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[MAEnglish] Announcement about ENGL 791/thesis essay - information meeting
by Andrea J Walkden 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Dear Graduate Students, If you're planning to register for 791 and write your culminating thesis essay in the spring 2014 semester, please refer to the 791 course guide and thesis sign-up form attached. The guide explains how to complete and submit the sign-up form, and contains lots of other helpful information, including important dates and deadlines. There will be an information meeting for students planning to register for 791 in the spring 2014 semester on Wednesday December 4, 6:00-7:30pm in Klapper 710. Please make every effort to attend-it's fine to arrive early or leave late depending on your work and class schedule. Wine, soda, and snacks will be served. During the meeting, I'll go through the practical arrangements for 791 and you'll have chance to ask questions. You'll also be invited to share the topic of your thesis essay with other members of the group, and we'll talk more generally about the writing process, time management, and what to expect from/ask of your advisor. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY

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[MAEnglish] FW: Pre-registration starts TOMORROW!
by Andrea J Walkden 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

Dear Graduate Students, One final reminder that pre-registration begins tomorrow, November 11 and continues through Wednesday November 13. Course descriptions/pre-registration instructions are attached to this message. Email your pre-registration requests to either Caroline or me, or stop by during the days and times listed below to receive advice and pre-register in person. Monday November 11 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-1:00; 4:30-6:00 Tuesday November 12 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 4:30-6:30 Wednesday November 13 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-12:30; 5:30-7:00 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 1:30-5:30 I now need to leave campus at 6:00 on Monday, so pre-registration will close one hour earlier on that day than in previous announcements. My apologies for this late chance. All good wishes, Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu>) Andrea Walkden (andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu>) Directors, Graduate Studies and MA English Program Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY

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[MAEnglish] REMINDER - Pre-registration next week!
by Andrea J Walkden 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Dear Graduate Students, A reminder that pre-registration is happening next week: Monday November 11 through Wednesday November 13. Even though Monday is Veterans Day, the College will be open and classes are running as scheduled. Course descriptions (with numbers and codes listed) and pre-registration instructions are attached to this email. Please let one of us know if you have any questions. This semester, you're also able to pre-register via email providing that your record is in good standing (no unresolved grades or Bursar holds). To pre-register via email, send a message to either one of us (our email addresses are below) with the following information: your full name, 8-digit CUNY ID, and the course names, numbers, and codes you wish to register for. Emails will be processed in the order they're received. You can send your requests any time after 9:00am on Monday November 11. We'll also be available to register and advise you in person at the following times: Monday November 11 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-1:00; 4:30-7:00 Tuesday November 12 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 4:30-6:30 Wednesday November 13 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-12:30; 5:30-7:00 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 1:30-5:30 If you're planning to register for English 791 (the thesis essay writing course) next semester, look out for a separate announcement coming shortly. And, finally, one quick correction: Professor Grier's course, "Black Masculinities on the Market" is running as English 781, not as English 681. The correct information is listed in the course descriptions attached and in CUNYFirst. All good wishes, Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu>) Andrea Walkden (andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu>) Directors, Graduate Studies and MA English Program Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY

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[MAEnglish] Pre-registration for spring 2014 classes
by Andrea J Walkden 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

Pre-registration for Graduate English Courses - Spring 2014 Monday November 11 - Wednesday November 13 Pre-registration for spring 2014 master's level courses will begin on Monday, November 11 and continue on Tuesday November 12 and Wednesday November 13. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to sign up early for classes so that you can meet your program's requirements. Spring 2014 course descriptions are attached to this message. They're also posted on the bulletin board outside Klapper 604 and on the English department's website. This semester, we're offering you two ways to pre-register: in person and via email. To pre-register via email, you must be in good academic standing and carrying no incompletes. Emails requests will be answered in the order they're received and a confirmation notice, asking you to log into your account and check the details of your schedule, sent back to you. You'll need to provide the same information (full name and CUNY ID number; course number and 4- or 5- digit course code) that you would if you were pre-registering in person. Below and attached are answers to some common questions about pre-registration that we encourage you to read. If you have questions that are not answered here, don't hesitate to be in touch with one of us during the next few weeks. If you have complicated questions about your academic record, you should plan to schedule a separate advising meeting. Depending on how busy things are, we may not be able to offer you detailed advisement during the 3-day pre-registration period. We're excited about the roster of classes for next semester and are hopeful that you will be too. And we look forward to seeing you during the pre-registration period. All good wishes, Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu>) Andrea Walkden (andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu>) Directors, Graduate Studies and MA English Program Pre-registration (Spring 2014) Who is eligible to pre-register for spring 2014 classes? All MA and MS.ED students with an active CUNYfirst account, who are in good academic standing are eligible to pre-register 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 the Director of Graduate Studies before being permitted to pre-register. If the Bursar has placed a hold on your account for any reason, however negligible or unjust the hold might be, the CUNYfirst system will not allow you to pre-register for classes. Please check your account before the start of the pre-registration period and make sure that all holds have been removed. Non-matriculated students are not eligible to pre-register. How many classes can I pre-register for? All MA and MS.ED students in good standing may pre-register for up to 3 classes. When and where do I come to pre-register? To secure a place in your preferred courses in person, please come to Klapper Hall 604 and 636 on the preregistration dates and at the times listed below. Monday November 11 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-1:00; 4:30-7:00 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 1:00-4:30 Tuesday November 12 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 4:30-6:30 Wednesday November 13 Klapper 604 (Andrea Walkden) 10:30-12:30; 5:30-7:00 Klapper 636 (Caroline Hong) 1:30-5:30 What information do I need to bring with me to the pre-registration meeting or send in my email request to pre-register? * your 8-digit CUNY ID number * the course numbers and 4- or 5-digit course codes of all the courses for which you wish to register. e.g. English 742 (code: 37820) If you're pre-registering in person, be sure to fill out this information on one of the pre-registration slips stacked on the hallway outside the English department office. The slips speed up the process for everyone! Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit? Courses entitled "Studies in" may be repeated for credit if the subject is different. For example, ENGL 719 (Studies in Medieval Literature); ENGL 726 (Studies in Early American Literature) ENGL 729 (Studies in Modern Literature) may all be repeated for credit. Special Studies (ENGL 681) and Special Seminars (ENGL 781) may be repeated for credit if the subject is different. ENGL 636, 701, and 702 CANNOT be repeated for credit. What are my program requirements? For all MA students: * ENGL 636 - History of Literary Criticism * ENGL 701 - Theory and Practice of Graduate Methodology * 7 open electives (any literature class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 791 - a thesis writing course For MS.ED students admitted before fall 2012: * A theory course (ENGL 703 or 636) * A methodology course (ENGL 702) * A history of the English language course (for spring 2013, this will be ENGL 719) * Two open electives (any literature class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 701 and the creative writing workshops and craft classes which are reserved for MFA students) For all current ADVCT and for MSED students admitted fall 2012 and following: * A methodology course (ENGL 702 or ENGL 703) * Two pre-1900 electives * An open elective (any literature class offered at the 600 or 700 level, excluding ENGL 701 and the creative writing workshops and craft classes which are reserved for MFA students) * ENGL 781 Can I pre-register for 791, the thesis writing course, or for 795, the independent study course? English 791 and English 795 require additional advising and paperwork and so these are not courses for which you can preregister. Please arrange a separate advising meeting with Andrea Walkden (if you plan to take ENGL 791) or with Caroline Hong (if you plan to register for 795) during the fall semester.

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[MAEnglish] FW: The Black Atlantic @ Twenty
by Andrea J Walkden 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, Please see the information below about a conference taking place on Thursday Oct 24 and Friday Oct 25 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue) to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's landmark study, The Black Atlantic. Queens College faculty member and MA instructor, Professor Duncan Faherty, will be one of the speakers at the roundtable on Thursday evening. The event is free and open to everyone. You'll just need to show a picture ID (your QC card is fine) in order to enter the building. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY From: English department faculty and staff [mailto:englishdept@lists.qc.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of duncan.faherty(a)qc.cuny.edu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 1:37 PM To: englishdept(a)qc.edu Subject: [EnglishDept 0578] The Black Atlantic @ Twenty [http://centerforthehumanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2…] Oct 24, 2013 & Oct 25, 2013 (All Day) | Conference The Black Atlantic @ Twenty Herman Bennett<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/herman-bennett> Jacqueline Brown<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/jacqueline-brown> Susan Buck-Morss<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/susan-buck-morss> Tina Campt<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/tina-campt> Kandice Chuh<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/kandice-chuh> Duncan Faherty<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/duncan-faherty> Sujatha Fernandes<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/sujatha-fernandes> Ruth Wilson Gilmore<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/ruth-wilson-gilmore> Paul Gilroy<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/paul-gilroy> Eric Lott<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/eric-lott> Stephan Palmié <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/stephan-palmi%C3%A9> Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/robert-fitzgerald-reid-pharr> Keynote: Paul Gilroy, English, King's College, London. Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), scholarship no longer simply posits the relationship between blackness and modernity as an irreconcilable problem. Though Gilroy posited The Black Atlantic as a 'heuristic' work, his ideas engendered debates in history, anthropology, and literary studies as well as political thought and philosophy-areas once perceived as the exclusive domain of an organic and hermetically sealed Western tradition. The Black Atlantic @ Twenty symposium (BA@20) aims to explore how Gilroy's insistence that blackness figures as a constitutive element of modernity has effected a lasting transformation in knowledge production. Thursday, October 24 In the wake of The Black Atlantic: Pedagogy and Practice 5:30-7:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall In this roundtable discussion, faculty from various programs at CUNY will ask how their own scholarly practices have been changed by the work of Paul Gilroy and his many students. Specifically, they will examine the ways that Gilroy's anti-nationalist analyses have-or have not-disrupted common practices within traditional disciplines. Drawing on courses taught in a variety of departments in the Fall 2013, Herman Bennett, Jacqueline Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Kandice Chuh, Duncan Faherty, Sujatha Fernandes, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Robert Reid-Pharr will ask whether it is possible to produce innovative work around race, colonization, cosmopolitanism, and imperialism while also continuing to privilege traditional modes of intellectual inquiry. They will also begin a conversation about how the Graduate Center community might begin to restructure its basic research and pedagogical practices. Friday, October 25 10:00-11:00am: Stephan Palmié, For Reasons of History: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, The Skylight Room, 9100 11:30am-12:30pm: Tina Campt, Rhizomorphs, Fractals and Other Formalities: A Black Atlantic Mixtape, The Skylight Room, 9100 2:30-3:30pm: Eric Lott, Open Letters, The Skylight Room, 9100 4:00-6:00pm: Paul Gilroy, The Half-Life of the Black Atlantic, Proshansky Auditorium Cosponsored by The Academic Research Collaborative, the Certificate Program in American Studies, the Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar in the Humanities, IRADAC, and the Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative.

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[MAEnglish] Office hours and Graduate Conference Information
by Andrea Walkden 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, Just a quick note to let you know that my office hours will be ending an hour earlier tomorrow-Wednesday September 25-and so running only from 4:30-6:00. I'm sorry for an inconvenience. And below is a CFP ("call for papers") for a graduate conference at the University of North Carolina for any medievalists or early modernists who may be interested. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program <mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY "Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture" The literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods were profoundly affected by the expansion of new artisanal and scientific technologies-innovations and ideas that would lead to the production and consumption of new forms of knowledge. In both periods, knowledge was conceptualized across a range of intersecting disciplines, including natural philosophy, astrology, mathematics, medicine, art, mechanics, and cartography, among others. Literature embraced, criticized, or participated in these fields in diverse ways, often examining how these new forms or categories of knowledge influenced the locus and ontology of the individual and social self Collectively, we will investigate the ways in which medieval and early modern literature engages with scientific, technological and textual processes of making and disseminating knowledge. In addition, we are interested in discussing the creation and development of modern/postmodern technologies through and around medieval and early modern texts. As such, scholars studying medieval and early modern texts, performances, and art-or later reassessments thereof- are welcome. This conference is part of a three-year collaboration between King's College, London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previous conferences include "Shakespeare and the Natural World" at UNC and "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" at KCL. "Making Knowledge" aims to continue this collaboration and engage in critical discussion with graduate students from both institutions and from across the US. Suggested topics include: . Technology or science's effects on gender, politics, religion, magic, nature and preternature, economics, or epistemology . Scientific observation and innovation, taxonomies, and literary form . Transmission of texts . Mechanics in literature and performance . Medicine, technology, alchemy, humours and prostheses of bodies in texts . The position of the self within material, vitalistic, or atomistic conceptions of the cosmos . Boundaries between the human and the machine . Nature versus artifice . The effect of modern and postmodern technologies on the dissemination and evolution of medieval and early modern texts . Medieval, early modern and postmodern intersections of text and technology . Genre and technology Dr. Pamela Smith, a cultural historian at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote titled "From Matter to Ideas: Making Natural Knowledge in early Modern Europe" on Saturday evening, April 5th. Dr. Smith's publications include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800. We invite papers on these and related topics. Abstracts of 300-400 words are due December 1st, 2013 to <mailto:uncgradconference@gmail.com> uncgradconference(a)gmail.com. Participants will be notified on January 25th. "Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture" will be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from April 4th-5th, 2014. Sincerely, Conference Organizer Katie Walker

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[MAEnglish] two Graduate Center events and a change to office hours
by Andrea Walkden 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, I hope that the semester has started well for you all. Attached to this message are two flyers for upcoming events at the CUNY Graduate Center which may be of interest. On Friday October 18 in the English Program Lounge (room 4406) at 4:00 there will be an "Information Meeting and Admissions Workshop" for everyone interested in pursuing a PhD in English, but especially African American and Latino/Latina students. If you're considering pursuing a PhD in the future, either at the Graduate Center or elsewhere, you should certainly plan on attending. On Friday September 20, there will be a panel discussion, titled "Before Globalization?," with leading scholars in the fields of early modern, race and globalization studies. The discussion, from 4:00-6:00 in the Elebash Recital Hall, promises to be lively and well worth attending. You'll see many Queens College faculty members there. And, on a less exciting note: my office hours tomorrow (Wednesday September 11) will be ending one hour early at 6:00pm rather than at 7:00pm. And my office hours on Monday September 16 will run from 4:30-5:15pm rather than at their regular time from 5:00-6:00pm. I apologize for any inconvenience these changes may cause. You're welcome to email me to schedule an alternative appointment. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program <mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY

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[MAEnglish] Welcome - Fall 2013 announcements
by andrea.walkden＠qc.cuny.edu 19 Aug '13

19 Aug '13

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[MAEnglish] MA English - end of semester announcements
by andrea.walkden＠qc.cuny.edu 29 May '13

29 May '13

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[MAEnglish] DGS office hours cancelled today
by andrea.walkden＠qc.cuny.edu 20 May '13

20 May '13

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