Dear Graduate Students,

Please find attached a schedule for the English department conference which will be happening on Monday Oct 27 in Rosenthal Library, Room 230. An “official” poster will follow, but I wanted to share this information with you now so that you can mark your calendars. The conference is a great opportunity to watch faculty members debating—strenuously and good humoredly— some of the key methodological questions confronting the field of English studies. And, of course, to enter the debate yourselves and pose questions of your own.

The conference keynote lecture with be delivered by Professor Ray Chow of Duke University. She is the author (among other books) of Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East (1991); Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (1993); Ethics after Idealism: Theory – Culture – Ethnicity – Reading (1998); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006); and Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture (2012).

I hope to see many of you there!

All good wishes,

Andrea Walkden
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program
andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu

English Department
Klapper Hall, Room 604
Queens College, CUNY