The English Department maintains a regular rotation of events, workshops and opportunities, and our students, faculty and staff are are frequently publishing, launching new projects, or otherwise making headway within the literary community and beyond. Our news bulletin and calendar will keep you up to date on upcoming events and highlight our community’s accomplishments.
Upcoming Events
- Book Talk: Robert Higney, Institutional Character
Friday, December 1st from 4-5 pm Robert Higney will present a talk on his recent book Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2022), hosted by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The event will be held on Zoom. Register here:https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsf-qupzkoGtEde7QfbKU7XuwlVd1lwsSE#/registration
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- Book Talk: Robert Higney, Institutional CharacterFriday, December 1st from 4-5 pm Robert Higney will present a talk on his recent book Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2022), hosted by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The event will be held on Zoom. Register here:https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsf-qupzkoGtEde7QfbKU7XuwlVd1lwsSE#/registration
- Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career
CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing Presentsa Publishing Workshop with Yahdon Israel Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster and Guest Professor Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career This workshop will help the emerging writer craft their career as a writer. Tuesday November 28th from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Rifkind Room NAC 6/316 Yahdon Israel is an educator, entrepreneur, editor, writer … - Hachette Book Group hosts the 25th Anniversary of the Publishing Certificate Program
On September 27th, 2023, CCNY’s Publishing Certificate Program celebrated its 25th Anniversary amongst industry luminaries at the Hachette Book Group’s headquarters in New York City. CCNY President Vincent Boudreau joined PCP co-founder and novelist Walter Mosley to mark this achievement and underscore the important role the PCP has played in increasing diversity in the publishing …Read more “Hachette Book Group hosts the 25th Anniversary of the Publishing Certificate Program “
- Press for Salar Abdoh’s novel “A Nearby Country Called Love”
One Man’s Complicated Quest for Connection in Contemporary Tehran by Lysley Tenorio in the New York Times Book ReviewNov. 4, 2023 . . . explores the complexities of relationships, sexuality and cultural norms in modern Iran. Read review 10 noteworthy books for November and December By Becky Meloan in the Washington PostNov. 1, 2023 Abdoh’s brutally poignant novel explores …Read more “Press for Salar Abdoh’s novel “A Nearby Country Called Love””
- A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco, Chai & Chat Reading Series
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing presentsChai & Chat Reading Series FA23 A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco Poet, Professor and Director of the Americas Poetry Festival Moderated by Prof. Michelle Valladares Tuesday, November 14th 5 – 7 pm Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Sponsored by the Estate of the Kenneth Kowald Fund for Advancing American Literature …Read more “A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco, Chai & Chat Reading Series”
- In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful: A Reading & Conversation with David Unger
CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series Fall 2023 presents: David Unger Novelist, Translator & Professor A Reading and Conversation to Celebrate the English Translation of his Book, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful Thurs. Nov 9 2023s:oo-6:oo pmRifkind Center NAC 6/316 David Unger received Guatemala’s Miguel Angel Asturias National Literature Prize for lifetime achievement …Read more “In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful: A Reading & Conversation with David Unger”
- New Book Review by Emily Raboteau in in The Nation
The Good LifeWhat can we learn from the history of utopianism? Professor Emily Raboteau reviews Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kristen-ghodsee-utopia/ In the desert of Saudi Arabia, between Jordan and the Red Sea, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is building a …Read more “New Book Review by Emily Raboteau in in The Nation”
- New story by Salar Abdoh in “Fiction”
Borges’s Search For Averroes by Salar Abdoh AT THE END OF A STORY he wrote about the greatest medieval commentator of Aristotle, Borges noted: The instant I stop believing in him, Averroes disappears. As Borges observed, Averroes, who knew everything, could not understand one thing, and that was theater. And so it happened that when … - Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
CCNY’s MFA in Creative WritingReading Series Fall 2023 A Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto — Guest Professor, Novelist and Memoirist Monday, October 16, 20235:00 – 7:00pmRifkind Center, NA 6/316 The MFA in Creative Writing at City College invites you to a reading and conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, a guest professor, novelist and …Read more “Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto”
- Salar Abdoh’s article published in The Atlantic
In their article How to Be a Man in Iran, published in The Atlantic this month, CCNY Professor Salar Abdoh and Tehran-based journalist Vali Khalili describe how the return of morality police to city streets is a testing ground for women’s rights and everyone’s courage. - MFA Alum, poet Kay Bell is appointed the 2023 Bronx Poet Laureate
Kay Bell, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of English and academic advisor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, is the 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate. Read more… - Celebrating the life of James deJongh
September 23, 2023, 11:00 AM Aaron Davis Hall 115 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10027 - Salar Abdoh’s new novel selected for Buzz Books’ Great Reads Fall/Winter 2023The MFA Program in Creative Writing has some wonderful news. Professor Salar Abdoh’s new novel, A Nearby Country Called Love, has been selected by Buzz Books for its Great Reads Fall/Winter 2023. Buzz Books posts one chapter of the author’s book on google books
- In-between transgressions: CCNY English graduate conference
Wednesday May 17 12 – 6 pm Rifkind Center, Room NAC 6-316 - Interview with agent Anjali Singh from Ayesha Pande Literary
THURSDAY APRIL 27 5:00-6:00PM RIFKIND CENTER NAC 6/316 The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing presents From Writer to Author Interview with agent Anjali Singh from Ayesha Pande Literary - The Diaries of Franz Kafka
May 8th, 5-7 pm Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Ross Benjamin on his new translation of THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA in conversation with Vaclav Paris - Compagnia de’ Colombari’s Whitman on Walls
Tues. Apr. 25, 6:00 – 7:30 PM Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project created by CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing Multimedia Event directed and conceived by Karin Coonrad. - Michelle Valladares and Aybike Ahmedi: CUNY MFAs on the Rise
In December 2022, Michelle Valladares, director of the MFA and Aybike Ahmedi, a current MFA student, were interviewed on the CUNY TV program Urban U - Professor William Gibbons interviewed on BBC Sunday Feature
CCNY Professor William Gibbons was interviewed by the BBC for their Sunday Feature program. Click the link above to learn more. - Chloe Cooper Jones: Reading and Q/A with the author of ‘Easy Beauty’
Presented by The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing and The CCNY Department of Philosophy Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00 – 5:15 PM - Why Mentorship Matters: a Roundtable
Featuring the editors of ‘Feminists Reclaim Mentorship’ and other panelists Nancy K. Miller, Tahneer Oksman, Melissa Coss Aquino, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, Sharifa Hampton, and Angela Veronica Wong - Faculty Stories: “War, Peace & Poetics” Anthology, Edited by Professor Laura Hinton, Out Now.
The issue features work by over thirty poets, visual, performance and multimedia artists, and features Cris Cheek’s “No War” image series. - Student Stories: Miguel Johnson Explores the Pitfalls of an American Education for “The Independent”
American schools didn’t prepare Johnson for a higher education, but navigating that system opened his eyes to its injustices as he transcended them. - Faculty Stories: Salar Abdoh’s Dispatch from Behind the Front Lines in Ukraine
“There’s a war far closer to your home, among people who speak your language. Why do you need to chase battle in Ukraine?” - Alumni Stories: Nicole Treska’s “Love Letter to Her Family”
A mobster father and a winding road leading from Hawaii to New York are just some of the stories MFA alum Nicole Treska explores in her interview for the “Indoor Voices” podcast. - Student Stories: Michael Montali’s “Fantastic Cat” Performs on CBS Saturday Morning
Singer-songwriter and CCNY MFA in Fiction Candidate Michael Montali’s and his band performed a song off their debut album for CBS Saturday Morning. - Exploring the City College Archives
The Archives at City College are rich in historical documents, from 15th century hand-written manuscripts to foundational magazines of the N.A.A.C.P - Faculty Stories: CCNY Poetry Outreach Center director Pamela Laskin wins prestigious award
Pamela L. Laskin is the recipient of a 2022 Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Award for her work to enable children to unload their grief and to empower voices through poetry. - Literary CommunityTHE POETRY OUTREACH CENTER The primary purpose of the Poetry Outreach Center is to encourage poetic activity—-the creation and appreciation of poetry—-at all levels of public education. Poets from City College’s faculty and graduate student body give readings and conduct hands-on writing workshops in NYC public schools, which culminate in students’ participation at the Annual Spring Poetry …
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