Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Calling All Students!!
Graduate course English 830 (Allegory and Epic) is in danger of being cancelled due to low enrollment. If you are interested in taking this course, please register very soon.
Thank You!!
Here is the original class listing:
Eng. 830: Allegory and Epic (76093)
T. 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert Forman
The course will quickly but closely read the four primary epics of classical antiquity: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius’s Argonautica, and Vergil’s Aeneid. What will concern us most, however, will be the variety of critical approaches to them that has appeared during the last fifty years.
The long-held position that oral literature as typified by Homer was a privileged singularity is now generally considered to have been refuted by Milman Parry. We will analyze Homeric formulas using Parry’s metrics.
The interplay of Hellenistic Greek and first-century B.C.E. Roman epic is also fertile ground for modern critical approaches. Apollonius’s characterization of Medea, one might argue, contributed mightily to Vergil’s portrait of Dido, odd as that may seem. We will examine Donald Norman Levin’s arguments.
Finally, we will compare the conservative Brooks Otis approach to Vergil’s Aeneid (essentially structural) with the mathematical analysis of George Duckworth that it inspired. Then we will conclude by considering the iconoclastic Homeric Lens approach to the Aeneid of Edan Dekel, aimed primarily at the “odyssean” (1-6) and “iliadic” (7-12) halves of Vergil’s poem as discerned by Viktor Pöschl.
Students will write short but documented responses to each of these critical positions and a final major paper that considers some limited aspect of one of these poems from a critical perspective of their choosing.
Thank You!!
Here is the original class listing:
Eng. 830: Allegory and Epic (76093)
T. 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Dr. Robert Forman
The course will quickly but closely read the four primary epics of classical antiquity: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius’s Argonautica, and Vergil’s Aeneid. What will concern us most, however, will be the variety of critical approaches to them that has appeared during the last fifty years.
The long-held position that oral literature as typified by Homer was a privileged singularity is now generally considered to have been refuted by Milman Parry. We will analyze Homeric formulas using Parry’s metrics.
The interplay of Hellenistic Greek and first-century B.C.E. Roman epic is also fertile ground for modern critical approaches. Apollonius’s characterization of Medea, one might argue, contributed mightily to Vergil’s portrait of Dido, odd as that may seem. We will examine Donald Norman Levin’s arguments.
Finally, we will compare the conservative Brooks Otis approach to Vergil’s Aeneid (essentially structural) with the mathematical analysis of George Duckworth that it inspired. Then we will conclude by considering the iconoclastic Homeric Lens approach to the Aeneid of Edan Dekel, aimed primarily at the “odyssean” (1-6) and “iliadic” (7-12) halves of Vergil’s poem as discerned by Viktor Pöschl.
Students will write short but documented responses to each of these critical positions and a final major paper that considers some limited aspect of one of these poems from a critical perspective of their choosing.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
NY Shakespeare Internships for Fall 2012
Not much time before the deadline, but these look like fun internships --
NY Shakespeare Exchange2012 INTERNSHIPSAs part of our commitment to developing a new generation of classical theater professionals, NY Shakespeare Exchange seeks a number of early-career theater artists to participate in a collaborative and hands-on learning environment throughout our 2012 production of Island, or To Be or not To Be by Kevin Brewer; directed by Artistic Director Ross Williams. www.ShakespeareExchange.org
NYSX interns are self-motivated, eager to learn, ready to assist in all areas, and are willing and able to work independently and effectively. Each intern is paired with a staff member who will provide guidance and mentoring in his/her field of focus. Eligibility for college credit will be determined by each intern’s college or university; weekly hours can be adjusted to accommodate the specific requirements of each institution.
We are accepting resumes for the following positions:
PRODUCTION/REHEARSAL INTERNSHIPS
Acting x2 (August 13-October 15)
General Management/Producing (July 1- October 15)
Production Management (August 1-October 15)
DESIGN INTERNSHIPS
Scenic/Props Design (August 1-October 15)
Costume Design (August 1-October 15)
Lighting Design (August 1-October 15)
Sound Design (August 1-October 15)
Send resumes and portfolios, along with e-mails and phone numbers of two references, to Associate Artistic Director Cristina Lundy at InternSearch@ShakespeareExchange.org. Deadline for submission is June 30, 2012.=====Note: While this is not a position listed, we are also accepting resumes for Internships in STAGE MANAGEMENT (mid-July - October 15).
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Loeb Classics available for downloads
You can find a link for all the public domain Loeb classics, the standard bilingual Greek and Latin texts, here. This will be very useful for any scholars, esp. because the pdfs are searchable.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
MLA to provide e-dossiers for job candidates
Here's some good news for future job-seekers: starting this fall, the MLA will partner with Interfolio, a leading e-dossier service, to offer dossier- and document-delivery services to all job seekers, as well as services for department's managing searches. Anyone who's every tried to manage the paperwork of a job search in the pre-Interfolio era, or had to pay Interfolio to manage a dossier, will appreciate this move by the MLA.
MLA Director Rosemary Feal's letter below the jump.
MLA Director Rosemary Feal's letter below the jump.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
New Shakespeare Journal from Stratford-upon-Avon
New Journal: Shakespeare Institute Review - Call For Papers
The Shakespeare Institute Review is a new online academic journal, which is funded by the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law. It is run by four research students at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
Students at this institution, and on other postgraduate Shakespeare programmes, are invited and encouraged to contribute short papers for publication. Each issue of the journal will be themed.
We thought it exhilaratingly inappropriate, and so irresistible, to signal the birth of this journal with an issue looking at death.
Students are encouraged to submit papers, between 1,500 and 2,500 words, on topics relating to death, mortality and religion in Shakespeare's plays, or elsewhere in the Early Modern period.
Possible topics might include, but are not restricted to:
Suggestions of other topics will be warmly received.
Papers should be submitted to shakesreview@gmail.com, with a deadline of 20 May 2012.
All submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board, and those submissions that are selected will be published in our first online issue. Please contact the journal for further information.
Students at this institution, and on other postgraduate Shakespeare programmes, are invited and encouraged to contribute short papers for publication. Each issue of the journal will be themed.
We thought it exhilaratingly inappropriate, and so irresistible, to signal the birth of this journal with an issue looking at death.
Students are encouraged to submit papers, between 1,500 and 2,500 words, on topics relating to death, mortality and religion in Shakespeare's plays, or elsewhere in the Early Modern period.
Possible topics might include, but are not restricted to:
- Critical examinations of the way that various of Shakespeare’s characters deal with death, or die. This could include close-reading, comparative analysis, and analysis from a specific theoretical position (Marxist, feminist, etc.).
- Historical studies of how mortality or religion was understood in the early Modern period, and of how Shakespeare makes use of (and plays off) those understandings in his plays.
- Considerations of the political, ethical, religious, spiritual and existential significances of mortality or religion in the Early Modern period, and for Shakespeare’s characters.
- Comparisons between how Shakespeare understands mortality, and how other creative artists and philosophers–-of Shakespeare’s time, or before, or after–-have understood it.
- More intensely personal and experientially engaged writing on how Shakespeare’s plays have helped you deal with death–-with your own mortality, or with the death of people that you know. How does Shakespeare make you look at death, and is this vision comforting or distressing? Does Shakespeare get to the truth of death, for you, or not?
- Reflections on metaphysical and spiritual truths that arise from Shakespeare’s plays.
- More provocative reflections on how the writing that is produced by the Modern academy–-writing that is critical, theoretical, historical—does not deal adequately with death in Shakespeare’s plays, and suggestions as to how this inadequacy can be rectified.
Suggestions of other topics will be warmly received.
Papers should be submitted to shakesreview@gmail.com, with a deadline of 20 May 2012.
All submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board, and those submissions that are selected will be published in our first online issue. Please contact the journal for further information.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The CUNY Annual Victorian Conference
It's tomorrow! Here's the link.
Welcome
Moderator
Afternoon Session
Moderator
Reception
Welcome
Mario DiGangi
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Moderator
Nicholas Birns
The New School
Victorians Abroad
David Pike
American University, Washington, D.C.
“The World Street and the Victorian City”
“The World Street and the Victorian City”
William Cohen
University of Maryland, College Park
“Dickens’s French: Or, a Tale of Two Cities”
“Dickens’s French: Or, a Tale of Two Cities”
Discussion and Break
Dickensian Urbanity
Matthew Beaumont
University College London
“The Old Cupiosity Shape: Dickens and the Nocturnal City”
“The Old Cupiosity Shape: Dickens and the Nocturnal City”
Julian Wolfreys
Loughborough University, Leicestershire UK
“Quiet: Towards a Phenomenology of Urban Perception in Dickens”
“Quiet: Towards a Phenomenology of Urban Perception in Dickens”
Lunch (on your own) 12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
Afternoon Session
2:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Moderator
Annmarie Drury
Queens College, CUNY
Urban Beauty, Urban Sublime
Michelle Allen-Emerson
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
Urban Growth: Gardening in the Late Victorian City
Urban Growth: Gardening in the Late Victorian City
Nancy Rose Marshall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘This Horrid Grandeur’: Imagining Fire in the Victorian World”
“‘This Horrid Grandeur’: Imagining Fire in the Victorian World”
Discussion and Break
Cities of Delight
Deborah Nord
Princeton University
“Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall”
“Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall”
Keynote Address:
Judith Walkowitz
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
“The Victorians and Literary Geography”
“The Victorians and Literary Geography”
Reception
6:00 P.M.
English Common Space, Room 4406
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
2012 Norman Mailer Writing Awards
The application deadline for the 2012 Norman Mailer Writing Awards is this Monday, April 30, at Noon CDT.
These awards, cosponsored by The Norman Mailer Center and the National Council of Teachers of English, offer cash and other prizes for excellence in high school and college writing. There are a number of awards offered this year:
The High School Competition is open to all high school students. Students may submit one or more pieces of writing as one file, maximum 10 single-spaced pages, endorsed by a teacher and released by a parent or guardian. The winner will receive:
* Cash award of $5,000
* Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
College competitions:
The Two-Year College Writing Award Competition is open to first- and second-year full-time students enrolled in community colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Maximum length of entry is 15 single-spaced pages. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $5,000
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
The Four-Year College Writing Award Competition is open to current full-time undergraduate students. Maximum length of entry is 15 single-spaced pages. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $10,000
• Scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony during the summer of 2013
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
NEW! The Poetry Award is open to full-time students enrolled in four-year colleges, two-year colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Students may submit one or more poems, to a maximum of 10 pages. The winner will receive:
• Cash award of $5,000
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
These competitions will close at noon on April 30. For more information, or to enter, visit http://www.ncte.org/awards/
PS: NCTE and the Norman Mailer Center are partnering with the Muhammad Ali Center to offer the 2012 Muhammad Ali Award for Writing on Ethics. This award recognizes excellence in writing about ethics and features a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a weeklong writing workshop at the Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during the summer of 2013. Deadline is July 23, 2012, at Noon CDT.
*Funding for travel is limited to the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Canadian and other foreign students are eligible to enter. Outside of the United States a $500.00 USD payment toward travel will be allowed. Hotel will be paid as for students in the United States.
These awards, cosponsored by The Norman Mailer Center and the National Council of Teachers of English, offer cash and other prizes for excellence in high school and college writing. There are a number of awards offered this year:
The High School Competition is open to all high school students. Students may submit one or more pieces of writing as one file, maximum 10 single-spaced pages, endorsed by a teacher and released by a parent or guardian. The winner will receive:
* Cash award of $5,000
* Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
College competitions:
The Two-Year College Writing Award Competition is open to first- and second-year full-time students enrolled in community colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Maximum length of entry is 15 single-spaced pages. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $5,000
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
The Four-Year College Writing Award Competition is open to current full-time undergraduate students. Maximum length of entry is 15 single-spaced pages. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $10,000
• Scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony during the summer of 2013
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
NEW! The Poetry Award is open to full-time students enrolled in four-year colleges, two-year colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Students may submit one or more poems, to a maximum of 10 pages. The winner will receive:
• Cash award of $5,000
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
These competitions will close at noon on April 30. For more information, or to enter, visit http://www.ncte.org/awards/
PS: NCTE and the Norman Mailer Center are partnering with the Muhammad Ali Center to offer the 2012 Muhammad Ali Award for Writing on Ethics. This award recognizes excellence in writing about ethics and features a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a weeklong writing workshop at the Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during the summer of 2013. Deadline is July 23, 2012, at Noon CDT.
*Funding for travel is limited to the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Canadian and other foreign students are eligible to enter. Outside of the United States a $500.00 USD payment toward travel will be allowed. Hotel will be paid as for students in the United States.
Apollon: The Undergraduate eJournal
The deadline for submissions for the next issue is June 15. You can submit work directly to the website.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Conference at Columbia U
The Columbia Shakespeare Seminar is co-sponsoring a one-day conference at Columbia University this Friday, April 27.
THE READING OF BOOKS AND THE READING OF LITERATURE
Friday, 27 April 2012
Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 523
How does the reading of books as material objects inform the reading of literature? How does the reading of literary texts contribute to the growing field of the history of the book? This one-day conference at Columbia University brings together both senior and junior scholars in the field of English Renaissance studies to discuss the current state of scholarship regarding the relationship between the elusive phenomenon of literature and the media in which it was conveyed in the early modern period. By critically considering the past, the conference hopes to illuminate the future engagements of literary scholarship with the ideality and the materiality of its subject matter.
Conference Program
9:00 Coffee and pastries
9:20 Opening remarks
9:30 JENNY C. MANN, Cornell University
Renaissance Poetry’s “Deep Impressions”
10:00 JANE GRIFFITHS, University of Bristol
“Playing the Dolt in Print”: The Glossing of Nashe’s Pierce Penilesse and Have With You to Saffron Walden
10:30 DISCUSSION
10: 50 Coffee break
11:00 ALAN STEWART, Columbia University
Ways of Reading for the Earl of Essex in the 1590s
11:30 ANDRÁS KISÉRY, CUNY, The City College of New York
The Dead Shepherd and His Flasket: Marketing Marlowe
12:00 DISCUSSION
12:30 Lunch break
2:00 ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE, University of Toronto
Bookbinding and English Literature from Manuscript to Print
2:30 HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL, University of California, Riverside
Making Sense of “inexplicable dumbe showes and noyse”: Turning to Typography in Early Modern Playbooks
3:00 DISCUSSION
3:20 Coffee break
3:30 The 2012 Paul Oskar Kristeller Lecture
MARGRETA DE GRAZIA, University of Pennsylvania
Chronologomania and the Shakespeare Canon
4:30 Roundtable: CHRISTOPHER BASWELL (Barnard), JULIE CRAWFORD (Columbia), DAVID KASTAN (Yale)
5:30 Conference cocktail and exhibition
Conference organized by Ashley Streeter and Ivan Lupić, doctoral candidates in English Literature at Columbia University
Sponsored by University Seminars on the Renaissance and on Shakespeare; English and Comparative Literature Department; Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Paul Oskar Kristeller
THE READING OF BOOKS AND THE READING OF LITERATURE
Friday, 27 April 2012
Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 523
How does the reading of books as material objects inform the reading of literature? How does the reading of literary texts contribute to the growing field of the history of the book? This one-day conference at Columbia University brings together both senior and junior scholars in the field of English Renaissance studies to discuss the current state of scholarship regarding the relationship between the elusive phenomenon of literature and the media in which it was conveyed in the early modern period. By critically considering the past, the conference hopes to illuminate the future engagements of literary scholarship with the ideality and the materiality of its subject matter.
Conference Program
9:00 Coffee and pastries
9:20 Opening remarks
9:30 JENNY C. MANN, Cornell University
Renaissance Poetry’s “Deep Impressions”
10:00 JANE GRIFFITHS, University of Bristol
“Playing the Dolt in Print”: The Glossing of Nashe’s Pierce Penilesse and Have With You to Saffron Walden
10:30 DISCUSSION
10: 50 Coffee break
11:00 ALAN STEWART, Columbia University
Ways of Reading for the Earl of Essex in the 1590s
11:30 ANDRÁS KISÉRY, CUNY, The City College of New York
The Dead Shepherd and His Flasket: Marketing Marlowe
12:00 DISCUSSION
12:30 Lunch break
2:00 ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE, University of Toronto
Bookbinding and English Literature from Manuscript to Print
2:30 HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL, University of California, Riverside
Making Sense of “inexplicable dumbe showes and noyse”: Turning to Typography in Early Modern Playbooks
3:00 DISCUSSION
3:20 Coffee break
3:30 The 2012 Paul Oskar Kristeller Lecture
MARGRETA DE GRAZIA, University of Pennsylvania
Chronologomania and the Shakespeare Canon
4:30 Roundtable: CHRISTOPHER BASWELL (Barnard), JULIE CRAWFORD (Columbia), DAVID KASTAN (Yale)
5:30 Conference cocktail and exhibition
Conference organized by Ashley Streeter and Ivan Lupić, doctoral candidates in English Literature at Columbia University
Sponsored by University Seminars on the Renaissance and on Shakespeare; English and Comparative Literature Department; Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Paul Oskar Kristeller
Monday, April 23, 2012
Graduation Reception on May 13
All graduating or not-graduating members of the English community should please come by the English Department (SJH B40) for an informal
reception immediately following the commencement ceremony on May 13.
Some faculty will be in attendance, and we look forward to
congratulation you! We'll have light refreshments. See you then!
Dr. Lubey and Dr. Ahmad
Monday, April 16, 2012
St. John's English Graduate Conference
The English Department Graduate Conference is coming up this Saturday, April 21 with a standout list of presentations. We are very excited to welcome you to this year's conference!
Breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Institute for Writing Studies in St. Augustine Hall. At 9:20 a.m. Dr. Steve Mentz, Director of Graduate Studies, will welcome everyone to the conference.
Session 1 begins at 9:30 a.m.
Session 2 begins at 10:45 a.m. and runs until 11:45 a.m.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. and last until the final session of the day, which begins at 1:00 p.m.
The Conference will conclude with a Keynote Address from Dr. Kathleen Lubey on "Late Eighteenth Century Feminisms: Mary Wollstonecraft and her Contemporaries."
You can view the full announcement flyer here. We hope to see you there!
Breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Institute for Writing Studies in St. Augustine Hall. At 9:20 a.m. Dr. Steve Mentz, Director of Graduate Studies, will welcome everyone to the conference.
Session 1 begins at 9:30 a.m.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m. and last until the final session of the day, which begins at 1:00 p.m.
The Conference will conclude with a Keynote Address from Dr. Kathleen Lubey on "Late Eighteenth Century Feminisms: Mary Wollstonecraft and her Contemporaries."
You can view the full announcement flyer here. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Helpful Article from The Chronicle
Thanks to Regina for passing on this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Karen Kelsky writes a detailed "to do list" for those exploring graduate programs and for students currently in doctoral programs. Her continual reminder? Graduate School is a Means to a Job.
Congratulations, Alyssa-Rae!
A belated congratulations to Alyssa-Rae Hug whose proposal was accepted for "A Gateway to Professionalization: An Undergraduate Researcher Poster Session" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in St. Louis, MO last month.Her research (Two's Company, Three's a Conversation: A Study of Dialogue among a Professor, a Peer-Writing Felow, and Undergraduates around Feedback and Writing) focuses on her study of a collaborative commenting process. This is the first undergraduate poster session to ever take place at this conference. Many congratulations to Alyssa-Raw on such a significant achievement!
You can see Alyssa-Rae's poster tomorrow at the St. John's Undergraduate Research Poster Session on campus!
Here is a picture of Alyssa-Rae with the 2012 Conference Program Chair, Chris Anson.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Job Opportunity at Readability, Arc90
A friend and fellow-English major from my undergraduate days posted a job opening yesterday at Readability for a Full Time Community Manager position. She recommended it for creative English majors and a bit of tech-savvy would not go amiss.
See the full post on the Arc90 website here.
Here's a selection from the posting
See the full post on the Arc90 website here.
Here's a selection from the posting
Readability is looking for a talented community support person to help us manage our passionate, growing userbase of readers, publishers, and developers. And where better to look than to our userbase itself?
The day-to-day involves a lot of emails, a lot of chat, and a lot of information. On our support team, you’ll liaison between the developers, project lead, and the wonderful folks at CoSupport, who tackle much of the inbox and offer guidance and expertise. You’ll be learning how the gears turn while helping delight our customers by improving the experience of reading for everyone.
In terms of skillset, we’re looking for someone who is:
- smart, motivated, organized and kind.
- particularly interested in reading and writing, particularly on the web. If you’re a fan of and familiar with Readability already, that’s even better. You can play well the role of evangelist (along with the rest of us!)
- a solid communicator, both written and verbal, and both technical and social. We need you to empathize with customers, write clearly, and effectively express patterns and technical issues to the team. Phrasing matters as much in our issues tracker as on Twitter.
- eager to understand and advocate for community ideas. You’ll organize issues users are having and help the team to prioritize them with an eye for for both small bugs and the big picture. Be the voice of users in a design meeting, of developers when we plan the roadmap, of publishers when we look at our long-term goals. Crucial: common sense and an openness to ideas that are not your own.
- comfortable with the web. You don’t need to be a coder, but you should know how the web works and love playing with new tools and software. You’ll look at a lot of web pages and it’s important to know (or be able to learn) the basics of how they work. HTML and CSS experience are a plus. If you know any XPath (gasp!), even better.
- pattern-aware. You’ll need to learn where to look for answers and have a knack for seeing when something repeats.
- able to advocate the brand without being a personality. Be comfortable on Twitter and Facebook and everywhere else. There’s no room for egos and no need for fights.
- living or willing to live in NYC or have a proven record of impeccable remote working. If you’re living in the United States, you are qualified to work here without sponsorship. (Sorry, we can’t currently sponsor H1–B candidates.)
It’d be a plus if you:
- know how apps work on iOS and Android. Installing, uninstalling, troubleshooting.
- are an Early-adopter. We do a lot of skunkworks-style playing around here, and admire someone motivated to look at what’s new.
- blog or have some other experience writing. Strong writing is very important for this role.
Excited? Sound interesting? Feel free to drop us a line at icanhelp@readability.com and include a resume and a note about yourself and why this strikes you as a good opportunity. We don’t necessarily need someone who has a ton of experience managing a community. A smart, kind, organized person who loves reading and the web would be a great fit.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Grad Classes Fall 2012 (Part 2)
Registration begins tomorrow, kiddies! Set your alarms for 6:55 a.m. and be logged in to UIS to start adding those numbers at 7:00 a.m. on the dot. Don't forget to email, call, or stop into the Department Office to ask Lana or Gina for your priority registration numbers today.
Check out Part One of selected course descriptions for a detailed look into the classes being offered this fall. Of course you can view the full list of descriptions, including registration numbers, here.
Dr. Carmen Kynard is offering a brand new course this fall on African American Literacies and Education in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The course number is ENG 185, and the registration number is 76097. This class assumes a basic knowledge of some education history, especially Brown v. Board of Education, as well as Plessy v. Ferguson. We will be thinking about literacies as a subfield in Comp/Rhet. This class aims for the students to acquire both a breadth and depth into literature, research, and criticism. We will be working with critical socio-linguistics, that is with student works, college student texts, and pop culture texts. The expectation is that you will be joining the research community, so the class will be culminating in a research project.
Introduction to the Profession will be taught this fall by Dr. Granville Ganter. The course number is ENG 110, and the registration number is 76108. This class is a requirement for all D.A. students. Dr. Ganter's focus in this course will be the history of English programs, specifically the 19th and 20th Century development of the English Department. This class will expose you to a variety of angles to this profession and will also include research methods. We will be compiling the research interests of the students in the class, learning how to use databases, and how to propose a course of study without yet having read most of the books on it. This is the kind of work you will be doing when writing a proposal for a book publisher or a grant. The aim of this course is practicality and will be split about 50-50 between methodology and historical sense.
Dr. Robert Forman will be teaching Allegory and Epic, which will focus on the four primary epics of antiquity: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, and Apollonius of Rodes's Argonautica. Criticism of the past fifty years will also be read parallel to the primary texts. One view of the course in particular is the singularity of these verses. Is Vergil independent in this tradition, or did everything come from Homer? Can the epic be written after Homer? One text in particular that Dr. Forman recommended during his talk was The Making of Homeric Verse by Milman Parry.
Finally, last but certainly not least, in the introduction to our fall courses is Dr. Robert Fanuzzi's class on Narratives of American History: "America" as a Trans-Atlantic Construct. The course number is 635, and the registration number is 76096. What is America? America is a land composed of different language groups and literary traditions. Have we decided what "American Literature" is? This course looks at the struggle to define American Literature and how to prevent the definition from becoming fixed. The emergence of a national literature occurs from the creation of British American through the 1850's, but this class looks at how it is shaped through residues of literary history going back to Columbus and the transatlantic network. What colonial residues are there? There are certainly aspects of Cultural Studies as well as Performance Studies in this class -- how what people say to define themselves bespeaks a narrative identity.
Check out Part One of selected course descriptions for a detailed look into the classes being offered this fall. Of course you can view the full list of descriptions, including registration numbers, here.
Dr. Carmen Kynard is offering a brand new course this fall on African American Literacies and Education in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The course number is ENG 185, and the registration number is 76097. This class assumes a basic knowledge of some education history, especially Brown v. Board of Education, as well as Plessy v. Ferguson. We will be thinking about literacies as a subfield in Comp/Rhet. This class aims for the students to acquire both a breadth and depth into literature, research, and criticism. We will be working with critical socio-linguistics, that is with student works, college student texts, and pop culture texts. The expectation is that you will be joining the research community, so the class will be culminating in a research project.
Introduction to the Profession will be taught this fall by Dr. Granville Ganter. The course number is ENG 110, and the registration number is 76108. This class is a requirement for all D.A. students. Dr. Ganter's focus in this course will be the history of English programs, specifically the 19th and 20th Century development of the English Department. This class will expose you to a variety of angles to this profession and will also include research methods. We will be compiling the research interests of the students in the class, learning how to use databases, and how to propose a course of study without yet having read most of the books on it. This is the kind of work you will be doing when writing a proposal for a book publisher or a grant. The aim of this course is practicality and will be split about 50-50 between methodology and historical sense.
Dr. Robert Forman will be teaching Allegory and Epic, which will focus on the four primary epics of antiquity: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, and Apollonius of Rodes's Argonautica. Criticism of the past fifty years will also be read parallel to the primary texts. One view of the course in particular is the singularity of these verses. Is Vergil independent in this tradition, or did everything come from Homer? Can the epic be written after Homer? One text in particular that Dr. Forman recommended during his talk was The Making of Homeric Verse by Milman Parry.
Finally, last but certainly not least, in the introduction to our fall courses is Dr. Robert Fanuzzi's class on Narratives of American History: "America" as a Trans-Atlantic Construct. The course number is 635, and the registration number is 76096. What is America? America is a land composed of different language groups and literary traditions. Have we decided what "American Literature" is? This course looks at the struggle to define American Literature and how to prevent the definition from becoming fixed. The emergence of a national literature occurs from the creation of British American through the 1850's, but this class looks at how it is shaped through residues of literary history going back to Columbus and the transatlantic network. What colonial residues are there? There are certainly aspects of Cultural Studies as well as Performance Studies in this class -- how what people say to define themselves bespeaks a narrative identity.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Ethan Lipton's "No Place to Go"
Job Opportunities at Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale State College has posted several openings for Adjunct Faculty. Farmingdale, a campus of the State University of New York, is a college of applied science and technology. It is located on Long Island, approximately 45 minutes from New York City.
The first opening is a part-time Adjunct Faculty position teaching Speech. The successful candidate will teach the fundamentals of public speaking including preparing an outline, organizing and developing a thesis, analyzing the audience, and preparing successful PowerPoint presentations and other illustrative graphics. In addition, attention is paid to voice and diction and experiences provided in group discussion and problem solving. Students will give a variety of speeches including demonstrative, informative and persuasive speeches.
Requirements:
A minimum of a master’s degree in communication or speech pathology, one year of relevant teaching experience at the college level.
Requirements:
A minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant field and relevant teaching experience at the college level or relevant experience in the workplace.
Requirements:
Qualifications: a minimum of an earned Master's Degree in English and one year of relevant teaching experience at the college level.
The first opening is a part-time Adjunct Faculty position teaching Speech. The successful candidate will teach the fundamentals of public speaking including preparing an outline, organizing and developing a thesis, analyzing the audience, and preparing successful PowerPoint presentations and other illustrative graphics. In addition, attention is paid to voice and diction and experiences provided in group discussion and problem solving. Students will give a variety of speeches including demonstrative, informative and persuasive speeches.
A minimum of a master’s degree in communication or speech pathology, one year of relevant teaching experience at the college level.
Application Instructions:
A letter of application with curriculum vitae and the addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references should be submitted online at: http://farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/
A letter of application with curriculum vitae and the addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references should be submitted online at: http://farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/
The second position is a part-time Adjunct Faculty position teaching Technical Writing. The successful candidate(s) will teach the fundamentals of writing technical reports and other technical communications; how stressing the structure of written and oral expository communication of a practical, technical, or scientific nature intended for a specific audience; and/ or making students proficient at writing professional articles and reports such as new product information sheets, technical correspondence, periodic reports, summaries, process and technical descriptions, instructions and analysis, to incorporate graphs, tables and other illustrative matter with textual content.
A minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant field and relevant teaching experience at the college level or relevant experience in the workplace.
Application Instructions: A letter of application with curriculum vitae and the addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references should be submitted online at: http://farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/
The third position is a part-time Adjunct Instructor / Assistant Professor of English. The successful candidate(s) will teach the fundamentals of college level writing in Composition: Rhetoric and Composition: Literature. Composition: Rhetoric covers writing at the college level using a reader and handbook. Students write analytical and argumentation papers, including a short source paper. Composition: Literature covers writing at the college level about literature. Students write critical papers using proper literary terminology on a variety of literary genres: poetry, fiction and drama.
Qualifications: a minimum of an earned Master's Degree in English and one year of relevant teaching experience at the college level.
Application Instructions:A letter of application with curriculum vitae and the addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least three references should be submitted online at: http://farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/ Online applications only, no phone calls, please.
Shakespeare's "Lost Play" Lecture at Rutgers
Shakespeare's "Lost Play": After the Arden Edition
April 12, 2012
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Murray Hall, Plangere Annex 302
510 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Reception to follow
The Rutgers British Studies Center is pleased to announce a visit by Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 4:30pm in the Plangere Annex, Murray Hall (302). Dr. Hammond will speak about "Shakespeare's 'Lost Play'". Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating lecture!
When it appeared in the celebrated “Arden Shakespeare” series in 2010, Double Falsehood unsurprisingly had a global impact as that rarest of publications, a newly-discovered play by William Shakespeare. Performed during the 1612-13 season and attributed to Shakespeare and John Fletcher, the play surfaced over a century later in a version revised by Shakespeare scholar Lewis Theobald. In the Arden edition, Professor Hammond recounts the scholarly sleuthing by which he discovered the relationship between the lost play--a dramatic adaptation of Cervantes’ nearly contemporary masterpiece Don Quixote (1605, 1615)--and the play that was staged in 1727. In his lecture Hammond will describe this historical trajectory, the critical responses his edition of Double Falsehood has received in the two years since its printing, and directions for further research suggested by this singular publishing event.
co-sponsored by the Department of English Graduate Long Eighteenth-Century Studies Group
April 12, 2012
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Murray Hall, Plangere Annex 302
510 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Reception to follow
The Rutgers British Studies Center is pleased to announce a visit by Brean Hammond, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 4:30pm in the Plangere Annex, Murray Hall (302). Dr. Hammond will speak about "Shakespeare's 'Lost Play'". Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating lecture!
When it appeared in the celebrated “Arden Shakespeare” series in 2010, Double Falsehood unsurprisingly had a global impact as that rarest of publications, a newly-discovered play by William Shakespeare. Performed during the 1612-13 season and attributed to Shakespeare and John Fletcher, the play surfaced over a century later in a version revised by Shakespeare scholar Lewis Theobald. In the Arden edition, Professor Hammond recounts the scholarly sleuthing by which he discovered the relationship between the lost play--a dramatic adaptation of Cervantes’ nearly contemporary masterpiece Don Quixote (1605, 1615)--and the play that was staged in 1727. In his lecture Hammond will describe this historical trajectory, the critical responses his edition of Double Falsehood has received in the two years since its printing, and directions for further research suggested by this singular publishing event.
co-sponsored by the Department of English Graduate Long Eighteenth-Century Studies Group
Monday, April 2, 2012
Shakespeare Lectures at NYPL
Perhaps you will not be quite as excited as I am about this series of lectures. I may or may not be trying to get everyone I know to attend these with me. Here is all the info!
Shakespeare
Monday, April 23 at 1:15 pm – Robert Armitage : Shakespeare - From Stratford-on-Avon to The New York Public Library
Discover the world of William Shakespeare at NYPL on his celebrated birthday. Ponder textual problems in the quartos and folios. Explore illustrated editions of the plays and poems. Experience Shakespearean research through 21st century databases. After the lecture, twenty members of the audience (drawn by lot) are invited to view the Shakespearean holdings, including the First Folio, in the Library's Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Robert Armitage is the Humanities Bibliographer at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, NYPL. His popular lectures on the Library’s collections include Elusive Jane Austen, Out of the Blacking Factory , Subversive Shaw, and others.
Tuesday, April 24 at 1:15 pm – Margaret Mikesell Tabb : Fathers and Sons in Hamlet - Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the father-son nexus in Hamlet is reflected in early modern English society more largely, where a plethora of texts on the family appeared during the 16th and 17th centuries. This talk will focus on two kinds of these didactic texts: the middle-class family treatise, written by ministers seeking to define the newly Protestant family; and the humanist princely treatise, authored variously by kings and court intellectuals, which articulated one important vision of ruling. These texts offer competing prescriptions for sons which can help us understand the fissures and hesitations marking Hamlet’s portrayal and the tortured complexity of his response to his father’s demand for revenge. Margaret Mikesell Tabb is professor of English at John Jay College (CUNY). An editor of Juan Luis Vives’ Instruction of a Christen Woman (1523), she writes on early modern gender in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Wednesday, April 25 at 1:15 pm - Linda Neiberg : Marmorializing the Dead in Romeo and Juliet, Othello,and The Winter’s Tale - As several critics have noted in recent years, Reformation revisions to burial rites and obsequies for the dead engendered anxieties about mortality and closure, remembrance and annihilation. My project argues that, as the corpse is erased from official liturgies and religious practices, it resurfaces frequently—and often quite spectacularly—on the stage, where it also becomes the object of erotic attraction. The seemingly-dead, marble-like bodies of Juliet, Desdemona, and Hermione are suggestive of the growing popularity of monumental tombs and mortuary statues (substitutes, in one sense, for abrogated rituals) and likewise point up the role of eroticized stage corpses in bridging what Howard Barker calls the “appalling chasm” between the living and the dead.
Linda Neiberg is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center (CUNY) and a Communication Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College, CUNY. Her dissertation is titled, Exquisite Corpses: Fantasies of Necrophilia in Early Modern English Drama.
Thursday, April 26 at 1:15 pm - Andras Kisery : Hamlet and the Ambassadors - Hamlet is set in a single location: Elsinore. People leave for foreign countries and return, ambassadors come and go, but no scene takes place outside the environment of the royal castle. The talk will imagine what this setting and what the embassies and foreign travel mean for the play and what it would have meant for Shakespeare’s contemporaries to learn about Denmark from the stage. Andras Kisery is assistant professor of English at The City College of New York, and is currently working on a book, Politicians in Show: Drama and the Circulation of Political Knowledge in Early Modern England.
Friday, April 27 at 1:15 pm - Barry Nass : The Parable of the Good Samaritan and The Taming of the Shrew
Literary criticism has traditionally found little of religious or biblical import in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, a play in which the abusive treatment of Katherine—and, by extension, all independent-minded women—has puzzled, troubled, or outraged audiences over the centuries. Indeed, George Bernard Shaw declared that “no man with any decency of feeling can sit it out in the company of women without being extremely ashamed of its lord-of-creation moral.” This lecture calls for a reassessment of the comedy by arguing that it is informed throughout by one of the best known of biblical parables, the story of the Good Samaritan. Medieval and Renaissance interpretations of the parable in fact suggest that, rather than condoning the right of its male characters to cruelly lord it over others, the play puts sharply into question the self-serving and domineering actions of the Lord toward Sly and of Petruchio toward Katherine. Barry Nass is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Hofstra University.
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