Dear colleagues,

I'm delighted to invite you to my next public writing conversation! I'll be talking with writer, editor, and scholar Sarah Blackwood. This event is open to all CUNY grad students and faculty, so please forward this email to your students! 

Among many other things, Sarah is one of the founders of Avidly. If you want to get a sense of what Sarah is about in terms of public writing, you can read the Avidly manifesto "The New Enthusiasm!" and/or some of her pieces for The New Yorker and elsewhere. Link to register and deets below!

The Writing Center at the Grad Center is pleased to announce the second and final event in its Writing for the Public Speaker Series, featuring Sarah Blackwood. It will be held over Zoom on November 18, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. This event is open to all members of the CUNY community.

To register for this event, go to https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-qrqz0rGdNP9BtHH4oV9jhJDomRebnQ

Sarah Blackwood is associate professor of English at Pace University and author of The Portrait’s Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Studies in U.S. Cultures Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She is co-editor of the Avidly Reads short book series with NYU Press and wrote the Introduction for the Penguin Classics centennial edition of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Her public writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slate, The Hairpin, and Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Sarah will be interviewed by Briallen Hopper, an Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY who is currently teaching "Public Writing for Academics" at the GC.