If you're unable to complete a final course assignment and want to take an incomplete, please discuss and make arrangements with your professor. Keep in mind that an incomplete is a temporary grade and should be resolved ASAP. All INCs must be completed within 1 calendar year (so an INC in Spring 2018 must be resolved before the end of Spring 2019).

Please register for your summer and fall classes ASAP, if you haven't already. Courses that are underenrolled could be in danger of being canceled by the College administration.

Please note that, unfortunately, due to scheduling reasons, we had to cancel ENGL 720 in the fall. Thankfully we were able to get Professor Ala Alryyes to teach a new ENGL 722 in its place. I've attached here the updated course descriptions, which includes the new ENGL 722 for Fall 2018.

If you're planning to write your thesis essay or take an independent study in the fall, you should've already been in touch with me or Bill and also already asked the faculty members you'd like to work with (before they're gone for the summer). If you have questions or need copies of the sign-up forms, please let me or Bill know.

I'll be taking the second half of my sabbatical in Fall 2018. While I'm gone, Prof. Bill Orchard will be the Acting Director of Graduate Studies. If you have any questions or need help after August 1, please see Bill during his fall office hours or email him at worchard@qc.cuny.edu.

Congratulations to everyone who is finishing up and graduating this semester! We hope you'll attend the English Department's graduation ceremony on Thursday, May 31, in the Goldstein Theater, around 11:30am (or about 30 minutes after the campus-wide commencement ceremony). MA students who are graduating in Spring 2018, who already graduated in Fall 2017, and who won't be officially graduating till Summer 2018 are all welcome to participate in the ceremony. No RSVP or tickets are required, though I recommend you and your loved ones get there by at least 11 to grab seats (and even earlier if you need to look for parking). Graduates should come up to the stage, and you'll be given instructions on where to sit, when to line up to get your name called, etc. Cap and gown are not required. The ceremony usually lasts about an hour, and there's a small reception with cake afterward.