Update From Professor Jonathan Haynes

Professor Jonathan Haynes (English) has a review of Kenneth Gyang’s film Confusion Na Wa in the current issue of African Studies Review. He wrote the Foreword to Auteuring Nollywood, edited by Adeshina Afolayan (Ibadan, Nigeria: University Press), which was launched with considerable fanfare in Lagos at the end of July (in his absence, unfortunately). He’s now a member of the Michigan State University Press Editorial Board for African Arts and Humanities and of the Scientific Committee for an international workshop, Featuring Africa: Exploring the Plurality of African Digital Film Cultures, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, University of Liege, 2014. The Inamori Foundation has asked him to be a nominator for the 2015 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

Creative Writing MFA Program -- Fall 2014 Orientation & Voices of the Rainbow Reading by Robert Antoni (Fall 2014 MFA Program Visiting Writer)

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New Poems by Barbara Henning

Professor Barbara Henning (English Department) has eight new poems in the July/August 2014 issue of THE BROOKLYN RAIL.

Enjoy!

ENG 579: Virginia Woolf & Modernism -- Professor Patrick Horrigan -- Fall 2014

A Play by Yani Perez

A new play by Yani Perez (Creative Writing MFA alum) will be performed in August, at New Perspectives Theatre Company's Women’s Work Short Play Festival (August 4-9).


Now in its 7th year, each Short Play Festival is created in NPTC’s Women’s Work LAB, in which a theme is given to new members in February and resident directors collectively dramaturge the scripts and bring them to production quality. The festival then provides the critical development tool of putting scripts on their feet fully rehearsed in a bare bones production.

Go here for ticket information, directions to the theatre, and a full schedule of performances.

Here's the description of Yani's play...

God Don’t Exist for Girls From Brooklyn
Global violence against girls is no surprise, but are we capable of confronting it in our own backyard? Two sisters from Brooklyn get a terrible lesson that far too many girls around the world already know.

Jamey Jones News & Call for Submissions

MFA alum Jamey Jones recently accepted a full time position as an English Instructor at Pensacola State College, where he is teaching composition and early American literature. 

In other news, Jamey was recently named to a three-year post as the Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida. An induction ceremony will take place in October, but he has already made his first official appearance at a recent open mic reading hosted by the Women's Studies Collective at the University of West Florida (UWF).

Jamey passes along a call for submissions to the first issue of Feminist Spaces, an online journal being inaugurated this year by the UWF Women's Studies Collective. 

Bernard Schweizer Announces Inaugural Conference of the Society for Heresy Studies

Professor Bernard Schweizer (English Department) is a driving force behind this two-day conference taking place May 30 & 31 at NYU.

Please check out the attached flyer for some highlights, including keynote addresses by James Wood, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Thomas J.J. Altizer.

Professor Schweizer will be presenting “Comedy as Heresy: The Curious Case of the Theology of Laughter.”

More information, including all abstracts and exact location.

Article by Nino Gulli on Time and Tense

The newest issue (Vol. 65, No. 3) of Linguistik Online, a peer-reviewed web journal of linguistics, opens with the article, "The Simple Past Puzzle: A Study of Some Aspects of the Syntax and Semantics of Tense" (originally written in 1999) by Nino Gulli, adjunct professor of English.

Read Professor Gulli's article here.

NYCAAPSE 2014

Our Mutual Estate 2014

Reimagining the English Classroom

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Keynote Address

Tina Chang (Brooklyn Poet Laureate) -- "Sensual Hybrid: Poems for a New Generation"

Workshops

Teaching Cultural Studies: Adventures in Globalized Media

Jonathan Haynes, Professor of English, LIU

Suzane Thomas, Assistant Principal of Instruction, Cobble Hill School of American Studies

Teaching Writing

Lynn Hassan, Associate Writing Center Director, LIU

Tiffany DeJaynes, Research Teacher Writing Center Director, Millennium Brooklyn High School

Teaching Creative Writing

Felice Belle, Adjunct Assistant Professor English, LIU

Karen Bonnick, Assistant Principal of English, Manhattan Center for Science and Math

Teaching Nonfiction: Honoring and Engaging All Voices

Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English, LIU

Karen Andronica, Assistant Principal of English, Lehman High School

Teaching With Technology

Melissa Antinori, Assistant Director of Writing, LIU

Maria Moccia, English Teacher, Cobble Hill School of American Studies

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One Foot Out the Door: The Collected Stories of Lewis Warsh