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FULBRIGHT AWARD Congratulations Professor Ava Chin on receiving a 2016-2017 Fulbright

Award. Professor Chin will be lecturing on American journalism at Fudan

University in Shanghai, China. While in China, she will also be working on

research for her next book project—a memoir about her family roots in the

Pearl River Delta. Professor Chin was selected to represent CUNY’s

Outstanding Faculty in promotional material published in the NY Post and

CUNY Matters, and displayed throughout the NYC subway system.

Congratulations!

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Department Chairperson:

Professor Dawson

Deputy Chairpersons:

Professor Papa

Professor Kandiyoti

Individual Highlights

Student News 2

Faculty News 3-6

Schwerner Series 6

Awards 7-8

Authors’ Corner 9

New Faculty 10

Dean’s Symposium 12

Class of 2016 11-12, 14

Poetry News 13

JULY 1, 2016 VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1

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CONGRATULATIONS

Andrew Carbonaro, Meryandree Luna, and

Courtney Ramos

on your acceptance into the NYC Teaching

Fellows program!

Congratulations

Steve Arriaga and Marcus Delvalle!

TWO of our majors, Steve Arriaga and Marcus Delvalle,

have been accepted into the CUNY Pipeline Program.

“THE CUNY Pipeline Program breaks down barriers to

graduate education so diverse CUNY students can become

the next generation of teachers, researchers, and mentors.” Marcus Delvalle is a writing concentrator, a journalism and

psychology minor, and a Resident Assistant at the Dolphin

Cove. He hopes to get into a PhD program upon graduation in

2017. His peer, Steve Arriaga, is a linguistic concentrator

who hopes to study syntax in a PhD program, outside of New York, after graduating in 2017.

For more information about this program:

http://www.diversiphd.com/

Fion Wu was awarded a full-tuition

Fellowship at Emerson

College to attend their M.F.A.

program in fiction writing.

Julie Neely was awarded a Truman

Capote Fellowship (full-

tuition plus stipend) to

attend the Iowa Writers'

Workshop in Poetry where

she will pursue her M.F.A.

STUDENT

NEWS

Nikki Gross will be attending Kingston

University in London, UK in

September 2016.

Jennifer Pierce was awarded a full-

scholarship to attend

Cardozo School of Law.

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FACULTY NEWS

Emeritus Professor FRANK BATTAGLIA: presented “Scandinavian gold bracteates and a

changing imaginary” in an Art and Articulation conference at St. Hilda’s College, University

of Oxford. An essay, “Wrist clasps and patriliny – a hypothesis” appeared in Historical

Reflections / Reflexions Historiques, 42.1 (Spring 2016): 114-128. In January 2017, he will

present “The Alvastra Pile Dwelling: a Neolithic setting for the collective female deities, the

dísir” at the Forum for Old Norse at the MLA convention.

Professor MARIA BELLAMY: published her book Bridges to Memory: Postmemory in Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2015). Professor Bellamy presented at two conferences: “Created Community: Comfort Woman and the Construction of Korean American Feminist Identity” Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford, CT, March 2016 and “Cross Dressing and the Quest for Freedom in James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird” Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Charleston, SC, March 2016. She participated on two panel discussions here on campus: Art Gallery Panel: "A Conversation about Race, Gender and American History" Gallery of the College of Staten Island in May 2016 and "Publishing Your First Book" CSI Library Archives in April 2016. Professor Bellamy invited two speakers to campus: playwright Nikkole Salter in December 2015 and scholar Salamishah Tillet in March 2016. She also received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. Professor WILLIAM BERNHARDT: in May 2016, Professor Bernhardt and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Farber Bernhardt, visited Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China, where they were visiting professors in 1981-1982, to give lectures at the invitation of the University. He conducted a session on Language Learning. His wife Elizabeth lectured on Shakespeare's sonnets. She is currently a lawyer in private practice and an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School.

Professor ROSANNE CARLO: published her article “Entering Grey Gardens: Exploring Queer Identifications with the Beales.” The Writing Instructor. Special Issue: Queer and Now. Ed. Aneil Rallin, Rob Koch, and Trixie Smith. (2015). She has two forthcoming articles: “Keyword Essay: Place-Based Literacies.” Community Literacy Journal. 10.2 (2016) and "Countering Institutional Success Stories: Outlaw Emotions in the Literacy Narrative Genre." Composition Forum. Special Issue: Emotions in Composition. Ed. Lance Langdon. (2016) Web.

Professor AVA CHIN: was awarded a Fulbright to lecture in China for the spring semester 2017 and an Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship at the Graduate Center for the fall of 2016.

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Professor ASHLEY DAWSON: published two books in the 2015-2016 academic year: Extinction: A Radical History (O/R Books, 2016) and Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket, 2015). He was also awarded an Advanced Research Collaborative fellowship at the Graduate Center for spring 2017. ARTICLES AND REVIEWS: interview with Yohann Koshy, Vice Magazine (10 Mar 2016) Review by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Los Angeles Review of Books (28 Mar 2016) PUBLIC EVENTS: The Multispecies Salon (Princeton University, 29 Feb 2016) Hope in a Time of Extinction (CUNY Graduate Center, 24 Feb 2016). RADIO INTERVIEWS: The Majority Report (26 May 2016); KPFA’s Against the Grain (3 May 2016); This is Hell! (16 April 2016); Deborah Hobson’s Chautauqua (KOPN FM, 24 Mar 2016). Professor MARYANN FEOLA: in February, Prof. Feola presented a paper, "Imagining Naples in Early Modern Literature" at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Travel to the conference was aided by a CSI Provost Travel Award. In response to her paper, she was invited to submit a proposal for an international conference in Naples. Prof. Feola is currently working on a long-term project that studies southern Italy's colonial past and its representation in British literature. During the fall and spring, Prof. Feola gave several readings from her Geography of Shame: A Fictionalized Memoir. In December, Kirkus Reviews named it a Best Book of 2015. On May 13th she was invited to read at the Graduate Center's Annual Celebration of Women's Scholars and Scholarship sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society. At present, Prof. Feola is working on a play about the brilliant leadership of Charlotte de la Tremoille, Countess of Derby, during the parliamentarian army's attempted capture of the family's Lancashire estate during the English Civil War. Prof. Feola is a volunteer member of Hillary Clinton's campaign. Professor KATHARINE GOODLAND: as coordinator of the MA program in English, she is proud to announce that the program has tripled in size over the past year. She is ecstatic that there a lot of incoming students for the fall semester: “if the applications keep coming in, we may quadruple in size.” Professor Goodland participated in a semester long Grant-Funded Seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library, "The Reformation of the Generations," led by Alexandra Walsham, Chair of History at Cambridge University, UK. Professor Goodland gave the Keynote Address at the Gender and Medieval Studies Conference at the University of Hull, UK. Her article, "Female Mourning, Revenge, and Hieronimo's Doomsday Play," is forthcoming in The Arden Companion to Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (published by Bloomsbury for Arden, UK). She also gave a talk as part of the Dean's Symposium, "Working Through Cultural Trauma in Contemporary Productions of Shakespeare in America.” Professor DALIA KANDIYOTI: in the past year, she presented at conferences in Soria, Spain, New York City, and Cambridge, Mass., on Latina/o migration narratives and Sephardic literature and history. She was happy to see a journal issue she co-edited on Jewish-Muslim relations in American Literature finally appear in print in the spring. Some other news she wishes to share with us: she wrote new articles and made progress on her book project; survived the commute to campus thanks to Ellen Goldner's kindness (and her rides); played badminton badly, but with gusto; won a PSC-CUNY award; received and

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/ashley-dawson-extinction-a-radical-historyhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-extinction-and-capitalismhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/review/on-extinction-and-capitalismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJvLS66xqghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJvLS66xqghttp://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/hope-in-a-time-of-extinctionhttp://majority.fm/2016/05/26/ashley-dawson-extinction-a-radical-history/https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-may-3-2016/https://thisishell.com/interviews/896-ashley-dawsonhttps://thisishell.com/interviews/896-ashley-dawsonhttp://kopn.org/a/showrss4.php?n=http://kopn.org/dc/dircaster2.php?p=achttp://kopn.org/a/showrss4.php?n=http://kopn.org/dc/dircaster2.php?p=ac

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wrote thousands of emails about CSI business (literally); experienced the bitter sweetness of having her daughter away at college; taught new fiction and loved to see many students be passionate about them; went to demonstrations for a fair contract and lower tuition; co-organized a Latina/o Studies event for Hispanic Heritage month; participated in the hiring of great new colleagues; and as always, learned a lot from her fellow professors and students. Professor CHRISTINE MARTORANO: published two articles: “Against the Rhetoric and Composition Grain: A Microhistorical View.” Microhistories of Composition. Ed. Bruce McComiskey (With Jacob Craig, Matt Davis, Kendra Mitchell, Tony Ricks, Bret Zawilski, and Kathleen Blake Yancey) and “Facebook and the Post-Death Immersion Memoir.” South Atlantic Review. 81.1 (2016): 94-105. Print. She was selected to participate in the 2016 CSI Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Collaborative. She is the recipient of a CUNY William Stewart Travel Award and a travel award through the Faculty Center for Professional Development. Professor CHRISTOPHER MILLER: spent the academic year as the Faculty Fellow for the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. In that time, he also completed two manuscripts—one on John Milton, the other on John Keats. Professor LARA SAGUISAG: received a PSC-CUNY Grant for her book project Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive-Era Comic Strips. Her picture books Animal Games (Anvil) and Kara at Play (Adarna) are scheduled for release this summer. Her recently published essays include "Quite Contrary: A New Direction for Poetry for Filipino Children" (in Bumasa at Lumaya Vol 2, Anvil 2016), “Comic Books” (in Youth Cultures of America, ABC-CLIO 2016) and “Comics, Children’s Literature, and Childhood Studies” (in The Routledge Companion to Comics, Routledge 2016). She also presented papers on a variety of subjects: globalization and Philippine children’s literature at the Center for International Service’s World on Wednesdays; children’s literature and children’s rights at the Dean’s Symposium; and the underground comix movement at the Modern Languages Association Convention. This July, she will be marking the 100th birth anniversary of Roald Dahl and the 150th birth anniversary of Beatrix Potter by leading a splendiferous course on British Children’s Literature in London. Callooh! Callay! Professor SARAH SCHULMAN: NOVELS: The Cosmopolitans (Feminist Press) "A Modern Classic"- Kirkus. "Voluptuous"- NY Times. FILMS: "Jason and Shirley" directed by Stephen Winter, Written by Stephen Winter, Sarah Schulman and Jack Waters. Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music. PLAYS: (Workshop) The Lady Hamlet, Berkshire Theater Festival (Reading): Roe Versus Wade, The Howl Festival ARTICLES: “Women’s Cinema by Patricia White”- Lambda Literary Review, February 2015 CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (NONFICTION): “Leggere e scrivere I bacio della morte” in L’arte del desiderio”. Il Mulino, Italy. 2016; “Jean Genet in Palestine” in Honoring Edmund White, University of Wisconsin Press, 2016; “What is Solidarity?” in Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers Speak of Palestine edited by Ru Freeman. OR Books, 2016; “Afterword” in Mouthquake by Daniel

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Allen Cox, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2015; “Normalization” in Against Apartheid: The Boycott of Israeli Universities ed. Ashley Dawson and Bill Mullen, Haymarket Books. 2015; “What Is Anti-Semitism Now?" in Letter To Palestine ed. Vijay Preshad. Verso Books, 2015. ANTHOLOGIES: (FICTION, SCREENPLAYS): “Excerpt from Jason and Shirley,” Best Experimental Writing, 2016) ed. Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2016; “Failure,” Anarchic Sexual Desires or Plain Unmarried School Teachers: A Partial Study of New Narrative ed. Chris McCormick. (London: Selected Press, 2015). ESSAYS IN ART CATALOGUES: “Emergency” in Deborah Kass: Black and Blue, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2015; “Dear Poster Virus” in AIDS XXXX, Curated by Jonathan Katz, Tacoma Museum, 2015; “The Gift: What We Owe Other People’s Children” in Julie Ault, Artists Space, 2015. CRITICAL WRITING ABOUT HER WORK: “Queer(ing the) Nation: ACT UP and AIDS Activism in Sarah Schulman’s People In Trouble and Rat Bohemia”. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination Kathy-Ann Tan, Wayne State University Press, 2015. CONSULTANCIES: Advisory Board, Jewish Voice for Peace; Lambda Literary Award, Chair Lesbian Fiction Panel; Queer Art Mentorship Program- Fiction; Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat- Non-Fiction. LECTURES: September 2015: End The Occupation Conference: Atlanta; Reading with Daniel Allen Cox, Bureau of General Services NYC; Panel on Anti-Gentrification Literature, PS 1, NYC. February 2016: University of Taipei – 2 lectures; Brooklyn College Law School- “Race and The Law: Gentrification”; The Nation Magazine, Lecture to Interns; CLAGS: People of Color and Gentrification (co-organizer). March 2016: CUNY Graduate Center- The Cosmopolitans; CLAGS: HIV and Stigma (co-organizer); April 2016: Poetry Center, San Francisco State University; Green Apple Books, San Francisco; Laural Books, Oakland; Rutgers, Newark, MFA Program. Reading with Claudia Rankine; West Hollywood Reads; Antioch University; American Geographer’s Conference; SF – HIV Criminalization; Brown University. May 2016: OUT History Conference, New School for Social Research.

Schwerner Writer’s Series

Sponsored by the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Schwerner Writer’s Series invites renowned poets and writers for poetry and prose readings on campus each

semester. This fall we welcomed Robyn Schiff, Katy Lederer, Mahogany Browne, Javier Zamora, Peter Trachtenberg, and Nikkole Salter. During the spring semester, writers

Rebecca Godfrey, Jon Papernick, Monica Sok, James Hoch, Deborah Landau, Robin Beth Schaer, Malachi Black, and Shelley Puhak visited CSI to share their creative works.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6765.Virginia_Woolfhttp://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1315615

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GRADUATION: CLASS OF 2016 Commencement Awards

John Conway Memorial Award – Rose Mooney

Grace & Thomas Feola Commencement Award- Manar Abdelaziz Earl Jacobs Memorial Award – Joseph Palumbo Ely Stock Memorial Award – James McGowan

CSI Auxiliary Service Corporation Award – George Settuducato Clara and Arleigh B. Williamson Award - Frank Bonadonna

English Department Linguistics Award – Elinora Gruber English Department Literature Award – Lucia Rossi

Rehberg Memorial Award – Jennifer Pierce Creative Writing – Fion Wu Speech Science – Nadia Zaki

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MA

Award in English

Sharifa Hampton

Lecturer Sue Rocco, who previously

to her Lecturer appointment was a longtime Adjunct

Faculty member, received a Dolphin Award in

recognition of her exceptional work on behalf of

the Department and the College.

Congratulations and thank you, Sue.

Professors Ava Chin, Tyehimba Jess, Cate Marvin, and Sarah Schulman presented

at CUNY Writers Against Austerity: A Reading in Defense of CUNY on March 20th.

They added their creative voices to the CUNY contract fight to protect quality

education at CUNY.

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AUTHORS’

CORNER

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NEW FACULTY

The English Department welcomed three new faculty members in the fall of 2015. Professor Rosanne Carlo earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition

from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include rhetorical theory, ethos and voice, place-based writing, and community-university

partnerships. Professor Christine Martorana earned her PhD in English from Florida State University. Christine taught writing and English courses at the high school, community college, and university levels prior to earning her

PhD. She joins us as Assistant Professor and Writing Program Director. Professor Simon Reader received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He

is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature. He has previously taught courses on Victorian literature, fragmentary writing,

twitter, and the role of pleasure in literary criticism.

Welcome to our department!

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CLASS OF 2016

Senior Shenanigans Class of 2016

Jennifer Durando

As Senior Academic Advisor, I find

that I often live in the land of

assessment. It is essential that we

understand the needs of our

majors and assess our program to

determine how we can contribute

to our majors’ successes. The

various workshops that we

sponsor, for example, are a result

of assessment. This spring, we

decided to survey all of the 2016

graduation candidates about their

experiences in our department,

their involvement on campus, and

their future plans. These surveys

revealed much more than we had

anticipated. The graduates spoke

in detail about their individual

experiences in the classrooms,

praising our faculty members for

the contributions they have made

in the students’ academic careers.

These notes were heartwarming

and they needed to be shared with the department. But how? With

the First Annual Senior

Shenanigans, of course! A group of

seniors joined me the day before

commencement to decorate the

halls and doors of our beloved

professors to show their

appreciation for all they had been

given. Each professor’s door was

personalized with notes of praise

and reflections from the

graduating Class of 2016. Needless

to say, our professors were quite

surprised on graduation day—a

few were even moved to tears. It

was a wonderful expression of

gratitude. We can’t wait to see

how the Class of 2017 tops this!

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Dean’s Symposium

Each semester, the Dean’s Symposium highlights the works of faculty members in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and is presented

jointly with the Department of the Library.

This academic year’s presentations included:

Professors Matt Brim, David Gerstner, and Gerry Milligan: Masculinities Professors Maryann Feola, Ava Chin, and Jacob Collins: Writing the Self

Professors Katharine Goodland and Jillian Baez: Race, Audience, and Identity Professors Lara Saguisag, Esther Son, and Comfort Asanbe: Children’s Rights

COMMENCEMENT JUNE 2ND 2016: CLASS OF 2016

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Congratulations to Linda Principe on her latest collection

of poems, Echoes of Light.

Congratulations to Cate

Marvin on having her

latest book of poetry

Oracle named among the

Best Poetry Books of

2015.

Congratulations to all of our majors who were selected to be part of

this special event. Many thanks to Professor Cate Marvin for

organizing this SHOWCASE of talent.

“A poet is, before anything

else, a person who is

passionately in love with

language.” W.H. Auden

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Class of 2016

Ahtivah Lawton Corrine Liell Gzim Liharevic Francilia Litardo Vanessa Louis Meryandree Luna Allison Martin Sonia Martinez Lisa Marie Martinucci James McGowan HM Adriana Medina Dana Melendez Ryan Miller Rose Mooney Erin Moreno Emily Morin Racquel Morris Lauren Musco Sergio Napoletano Diane Narouz Eman Odeh Jessica O’Mallon Radia Ouali Lorenzo Pacheco Natalie Palladino Joseph Palumbo Brian Pasquale Kaitlyn Pellicano Afrim Perazic Diana Perremuto Jennifer Pierce HM Christina Pilato Courtney Ramos Michael Rehberg Joseph Reinold Marilyn Ricco Jailene Rivera Michele Romeo Lucia Rossi Michelle Rutman Victoria Sax George Setteducato Mark Tanglao Valerie Tobias

Loren Trapanese Yolanda Trockel Asma Twaiti Desiree Velasquez Celeste Velez Jonathan Velez Kaitlyn Walsh Jason Wisniewski Fion Wu Renee Zadok Valery Zafra-Garcia Larry Zakharenko Nadia Zaki HM Graduate Degree Nouf Arige Bianca Cardaci Nicole Cheung Antonino Cruciata Sharifa Hampton Alison Langleiben Stephanie Walcott

HM Honors in the Major

Manar Abdelaziz Michael Abenante Michael Adme Aisha Arcangel Kayla Aspromonte Anna Azarias Elizabeth Baez Anna Bellone Gabrielle Bender Frank Bonadonna Daniel Boston Miles Boyd John Burman Jillian Caffrey HM Memet Canka Andrew Carbonaro Alexandra Caroleo Vincent Cassano Iqrah Chaudhry Stephanie Cianci Nicolle Cillis Kevin Conroy Andrew Conti Rachel Corman Philip Criscuolo Matthew Day Valeriana Dema Mariem Elchoum HM Mariel Elia Luis Fonseca Jr. Joseph Fragapane Gary Gainsa Angela Gaudioso David Giordano Samantha Gomez Tiffany Gomez Brittany Gonzalez Elinora Gruber Florence Guarnera Michelle Herman Luis Hidalgo Francis Italiano Alexandra Karadzas Victoria Krute Ahtivah Lawton

Congratulations!

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