All lectures are followed by a reception in Room 4406, unless otherwise noted.

9/9 - New Student Welcome / Orientation

9/16 - Suresh Canagarajah, Baruch College
"Pluralizing Composition: The Challenge from World Englishes"
Faculty Membership lecture

9/23 - Rebecca Mlynarczyk, Kingsborough Community College
"The Uneasy Relationship Between Personal and Academic Writing: A Recurring Question in Composition"
Faculty Membership lecture

9/30 - Robert Phillipson, Department of English, Copenhagen Business School
"Language rights in a neo-imperial world order: English for uniting or dividing?"
cosponsored with The Center for the Humanities, Linguistics, Urban Education

10/7 - Job Forum

10/14 - Mary Childers, Independent Consultant and Visiting Scholar, Women's and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College
Welfare Brat
cosponsored with Women's Studies

10/20 (Thursday) - Rita Dove
With the Center for the Humanities
(place & time TBA)

10/21-22 (Fri-Sat.) - Human Rights and Humanities Conference
cosponsored with The Modern Language Association, French, and others
(full schedule to be announced)

10/28 - Edward Wheatley, Loyola University/Chicago
"Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Constructions of a Disability in Medieval England and France"
cosponsored with Medieval Studies

Women Writing Women's Lives
cosponsored with The Center for the Humanities
(place and time TBA)

11/2 (Weds.) - Sondra Perl, Lehman College and The Graduate Center
"On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate"
cosponsored with Urban Education
(7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m., Elebash Recital Hall)

On Robert Lowell and Ted Hughes
cosponsored with The Center for the Humanities
(place and time TBA)

11/4 - John Jay College Day
2 p.m. Adam Berlin, John Jay College: Belmondo Style [reading]
4 p.m. Adam McKible, John Jay College: "Lothrop Stoddard and racial pseudoscience in the 1920s"

11/9 (Weds.) - Tsvetan Todorov
cosponsored with The Center for the Humanities
(4-6 p.m., Skylight Room)

11/11 - Edward Burns, William Paterson University
"Gertrude Stein's War: Politics and Modernism"

11/17 (Thurs.) - Chancellor's Night with The American Academy of Poets
cosponsored with The Center for the Humanities

11/18 - Forum on Graduate Student Publication

12/2) - "Reframing the Real: A Celebration of The Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914"
co-sponsored with American Studies
(4-6 p.m., Skylight Room)

12/9 - Program Meetings and Celebration

2:30 pm Meeting of the Faculty

3:30 pm Open Meeting of the Executive Committee

4:30 pm Pre-Revels Poetry

6 pm Winter Revels!

PhD Program in English
The Graduate Center City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7407 New York, NY 10016-4309
telephone: 212-817-8315 fax: 212-817-1518
email: english@gc.cuny.edu