March 2019 - maenglish@lists.qc.cuny.edu

[MAEnglish] Nancy Comley Prize + this week's office hrs
by Caroline Hong 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Dear Graduate Students, Please also find attached (and pasted below) the submission guidelines for our annual *Nancy Comley Prize*, awarded to the best essay written by an English MA, MS Ed, or MAT student. We hope you consider submitting something, whether it's an essay you've already written for a class, a work-in-progress, or your thesis essay. Submissions are due *April 8*. Also, I unfortunately need to cancel my regular office hours this Wednesday, March 13. If you need advising, please email me or Bill Orchard with any questions or make an appointment for another time. Best, Caroline -- Caroline Kyungah Hong Associate Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies (English MA) Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Klapper Hall 604 Queens, NY 11367-1597 caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu -- *2019 NANCY COMLEY PRIZE* for the best essay by a QC English MA, MS Ed, or MAT student Named for the long-standing Chair of the English Department, the Nancy Comley Prize was established in 2012 to honor the best essay written by a graduate student matriculated in the Queens College English MA, MS Ed, or MAT programs. The prize is sponsored by the English Department Alumni Fund. All currently matriculated English MA, MS Ed, and MAT students, as well as master’s students who graduated in Fall 2018, are eligible. Your submission should be between 10 and 25 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in a standard 12-pt. font, with 1-inch margins and page numbers. It must be carefully proofread and formatted according to MLA style, including a Works Cited page. The deadline for submissions is *Monday, April 8, 2019*. All entries must be submitted via email to caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu. Before submitting your entry, please take careful note of the following instructions: - Essays must be submitted in DOC, DOCX, RTF, or PDF formats. - The filename for your essay should read “[CUNYfirst ID number]NancyComleyPrize.” If you don’t know your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number, please look it up before submitting your essay. - In the body of your email, make sure to include the following information: 1. Your full name 2. Your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number 3. The title of your essay § Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere in your essay, which will be blind-read by the prize judges, who are faculty members serving on the English Department’s MA Committee. Winners will be contacted by Thursday, April 18, and invited to receive their award during the department prizes ceremony on *Monday, May 6*, time and place TBA. Questions about the Nancy Comley Prize should be directed to the Director of the English MA program, Dr. Caroline Hong, at caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu.

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[MAEnglish] Preregistration for Fall 2019 (March 25-27)
by Caroline Hong 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Dear Graduate Students, Preregistration for Fall 2019 English MA classes will take place *Monday, March 25, through Wednesday, March 27*. Matriculated grad students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum 3.0 GPA and no INCs) should take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes. Please see attached (and pasted below) for preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of requirements for MA, MS ED, and MAT students. Also attached are the Fall 2019 course descriptions. Note that registration for Summer 2019 has already begun on CUNYfirst, and I've attached those course descriptions here as well. If you have any questions or need advising before preregistration, please email and/or make an appointment with me or Bill. Best, Dr. Caroline Hong -- Caroline Kyungah Hong Associate Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies (English MA) Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Klapper Hall 604 Queens, NY 11367-1597 caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu -- Preregistration for English MA Courses 2019 FALL Preregistration for Fall 2019 English MA courses will take place *Monday, March 25 through Wednesday, March 27*. Matriculated graduate students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum 3.0 GPA and no outstanding INCs) are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes. Below are preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of program requirements for MA, MS Ed, and MAT students. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email Professors Caroline Hong or Bill Orchard, the Directors of Graduate Studies in English. If you need advising prior to registering for classes, please make an appointment with Caroline or Bill before the preregistration period. *Preregistration via Email* Please email Caroline (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu) or Bill ( worchard(a)qc.cuny.edu) with the following information: 1. Your full name 2. Your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID# 3. The courses you’d like to register for, with their 4- or 5-digit class numbers (e.g., ENGL 636, class no. 27928) Graduate students can preregister for up to 3 fall classes. Email preregistration requests will be processed within 24 hours and in the order they are received. We will send you a confirmation notice once you’ve been registered, asking you to log onto CUNYfirst and check your schedule. *Preregistration in Person* If you wish to preregister in person, please see us during one of these times: § Tuesday, March 26, 4:30–6:30pm (*see Bill in Klapper 637*) § Wednesday, March 27, 4:30–6:30pm (*see Caroline in Klapper 604*) If you’re preregistering in person, please be sure to fill out the above information on one of the preregistration slips, which you can find at the main English Department office (Klapper 607), *before* you come see us. *Preregistration FAQs* *Who is eligible to preregister for Fall 2019 classes?* All MA, MS Ed, and MAT students with an active CUNYfirst account who are in good academic standing are eligible to preregister for courses. If your GPA has fallen below 3.0 or if you’re carrying incompletes on your record from a previous semester, you will need to schedule an advising appointment with one of the Directors of Graduate Studies, Caroline Hong or Bill Orchard, before being permitted to preregister. If the Bursar has placed a hold on your account for any reason, however negligible or unwarranted the hold might be, the CUNYfirst system will not allow you to be preregistered for classes. Please check your account before the start of the preregistration period and make sure that all holds have been removed. Non-matriculated/non-degree students are *not* eligible to preregister. *How many classes can I preregister for?* All matriculated MA, MS Ed, and MAT students may preregister for up to 3 fall classes. *Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit?* Courses titled “Studies in…” may be repeated for credit as long as the specific course topics are substantially different (see course titles at http://english.qc.cuny.edu/graduate-programs/) For example, ENGL 714, 719, 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, 726, 727, 729, 736, and 742 may all be repeated for credit. ENGL 681 (Special Studies) and 781 (Special Seminars) may also be repeated for credit, as long as the specific course topics are different. ENGL 636, 638, 701, and 703 *cannot* be repeated for credit. *What are my program requirements?* For MA students: § ENGL 701 § ENGL 636 § 7 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*) § ENGL 791 (thesis essay) For MS Ed students admitted *Fall 2012 or after*: § ENGL 702 or 703 § 2 pre-1900 electives § 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*) § ENGL 781 For MS Ed students admitted *before Fall 2012*: § ENGL 702 § ENGL 703 or 636 § ENGL 662 or 719 § 2 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*) For MAT students: § 1 pre-1900 elective § 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*) § ENGL 781 *What courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement for MS Ed and MAT students?* In Fall 2019, the following three courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement: ENGL 719 (class no. 27930), ENGL 724 (class no. 27932), and ENGL 726 (class no. 27933). *Can I preregister for ENGL 791, the thesis course, or ENGL 795, the independent study course?* English 791 and English 795 require additional advising and paperwork, so these are not courses for which you can preregister. Please email or make an appointment with one of the Directors of Graduate Studies in English, Professors Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu) or Bill Orchard ( worchard(a)qc.cuny.edu) if you’re planning to take one of these courses in the fall semester.

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[MAEnglish] 2019 English MA Conference CFP: The Pursuit of Pleasure
by William Orchard 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Hello all, Below is the Call for Papers for this year's English MA Conference, which will take place on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. I've also attached the call to this message as a pdf file. The deadline for proposals is Sunday, March 10, but we welcome and encourage early submissions! Conference presentations are usually about 15 minutes long, which translates to about 7 pages of text. Please consider submitting papers that you have completed for classes or sections of thesis essays that you are completing this year. The MA conference is always a nice cap to the academic year, and a chance to see what others are up to in the program and hear work by students in graduate programs from around the New York area. Feel free to contact me if you any questions about submitting a proposal. Best, Bill CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference The Pursuit of Pleasure: Literature, Beauty, Repose Conference Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2019 “A resistance of the pressure of the real and the preservation of a free imaginative space in language is vital to our survival.” - Matthew Zapruder In his essay “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words”(1941), the poet Wallace Stevens suggests that poetry allows us to resist the “pressures of reality,” and, in this capacity, provides readers and writers with pleasurable escape and relief from the external events of the world around them. Stevens offers that literature acts as a place to preserve the imagination and, with it, very human feelings like hope, possibility, love, and connection. The point here is not to avoid the real but rather, in the face of the violence and turbulence that always threaten to monopolize our attention, to remain connected to those feelings and experiences that sustain us as human beings. The sixth annual Queens College English Graduate Conference invites a discussion of the ways literature, film, and media function as a means through which we remain connected to our human experience. For this conference, we are interested in looking at not only what causes the creation of such media, but also what service the work provides to both the creator and the consumer: How does literature provide a space to explore vulnerability? What purpose does an action film or comic book serve in a world consumed with political turmoil? What provides an escape or a form of pleasure when the external world demands our attention? We want to engage in a conversation not only about how texts and readers engage with literature as a means of cultivating spaces for resistance and repose, but also with the way in which this function of literature generates fresh insights about predicaments both past and present. The QC English Graduate Conference is a chance for CUNY master’s students to share their research interests with the larger CUNY community. Submissions must be critical or theoretical works about literature and/or culture and can be portions of larger works or works-in-progress. We welcome papers on a range of topics. Possible submission topics include but are not limited to: Guilty Pleasures § Apocalyptic Narratives § Protest Literature § Science Fiction/Fantasy § Children’s/YA Literature § Comics and Graphic Narratives § Adaptation Studies Pleasurable Defiance § The Body in Crisis § Politics and the Demos § Crisis of Faith and Belief § Emotional Challenges § Hybrid Texts § Digital Humanities Vulnerable Reading § Personal and the Political § Risk and Precarity § Openness to Pleasure § Fan Cultures and Enthusiasms § Unconventional Mediums Crisis Management § Utopias and Utopian Writing § Aesthetic Remedies § New Social Imaginaries § Coalitions and Intersections § Speaking Truth to Power To Submit a Proposal Please send proposals (250 words max.) to QCEnglishMAconference(a)gmail.com by Sunday, March 10, 2019. Proposals should be pasted in the body of the email. Please include your full name and the name of your program and school as well as the title of your paper. All Queens College MA, MFA, MSED, and MAT students are welcome to submit, as well as master’s students from other schools. If you have any questions, please email QCEnglishMAconference(a)gmail.com.

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