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Africana Studies Co-Hosts Film Screening: More Than a Month

2012-01-30T08:45:00.003-05:00

Please join us for the Brooklyn premiere of More Than A Month, a film by Shukree Hassan Tilghman. This event is being co-sponsored by the Africana-Studies Program. More here.

English Major Requirements (Undergrad)

2012-01-27T09:36:00.002-05:00

Faculty Forum (Works in Progress) Event: Louis Parascandola

2012-01-23T14:23:00.003-05:00

Professor Louis Parascandola will speak about his project, "A Coney Island of the Mind: Literary and Cultural Readings of Coney Island.”

All students and faculty are welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

Friday, January 27
3:30 to 4:30 PM (immediately after the English-Department faculty meeting)
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

English Professors to Present Writing Workshops for Brooklyn-Campus Employees

2012-01-23T14:18:00.000-05:00

As part of the Provost's Professional & Personal Development Academy, professors from the English Department have been leading workshops for Brooklyn-Campus employees.

Two were held in Fall 2011, and the other two will be held in Spring 2012, as follows:

Grant Writing
with Professor John Killoran
Part 1: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Part 2: Thursday, February 16, 2012

Digital Storytelling
with Professor Deborah Mutnick (Director of the First-Year Writing Program)
Part 1: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Part 2: Tuesday, April 3, 2012

All workshops are 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, in Library Learning Center, Room 515.

Seating is limited.

Please register by calling 718 488 3406 or emailing pppda@brooklyn.liu.edu.

Refreshments will be served.

Paumanok Lecture / Voices of the Rainbow Event: Alison Bechdel

2012-01-13T16:00:00.006-05:00

Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:30 PM, Kumble Theater

Alison Bechdel, internationally-acclaimed lesbian cartoonist, will deliver this year’s Starting from Paumanok Lecture. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

For twenty-five years Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). She is also the author of the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Time Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, declaring, "The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too….This is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."

Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For have been translated into many languages, and Bechdel, who lives in Vermont, has an ardent international following. She has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta, and her work is widely anthologized.

This year’s event is funded by the John McGrath Fund and the Mellon Fund and is co-sponsored by the LIU Brooklyn English Department’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Voices of the Rainbow reading series (English Department), the LIU Brooklyn Gender Studies program, and Greenlight Bookstore.

MFA Reading Series Event: Martha Southgate

2012-01-10T17:13:00.003-05:00

Please join us in welcoming Martha Southgate, visiting writer to the MFA program for the Spring 2012 semester, for a reading and a reception.

Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl From the Left, The Fall of Rome and Another Way to Dance. Her most recent novel, The Taste of Salt, will be available on the night of the reading.FRIDAY

When & Where

January 27, 2012
6-8 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 119

We will also take this occasion to re-introduce ourselves to one another, meet our new comrades in the program, and discuss upcoming classes with faculty. It's one of the rare chances for all of us to be in the same place at the same time, so let's be there! Copies of Brooklyn Paramount #2 will also be available. There are numerous special MFA events this semester--this is just the beginning. Students in the MA tracks--literature, writing and rhetoric, professional writing--everyone welcome.

Writing Center Event: A Reading of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

2012-01-06T10:30:00.000-05:00

In commemoration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the Writing Center invites the entire LIU-Brooklyn community to a group reading of "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

Copies of Dr. King’s powerful essay will be distributed.

Light refreshments will be served.

When

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

4-6 PM

Where

Writing Center

H-218

For more information call the Writing Center at 718-488-1095, or e-mail the Writing Center at wcenter@brooklyn.liu.edu.

VOICES OF THE RAINBOW: SPRING 2012

2011-12-17T07:43:00.005-05:00

The following are readings scheduled for the Spring 2012 semester. Please plan to join us! Click image to see larger version of flyer.

TERRANCE HAYES

Thursday, February 16, 12:00 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 119

Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, including Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in poetry. Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man.

ALISON BECHDEL
Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pm
Kumble Theater

Annual Paumanok Reading/Discussion (Co-sponsored by the McGrath Fund, the English Dept, and Voices of the Rainbow).

Alison Bechdel wrote the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). She also is the author of the best-selling Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, named Time’s Best Book of 2006.

ERNESTO QUINONEZ & BERNICE MCFADDEN

Monday, February 27, 11:00 am
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Ernesto Quinonez is author of Chango’s Fire, which according to the Washington Post “succeeds in its rich characterizations of the people of the barrio,” and Bodega Dreams, described by the New York Times as “a New Immigrant Classic.”

Bernice McFadden, a native of Brooklyn, has written over ten novels including Sugar, The Warmest December, and Nowhere is a Place. Her most recent novel, Glorious, is about a fictional character who briefly becomes a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

PATRICIA SMITH & DAVID MILLS
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Patricia Smith is an acclaimed performance poet and author of five well-received collections of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a national Book Award finalist, and Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of a Hurston/Wright Award in poetry.

David Mills, poet and playwright, has created and performed a one-man play on Langston Hughes. His collection oh poetry, Dream Detective, is a small-press bestseller.

A’LELIA BUNDLES
Thursday, March 29, 1:30 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
(co-sponsored with Africana Studies)

A’Lelia Bundles has been an Emmy Award winning producer with NBC News and ABC News. She is the author of the biography of her great-great-grandmother Madam C.J. Walker. The biography, On Her Own Ground, was a New York Times Notable Book.

ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

For more information contact Louis Parascandola or Maria McGarrity at 718 488-1050.

Jon L. Peacock's Work Appears in New Book About Occupy Wall Street

2011-12-16T08:46:00.000-05:00

Jon L. Peacock (alumnus of the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA Program) is a contributor (interviewer/writer/editor), in collaboration with roughly 60 others, to a new book is entitled OCCUPYING WALL STREET: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America.

It is an interview/description based book looking at the first two months of the Occupy movement. It is diverse, in-depth, and extremely informative. It was written to understand the movement, and to hopefully squelch some of the stereotypes and misconceptions that surround Occupy Wall Street, especially in mass media.

More information can be found at http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ows/.

Barbara Henning at the Walking Fish (Philadelphia)

2011-12-10T06:01:00.000-05:00

Professor Barbara Henning (English Department) reads at the Jubilant Thicket Literary Series with Frank Sherlock at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia.

December 11, 2011.
7 pm.

Overpass Books Event

2011-12-08T14:45:00.001-05:00

Overpass Books presents On Equilibrium of Song
a reading at Long Island University.

Friday, December 16, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Humanities (H) Building
2th Floor Media Arts lounge

Come out and celebrate the upcoming book releases of "On Equilibrium of Song" by John Casquarelli with art by Lynn Hassan, and the forthcoming "Ijele" by Uche Nduka.

Featured Readers:

Tony Iantosca
Gulay Isik
Willie Perdomo
Giuseppe Infante
Aimee Herman
Uche Nduka
John Casquarelli

Master of Ceremonies John High
w/ an introduction and closing words from Lewis Warsh

There will be food and beverages served.

Africana-Studies Event: I Know What I Saw

2011-12-06T11:32:00.001-05:00

A screening of documentary films on the Civil Rights Movement.

When & Where
December 6, 2011
Spector Lounge
Fourth Floor, Humanities Building
6-8 PM

Sponsored by Africana Studies at the Brooklyn Campus of LIU.

As always, the event is free and open to the public. Free pizza! Bring your own beverage.

Holiday Party!

2011-11-30T15:31:00.002-05:00

You are invited to the English Department's Annual Holiday Party!

When & Where
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Start Time: 4 PM
Spector Lounge, 4th Floor, Humanities Building

As always, this is a potluck event.

Please bring a dish and a beverage.

Contact Karen or Patrina with questions (718-488-1050).

Writing Program Conversation: Technology Mashup

2011-11-28T12:24:00.000-05:00

Please join us for the next event in "Conversations: Reading, Writing, Research," a series of conversations on reading, writing, and research -- hosted by the Writing Program.

Technology Mashup: iPhones, iPads, Flips, Document Cameras, and MacBooks in the Classroom

Thursday, December 1, 2011
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
The Spector Lounge
4th Floor
Humanities Building

Presenters: Sharman Yoffie, Tom Peele, Deborah Mutnick, John Killoran, Mike Bokor.

RSVP deborah.mutnick@liu.edu.

MFA Reading Series Event: HELP IS ON THE WAY #2

2011-11-28T12:05:00.000-05:00

Readings by students in the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA Program.

Where & When

Bowery Poetry Club

303 Bowery in Manhattan

(between Houston & Bleecker)

December 2, Friday

5-6:45

Readers

Tiani Kennedy

Pamela Arnett

Elspeth Macdonald

Desiree Rucker

Joey Infante

Aimee Herman

Felice Belle

Marita Downes

Michael Grove

Jon Jenkins

Shari Seraneau

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

John Casquarelli

Gulay Isik

Willie Perdomo

Wendi Williams

Tony Iantosca

Lewis Warsh Reading at Launch Party for Roberta Allen's New Book

2011-11-17T08:40:00.002-05:00

Lewis Warsh (English Department) will be reading as part of the launch party in celebration of the publication by Ellipsis Press of The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen.

When

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

7:00 pm

Where
KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street

New York City, NY

Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, The Daughter (Autonomedia); a memoir, Amazon Dream (City Lights); the novel The Dreaming Girl (Painted Leaf, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011). Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. She has exhibited her visual art worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lewis Warsh is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary Books), A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts) and A Free Man (Sun & Moon). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Deborah Mutnick's Spring-2012 Honors Elective

2011-11-16T17:38:00.004-05:00

HSM 110 Brooklyn Campus Town Hall: Dialogue for Social Change
Professor Deborah Mutnick (English Department)
Thursdays 3-5:30 PM

For English majors, this Honors-Program course may be used to satisfy an English elective requirement in the Literature concentration, or a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration, a writing-and-rhetoric workshop requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration, or a literature requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.

Non-English majors can apply this course toward a minor in English. Please discuss your plan with Wayne Berninger in the English Department.

Non-Honors students must see James Clarke or Cris Gleicher in the Honors Program Office to get permission to take this course.

Civil Rights in Brooklyn: Stories of Struggle and Protest

2011-11-16T17:24:00.002-05:00

Please join us at the Brooklyn Historical Society [BHS] this Sunday, November 20, 2011 from 2-4 PM for a program on Civil Rights in Brooklyn: Stories of Struggle and Protest, planned in conjunction with the Pathways to Freedom learning community that English-Department Professors Michael Bokor, Sara Campbell, and Deborah Mutnick are teaching this semester.

Please pass this information along to anyone you think might find the program interesting. All BHS events are free during the three years of our partnership with the Society to anyone with an LIU ID.

Fifty years ago the freedom riders rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the Supreme Court ruling against Jim Crow laws. Those riders traveled the roads of Mississippi and Tennessee, but how did the civil rights movement play out on the streets of Brooklyn? How did freedom ride into local neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, government, and arts and culture? A panel of activists will address Brooklyn as a site of struggle and protest, followed by audience “talk back” with more stories and Q&A. Attendees will be invited to tell their own stories about the civil rights movement, past and present. This program is free with museum admission.

Africana Studies Courses Spring 2012 & Summer 2012

2011-11-09T13:54:00.002-05:00

Spring 2012

Black Female Creativity

Humanities 181: T/TH 4:30-5:45

Prof. Carol Allen: 3 credits

This course explores black female creativity across disciplines. The aim of the course is to construct potential theories of black female creativity. That is: determine if black women share any common impetuses (historical, biological and/or cultural) that compel them to make artistic products that comprise a tradition of works. We begin by examining theories of black female creativity from several perspectives including that of Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange along with contributions from the likes of Monique Wittig and Robert Farris Thompson. Then we study a variety of primary texts from literature (novel, poem and play); art (photography, textiles, and mixed media pieces); oratory (sermon and speech); and performance (music, fashion, dance, drill teams and jump rope). Required texts include Flash of the Spirit, Beloved, and handouts. Assignments include informal writing, midterm, final exam, and recovery project with presentation. Prerequisite: English 16

Male in America: Black, White, Straight and Gay

Humanities 183: Wed. 6:00- 8:00

Profs. Eric Lehman and Orlando Warren: 3 credits:

This course explores the American male from multiple vantage points in text, film, art, and music. Prerequisite: English 16

Femme Fatales and Women of Color

Independent Study, Tues. 6:00-8:00

Prof. Orlando Warren: 718 488-1053: 3 credits

In the film noir genre the femme fatale is the epitome of irreverence, ambiguity, and, fear. Prerequisite: English 16

African Cultures

Anthropology/Sociology 133: Tues. 12:00-2:30

Prof. Yusuf Juwayeyi: 3 credits

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Race in the Americas

Anthropology/Sociology 512: M 6:10-8:00

Prof. Halbert Barton: 3 credits

The course focuses on how culture and history shape the experience of racial categories in the Americas. Prerequisites: Intro. to Anthro. and instructor’s permission.

Summer I: 2012

African American Narrative Fiction

English 150: M/W 2:00-4:50

Prof. Carol Allen: 3 credits

This course looks at fictional and nonfictional narrative accounts by African American writers from the Slave Narrative to Barack Obama’s recent autobiography. Prerequisite: English 16

Black Women in Cinema

Independent Study, TBA: 3 credits

Prof. Orlando Warren: 718 488-1053

This course will focus on Black women in film from the mid 1930’s to the mid 1970’s. Prerequisite: English 16.
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Contact Professor Carol Allen (English Department) at Carol.Allen@liu.edu or 718 488-1053 for more information these courses and/or about the Africana Studies minor program.

Voices of the Rainbow Event: Tina Chang

2011-11-09T10:33:00.001-05:00

This event was originally scheduled for Monday, 11/7, but it was cancelled due to illness. The reading has been rescheduled as follows...

Tina Chang
Monday, November 14, 2011
12 noon
Humanities Building, Room 210

Tina Chang is author of the poetry collections Half-Lit House and Of Gods and Strangers. Raised in New York City, Tina is the current Brooklyn Poet Laureate.

Eric Alter Reading at KGB Bar

2011-11-08T10:07:00.001-05:00

Eric Alter (Creative-Writing MFA student) sends along the following announcement about a reading in which he will be participating.

Uphook Press is proud to showcase nine more incredible poets and spoken word artists from our third anthology "-gape-seed-". Featuring ERIC ALTER, RYAN BUYNAK, DEBORAH HAUSER, R. NEMO HILL, ELIEL LUCERO, VICTORIA LYNNE McCOY, ROBERTO F. SANTIAGO, and MARK WISNIEWSKI. KGB is a beautiful bar in the East Village with a fascinating history. If you have never visited, check it out! ... Free admission Readers: ERIC ALTER has been published in Spectrum, the Brooklyn Paramount, Downtown Brooklyn, and By the Overpass. You can find himon Mt. Loretto Beach, in Staten Island, every Friday morning making sculptures. RYAN BUYNAK is a very good-looking young man who happens to be the future of American poetry. DEBORAH HAUSER is the author of the poetry collection Ennui: from the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Femine Disorders (Finishing Line Press, 2011). R. NEMO HILL is editor of EXOT BOOKS, and author of Pilgrim’s Feather (Quantuck Lane Press, 2002), The Strange Music of Erich Zann (Hippocampus Press, 2004), and Prolegomena To An Essay On Satire (Modern Metrics, 2006). ELIEL LUCERO has served as co-editor of Acentos Review, been an Urban Word mentor, a facilitator with the Alzheimer's Project, and Production Manger at the Bowery Poetry Club. VICTORIA LYNNE McCOY's work appears in The November 3rd Club, PANK, Mudfish 17, and Union Station Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn. ROBERTO F. SANTIAGO writes placing pen to paper and fingertips to QWERTY, all as an act of translation. He also writes and produces music, and has been known to dance until he rips his pants.MARK WISNIEWSKI's Mark Wisniewski's second novel, Show Up, Look Good, is published by Gival Press in fall 2011. His poetry has appeared New York Quarterly, Tribeca Poetry Review, and Poetry.

MFA Reading Series Event: HELP IS ON THE WAY

2011-11-07T13:06:00.000-05:00

Two readings this semester by students in the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA program.

Both readings are at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (between Bleecker & Houston)

When & Where

Friday, November 18, 2011

5-6:45 pm

Readers

Daniel Owen

Tina Barry

Liz Dalton

Michael Atkinson

Patia Braithwaite

Amyre Loomis

Kyle DeOcena

Jessica Wedge

Uche Nduka

Asja Parrish

Micah Savaglio

Alicia Berbenick

Willie Perdomo

Lisa Rogal

When & Where

Friday, December 2, 2011

5-6:45 pm

Readers

Tiani Kennedy

Pamela Arnett

Elspeth Macdonald

Desiree Rucker

Joey Infante

Aimee Herman

Felice Belle

Gulay Isik

Marita Downes

Michael Grove

Jon Jenkins

Shari Seraneau

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

John Casquarelli

Sarah Wallen

Wendi Williams

Tony Iantosca

Willie Perdomo to Lead Creative Writing Workshop in Miami

2011-11-02T12:54:00.001-04:00

Willie Perdomo (grad student, Creative Writing MFA program) will lead a writing workshop called Poetry, Lyricizing and Speaking at the University of Miami in January 2012.

From the University of Miami website:

"The University of Miami's MFA in Creative Writing Program and VONA Voices Writing Workshop announce the first VONA/Voices regional writing workshop to be held January 13, 14, and 15, 2012 at the University of Miami. The Voices of our Nations Arts Foundation is dedicated to nurturing writers of color and has been holding summer workshops for twelve years in the Bay Area."

Read more.

Jon L. Peacock Performing at LIU

2011-11-02T12:47:00.000-04:00

Jon L. Peacock (alum, English Department grad program) will appear in The Marriott Shorts, a set of 10-minute plays set inside the Marriott by the Brooklyn Bridge.

Performances November 2, 3, and 5.

This is a production of the Theater Program of the Performing Arts Department at LIU.

Writing Program Conversation: Valuing Student Writing

2011-11-01T10:45:00.000-04:00

Please join us for "Valuing Student Writing," a faculty development workshop to be held from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on Tuesday, November 8, 2011, in the Spector Lounge.