Patrick Horrigan: Reading

Professor Patrick E. Horrigan (English) will give a reading of new work as part of the COOL STORIES performance series on Friday, October 27th @ 7pm, at El Barrio's Artspace PS 109.

215 East 99th Street
Manhattan

Admission is FREE! 

Barbara Henning: Upcoming Reading

Professor Barbara Henning (English) will be reading with fellow poets Cliff Fyman and John Godfrey.

Sunday, October 22, 2017
4:30 PM

Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street
Manhattan

Lewis Warsh: Upcoming Reading

photo: Dan Wonderly

Professor Lewis Warsh (English / Creative Writing) will read with Cedar Sigo at the Poetry Project.


Wednesday, November 8, 2017
8:00 PM

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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.

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Barbara Henning: New Poems

Congratulations to Professor Barbara Henning (English), who has three new poems ("digigrams") in the online journal Rascal. The poems appear as both texts and audio files of Henning reading.

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

Teatro SEA
107 Suffolk St.
Manhattan

Admission is FREE but donations are always welcome.

EVERYBODY HAS AN ACCENT. WHAT'S YOURS?

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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.

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Introducing LIU Brooklyn CUSP (Campus-Community Urban Sustainability Program)

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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.