: Srividhya Swaminathan

Please join us for the next
English Department Faculty Forum.

Srividhya Swaminathan will speak about Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century
British Imagination.

When & Where
3:30-4:30 PM
Spector Lounge
(H Building, 4th Floor)

Friday, November 1, 2013

Vidhya says: The term "slavery" had multiple connotations to early eighteenth-century audiences in Britain. I will be presenting my collection of essays, Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination, to explore the ways in which writers used slavery as a trope to evoke an emotional response in their audiences. These many invocations complicate our contemporary definition of slavery as solely referring to African slavery. As a test case, I present my reading of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton as a kind of proto-slave narrative that challenges the particular and race-based notion of African enslavement. Ultimately, I argue that the abolitionist movement in England could not have been so successful in gaining public sympathy had these broader definitions of slavery not existed.

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Sigma Tau Delta Fall Mixer

Interested in English? Come for an afternoon of engaging literary fun with the Omicron Zeta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta!

When & Where
Thursday, October 31, 2013
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Spector Lounge, Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

Refreshments will be provided. 

Come in costume for a chance to win prizes!


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Edwidge Danticat Scheduled to Deliver This Year's Paumanok Lecture; English Department Offers 1-Credit Course About Her Work

Hum 203 / Eng 203 (1 credit)
Starting From Paumanok:
Edwidge Danticat
Spring 2014
Instructor: Dr. Maria McGarrity

Description: This course will examine the writings of Edwidge Danticat. We will investigate the creative methods, cultural contexts, and historical resonances in her works. We will focus on the short stories of Krik?Krak!; her new collection, Claire of the Sea Light; and her novel, The Farming of Bones. This novel details the horrors of the 1937 massacre of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. Questions of colonialism, race, gender, migration, and power will be at the forefront of our discussions. We will also read excerpts of her non-fiction writing, particularly focusing on migration and the earthquake.

Requirements:

3 short response papers (2 pgs) on each book
1 longer analytical paper on a broader topic relating to Danticat (6 pgs)

Schedule:

4 Class meetings (all Tuesdays)

February 11, 6-8:30 Intro and Krik? Krak!

February 25, 6:30-? Reading by Edwidge Danticat

March 4, 6-8:30 The Farming of Bones

March 11, 6-8:30 Claire of the Sea Light

Announcing Jessica Hagedorn's Spring 2014 Creative Writing Seminar

Poets, playwrights and fictionistas are all welcome! Creative Writing MFA Program students only.