Please join the GC English Department for this week's exciting Friday Forum on 10/17 at 4pm: Nuyorican Aesthetic: The Life and Work of Maria Aponte Come hear Maria Aponte discuss Nuyorican intellectualism and join us in celebrating her recent award-winning book "The Things That Shape Us" (2024)!

📢TODAY'S FRIDAY FORUM📢 We can't wait for this afternoon's Friday Forum on syllabus design with Mira Zaman of the BMCC Graduate Student and Early-Career Support (GSECS) committee, featuring speakers Eugenia Cawley (Lecturer in English, BMCC) and Adele Kudish (Professor of English, BMCC)!

Congratulations to Prof. Lyn Di Iorio, whose short story “Maritza and Carmen” is included in the anthology “Best American Short Stories 2025” www.gc.cuny.edu/news/profess... @cunyenglish.bsky.social

This evening, attend another event with English Program students! Janelle Poe & Addy Malinowski will join Pune Dracker, Joel Rogers, & Dr. David Humphries to discuss Dr. Humphries's book Happy Nostalgia: Making Connections with the Music of the ‘90s! Rm. 9100, 6-7:15PM tinyurl.com/happynostalgia

On Friday, we had a great talk from English Program students Dale Ireland, S.E. Hamlet, Nina Lopez-Ortiz, and Janelle Poe on Cultivating Universal Design in the English Classroom, with advice and resources for designing pedagogy with accessibility in mind!

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUM📢 4pm on Friday, 9/26, in Room 4406 and over Zoom: Cultivating Universal Design in English Courses We're excited to host a panel on building accessibility into the classroom, featuring English Program students S.E. Hamlet, Dale Ireland, Nina Lopez-Ortiz, and Janelle Poe!

On Friday, we were thrilled to see a packed student lounge for a reading by Gazan poet Yahya Ashour!

I'm a proud alum of @cunyenglish.bsky.social They have a mentorship cluster program that brings together a new student, returning student, faculty, and alum for the year. We meet monthly. This is my 3rd year participating. I love it. It's great connecting with current students and faculty.

Congratulations to Dr. Dhipinder Walia on the successful defense of ""The Rhetorical Agency of Student-Parents: Assembling, Archiving, and Naming Practices and Interpretations that Transform Worlds" today! Committee: Jessica Yood (Chair), Talia Schaffer, and Amy Wan (not pictured)

Great program tonight @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @mandiberg.bsky.social @angiewaller.bsky.social Annette Gilbert •Library of Print on Demand: Post Digital Publishing in Times of Platform Capitalism• @cunyenglish.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social #itpcertificate #jojodoodles

And on 9/19 at 6pm, following Yahya Ashour's reading, we encourage everyone to attend the book launch event for Ammiel Alcalay's CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, hosted by @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social and featuring @zohrasaed.bsky.social and Safira Berrada-Riggs!

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 This week we're excited to host two Friday Forum events, one on Thursday and one on Friday! Thurs. 9/18 at 6pm in the James Gallery: Reverberations Mixtape Launch and Listening Party Fri. 9/19 at 4pm in Rm. 4406: Never Mind Gaza: A Reading with Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour

Ph.D. candidate Alessandra Occhiolini will present her research on Jean Stein's Edie: An American Biography at the NYPL on Friday, 10/3, at 2pm! Register in advance for this free event: www.showclix.com/event/alessa... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

📢FRIDAY FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT📢 September 12 at 2pm in Room 4406 *Please note 2pm start time!* This week, we're excited to host the semester's first Job Search event on Cover Letters and CVs, hosted by Prof. Mary M. McGlynn @sistermmm.bsky.social, DEO of Job Search! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

On Friday, the English Program welcomed our new cohort of students, returning students, and faculty for a fantastic Meet the Faculty event! We were thrilled to host so many folks in the student lounge and look forward to seeing everyone at future Friday Forum events!

🎉FRIDAY FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 Tomorrow is our Fall 2025 Meet the Faculty event! We can't wait to introduce our new cohort of students and welcome back returning students and faculty to celebrate the start of the Fall 2025 semester. Join us tomorrow, 9/5, in Rm. 4406 at 4pm! Dinner will be served!

We were thrilled to host two packed events on Tuesday to start the Fall 2025 Friday Forum schedule, featuring visiting scholar Caleb Ward! Thank you to @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social for co-sponsoring the events, and to Ph.D. in English candidate Ju Ly Ban for organizing 🎉

Announcing fall 2025 public programs! Timely discussions, in-depth perspectives, creative ideas. Join us in person or online – RESERVE: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... @pkrugman.bsky.social @asrc-gc.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu @stone-lis.bsky.social @rbiis.bsky.social

Started teaching "Critical AI Studies" last night in the @gc-dh.bsky.social & @cunyenglish.bsky.social programs. Great first class discussion in which we tried to come up with a community agreement on the use of AI for coursework (still unsettled). Website: criticalai2025.commons.gc.cuny.edu

We can't wait for the Friday Forum events taking place tomorrow in the English Lounge (Room 4406)! Join us for a workshop at 11:30am and a lecture at 6pm with visiting scholar Caleb Ward, both co-sponsored by @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Registration for newly admitted students starts today @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and we have some great low stakes, no-credit professional development courses this fall to help you reach your writing goals! Learn more here:

📢FRIDAY FORUM ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Our first Friday Forum events of the semester are one week away! On Tuesday, Aug. 26, join us in the English Student Lounge (Room 4406) for two events with visiting scholar Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social, organized by Ph.D. candidate Ju Ly Ban!

And congratulations to Dr. Emily Price on the successful defense of ""Earth took of Earth": Melancholy and Earth in Late Medieval English Literature" on August 15! Committee: Karl Steel (Chair), Steve Kruger, and Jonathan W. Gray

Congratulations to Dale Ireland, who passed their Orals Examination today! Committee Members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Mario DiGangi, and Stephanie Hershinow

Delighted by this contribution from our own Daniel Horowitz, which is going straight into my Intro to Media Studies syllabus! Please give it a read 💚🙌🏾 @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social

Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.

We interviewed Prof. Miles Grier about his book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery, which won awards from @early-am-lit.bsky.social and @saaupdates.bsky.social and grant support from @psc-cuny.org! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/profess... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Drift Net by alum Chris Campanioni (Ph.D. '22) is out now from @leverpress.bsky.social ! You can read or order the book here: www.leverpress.org

ICYMI, watch the video of the 2025 Dissertation Showcase! Feat. Katherine Anderson, Oscar Aponte, Nicole Cote, Benjamin Diehl, Erik Forman, Eve Klein, Austin MacDonald, Sarah Pangburn, Jacob Quartey, Damira Rasheed, Miguel Rodriguez & Alex Steers- McCrum. Congrats to all! youtu.be/MfDygfEx3Sg

Congratulations to Prof. Lyn Di Iorio, whose short story "Maritza and Carmen" has been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2025! Preorder the anthology here: www.harpercollins.com/products/the... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

My piece on the havoc wrought by Trump's "Defending Women" executive order--it goes far beyond harming trans people. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The future of higher ed is uncertain, but one thing is clear: silence is not an option. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, @shellyeversley.bsky.social, Nancy Cantor, William Kelly, Shelly Lowe, and Maurice Wallace call for bold, collective action to defend academic freedom www.gc.cuny.edu/news/leaders...

This afternoon, we have a great Friday Forum schedule to close out the semester! 4-4:30pm - Open Executive Committee Meeting Join the Executive Committee to hear about updates from this semester and the academic year and learn about plans for upcoming semesters.

Announcing the 2025 English Department Awards! We're delighted to share this year's winners - please join us in congratulating the students who received Dissertation Year Fellowships and Dissertation Prizes! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We can't believe the semester is coming to a close! Join us this Friday, May 16, for our final Friday Forum events of the Spring 2025 semester: 4pm: Open Executive Committee Meeting 4:30pm: Dissertation Fellowships and Awards 5pm: Revels!

On Friday, May 9, the English Student Association held its 2025 conference, Shattering Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence! The day-long event featured panels of English program students and guests and a keynote speech by Prof. Siraj Ahmed, followed by a reception in the Lounge!

📢TODAY'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We can't wait for today's Friday Forums, taking place this afternoon in the English Student Lounge (Room 4406)!

My essay on Latinx speculative fictions is in this new edited volume. I'm so happy to be in such amazing company and grateful to @billeo.bsky.social for all his work! Check out the discount code and great panel happening @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social this Friday!

Looking forward to this conversation today at the CUNY Graduate Center at 4 pm EST. The roundtable will also be streamed virtually: J gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/8865724077...

🎤 Join us for the 8th Annual Dissertation Showcase on May 13 at 6:30 PM! 12 students, 3 minutes each, TED Talk style. Vote for your favorite + celebrate after with food & drinks! In person or online. Catch last year’s showcase on YouTube! Reserve: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

Check this summer course by Sam O'Hana!

Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!

Announcing presenters in the Dissertation Showcase! Damira Rasheed, Benjamin Diehl, Katherine Anderson, Erik Forman, Alex Steers-McCrum, Sarah Pangburn, Jacob Quartey, Eve Klein, Miguel Rodriguez, Oscar Aponte, Nicole Cote & Austin MacDonald. RESERVE for 5/13 event: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We're looking forward to hosting two Friday Forum events this week in the English Student Lounge (4406)! 2pm: Medieval Works-in-Progress 4pm: Latinx Literature in Transition

📢TODAY'S FRIDAY FORUM📢 We're excited to return to Friday Forums after Spring Break! This afternoon, join us in the English Student Lounge (Room 4406) at 2pm for Remembering Fredric Jameson, a panel in tribute to Marxist theorist and critic Fredric Jameson, who passed away in September 2024.

We have three defenses to celebrate this week! Congratulations to Dr. Sokunthary Svay on the successful defense of "The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After the Khmer Rouge Regime" on Monday! Committee: Jonathan Gray (Chair), Eric Lott, and Wayne Koestenbaum

Our director! "Like all the best folk arts, poetry teaches us to take what we have and make what we need, to turn the world we have inherited into the world we want to hand off to future generations."

Last week, we had an incredible time learning about students' music and visual arts works-in-progress, with presentations from Yagiz Ay, Alexa Climaldi, Koyuki Smith, and Andrew Stone!

Three wonderful scholars (and dear @digitalfellows.bsky.social colleagues) talk about transitioning to work in tech. @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Param Ajmera and @jbinder.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social #jojodoodles

Today in English Lounge! Join us for a Job Search Series event on Jobs Outside Academia, featuring alums Param Ajmera (Ph.D. '23), Jeff Binder (Ph.D. '18), and Patrick Smyth (Ph.D. '21), who will discuss their careers in the tech industry in New York!