2026 Archives - CCNY English Department

Manorexia: How anorexia and bodybuilding helped me navigate locker-rooms, gyms, jails and other male spaces

by Everest CrawfordEvents April 13, 2026Comments are Disabled

Harold Aram Veeser, English Professor and 2025-2026 Rifkind Fellow will read from and discuss his book in progress, a memoir of male anorexia confessions. While current hospital records show that more males than ever are presenting with eating disorders, few male anorexic memoirs have appeared.

Book Talk: Keeper of My Kin

by Everest CrawfordEvents April 9, 2026April 9, 2026Comments are Disabled

Historian Ada Ferrer will talk about the intersection between family, memoir and history, and her forthcoming book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter (Scribner 2026).

Irvin Weathersby Jr. longlisted for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award for Nonfiction

by Everest CrawfordFaculty Stories January 8, 2026Comments are Disabled

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Spaces has been longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, for “a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective that illuminates important contemporary issues.”