October 22, 2025 | Michelle Gabay | Leave a comment 22 October 2025 News Editor Jane Weiss 22 October 2025 3:00 – 4:30 PM in V219: The Get Lit Reading Series: Royston Coppenger, “Translating Classic Plays for the Modern World: Ibsen, Chekhov, Racine” On Wednesday 22 October 2025 from 3:00-4:30 PM in V219, Royston Coppinger, Professor of Drama at Hofstra University, will speak on “Translating Classic Plays for the Modern World: Ibsen, Chekhov, Racine.” This is the first event in the Creative Writing Program’s and Literature Program’s Get Lit reading series, cosponsored by the KCC Student Union and Intercultural Center. Plus: Raffle of novels by English faculty Maggie Hill & John Keller! Thursday 23 October 2025 3:00—4:30 PM in V219: English Department Meeting The English Department will meet on Thursday 23 October 2025 from 3:00 to 4:30 in V219. The agenda includes discussion of the formation of a Writing Studies Area Committee; a visit from Academic Affairs administrators – Cynthia Olvina & Jaime Berco – on personnel file protocols; and a proposed modification to the timing of election for two ENG curriculum committee seats from November to April or May. Friday 24 October 2025 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM on Zoom: Professional Development Session: Designing AI Policies in the Composition Class A message from Greg Bruno: You are invited to attend the composition program’s second professional development session of the fall, “Designing AI Policies in the Composition Class: An Affective Approach.” This session will run on Friday, October 24, from 11am-1pm on Zoom, and is paid for all part-time faculty. The goal of this workshop is to develop a better understanding of both the policy network that undergirds our classes and students’ experiences within the college, the university, and the field as well as consider the complex and often competing positions, perspectives, and feelings we might have about integrating AI into our professional lives. By the end of this workshop, participants will leave with a working AI policy statement that articulates within the CUNY guidance and resonates with our own personal and professional vantage and values. Please rsvp to [email protected] for the Zoom link! Updating Your KCC Web Page Michelle Gabay is working to update faculty professional pages on the Kingsborough website. If you’d like to update your Kingsborough professional page, please fill out this form. You do not need to respond to every question but do fill in the areas you wish to add or update on your page. The form will close Oct 23, 2025. If you’re unsure how to review your current Kingsborough professional page, use this link to find your page: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/academicdepartments/english/faculty_listing_english.html If you have any questions or trouble with the links, feel free to reach out to Michelle at [email protected] . English Department Sunshine Fund The English Department invites faculty to contribute to the Sunshine Fund, which pays for gifts for our office staff, acknowledgement of milestone events both sad and happy in faculty and staff members’ lives, and helps supply the department’s parties. The Sunshine Fun contribution this fall is $30 from full time faculty and $15 from part time faculty – cash preferred, please. You can give the contributions to Enid or Elroy, or via Venmo or Zelle; Annie has emailed the Venmo and Zelle information to your KCC email address. PSC-CUNY Research Award Applications: Deadline 15 December 2025 The Cycle 57 PSC-CUNY Grants Proposal System is now open. The Office of Institutional Advancement is here to support all fulltime faculty in the development and submission of your application for the Cycle 57 PSC-CUNY grants. The deadline for Cycle 57 applications is 11:59pm on Monday, December 15, 2025. The PSC CUNY Research Award has undergone significant changes since the last cycle. Here are some major changes: The pathways you can apply for now are simply Track 1 (up to $7,000) and Track 2 ($7,000 – $15,000). Also, they have separately added a Post Tenured Reassign Award Pilot (up to 6 credits of reassigned time). In the past it was A ($3,500), B ($6,000) and Enhanced ($10,000). A faculty member can only receive this award twice every three years. In the past, restrictions on applications depended on whether you were Tenured faculty. Now these restrictions apply to all full-time faculty applying. The eligibility for faculty summer salary has changed. Specifics can be found at the RFCUNY PSC CUNY Award website: https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/resources/psc-cuny-programs/psc-cuny-research-award-program-guidelines/ . The link to apply is https://rfcuny.org/gp/welcome.aspx . The Research Foundation is holding information sessions: Wednesday, October 22nd 12pm EST Thursday, November 6th 1pm EST Friday, November 14th 12pm EST If your schedule conflicts with the workshops, and/or would like to get support with your application, you can arrange a one-on-one session with Raymond Fong. Please feel free to contact him at [email protected], or call 718-368-5940. A Note about the Newsletter A message from Jane Weiss, News editor: The next newsletter will come out on Monday 27 October 2025. Send items to be included by Friday 24 October 2025 to Jane Weiss at [email protected]. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Many faculty members would like to learn more about colleagues’ areas of scholarship, so if you would like to share what you’re working on, the Newsletter will welcome descriptions of your research and recent or upcoming presentations, publications, performances, and creative achievements of all kinds.