Dear Graduate Students, Hope you and yours are taking care. Please find below a few important announcements and updates. And as always, if you have any questions or need advising, please email us both anytime. REGISTERING FOR FALL COURSES + INSTRUCTION MODE CHANGES If you haven't yet registered for your Fall 2021 classes, please do so ASAP via CUNYfirst. (Courses that are under-enrolled may be canceled by the College administration.) A few courses are already full, but there are several with plenty of open seats, including ENGL 681, 722, 724, and 781-03. *Please review the revised Fall 2021 course descriptions attached here.* A few descriptions have been updated, and a few fall courses have changed instruction mode. (Prof. Ala Alryyes's ENGL 722 is now fully online, and Prof. Rhoda Sirlin's ENGL 681 and Prof. Jason Tougaw's ENGL 781-04 are now hybrid. There should be no further changes made to instruction modes.) All fall courses, whether hybrid or fully online, will meet virtually for at least the first class. You should hear from each of your professors by the start of the fall semester with further details and instructions. Please be sure to check your QC email regularly and also add any other primary email addresses to your CUNYfirst account (see the attached how-to doc). Please also be patient when emailing your professors <http://english.qc.cuny.edu/people/> over the summer. Keep in mind that faculty (including us) are generally not compensated for working in the summer, and many are doing their own research, traveling, or otherwise unavailable. If you don't receive a reply, we recommend waiting a week or two to follow up. REGISTERING FOR ENGL 791 & ENGL 795 For anyone planning to take ENGL 791 (thesis essay) or ENGL 795 (independent study) in Fall 2021, the sign-up forms and proposals are due by email to MAEnglish@qc.cuny.edu by *Monday, August 2, 2021*. Please email us for more info or to get a copy of either sign-up form. (Students planning to take ENGL 791 should've already been in touch with us—please email ASAP if you haven't already.) We'll be in touch with more updates before the start of the semester. Till then, wishing everyone a safe and restorative summer! Best, Caroline & Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies -- Dr. Caroline Kyungah Hong Associate Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies (English MA) Queens College, CUNY *she/her/hers* * Please note that I am off email on weekends and will respond to your email during business hours, Monday–Friday 9am–5pm, generally within 1–2 business days.