emergence/entanglement/continuities June 8, 2020 | Leave a comment [texts of email messages from the first weeks of June 2020] Dear Everyone: Thanks to all of you able to join the discussion on Friday afternoon, and to those who provided input through email, and to all of you doing all you can take care of people – through protest, feeding, housing, calling, writing, laundering,… Read More
end of year chatty missive full of thanks (originally sent as an email 11 May 2020 and here in proofread/corrected form) May 11, 2020 | Leave a comment Dear Everyone: It was wonderful to be with so many of you in last Friday’s end of program meeting and the awards event that followed! Thanks hugely for creating the time, and also for the creativity and comradery in the festive headwear adorning the latter session! We missed you, those who were unable to join… Read More
2019-20 Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships — congratulations! May 11, 2020 | 1 Comment Everyone should celebrate every bit of the work you did and are doing, and I’m delighted by this acknowledgment of the huge range of super interesting research and writing and teaching you’re doing — big hurrah to all! Please see here for a powerpoint version of the prizes, awards, and fellowships announced last week! https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i9naa50dfpky9x/Prizes%2C%20Fellowships%2C%20and%20Awards%202019-20.pptx?dl=0… Read More
year end news & notes May 11, 2020 | 1 Comment Hi all — Here’s the powerpoint that captures information shared at last Friday’s/May 8’s year end open program/executive committee meeting, fyi! news and notes for 8 May 2020 open program meeting… Read More
Dear Students/Dear Faculty May 7, 2020 | Leave a comment Dear Students: I write on behalf of the faculty, first to tell you we think you are splendid and know it is our great good fortune to talk and read and think and write with you. Across the various conversations we’ve had throughout this year, and as explicitly noted on several occasions, that we… Read More
Constituting Committees II: Dissertation Committees April 27, 2020 | 2 Comments Along with Luke Church and Sarah Schwartz, who generously shared their experiences of moving from oral to dissertation committees, Feisal Mohamed and Nancy Silverman offered insight from faculty and program/building admin perspectives in the session we held on Friday, 24 April. Paralleling the questions organizing the first Constituting Committees session (summary of which is here),… Read More
I want to share this short film by Law Chen — it provides a glimpse of the people who are keeping us going… April 23, 2020 | Leave a comment A slice of life in the time of corona. Thousands of invisible front line workers risk their health every day to bring food to your couch. They aren’t just immigrants struggling to survive in New York City. They aren’t just the delivery men and women you don’t look at when you open your door. They… Read More
email archive April 17, 2020 | Leave a comment this post collects the email messages I’ve sent to the english listserv since we transitioned to remote mode — fyi for the video and other informational links embedded! ——————————————————————————————————————– Wednesday, 3/11/2020, Subject: okay, then… here we go, to distance learning for the rest of the spring term. I know your inboxes are overwhelmed with links… Read More
Access to online books April 10, 2020 | Leave a comment I’m compiling here lists of the presses etc. that are making access to books freely available right now. These have mostly come across the English listserv, gathered here for convenience. https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/az.php?t=40911 https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/ebooks bit.ly/GCebooksearch… Read More
for artists, especially, fyi April 9, 2020 | Leave a comment MaYi Theatre Company focuses on work by Asian American playwrights. They’ve compiled a helpful list of resources for artists, fyi.… Read More