Unless otherwise noted, all events occur on Friday at 4 p.m. in the English Program lounge (room 4406).

September 5
New Student Welcome / Orientation

September 12
Workshop on the Dissertation Prospectus

September 19
Job Forum

September 26
Nico Israel, Hunter College
“On Spirals: Metamorphosis of a Twentieth-Century Form"
Faculty Membership Talk

October 3
"New Directions in Early Modern Scholarship:
A CUNY Roundtable Discussion"
Richard McCoy (moderator)
Andrea Walkden (panelist, Queens College)
John Staines (panelist, John Jay)
Tanya Pollard (panelist, Brooklyn College)
Katharine Goodland (panelist, College of Staten Island)
Sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group

October 10 
Workshop on the Oral Examination

October 17
Mary McGlynn, Baruch College
"'Wipe your tears away': Working-Class Masculinity in the Thatcher Years"
Sponsored by the Class, Labor, and Literature Group

October 24
Memoir Writing / Writing about Memoir: A Reading and Panel Discussion
Jane Marcus, Sondra Perl, Molly Pulda, Jessica Cantiello
Co-sponsored with Women's Studies

October 31
Marina Warner, Univesrity of Essex
"Enchanted States: The Shaman's Flight in Modern Times"
Cosponsored with the Center for the Humanities and Women’s Studies
Takes place in the Segal Theatre

November 7  
Yumna Siddiqi, Middlebury College
"Empire, Migration, and 'The Inheritance of Loss'"

November 14
Michael Denning, Yale University
“The Spectre of Wageless Life"
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities

November 20 [Thursday]
7-9 p.m.
Mark Doty, poetry reading, Q&A, book signing
Co-sponsored with CLAGS and the Center for the Humanities

November 21
2 p.m. Workshop on Conference Presentation
4 p.m. Workshop on Academic Publishing

December 5
"And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women," edited and with an introduction by Muneeza Shamsie.
Panel discussion moderated by Dohra Ahmad, English, St. John's University
Panel of authors:
Humera Afridi, Western Connecticut State University
Fawzia Afzal Khan, English, Montclair State University
Sorayya Khan, novelist
Maniza Naqvi, novelist and activist
Tahira Naqvi, New York University
Sehba Sarwat, writer
Sabyn Javeri-Jillani, poet and short story writer
Co-sponsored with Women's Studies and the Feminist Press

December 12
3:00 p.m. Faculty Meeting
4:00 p.m. Open Executive Committee Meeting
5:00 p.m. Poetry Reading
6:00 p.m. Revels