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Professor Lewis Warsh (English / Creative Writing) will read with Cedar Sigo at the Poetry Project.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
8:00 PM
More info.
Lewis Warsh: Upcoming Reading
Professor Lewis Warsh (English / Creative Writing) will read with Cedar Sigo at the Poetry Project.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
8:00 PM
More info.
Carol Allen: New Book
Professor Carol Allen (English) is the author of the new book Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, December 2016). From the publisher's website: "Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements."
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Srividhya Swaminathan: New Book
Professor Srividhya Swaminathan (English) is co-editor of a new volume. The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation is a collection of essays that focus on the broad variety of interpretations of the eighteenth century onto film and television. The essays push the concept of adaptation in film studies to new theoretical models and examine both the straightforward text to film works, like the lucrative Jane Austen franchise, and appropriations of the eighteenth-century milieu, like the Caribbean pirate narrative and the African slave institution. Co-edited with Steven W. Thomas (Wagner College), this collection seeks to break new ground in the crossover between film and literary studies.More info.
Barbara Henning: New Poems
Patrick Horrigan: Actors With Accents
Professor Patrick E. Horrigan (English) and co-host Eduardo Leanez invite you to the next evening of
ACTORS WITH ACCENTS
An evening of monologues, scenes, songs, comedy, drama, and wall-to-wall accents.
Friday, October 6, 2017 @ 7PM
Friday, October 6, 2017 @ 7PM
Teatro SEA
107 Suffolk St.
Manhattan
Admission is FREE but donations are always welcome.
Deborah Mutnick: Humanities New York Grant Recipient
Professor Deborah Mutnick (English) has been awarded an action grant from Humanities New York for the Souls of Lefferts Community Writing / Publishing Project.Here's an overview of the project:
Souls of Lefferts combines black-and-white photographs with life stories of subjects documenting rapid change in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Prospect Lefferts Gardens' working-class, multiracial, predominantly immigrant West Indian community is threatened by unfettered, high-rise development, rising rents and prices, and gentrification by new, mostly white commercial and residential tenants. This process of gentrification was already underway when Courtney Mooney started photographing Prospect Lefferts Gardens (PLG) residents in 2015. Joined by Deborah Mutnick in early 2016, the project has so far produced hundreds of photos and more than a dozen oral histories. It has involved LIU Brooklyn students in interviewing, transcribing, and writing narratives. Most recently, students participated in the first round of community publishing, working with PLG residents to publish their writing. Two new series of community writing workshops will be held in the community in fall 2017 and spring 2018 culminating in the production of two more booklets to be archived in the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library.
More info.
Howard Pflanzer: Poetry Reading
Howard Pflanzer, formerly an adjunct professor in the LIU Brooklyn English Department, and a longtime contributor to the department's literary magazine, Downtown Brooklyn, will be reading with three other poets in the Brownstone Poets series on Saturday, September 16, 2017, at 2:30PM, at the Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights.
Betsy Hall: Professional Development News
Oxford University Press has invited Professor Betsy Hall (English Department; Assistant Director of the Writing Program ) to review Arguing the Case (Garon Scott, managing editor) pre-publication.Also, in October 2017, Hall will serve on the proposal review committee for the upcoming 37th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience to be held in San Antonio, Texas, February 10-13, 2018.
John High: Book Launch Party & Reading in Paris
Professor John High (English Department & Creative Writing MFA Program) is on sabbatical during the 2017-18 academic year. We are pleased to announce that there will be a book launch party and reading in Paris on September 8, 2017, for his new book of poems, vanishing acts.
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