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

Professor's Story Chosen as One of 'The Best American Short Stories'

Lyn Di Iorio’s short story “Maritza and Carmen,” about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, is in the noted anthology “Best American Short Stories 2025.”

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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!

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Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means. www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

📢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

Edie Sedgwick and Writing the Unquiet Mind

Tickets for Edie Sedgwick and Writing the Unquiet Mind in New York from NYPL. Alessandra Occhiolini examines Jean Stein’s oral biography of the Warhol Superstar, reflecting on mental illness through t...

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📢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:

Fall 2025 Courses

The Writing Center manages a range of professional development courses designed to help students at the Graduate Center in their careers and professional activities. While topics vary, each class s…

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📢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

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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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.

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In our latest post for the "Between the Lines" blog, Daniel Horowitz writes on “The Crossword and the Sword: Puzzling Modernism and War”: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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

Professor’s Book on the Long Shadow of Race in ‘Othello’ Wins Two Awards

Professor Miles P. Grier is recognized for his ‘groundbreaking’ work with two prominent awards and cites support he received from the Graduate Center and CUNY.

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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

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a guidebook, an itinerary, a study that centers migrant creators & reveals how migration has shaped today’s digital norms & produced an avant-garde of art born in translation from @leverpress.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 @cunyenglish.bsky.social @paceuniversity.bsky.social & all my students

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

Inside the CUNY Graduate Center: A Dissertation Showcase

YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center

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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

The Best American Short Stories 2025

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires ...

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