November 14, 2022 English Department Newsletter
Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss
Professional Development Thursday, Nov. 17, 2pm-3pm: End of Term Self-Assessment for ENG12: Another Reach into the New CLOs
A message from Hope Parisi, Faculty Mentor:
The new CLOs seem to encourage a new emphasis on self-assessment that has always been a best practice of composition and ENG 12 instruction. Porfolios for ENG 12 classes highlight this dimension by requiring a reflection. How have we been including self-assessment in our courses, in implicit and overt ways? How can we now draw attention back to the conversations we’ve had with students around their learning and help their recall of how ENG 12 has been prompting meaningful reflection all along? Creating a reflection for the end of term need not be scary. Let’s see what is there already for students to build on and how real reflection can be facilitated for the portfolio.
Come to a professional development session this week, paid for part-timers, on Thursday, November 17, from 2pm-3pm. Our comp course directors will also attend. It will be a great session!
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81516179377
Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) Fellowship Applications Open Through November 15, 2022
The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of The Graduate Center invites tenured and tenure-track scholars both within and outside of CUNY to apply for our 2023-2024 Distinguished Scholar Awards. Broadly defined, the research areas are: Race, Migration, & Diversity; Inequality; Global Urbanism; Collective Memory. Applications are due November 15, 2022.
Distinguished awardees will be provided an office, computer, and access to The Graduate Center’s academic infrastructure. In return, all fellows are expected to carry out their work regularly at The Graduate Center and to participate in its intellectual and academic community. In practice, this means: Using their Graduate Center office on a regular basis; Interacting regularly and sharing their work with other ARC scholars; Presenting their research at one of the weekly seminars; Attending the weekly seminars on Thursdays from 4:00-5:30 as well as other ARC events
Distinguished CUNY Scholars: for tenured and tenure-track faculty at one of the campuses of the City University of New York, excluding central line faculty at the Graduate Center. A Distinguished CUNY Scholar will receive course buyouts up to a maximum of 3 course releases for one semester. To apply, see: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/ARC-CUNY-Application-2022.docx
For more information please contact:
Advanced Research Collaborative: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/advanced-research-collaborative
+1 212-817-7544; arc@gc.cuny.edu .
CFP Due November 15, 2022: New Jersey City University Annual Community College Showcase: Centering Care and Equity in a New Landscape
The call for proposals and conference registration is now open for the 4th New Jersey City University Annual Community College Showcase: Centering Care and Equity in a New Landscape! This is a free, 2-day professional development event that will take place virtually on February 9-10, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. EST – 4:30 p.m. EST. This annual conference is hosted by the Ed.D. in Community College Leadership program at New Jersey City University, a practice-focused, 55-credit online program, designed to be completed by working professionals in 3 years. The Showcase is a signature event in our series of year-round Community College Convenings and is open to all faculty, staff, and administrators who are passionate about the equity and success mission of the community college. If you’re interested in submitting a proposal for the Community College Showcase in February, please review the proposal requirements: https://www.njcu.edu/academics/schools-colleges/deborah-cannon-partridge-wolfe-college-education/departments/educational-leadership/doctorate-community-college-leadership/community-college-convenings/community-college-showcase . Proposal submissions are due by November 15, 2022. You can also register for the free conference now: https://connect.njcu.edu/register/?id=98a07a78-0ddf-4d6c-9b66-1499f44bd28d
CFP due November 15, 2022: Science Fiction and the Archive: The Seventh Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium
Science Fiction and the Archive: The Seventh Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, will take place on Tuesday December 6, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST on Zoom. The organizers are Jill Belli, Wanett Clyde, Jason W. Ellis, Kel Karpinski, and Lucas Kwong. Continuing the explorations and conversations of the previous two symposia on “Race” and “Access” respectively, this year’s City Tech Science Fiction Symposium is focused on the idea of the “Archive.” The potential of the SF Archive as an inclusive and celebratory concept is increasing, and we hope this symposium will be a space to facilitate its expansion through our conversations and collegial debate. Of course, an archive (little a) can refer to practical considerations of Library-based Special Collections like those in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection and others, including the collected materials, cataloging, and providing access. However, we are also thinking of the Archive (big A) in terms of canonicity, cultural preservation, reading lists, and bookstore shelfspace. These latter considerations raise questions about what does and doesn’t get included within what we might call the SF Archive as well as who does and doesn’t get a say in those selections. Therefore, the SF Archive is a broadly based concept that encompasses Libraries and Special Collections and the larger cultural space of fandom, social media, and the marketplace, all of which involve the exchange of cultural capital, influence by different forms of gatekeepers, and conversations on many levels by different readers about what SF should be valued, recognized, and saved.
The SF Archive changes over time. Perhaps most exciting for the present are the many initiatives to excavate our shared cultural histories for SF that had been overlooked or forgotten but certainly deserving of inclusion, such those by writers of color, women, and LGBTQ+ persons; and efforts to bring global SF to wider audiences thanks to growing networks of readers and scholars versed in the original language of a text and those wanting to experience those stories through translation.
Also, Analog Science Fiction and Fact will announce the winner of their second Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices at this year’s symposium (https://www.analogsf.com/about-analog/analog-emerging-black-voices-award/).
The organizers invite proposals for 10-20 minute scholarly paper presentations or 40-60 minute panel discussions related to the topic of Science Fiction and the Archive. Please send a 250-word abstract with title, brief 100-150-word professional bio, and contact information to Jason Ellis (jellis@citytech.cuny.edu) by November 15, 2022. Topics with a connection to the SF Archive might include but certainly are not limited to: What is an/the SF Archive? What is the relationship and interaction between SF archives as physical places and the larger concept of an SF Archive? What constitutes the SF Archive? Who decides what goes into the SF Archive? What role does generation or age play in forming the SF Archive? What media is included in the SF Archive? How can the SF Archive be inclusive and representative? What lineages or clusters of SF based around geography, country, language, identity, culture, etc are in or should be included in the SF Archive? What barriers are there to building awareness or inclusiveness of an SF type within the larger SF Archive? What role do digital technologies and social networks play in creating the SF Archive? How do these relate to other technologies of archive formation, including journals, magazines, zines, and conventions? How are archives depicted in SF? What do these archives hold and what role do they serve within their respective narrative? Can SF depictions of archives serve as a model for the SF Archive?
This event is free and open to the public as space permits: an RSVP will be included with the program when announced on the Science Fiction at City Tech website (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/). Free registration will be required for participation.
The Annual City Tech Symposium on Science Fiction celebrates the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, an archival holding of over 600-linear feet of magazines, anthologies, novels, and scholarship. It is in the Archives and Special Collections of the Ursula C. Schwerin Library (Library Building, L543C, New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201). More information about the collection and how to access it is available here: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/librarycollection/.
CUNY Graduate Center Consortial Appointment: Applications Open Through December 9, 2022
A message from Tanya Agathocleous, Executive Officer of English, CUNY Graduate Center:
The English department at the Graduate Center seeks a CUNY colleague who specializes in any period before 1800 and whose work intersects with our program’s interests and strengths, which include African diaspora, colonial/decolonial/postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality, disability studies, digital humanities, ecocriticism, transnationalism, and transhistorical studies.
Please send a CV and cover letter by December 9th to Radika Kashyap (Rkashyap2@gc.cuny.edu). If you have questions, you can contact Prof. Agathocleous at tagathoc@hunter.cuny.edu.
PSC-CUNY Grant Applications Open through December 15, 2022
The PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System (GPS) is now open for Cycle 54 applications: https://www.rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx . The final, non-negotiable deadline to apply is Thursday, December 15th, 2022 at 11:59pm. Please visit the PSC CUNY Webpage, https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite/principal-investigators/explore-pre-award-resources/internal-funding-psc-cuny-award-program/ , for more details about the process.
PSC-CUNY Research Awards are designed to encourage the scholarly and creative pursuits of CUNY faculty, especially junior faculty. Funds for research and creative projects are available to all Permanent, Full-Time members of instructional staff, and untenured members of the faculty in particular (untenured associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer); and Full-Time staff in HEO series. For the purposes of the PSC-CUNY Awards, junior faculty comprise those at the rank of untenured associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, and lecturer.
Please remember that the Grants Proposal System no longer allows attachments as Word Docs, only as PDFs. If you are unable to convert your project narrative to PDF, please send it as a Word document to Kathy Giaimo, who will then re-format it as a PDF and upload it to your application. Kathy will be happy to assist you with this or to answer any questions you may have. You can call her at 718-368-6858, or email her at Kathryn.giaimo@kbcc.cuny.edu
KCC’s Advancement Office will also offer seminars to help with the PSC-CUNY Grants application process, on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 1PM EST and Friday, November 11, 2022 at 12PM EST. Please join these meetings from your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://meet.goto.com/667980101
You can also dial in using your phone: Access Code: 667-980-101
United States: +1 (872) 240-3212
Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts:
If you can’t attend, here are the links to watch the seminar videos: https://youtu.be/YOMsdiG4uTo
If you have any questions, or would like to meet with Kathy Giaimo to discuss your project or go over the process, please email her at Kathryn.giaimo@kbcc.cuny.edu, or call her at 718-368-6858. We encourage you to send her a draft of your proposal in advance of the non-negotiable, final, December 15, 2022 11:59pm deadline.
Please do not wait until the last minute to submit your application. The earlier you submit your proposal, the more time Kathy will have to review it and help you to address any issues with your submission. Again, the deadline for Cycle 54 applications is 11:59pm on Thursday, December 15, 2022. Please click here https://rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx to apply.
Open Literatures Project: Help It Grow
A message from Elizabeth Dill:
We have a website for faculty teaching literature https://openlit.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ !
The Open Literatures Project is a website designed to help you explore resources related to teaching literature. It has works of literature organized by theme and genre as well as a gallery of authors with links to their works. All of these resources are available to use! Now Elizabeth needs your help to develop it. If you have suggestions for authors or works of literature you’d like to see added to the site, or a syllabus, an assignment, a lecture, or any other curricula you would like to share, please let Elizabeth know! Just email Elizabeth your ideas or any teaching materials you would like to share (elizabeth.dill@kbcc.cuny.edu).
Composition Office Hours
Office hours in C309B:
Greg: Mondays and Wednesdays, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm;
Rachel: Mondays and Wednesdays, from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Remote office hours:
Greg: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 am to 10:00 am:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6372657798?pwd=L28zMVBxenZzR05vbU1GRis5ajRUZz09 ;
Rachel: Fridays, 9:00 am to 11:00 am https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5834566892
Campus Reopening Hub
For information about KCC’s reopening, visit the new KCC Campus Reopening Hub: http://kbcc.cuny.edu/campusentry/index.html . You can find information about the reopening plan, mask policies, on campus COVID-19 testing, the Cleared4 pass and visitor policies.
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