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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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)!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

📢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)!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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HAPPY NOSTALGIA: BOOK TALK WITH DR. DAVID HUMPHRIES
Making Connections with the Music of the ‘90s
Panel speakers include: Joel Rogers, Pune Dracker, Addy Malinowski, and Janelle Poe
Date: Tuesday, September 30
Time: 6-7:15PM Refreshments to follow
Location: CUNY GC, Skylight Room (9100)
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/happynostalgia

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📢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!

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Friday Forums Presents
Cultivating Universal Design in English Courses

Unsure of what UDL is?
Care about accessibility but don't know where to begin?

Join us for a conversation on building accessibility and inclusion into our teaching from day one...and during week five!

Leave with connections and resources.

September 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In person and via Zoom
English Student Lounge Room 4406

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Link: 85626811423
Password: 186484

Nina Lopez-Ortiz S.E. Hamlet Janelle Poe Dale Ireland

Questions about accessing the forum? Please email us at: accessandspoons@gmail.com

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

On Friday, we were thrilled to see a packed student lounge for a reading by Gazan poet Yahya Ashour!

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Emily Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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.

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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)

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Jojo Karlin @jojokarlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

📢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

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📢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

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🎉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!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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 🎉

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

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Syllabus – Critical AI Studies

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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

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GC Writing Center @writingcentergc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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:

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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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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📢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!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Congratulations to Dale Ireland, who passed their Orals Examination today! Committee Members: Talia Schaffer (Chair), Mario DiGangi, and Stephanie Hershinow

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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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Daniel Horowitz @oopsalldarlings.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Inside the CUNY Graduate Center: A Dissertation Showcase

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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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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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The future of higher ed is uncertain, but one thing is clear: silence is not an option. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, @shellyeversley.bsky.social, Nancy Cantor, William Kelly, Shelly Lowe, and Maurice Wallace call for bold, collective action to defend academic freedom www.gc.cuny.edu/news/leaders...

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Cathy N. Davidson and William P. Kelly (Photo credit: Paula Vlodkowsky)

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This afternoon, we have a great Friday Forum schedule to close out the semester! 4-4:30pm - Open Executive Committee Meeting Join the Executive Committee to hear about updates from this semester and the academic year and learn about plans for upcoming semesters.

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You are invited to the
English Department
Spring Revels!

Where: English Department Lounge, Room 4406
When: Friday May 16
4:00-4:30 PM: Open Executive Meeting
4:30-5:00 PM: Dissertation Year Fellowships and Dissertation Awards - celebrate the remarkable achievements of our students!
5:00 PM: The Revels begin!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Announcing the 2025 English Department Awards! We're delighted to share this year's winners - please join us in congratulating the students who received Dissertation Year Fellowships and Dissertation Prizes! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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ENGLISH PROGRAM
2025 AWARD WINNERS

Kadison Award
Brooke Thomas

Cohen Travel Award
Jeff Voss

Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowship
Vallerie Matos

The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowship
Charlie Markbreiter

The Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship
Joseph Cáceres

The Jane Marcus Fellowship Award
Madeleine Barnes

Milton F. Steinhardt Memorial Fellowship Award
Sandra Goldstein Lehnert

The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature
Nicole Cote, “Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward”

The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture
Stefano Morello, “Let’s Make a Scene!: East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding”

The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Lesbian/Gay Studies
Matthew Knip, “Before Melville’s Masts: Sex in the Age of Sail”

The Timothy Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Poetics
Sokunthary Svay, “The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After The Khmer Rouge”

The Calder Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work
Andrew Thomas Dunn, “Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude on Media”

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year
Destry Maria Sibley, “Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation”

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We can't believe the semester is coming to a close! Join us this Friday, May 16, for our final Friday Forum events of the Spring 2025 semester: 4pm: Open Executive Committee Meeting 4:30pm: Dissertation Fellowships and Awards 5pm: Revels!

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Revels 2025
Spring Flowers

May 16th

Join the English Department and the ESA for an evening of fun, food, and community featuring Palestinian food. The event kicks off at 4:30pm after the Open Executive Committee Meeting.

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

On Friday, May 9, the English Student Association held its 2025 conference, Shattering Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence! The day-long event featured panels of English program students and guests and a keynote speech by Prof. Siraj Ahmed, followed by a reception in the Lounge!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📢TODAY'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We can't wait for today's Friday Forums, taking place this afternoon in the English Student Lounge (Room 4406)!

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Maia Gil’Adí @maiagiladi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My essay on Latinx speculative fictions is in this new edited volume. I'm so happy to be in such amazing company and grateful to @billeo.bsky.social for all his work! Check out the discount code and great panel happening @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social this Friday!

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Looking forward to this conversation today at the CUNY Graduate Center at 4 pm EST. The roundtable will also be streamed virtually: J gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/8865724077...

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🎤 Join us for the 8th Annual Dissertation Showcase on May 13 at 6:30 PM! 12 students, 3 minutes each, TED Talk style. Vote for your favorite + celebrate after with food & drinks! In person or online. Catch last year’s showcase on YouTube! Reserve: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Check this summer course by Sam O'Hana!

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Announcing presenters in the Dissertation Showcase! Damira Rasheed, Benjamin Diehl, Katherine Anderson, Erik Forman, Alex Steers-McCrum, Sarah Pangburn, Jacob Quartey, Eve Klein, Miguel Rodriguez, Oscar Aponte, Nicole Cote & Austin MacDonald. RESERVE for 5/13 event: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

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Inside the CUNY Graduate Center: A Dissertation Showcase

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📢THIS WEEK'S FRIDAY FORUMS📢 We're looking forward to hosting two Friday Forum events this week in the English Student Lounge (4406)! 2pm: Medieval Works-in-Progress 4pm: Latinx Literature in Transition

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ESA PRESENTS:
Medieval Works-in-Progress

Join the ESA for the latest in the works-in-progress series, featuring students’ work outside of (and related to) academics. This event will feature research in medieval studies, with presentations from English Program Students:

Cullin Arn

Christopher Buonanno

Brooke Thomas

Friday, May 2
2:00 PM
English Student Lounge
(Room 4406)

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FRIDAY FORUM
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

LATINX LITERATURE IN TRANSITION

with

Laura Lomas
(Rutgers-Newark)
On the Latinx literature in transition series

Kelly Kreitz
(Pace U)
On Latinx literary modernities in NYC

Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez
(LaGuardia/CUNY)
On Latinx children's literature & US empire

Tommy Connors
(Allegheny College)
On the formal turn in Latinx literary criticism

Omaris Zamora
(Rutgers-New Brunswick)
On AfroLatina embedded archives

May 2, 2025
365 Fifth Avenue
Room 4406
4pm

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

📢TODAY'S FRIDAY FORUM📢 We're excited to return to Friday Forums after Spring Break! This afternoon, join us in the English Student Lounge (Room 4406) at 2pm for Remembering Fredric Jameson, a panel in tribute to Marxist theorist and critic Fredric Jameson, who passed away in September 2024.

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FRIDAY FORUM PRESENTS
Remembering Fredric Jameson

Join us for an afternoon in tribute to Marxist theorist and critic Fredric Jameson, who passed away in September 2024, through presentations on the key ideas of his work.

FEATURING ENGLISH PROGRAM STUDENTS:

Yagiz Ay
“Already, Beyond: On the Various Meanings of the Phrase ‘Always Historicize’”

Souli Boutis
“Conspiracy and Cognitive Mapping: Jameson's Geopolitical Aesthetic in ‘too-late’ Capitalism”

Daniel Horowitz
“Historicizing the Future: Jameson, Utopia, and Sci-fi”

Nicodemus Nicoludis
"Congitive Mapping"

IN A CONVERSATION MODERATED BY:

Nico Israel
Professor of English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Friday, April 25
2:00 PM
English Student Lounge
Room 4406

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We have three defenses to celebrate this week! Congratulations to Dr. Sokunthary Svay on the successful defense of "The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After the Khmer Rouge Regime" on Monday! Committee: Jonathan Gray (Chair), Eric Lott, and Wayne Koestenbaum

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Our director! "Like all the best folk arts, poetry teaches us to take what we have and make what we need, to turn the world we have inherited into the world we want to hand off to future generations."

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Last week, we had an incredible time learning about students' music and visual arts works-in-progress, with presentations from Yagiz Ay, Alexa Climaldi, Koyuki Smith, and Andrew Stone!

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Jojo Karlin @jojokarlin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Three wonderful scholars (and dear @digitalfellows.bsky.social colleagues) talk about transitioning to work in tech. @patric.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Param Ajmera and @jbinder.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social #jojodoodles

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Today in English Lounge! Join us for a Job Search Series event on Jobs Outside Academia, featuring alums Param Ajmera (Ph.D. '23), Jeff Binder (Ph.D. '18), and Patrick Smyth (Ph.D. '21), who will discuss their careers in the tech industry in New York!

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FRIDAY FORUM PRESENTS
Job Search Series:
Jobs Outside Academia

Join us for the latest event in the Job Search Series, featuring a panel of English Program alumni who all work, in various capacities, in the tech industry in New York City. They will discuss their paths, their decisions, and what advice they can offer to people interested in working outside of academia.

PANELISTS

Param Ajmera (Ph.D. ’23)
Technical Writer and Content Designer, Yext

Jeffrey Binder (Ph.D. ’18)
Senior Data Scientist, Formstack

Patrick Smyth (Ph.D. ’21)
Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Chainguard

MODERATOR

Mary M. McGlynn
Professor of English and D.E.O of Job Search, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Thursday, April 3
4:00 PM
English Student Lounge
In Person: Room 4406
Over Zoom: 829 6604 3061/ 959920

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