Paumanok Lecture: Claudia Rankine

Updated 10 March with photos from the event...

Claudia Rankine
(photo: Jake Matkov)

The LIU Brooklyn English Department is delighted to announce that poet and 2016 MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient Claudia Rankine will deliver the 2017 Paumanok Lecture on American Literature and Culture. 

(l) Professor Erica Hunt (Creative Writing
MFA Program, LIU Brooklyn
(r) Claudia Rankine.
(Photo: Jake Matkov)

Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and numerous video collaborations. She is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. For Citizen, Rankine won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was also nominated in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award. A finalist for the National Book Award, Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

Rankine may read from recent work and take questions from the audience. Her books will be available for purchase (and possible signing by the author).

More information will follow. Watch this space.

For now, direct any questions to Professor Leah Dilworth (English).

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Jonathan Haynes: News

Professor Jonathan Haynes (English) has been named to the Board of Directors of the Lagos Studies Association.

At the Association's second international conference (June 2017, University of Lagos) there will be a panel devoted to Nollywood, Haynes' new book on the Nigerian film industry.

Creative Writing MFA Reading Series Event

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Graduate Courses, Summer 2017 & Fall 2017

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Undergraduate Courses, Fall 2017

These course descriptions are provided by the professors teaching the courses.

For more information, write to them directly. Get English Department faculty contact info here.

English Majors — Before you register, make an appointment to meet with Wayne Berninger to review your outstanding requirements. Then register as early as possible to keep courses from being canceled.

Non-Majors — The writing and analytical skills gained in English courses are useful in a variety of professions. Any student may take these courses as general electives. A minor in English (four courses 100 or above) will satisfy the Distribution Requirement for any major. For more information, make an appointment to meet with Wayne Berninger.

Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing -- Issue 26 -- Call for Submissions!

Attention all LIU Brooklyn poets & writers!

Please submit poems and/or fiction for issue #26 of

DOWNTOWN 
BROOKLYN

the literary magazine of the LIU Brooklyn English Department

Submission deadline: 6 March 2017!

Who can submit work? Students, faculty & staff at LIU Brooklyn. This includes alumni & former employees of LIU Brooklyn, as well as Visiting Writers who are teaching or have taught in the Creative Writing MFA program & writers who visit campus to read in the English Department’s Voices of the Rainbow reading series. We consider poetry &/or fiction in a wide variety of traditional as well as experimental forms.

How to submit? Save your submission as a single Word document (not a separate file for each piece) & send it as an attachment to wayne [dot] berninger [at] liu [dot] edu. The first page of your document should be a cover letter. Include your name as you’d like it to appear, your e-mail address, & a short bio statement, in which you describe how you are connected to LIU Brooklyn. Are you a student? Say whether you are undergrad or grad, what your major or degree program is, & your expected date of graduation. If you are an alum, tell us what your major was & what degree you earned, as well as the year you graduated. Are you faculty or former faculty? Tell us your department, what your title is or was & what you teach or taught. Are you a staff member or former staff member? Tell us your title & what kind of work you do or did. If relevant, list recent publications, productions, or performances of your work. You will receive confirmation by e-mail that we have received your submissions. We will then notify as to acceptance ASAP, and the new issue should come out in time for the start of the Fall 2017 semester.

Please note: At this time, we are an online magazine. To read Issue 25, please visit our website.

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Hafeezah Nazim: News

We are pleased to note that Hafeezah Nazim (English major, Class of 2017; and Editor of LIU Brooklyn's student newspaper Seawanhaka) won a competitive internship at NYLON magazine last semester. She was a Digital Editorial Intern, and she is back at the magazine this year, having been promoted to Contributor.