Unless otherwise noted, all events occur on Friday at 4 p.m. in the English Program lounge (room 4406).
September 4
Welcome for New Students
September 11
2 p.m. Job Forum
All Day Conference: Authorship and Authority: Barking Abbey and Its Texts, Segal Theatre (begins 8:15 a.m.; reception follows 6:30 p.m.) [cosponsored with Medieval Studies, Fordham University, University of Illinois (Springfield)]
September 18
TBA
September 24 (Thursday)-25
All Day Conference: Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering, Auditorium and breakout rooms [cosponsored with Belladonna, Women’s Studies, and Center for the Humanities]
September 25
William Fisher, Lehman College: "'Doctor Dildos Dauncing Schoole': Sexual Instruments and Women's Erotic Agency in Thomas Nashe's The Choise of Valentines" (Faculty Membership Talk)
October 2
2 p.m. Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College: “From Athens to England: Kyd, Revenge Tragedy, and the Idea of a Public Theater” (Faculty Membership Talk)
4:00 p.m. Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware: “Muted Mutinies”
October 9
2 p.m. David Greetham, Graduate Center, CUNY: “Cultural Contaminations”
4 p.m. "The Twentieth Century: Departures and Approaches," with Meena Alexander, Edmund Epstein, Ashley Dawson, and John Brenkman
October 16
2 p.m. Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp: “Paul Celan's ‘Key to Kafka’” [cosponsored with Jewish Studies, Twentieth-Century Area Group]
4 p.m. “My Diva” (Mark Doty, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael Montlack, Christopher Murray, Jason Schneiderman, Richard Tayson)
October 23
Friday Forum Series: After the Culture Wars
Ira Shor, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Corey Mead, Baruch College, CUNY: "Who Won the Culture Wars?"
October 30
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania: “The Brink of Freedom” [cosponsored by Center for Humanities]
November 5-8
International Conference on Romanticism: Romanticism and the City [at the Graduate Center and City College, CUNY]
November 13
Harry Stecopoulos, University of Iowa: “State Multiculturalism: Literary Culture and U.S. Public Diplomacy After 9/11”
November 20
All Day: Conference on David Foster Wallace. Keynote speaker, Stephen Burn, Northern Michigan University [cosponsored with Twentieth-Century Area Group]
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December 4
2 p.m. Workshop on the Oral Examination
4 p.m. Workshop on the Dissertation Prospectus / Dissertation Fellowship Competition
December 11
Open meeting of the Executive Committee (time TBA)
Winter Revels