Newsletter Editor Jane Weiss
Department Meeting Tuesday 9 May 2023: Election of Department Chair, P & B Members, and College Council Members
The English Department will meet on Zoom on Tuesday 9 May 2023 at 3:00. The meeting will be Zoom-only because the current procedure for electing the department chair, P & B members, and College Council representatives requires that each eligible voter vote from the voter’s individual Zoom account, with their cameras on. If you are on campus for the meeting, and anticipated problems with Zoom access from your office computer, please reach out to IT immediately at (718)-368-6679 or helpdesk@kbcc.cuny.edu. The Zoom link, information about the election, and the meeting agenda have been sent to department members’ KCC email addresses. Matthew Gartner has also sent an email about using Votenet, the college’s voting software.
Full Time Faculty: Spring 2024 Course Requests Due Friday 15 May 2023
Course request forms for Spring 2024 have been sent to full-time faculty KCC email addresses; please return the forms to Bailin Song (bailin.song@kbcc.cuny.edu) as soon as possible, but no later than Monday, May 15, 2023.
Faculty Mentor and Support Hours in E219
Hope Parisi will be in E219 this semester, available for informal chats with new and experienced part-time faculty, and all faculty, on Wednesdays, from 1pm – 3pm, with more availability by phone or Zoom, along with Tuesdays as another on-campus day. Please come by this welcoming environment, on Wednesdays, if you’re on campus, or get in touch for a time convenient for you. Please note: Hours for this week, Wednesday, May 10, are cancelled.
Composition Coordinators Spring 2023 Office Hours
Gregory Bruno
Tuesdays in C309B: 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Wednesdays via Zoom: 10:30 am – 12 :30 pm
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6372657798?pwd=L28zMVBxenZzR05vbU1GRis5ajRUZz09)
Thursdays in C309B: 12:30 – 1:45 pm
Rachel Ihara
Tuesdays and Thursdays in C309B: 9:00 am – 10:00 am.
Fridays via Zoom: 9:00 am – 11:00 am
(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5834566892)
KCC Information Technology Services Office
You can call KCC’s ITS Help Desk at (718) 368-6679 or email helpdesk@kbcc.cuny.edu 9:00 – 5:00 on weekdays. For Blackboard support during hours when KCC’s Help Desk is not available, call 1-646-664-2024
Student Publication Opportunity: Transit(ion), A CUNY Undergraduate Journal
CUNY undergraduates are invited to contribute to Transit(ion): A CUNY Undergraduate Journal! Born out of the CUNY Graduate Center’s English Department, by students DeVaughn (Dev) Harris and Rani Srinivasan, this journal seeks to unite students across the CUNYVerse and facilitate the exchange of knowledge amongst burgeoning critical thinkers. In addition to accepting and publishing work from undergraduate students, Transit (ion)‘s priority is to mentor students throughout the publication process and help them grow as students, scholars, and writers. Transit(ion) welcomes work from students who, in addition to those pursuing careers in academia, may want to work in spaces outside of the academy that also deal with writing writ-large. Above all, publishing work of any kind in an academic journal is an impressive accomplishment. Additionally, as part of its mission, Transit(ion) aims to upend and disrupt (through its editing and mentoring processes) colonial notions of correctness, academic vernacular, technologies of grammar and prioritize the value of critical thinking and the nuanced development of ideas. They hope students can see a home for their writing in this journal as they aim to facilitate the responsible production and exchange of knowledge as well as shine a spotlight on the work of emergent writers.
Here is the CFP, at the Manifold website! The CFP and the submission form can be found on the Transit(ions) webpage. The editors are looking forward to viewing works that align with the range of topics listed on the CFP and encourage students to use the space of the final stretch of the semester (e.g., seminar/research papers, etc.) to develop their submissions. The editors ask that students submit their work for consideration by June 1st, 2023.
Good News: Theatre Performance: The Art of Training a Goldfish
A theatre piece by Nicole Colbert, The Art of Training A Goldfish, explores the complicated relationship of Mikhail Bulgakov, a Ukrainian writer, satirist and former medical doctor, with the rise of Soviet power, the purges of Stalin, and the space an artist lives between imagination and reality. The Art of Training a Goldfish, featuring Brandon deSpain, Lane M. Jackson, Tatyana Kot, Vadim Kroll, Iryna Malygina & Evelina Pristovšek, will be performed on Thursday, May 11 at 6:15pm, Saturday, May 13 at 2:15 and Sunday, May 14 at 6pm, at Teatro Latea, 107 Suffolk St. NY, NY 10002, as part of the New York Theatre Festival. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the performance site.
Good News: BMCC Faculty Forum Presentation
Daniel Perrone spoke at the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s English Department Faculty Forum on Censorship on April 26th; his talk focused on “Adjunct Academic Freedom in the Academy”.
A Note about the Newsletter
The next issue of the Newsletter will come out on Monday 15 May 2023. Please send newsletter items by Friday, 12 May 2023 to Jane Weiss at Jane.Weiss@kbcc.cuny.edu. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Items about publications and achievements are very welcome.
