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[EnglishMA] 2023 Nancy Comley Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay (due April 14)
by QNS qcenglmaprogram 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Dear Graduate Students, Please find attached (and pasted below) the submission guidelines for our annual Nancy Comley Prize, which is awarded to the best essay written by an English MA, MAT, or MS Ed 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 14, 2023. Best, Bill 2023 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 2020, are eligible. Submissions should be 10–25 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in standard 12-point font, with 1-inch margins and page numbers. They must be carefully proofread and formatted according to current MLA style, including a Works Cited page. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 14, 2023. All entries must be submitted via email to MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu>. Before submitting your entry, please take careful note of the following instructions: * Essays must be submitted in DOC, DOCX, 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 Monday, April 24. Presentation of the award will occur at the department’s Honors Ceremony, on May 10. Questions about the Nancy Comley Prize should be directed to the Directors of Graduate Studies in English at MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu>.

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[EnglishMA] FW: Reminder: Pre-Registration Ends Tonight
by QNS qcenglmaprogram 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Hello all, I’m just sending a quick reminder that pre-registration ends tonight. Any requests that arrive before midnight will be processed. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or Hillary. Best, Bill From: QNS qcenglmaprogram <MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 10:56 AM To: "maenglish(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu" <maenglish(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Fall 2023 Dear Graduate Students, Preregistration for Fall 2023 English MA courses will take place via email (MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu>) next week, Monday, March 20, through Wednesday, March 22. Please carefully read the attached (and pasted below) preregistration instructions and FAQs, which includes breakdowns of program requirements. Also attached are our Fall 2023 course offerings and descriptions. FYI, if you are planning to take ENGL 791 and/or 795 in Fall 2023, we will be sending out more info on how to sign up for those after preregistration has ended. You will register for those classes later in the term. If classes are filled when you register, you can contact us to be placed on that wait lists for the classes you want to enroll in. As always, please email us both if you have any questions or need advising or support. Hope you're all taking care! Best, Bill and Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies in English Preregistration for English MA Courses Fall 2023 Preregistration for Spring 2023 English MA courses will take place Monday, March 29, through Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum average 3.0 GPA and no outstanding INCs) are eligible for and strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes. Accelerated students who will still be undergraduates in Fall 2022 and are in good academic standing are also eligible to preregister for English MA courses. Please carefully read the following preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of program requirements for MA, MAT, MS Ed, and Accelerated students. Fall 2022 course descriptions are attached separately. Note: the majority of our graduate English courses in Fall 2022 will be meeting in person, with a few fully online courses (ENGL 636, 733, and 781-01). If you have any questions or need advising, please email the current Directors of Graduate Studies in English—Bill Orchard (william.orchard(a)qc.cuny.edu) and Hillary Miller (hillary.miller(a)qc.cuny.edu) Instructions for Preregistration via Email During the Spring 2023 preregistration period of March 20 to March 22 only, please email MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu with the following info: 1. Your full name 2. Your program (MA, MAT, MS Ed, or Accelerated) 3. Your 8-digit CUNY ID# 4. The courses you’d like to register for, with their 4- or 5-digit class codes (e.g., ENGL 636, code 25703) Students may preregister for up to 3 spring courses. Preregistration requests will be processed within 24 hours and in the order they are received. You will receive a confirmation email once you’ve been registered, asking you to log onto CUNYfirst and double-check your schedule. Preregistration FAQs Who is eligible to preregister for English MA classes? All matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students, as well as Accelerated English BA/MA students who will still be undergraduates in Spring 2023, are eligible to preregister for courses as long as they have an active CUNYfirst account and are in good academic standing. If your GPA has fallen below 3.0 or if you’re carrying incompletes on your record from a previous semester, you should seek advising with one of the Directors of Graduate Studies, Bill Orchard or Hillary Miller, before trying to preregister. Accelerated students who are planning to graduate with their BAs in Spring 2023 semester will not yet be able to register for fall graduate courses. Only once their BA graduation has been approved and their status in the English MA program has officially been activated on CUNYfirst can they then register for their Fall 2022 MA courses. Please contact the Directors of Graduate Studies with any questions or for advising. If you have any holds on your CUNYfirst account for any reason, however unwarranted, CUNYfirst will not allow you to be registered for classes. Please check your account before the start of the preregistration period and make sure that any holds have been resolved. Non-matriculated/non-degree students are not eligible to preregister and must wait to register themselves during their registration appointment period on CUNYfirst. Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit? Courses currently titled “Studies in...” may be repeated for credit as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. For example, ENGL 681, 726, 733 and 735 may be repeated for credit. ENGL 781 (Special Seminars) may also be repeated for credit, as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. ENGL 636, 638, 701, 702, and 703 cannot be repeated for credit. What are my English course requirements? For MA students (30 credits): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 7 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 791 (thesis essay) For Accelerated BA/MA students (up to 9 credits; or up to 6 credits if in the English Honors Seminar): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 1 elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) For MAT students (9 credits): • 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 For MS Ed students (15 credits): * ENGL 702 (currently only offered in spring semesters) or ENGL 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 MAT and MS Ed students, what courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement? To fulfill the pre-1900 requirement, MAT and MS Ed students can take ENGL 726 in Fall 2023. 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. The Directors of Graduate Studies will announce more information about how to sign up for these courses after the preregistration period has ended.

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[EnglishMA] Fall 2023
by QNS qcenglmaprogram 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Dear Graduate Students, Preregistration for Fall 2023 English MA courses will take place via email (MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu>) next week, Monday, March 20, through Wednesday, March 22. Please carefully read the attached (and pasted below) preregistration instructions and FAQs, which includes breakdowns of program requirements. Also attached are our Fall 2023 course offerings and descriptions. FYI, if you are planning to take ENGL 791 and/or 795 in Fall 2023, we will be sending out more info on how to sign up for those after preregistration has ended. You will register for those classes later in the term. If classes are filled when you register, you can contact us to be placed on that wait lists for the classes you want to enroll in. As always, please email us both if you have any questions or need advising or support. Hope you're all taking care! Best, Bill and Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies in English Preregistration for English MA Courses Fall 2023 Preregistration for Spring 2023 English MA courses will take place Monday, March 29, through Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum average 3.0 GPA and no outstanding INCs) are eligible for and strongly encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes. Accelerated students who will still be undergraduates in Fall 2022 and are in good academic standing are also eligible to preregister for English MA courses. Please carefully read the following preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of program requirements for MA, MAT, MS Ed, and Accelerated students. Fall 2022 course descriptions are attached separately. Note: the majority of our graduate English courses in Fall 2022 will be meeting in person, with a few fully online courses (ENGL 636, 733, and 781-01). If you have any questions or need advising, please email the current Directors of Graduate Studies in English—Bill Orchard (william.orchard(a)qc.cuny.edu) and Hillary Miller (hillary.miller(a)qc.cuny.edu) Instructions for Preregistration via Email During the Spring 2023 preregistration period of March 20 to March 22 only, please email MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu with the following info: 1. Your full name 2. Your program (MA, MAT, MS Ed, or Accelerated) 3. Your 8-digit CUNY ID# 4. The courses you’d like to register for, with their 4- or 5-digit class codes (e.g., ENGL 636, code 25703) Students may preregister for up to 3 spring courses. Preregistration requests will be processed within 24 hours and in the order they are received. You will receive a confirmation email once you’ve been registered, asking you to log onto CUNYfirst and double-check your schedule. Preregistration FAQs Who is eligible to preregister for English MA classes? All matriculated MA, MAT, and MS Ed students, as well as Accelerated English BA/MA students who will still be undergraduates in Spring 2023, are eligible to preregister for courses as long as they have an active CUNYfirst account and are in good academic standing. If your GPA has fallen below 3.0 or if you’re carrying incompletes on your record from a previous semester, you should seek advising with one of the Directors of Graduate Studies, Bill Orchard or Hillary Miller, before trying to preregister. Accelerated students who are planning to graduate with their BAs in Spring 2023 semester will not yet be able to register for fall graduate courses. Only once their BA graduation has been approved and their status in the English MA program has officially been activated on CUNYfirst can they then register for their Fall 2022 MA courses. Please contact the Directors of Graduate Studies with any questions or for advising. If you have any holds on your CUNYfirst account for any reason, however unwarranted, CUNYfirst will not allow you to be registered for classes. Please check your account before the start of the preregistration period and make sure that any holds have been resolved. Non-matriculated/non-degree students are not eligible to preregister and must wait to register themselves during their registration appointment period on CUNYfirst. Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit? Courses currently titled “Studies in...” may be repeated for credit as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. For example, ENGL 681, 726, 733 and 735 may be repeated for credit. ENGL 781 (Special Seminars) may also be repeated for credit, as long as the specific course topics and texts are substantially different. ENGL 636, 638, 701, 702, and 703 cannot be repeated for credit. What are my English course requirements? For MA students (30 credits): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 7 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 791 (thesis essay) For Accelerated BA/MA students (up to 9 credits; or up to 6 credits if in the English Honors Seminar): * ENGL 701 * ENGL 636 * 1 elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 751–763, which are reserved for MFA students) For MAT students (9 credits): • 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 For MS Ed students (15 credits): * ENGL 702 (currently only offered in spring semesters) or ENGL 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 MAT and MS Ed students, what courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement? To fulfill the pre-1900 requirement, MAT and MS Ed students can take ENGL 726 in Fall 2023. 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. The Directors of Graduate Studies will announce more information about how to sign up for these courses after the preregistration period has ended.

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[EnglishMA] FW: Please forward to MFA students: Public Writing for Grad Students Zoom Event on Wednesday!
by William Orchard 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Hello All, Professor Hopper teaches a class on Public Writing at the Graduate Center, and sponsors a speaker series on Public Writing for Academics. She asked us to share her announcement for Wednesday’s speaker with you. The talk is open to everyone, and is useful for those thinking about writing for larger publics. The Zoom link appears below. Best, Bill You’re invited to a conversation about Public Writing for Academics with Jennifer L. Wilson this Wednesday March 15 at 4.30 pm! Jennifer got a PhD in Slavic Studies and now works full-time as a public writer, writing for the New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is Director of the Arts and Culture Reporting Program<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.journ…> at CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. She recently received the NBCC Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: “In graceful, well-crafted prose enriched by deep understanding of her subject, Jennifer Wilson turns a review of a new translation of an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, ‘Peter the Great’s African,’ into a sophisticated exploration of how the great Russian poet’s personal heritage as the great-grandson of a Black African informed his art and shaped his understanding of what it meant to be Russian,” says prize chair Colette Bancroft. Read some of Jennifer’s work here<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jennyf…>. Zoom link here<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.z…>. [A person smiling for the camera Description automatically generated with low confidence] www.briallenhopper.com<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briall…>

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[EnglishMA] Reminder: Deadline for Conference Proposals is Today
by William Orchard 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hello all, This is a reminder that the deadline for conference proposal for the English Graduate Conference is today. If you were planning on submitting, but forgot the deadline, write to let me know. The committee will be reviewing these over the next few days. I’ve pasted the call for papers below. Best, Bill CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference IN OTHER WORLDS Conference Dates: March 29/30, 2023 Submission Deadline: March 6, 2023 The Washington Post declared 2022 the “year<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/31/multiverse-history-doctor…> of the multiverse<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/31/multiverse-history-doctor…>.” Popularized in films like the Academy Award-nominated Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the concept of the multiverse invites us to think about how lives, societies, and species may have unfolded differently. The term extends far beyond these recent films and has a variety of applications and usages in literature, graphic narratives, film, gaming, cosmology, and philosophy. The 2023 English Graduate Conference at Queens College is taking the multiverse as inspiration for a theme inviting papers on the creation of new worlds. If the pandemic taught us anything, it is that we can do things differently. For many, the post-pandemic return to “normal” in our universities, neighborhoods, places of work, and seats of government, has led us to question the definition of normal, to ask whether it is in fact something we want to return to, and to consider how we might rewrite a better present. While we may think of literature as removed from social change, it equips us for the work of making a more beautiful, just world. In "World-Making<https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/414/The-Children-of-1965On-Writing-a…>,” Min Hyoung Song writes, "Literature is an unmooring from time" with the "capacity to make worlds." This Call for Papers invites submissions that consider literature’s capacity to do just that: reject the normal, speculate on other possibilities, defamiliarize, remake. This could include consideration of recent works that do this, but also could include work on texts from earlier periods that were attempting to rethink the prevailing concepts that governed their time. What models of reading and writing with reparative motives inspire us to imagine what may yet be possible? “The desire of a reparative impulse…is additive and accretive,” writes Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading, 149). We aim to create a space for dialogue that is addictive and accretive. How do we create worlds that build on past attempts to do the same? How do we create spaces that are more welcoming and accommodating? How can we recover pasts that help reshape who we are in the present? We invite proposals (collaborative or individual) that creatively investigate texts that fundamentally undo some aspect of our world in order to remake it anew. We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics and in a variety of forms. This includes (but is not limited to) essays, reflections, and scholarly discussions that explore: --re-inventing” the university --creative “remakes” --mediating grief/mourning --the pleasures and joys of creation --the pluriverse --superheroes and comics --poetry and imagination --decolonizing knowledge --relationship repair/hierarchies of character relationships --remaking labor practices --literature & ethical interventions --critical fabulation --utopian writing --doppelgangers and parallel realities Please submit proposals (250 words max.) to MAEnglish(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu> by Monday, March 6, 2023. Proposals should indicate both the title and content as well as the format of your project. While we welcome academic essays, we are open to a variety of presentation formats, as we invite you to test the boundaries of form. Possibilities include the reading of an academic paper, a pedagogical reflection, a podcast, a video essay, an asynchronous presentation, a virtual exhibit, a listening party, or a book review. Submissions may also be co-authored/co-created; this could include a joint presentation or roundtable. All Queens College MA, MFA, MSEd, and MAT students are welcome to submit, as well as master’s students from other schools. [cid:image001.png@01D95051.560A02D0]

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[EnglishMA] MA Program: February Message
by William Orchard 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Dear MA Students, I hope that your semesters have started well, and that you had a pleasant holiday weekend. The big thing happening in the program right now is the Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference. This year, the conference is themed “In Other Worlds,” focusing on multiverses, pluriverses, and unmaking and making of better worlds. The conference happens on March 29 and 30, 2023. I have attached the full call for papers to this message, and it can also be found online here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toBvknIFehxM_N8hSbf0ZLpIOTZIQVtHapWQRW4…>. Abstracts for proposals are due on March 6. We hope that you’ll consider presenting work that you recently completed for a class, or work that you are planning for this semester, or a thesis that is in the process of being written. In addition to being an opportunity to add a line to your cv or resume and share your work, the conference is a real opportunity to build community with your fellow graduate students and meet others grad students from across the NYC area. We still also welcome volunteers on the planning committee. The committee will review the submissions, organize panels, invite faculty speakers, and help with the actual day of the event. If you are interested in being on the committee, fill out this form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1etK1fDaUwLibnTgcExAulgZ-PfI5eZJtSF7snBU38b…>. Some other announcements: * If you are planning to graduate this semester, you must apply for graduation by March 1. You can apply on CUNYFirst. * The department is looking for Clerical Assistants to do some clerical work, help in the department office with student and faculty queries, and do other miscellaneous tasks. Ideally, the CA would be early in the program, and could work well into the next academic year. The position pays $16/ hr and you can work a maximum of 20 hours per week. If you are interested in this, please contact Bill (William.Orchard(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:William.Orchard@qc.cuny.edu>). * We have a preliminary sense of what the Fall 2023 schedule will look like. We’ll have a clearer sense of times and modalities as well as full course descriptions in the coming weeks, but the likely classes will include: * 636 / Literary Theory with Prof. Kruger * 681/ Transnational Italian American Lit with Prof. Gardaphe * 701/ Graduate Methodologies with Prof. Miller * 726/ Early American Lit. with Prof. Faherty * 733/ Asian American Lit with Prof. Chu * 735/ Climate Change Fiction with Prof. Fisk * 781/ African American Speculative Lit. with Prof. Moore * 781/ Creative Writing for English Educators with Prof. Hahn That’s all for this month! In early March, we’ll send out a message that has further details about Fall registration. Best, Bill [cid:image001.png@01D9463A.0BC30D00]

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