Queens College English Department

Some exciting news for our department: this past week, Professors Miles Grier and Veronica Schanoes were both featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) this week! We are so excited and proud! We'll post the links below so you can read those articles directly! https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/

Catch this article by Professor Miles Grier on missed opportunities in adapting August Wilson for film, in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)!

Good kid. Via Twitter / punished_picnic

Joe Moran on the "uncompromised joy" of a quality sentence.

Revised statement: As we grieve the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade , and countless others by the police, the English Department at Queens College condemns all forms of violence, including state-sponsored violence, that target the lives of Black Americans and other people of color. As academics who study the literature, rhetoric, and writing of different periods and peoples, we recall the words of James Baldwin, who wrote History is not the past. It is t...he present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals. We therefore hold ourselves accountable for remembering the history of Black oppression in this country, and naming its connection to police brutality that targets Black people. We also see a direct link between the devaluing and defunding of public urban institutions of higher education, like CUNY, and state racism. As a department, we affirm our commitment to the work of anti-racism, through our teaching, service, and research. Black lives matter.

https://www1.cuny.edu//cuny-plans-expansion-of-mental-hea/

https://gothamist.com//cuny-grapples-with-devastating-budg

We know that workforce development programs set up our students for well-paying jobs, showing just how effective our initiatives are. The City University of New... York is bringing in industry partners to help us add to the billions of dollars we already generate for the region! http://ow.ly/vaDU50BK1DX See more

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This just in: Katherine Sanchez, a sophomore English major, has been named a finalist in the 2021 NYC Youth Poet Laureate competition! Every Fall, 15 finalists are selected from the pool of applications to join in workshop and communion together through a paid fellowship program led by the amazing Roya Marsh (UW Poet-in-Residence, award-winning author, and activist). After the series of Fellowship workshops, the 15 will compete for the title of the NYC Youth Poet Laureate.... Along with the official title, the NYC Youth Poet Laureate gets both high-level performance and publication opportunities. Find out more at the link below. Good luck, Katherine! https://www.urbanwordnyc.org/ypl

Start your Monday with this op-ed by CUNY Chancellor Felix V Matos Rodriguez about how the The City University of New York is playing a vital role in NYC's economic recovery! https://www.amny.com//op-ed-top-rankings-show-cunys-vital/

http://www1.cuny.edu//cuny-senior-colleges-recognized-for/

Catch QC's own Ryan Black as part of this reading for Hudson Valley Writers Center on Friday!